Physics
Journal Club – This new Chi b (3P) thingy
[/caption] According to Wikipedia, a Journal Club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles…
Slower than Light Neutrinos
[/caption] Earlier this year, an international team of scientists announced they had found neutrinos -- tiny particles with an equally…
Underwater Neutrino Detector Will Be Second-Largest Structure Ever Built
[/caption] The hunt for elusive neutrinos will soon get its largest and most powerful tool yet: the enormous KM3NeT telescope,…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Special Relativity From First Principles
[/caption] Einstein's explanation of special relativity, delivered in his 1905 paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies focuses on demolishing…
Looking at Early Black Holes with a ‘Time Machine’
[/caption] What fed early black holes enabling their very rapid growth? A new discovery made by researchers at Carnegie Mellon…
Particle Physicists Put the Squeeze on the Higgs Boson; Look for Conclusive Results in 2012
[/caption] With “freshly squeezed” plots from the latest data garnered by two particle physics experiments, teams of scientists from the…
Mapping The Milky Way’s Magnetic Fields – The Faraday Sky
[/caption] Kudos to the scientists at the Max Planck Institut and an international team of radio astronomers for an incredibly…
Are Pulsars Giant Permanent Magnets?
[/caption] Some of the most bizarre phenomena in the universe are neutron stars. Very few things in our universe can…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Mass Is Energy
[/caption] Some say that the reason you can't travel faster than light is that your mass will increase as your…
Neutrinos Still Breaking Speed Limits
[/caption] New test results are in from OPERA and it seems those darn neutrinos, they just can't keep their speed…