Saturday, December 28, 2013

A Scientific Look at the Term Spirit

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The English word spirit (from Latin spiritus "breath") has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

LHC and Open Access

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The CMS experiment at the LHC has released a portion of its data to the public for use in education and outreach. Explore this page to fin...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Entanglement and the Geometry of Spacetime

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Theorists have forged a connection between wormholes in spacetime ( above ) and a quantum phenomenon called entanglement. But how b...
Monday, December 23, 2013

The Neutrino Sky

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A neutrino sky map based on data taken with 40 and 59 strings in the IceCube detector. Image credit: Juan Aguilar/IceCube. Astrophysic...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Weber Bars Ring True?

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Gravitational Radiation Gravitational waves have a polarization pattern that causes objects to expand in one direction, while contr...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Gaia in Space

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Soyuz VS06 with Gaia space observatory blasts off from Europe's Spaceport ESA PR 44-2013: ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off this morni...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Van Ellen Belt: Decade Age Old Mystery

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Schematic illustration of local electron acceleration by chorus The top panel shows electron fluxes before (left) and after (right...

Jet Creation

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Wavelength Views of the Sun

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This movie, created by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., shows how ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Symmetry Breaking and the Crab Nebula

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The connection between superfluidity and symmetry breaking has had a glorious history. It has left us a rich legacy of fertile ideas, that ...