Monday, September 22, 2014
The Biggest Cosmological Problem Is…
The 2MASS survey of tens of thousands of ‘nearby’ galaxies, plotted in Galactic coordinates, where the Milky Way lies across the horizontal. (Credit ESA, NASA)
‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
The BICEP2 telescope detected a swirl pattern resembling an expected signal from the Big Bang, but was it all cosmic dust? (Credit: Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine)
US spacecraft enters Mars orbit, India probe next
Cosmic smash-up: BICEP2′s big bang discovery getting dusted by new satellite data
Major breakthrough in carbon material could have broad DOD applications
Lt. Will Curtin, a student in the mechanical engineering program, demonstrates the carbon nano-fiber foam (CFF) following its creation in the NPS Functional Materials Laboratory. For the first time, NPS researchers have developed a CFF that behaves as a viscoelastic solid with stable mechanical properties without the need of a polymeric component. (Credit: Javier Chagoya)
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Physical constant is constant even in strong gravitational fields
A breakthrough in electron microscopy: Scientists reconstruct third dimension from a single image
From the electron microscope image of nanocrystals – here a magnesium oxide nanocrystal (below) – the three-dimensional structure is reconstructed with atomic precision using a new method developed by researchers from Jülich and Xi’an. The red spheres represent magnesium, the blue, oxygen. (Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich)
“Seeing” Gravitational Waves Using an Overlooked Prediction of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
The image at the top of the page shows open star clusters M35 and NGC 2158. M35, on the upper left, is relatively nearby at 2800 light years distant, relatively young at 150 million years old, and relatively diffuse, with about 2500 stars spread out over a volume 30 light years across. (Credit: http://asterisk.apod.com)
Physicists teleport quantum state of photon to crystal over 25 kilometers
Crystals which contain photonic information after the teleportation. (Credit: Copyright GAP, University of Geneva (UNIGE))
Japanese Construction Company Plans To Have Space Elevator Working By 2050
Japanese construction giant Obayashi believe that carbon nanotechnology is developing quickly enough that a space elevator may be a reality as early as 2050, and they plan to be the first to make one. (Credit: ABC News Australia)
Anisotropic Properties of Particles Deform Fermi Surface in Quantum Gas
The Erbium Team (from left): Kiyotaka Aikawa, Albert Frisch, Simon Baier, Michael Mark, and Francesca Ferlaino (not pictured: Cornelis Ravensbergen) (Credit: University of Innsbruck)
Rosetta’s Philae Lander: A Swiss Army Knife of Scientific Instruments
Rosetta’s Philae lander includes a carefully selected set of instruments and is being prepared for a November 11th dispatch to analyze a comet’s surface. (Credit: ESA, Composite – T.Reyes)
