Ecuador boy sets zero-G flight record

A 7-year-old Ecuador boy has become the youngest passenger ever aboard a zero-gravity flight.

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Gravity gets a quantum boost

Despite its 300-year history, Newton's gravitational constant, G, is the least well measured of all the fundamental constants. Now quantum mechanics may help pin down the strength of gravity more precisely.

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Quantum technique could pin down gravitational constant

Gravity may be the force we're most familiar with, but it's also the one we understand with the least accuracy. Now, a quantum mechanical technique could help pin down the strength of gravity more precisely.

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You are made of space-time

LEE SMOLIN is no magician. Yet he and his colleagues have pulled off one of the greatest tricks imaginable. Starting from nothing more than Einstein's general theory of relativity, they have conjured up the universe. Everything from the fabric of space to the matter that makes up wands and rabbits emerges as if out of an empty hat.

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Supernovae make dark matter bloat

Computer simulations showed that dark matter should be densest at the centres of galaxies, like this one, but observations show it is constant over thousands of light years - supernovae could be to blame (Image: NASA/Hubble Heritage/AURA/STScI)

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Space jockeys have been using gravity-well slingshots for several decades. With variable results. Physicists do not like the word "variable"!

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As if the universe weren't strange enough, scientists have recently discovered that entire galaxy clusters—the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of thousands of galaxies—are moving toward the same area.

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...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.

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"The pattern that the data reveal is extremely odd. It's like finding a zoo of animals of all ages and sizes miraculously having identical, say, weight in their backbones or something.

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Experiments showed the birds - which belong to the corvid family that includes crows, ravens and magpies - perceive the physical rules of support with the same degree of intelligence as a six month old baby. More Articles

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Dark matter is either weirder than we thought or does not exist at all, a new study suggests.

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For the universal hitchhiker!

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1. Axis of Evil: Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky – in a mysterious and controversial pattern. 2. Dark Flow: Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed.

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Experimental mouse breeding in a near-zero-gravity space simulation suggests making babies is best left to Earthlings.

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ON THE night of 30 June 2005, the sky high above La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands crackled with streaks of blue light too faint for humans to see. Atop the Roque de los Muchachos, the highest point of the island, though, a powerful magic eye was waiting and watching.

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While the effort to detect gravitational waves is ongoing, the researchers have now used the LIGO apparatus to observe the oscillations of a 2.7 kg pendulum mode at a level close to its quantum ground state.

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The nearby, well-known and very bright star may soon explode in a supernova, according to data released by U.C. Berkeley researchers Tuesday. More Articles

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The laser process creates a unique array of nano- and micro-scale structures on the surface of a regular tungsten filament—the tiny wire inside a light bulb—and theses structures make the tungsten become far more effective at radiating light. More Articles

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Taboo 4...don't be scared come on in!

With all this talk about, acorns, potatoes, and fishes getting stuck in certain unmentionable places, it leads me to think about the excuses. I think the excuses are more embarrassing then having something stuck up somewhere.

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The lamp's filament is just 100 atoms wide. It is made from a single carbon nanotube. When lit, the itty bitty bulb can be seen with the unaided eye as a point of light, the scientists say. More Articles

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"Maybe Newton was indeed wrong", declares Professor Dr. Pavel Kroupa of Bonn University´s Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (AIfA).

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Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. More Articles

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Like some kind of massive cosmic toilet bowl, the multitude of galaxies that populate the known Universe are swirling inexplicably toward a tiny 20-degree plane of deep space. More Articles

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...flow systems – from animal locomotion to the formation of river deltas -- evolve in time to balance and minimize imperfections. Flows evolve to reduce friction or other forms of resistance, so that they flow more easily with time.

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Hubble was not the first space telescope but it is by far the most sophisticated, providing earthlings with unprecedented detail and spectacular views of their universe.

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Dark Matter Is Always Eluding me?

feel it everywhere around in constant motion caught in a crossfire of involuntary movement causing lights in the sky from beginning to end through out all of time we are all made up of the same electron in constant motion through time and space involuntarily creating a copy to ma …

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A Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee with the way gravity magnifies and distorts light from distant galaxies. More Articles

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The so-called "queen" of the sciences, cosmology, is founded upon the myth that the weakest force in the universe - gravity - is responsible for forming and shaping galaxies, stars and planets. But even if this were true, gravity remains unexplained. How it works is a mystery.

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Interesting. We finally understand earthquakes. Who knew, the moon was behind them all along.

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In the first observation if its kind, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University were able to watch what happens when a star the size of 50 suns explodes.

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