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In a simulated merger, astrophysicists tried to push the boundaries of two black holes into shedding their event horizons. But the resulting black hole was still shrouded by its event horizon, through which even light can’t escape.Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
The most accurate measurements yet of the sun’s shape show that magnetic activity plays a role in making the sun appear more oval than it really is.Published: Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Physics
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Manipulating the quantum properties of diamond impurities makes diamond into a kind of microscope that could, for example, reveal the inner working of cells.Published: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Matter & Energy
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As mission nears end, Phoenix Mars Lander finds strong evidence for minerals similar to those formed on Earth by liquid water.Published: Monday, September 29th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science -
Updated September 30: After the orbiting observatory suddenly stopped transmitting data, NASA announced planned repair mission will be delayed at least until early next yearPublished: Monday, September 29th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Home / News / October 11th, 2008; Vol.174 #8 / With a twinkle, pulsating stars could deliver signals from E.T.Neutrino beams may turn Cepheids into messengers for advanced alien civilizations. (p. 5)Published: October 11th, 2008; Vol.174 #8Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Scientists discover "dark flow" -- the unexplained streaming of galactic clusters across the universe.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
The stony meteorite that landed in a remote portion of Peru in September 2007 was traveling abnormally fast when it struck and blasted a crater that was unusually large for the its size, new analyses indicate.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos, Earth and Earth Science -
Featured blog: Sixty-one Nobel laureates sign a letter explaining why they support Barack Obama's run for the presidency.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine, Chemistry, Physics and Science & Society
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Physicists manipulated a microwave pulse and could essentially watch it transition from a quantum state into the realm of classical physics.Published: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Matter & Energy -
The current solar minimum is the lowest — and one of the longest — recorded in the past 50 years, since modern measurements began.Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
CERN announces that needed repairs, plus high fuel costs, will delay the first planned collisions until next spring.Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Matter & Energy
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Saturn's rings might be more massive, and thus older, than researchers had believed.Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2008Found in: Astronomy, Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science -
One short trip for a proton, one not-so-giant step for mankind, it turns out. On September 10 scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva, successfully steered the first beam of protons around the accelerator’s 27-kilometer circular track. After entering the tunnel, the beam twice struck a scintillating screen, causing atoms in the screen to emit light. The first yellow spot in the screen grab at left was created just after the protons were kicked onto the correct trajectory by the injection system. The second spot was generated after the protons made one complete revolution, again ... (p. 8)Published: October 11th, 2008; Vol.174 #8Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
With solid findings under its belt and the Martian summer waning, the Phoenix Mars lander perseveres in its study of the soil and sky of the planet’s arctic plain.Published: Friday, September 19th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science
