Physical Sciences
Last week, a stream of highly unusual ions shot through a tiny nozzle at 76 million miles per hour—and CARIBU, a facility designed to study special nuclei normally only created in stars, officially opened for business...
| 3 min read
Stress, fatigue and heavy loads aren't always negative elements of work - in fact, they are what attracted Jennifer Forrester to the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Forrester, a research scientist working in the...
| 2 min read
Using a light-triggered chemical tool, Johns Hopkins scientists report that they have refined a means of moving individual molecules around inside living cells and sending them to exact locations at precise times.
| 2 min read
Massive stars are inherently violent creatures-they burn, they churn, they turn, all the while creating and held hostage by constantly changing magnetic fields of almost unfathomable strength...
| 4 min read
L. Keith Woo is searching for cleaner, greener chemical reactions. Woo, an Iowa State University professor of chemistry and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has studied catalysts and the chemical reactions they...
| 3 min read
Researchers Have Discovered the First Direct Evidence for a Superfluid at the Core of a Neutron Star
| 2 min read
Strings conference held in Sweden for the first time this summer. Leading theoretical physicists, including Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene will be in attendance.
| 2 min read
A Kansas State University chemistry professor has been selected as a Sloan Research Fellow for her success as a promising young scholar, particularly in the research areas of sustainable energy and gold nanoparticles...
| 2 min read
A University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues have used magnesium isotopes to determine the temperature at which rocks form, which will allow scientists to better study the formation of the earth’s crust and mantle as well as the...
| 2 min read
For a week in March, the permanent home of Disneyland, world-famous theme parks, Los Angeles Angels baseball, and other attractions becomes the world capital of science as more than 13,000 scientists and others gather here for the 241st National...
| 2 min read
43 researchers nationwide chosen for the Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program this year.
| 2 min read
President Barack Obama finally got to see his atoms, courtesy of Intel and FEI's Titan transmission electron microscope. The President visited Intel Hillsboro's Ronler Acres facility as part of a West Coast technology tour wrapping Friday Feb. 18.
| 2 min read
