Our universe may have started not with a big bang but with a big bounce—an implosion that triggered an explosion, all driven by exotic quantum-gravitational effects. More..
14 November, 2008
Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth
08 November, 2008
24 September, 2008
Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space
As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered.
Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon "dark flow."
The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude. More.. via
22 September, 2008
16 September, 2008
How Memories Are Made, And Recalled
For the first time, scientists at UCLA and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have recorded individual brain cells in the act of calling up a memory, thus revealing where in the brain a specific memory is stored and how the brain is able to recreate it. More..
13 September, 2008
Scientists Create The World's First Synthetic Tree
Scientists have made the world's first synthetic tree: a palm-sized duplication of the elegant process by which trees drink. More..
10 September, 2008
05 September, 2008
Scientists Find Our Eyes Evolved for 'X-Ray' Vision
The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in three dimensions. Now, a new study by scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: the ability to see through things. More..
02 September, 2008
In Our Genes, Old Fossils Take On New Roles
Over the past 15 years, scientists have been comparing the inherited genetic material -- the genomes -- of dozens of organisms, acquiring a life history of life itself. What they're finding impressive. More..
01 September, 2008
28 August, 2008
25 August, 2008
An end to spaghetti power cables
Say goodbye to the tangle of cables and the wall socket and hello to powering up your electronic gizmos wirelessly. More..
24 August, 2008
Seeing in four dimensions
Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects. More..
The Atlas Experiment
ATLAS is a particle physics experiment that will explore the fundamental nature of matter and the basic forces that shape our universe. Starting in late-2008, the ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. ATLAS is one of the largest collaborative efforts ever attempted in the physical sciences. There are 2500 physicists (Including 700 students) participating from more than 169 universities and laboratories in 37 countries. More..
20 August, 2008
Ten Mysteries of the Solar System
We've all wondered at some point or another what mysteries our Solar System holds. After all, the eight planets (plus Pluto and all those other dwarf planets) orbit within a very small volume of the heliosphere (the volume of space dominated by the influence of the Sun), what's going on in the rest of the volume we call our home? More..
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