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Half-life : physicists are stirred by claims that the sun may change what's unchangeable—the rate of radioactive decay
It's nuclear physics 101: Radioactivity proceeds at its own pace. Each type of radioactive isotope, be it plutonium-238 or carbon-14, changes into...
Science News, 11/22/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
The numbers rarely add up for girls: culture may turn potentially high achievers away from math
A combination of peer pressure, gender stereotyping and low expectations may help turn potentially gifted kids--especially girls--away from...
Science News, 11/08/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
Sun In a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Sun In a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Sun In a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of...
Science News, 11/08/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
Manipulating diamond's impurities may lead to finer-scale microscopes: nitrogen atoms could be used as magnetic field detectors
The nearly occult arts of quantum computing research could soon help biologists. The nearly occult arts of quantum computing research could soon...
Science News, 10/25/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
Galaxy clusters slide to the south: mysterious flow could call universe's uniformity into question
Clusters of galaxies are flowing through space, seemingly under the influence of a mysterious attractive force outside the visible universe, a new...
Science News, 10/25/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
This bite won't hurt
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By dissecting the physics of mosquito bites, researchers have uncovered some of the bugs'...
Science News, 10/11/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
Quantum physics may offer clues to solving prime number problem: electron energy levels linked to Riemann hypothesis
If two physicists are right, a single electron might know more about numbers than all of the world's mathematicians. In an upcoming Physical Review...
Science News, 09/27/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
Proton has a strange cousin: Fermilab finds new particle predicted by standard model
Physicists have found a new heavy cousin of the proton hiding in a pile of data at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill....
Science News, 09/27/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
Nanoparticles conspire with free radicals: dose of carcinogens could be comparable to smoking
PHILADELPHIA -- The daily exposure to free radicals from car exhaust, smokestacks and even your neighbors' barbecue could be as harmful as smoking,...
Science News, 09/13/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication -
New coat for spacecraft
A thin-sheet material would make it feasible to build Earth-orbiting satellites as light as five kilograms. Prasanna Chandrasekhar of Ashwin-Ushas...
Science News, 09/13/08 by Davide Castelvecchi · More from publication
