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July Eclipse and Gravity Anomaly

Monday, July 20th, 2009 - 12:01:11 - Ehud Rattner

From remote observatories on the Tibetan plateau to a cave in a Shanghai suburb, Chinese researchers are poised to conduct an audacious...

Metal Defies Gravity by Lifting Water
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Scientists from the University of Rochester have developed a metal slab that can quickly draw water upwards using principles...

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Neutron Stars Contain the Strongest Material

Sunday, May 10th, 2009 - 13:59:01 - Ehud Rattner

Talk about a hard body. New supercomputer simulations of the crusts of neutron stars--the rapidly spinning ashes left over from supernova...

MIT Finger The Cause of 'Gravity Fingers'

Saturday, December 13th, 2008 - 18:23:05 - Anuradha Menon

MIT researchers have found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: Why water doesn't soak into soil at an even...

How the Inner Ear's Sensors are Made

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 - 16:39:12 - Anuradha Menon

A UCLA study shows for the first time how microscopic crystals form sound and gravity sensors inside the inner ear. Located at the ends of cilia —...

Fuzziness On the Road To Physics

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 - 14:02:15 - Anuradha Menon

Leave it to hypothesized gravity to weigh down what physicists have thought for 30 years. If theoretical physicists, led by the University of...

Gravity-Wave Hunt Stalled

Sunday, September 14th, 2008 - 16:02:53 - Ehud Rattner

Physicists rejoiced this week at the successful test of their massive new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva, Switzerland...

Young Stars Near Black Holes Mystery Solved

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - 14:48:09 - Anuradha Menon

The mystery of how young stars can form within the deep gravity of black holes has been solved by a team of astrophysicists at the Universities of St...

More Evidence of Dark Energy?

Monday, August 11th, 2008 - 21:58:49 - Iddo Genuth

A group of astrophysicists led by Istvan Szapudi at the University of Hawaii. They have analyzed the glow of microwave photons emanating from space...

ESA's Gravity Mission 'GOCE'
Monday, August 11th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
In September 2008 the European Space Agency plans to launch a satellite called the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean...