Physics
Pulsar Jackpot Scours Old Data for New Discoveries
Chalk another one up for Citizen Science. Earlier this month, researchers announced the discovery of 24 new pulsars. To date,…
The Secret of the Stars
"Say, do you like mystery stories? Well we have one for you. The concept: relativity." Well look at that, it's…
Light-travel-time Effect Finds New Astronomical Applications
Sometimes the tried and true methods are still the best, even in observational astronomy. Researchers at the University of Prague…
Watch a Million Particles Collide
What happens when you give 1,000,000 particles their own gravity and spring repulsion and send them out to play? Watch…
Supernovae Seed Universe With Cosmic Rays
In a wave of media releases, the latest studies performed by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are lighting up the…
Don’t Tell Bones: Are We One Step Closer to “Beaming Up?”
It's a crazy way to travel, spreading a man's molecules all over the Universe... While we're still a very long…
The Face of Creation
The latest autotuned installment in John D. Boswell's Symphony of Science series waxes melodic about the particle-smashing science being done…
Stephen Hawking and CERN LHC Team Each Win $3 Million Prize
Stephen Hawking visited the Large Hadron Collider's underground tunnel at Europe's CERN particle physics research center in 2006. Hawking and…
Common Misconceptions in Physics
The folks at Minute Physics keep coming up with videos too great not to share. This one deals with gravity,…
Black Hole Jets Might Be Molded by Magnetism
Visible-light Hubble image of the jet emitted by the 3-billion-solar-mass black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 (Feb. 1998)…