Roughly equal amounts of matter and antimatter are created in the collision of energetic gold nuclei inside the particle accelerator dubbed RHIC, but because the fireball expands and cools quickly, antimatter can
Read more…This track is an example of simulated data modelled for the CMS detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here a Higgs boson is produced and then decays into tw
Read more…Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglican Church, Ashfield, New South Wales.
CREDIT: Photo: Toby Hudson
http://www.livescience.com/13711-jesus-christ-man-physical-evidence-hold.html
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Read more…http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-burial-ground-afterlife-1
Read more…Australopithecus Sediba Could be Direct Ancestor of Homo
The cranium of Malapa Hominid 1, Holotype of Australopithecus sediba from South Africa. Photo by Brett Eloff, courtesy Lee Berger and the University of the Witwatersrand. Image: Profberger, Bre
Read more…Black Trees Under Two Suns
Source: Royal Astronomical Society press release- Astrobiology Magazine
Black plants on a world with two suns. Credit: University of Saint Andrews
A sky with two suns is a favorite image for science fiction films, but how
Read more…Incomprehensible as it sounds, inflation poses that the universe initially expanded far faster than the speed of light and grew from a subatomic size to a golf-ball size almost instantaneously.
CREDIT: NASA
Ran across an interesting article concerning the possibilities of Faster Than Light Travel (FTL). Seeing as how it looks to be that the only way to cover the vast distances between planets, star systems and galaxies is to travel far faster than light
In Europe, Japan, India and the United States, scientists, engineers, and politicians are engaged in building the first "Space Elevator". This is not a joke or some far flung sci-fi plot line. Within 20 years, payloads and people will ride an eleva
Read more…Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating matter on the molecular/atomic scale using molecule size devices. 'Nano' is derived from the Greek word meaning 'dwarf.' The concept of molecular/atomic construction was first envisioned by famed physic
Read more…The Habitable Zone is a region in a planetary system where a planet must be situated in order to sustain water on its surface or support life. The following article elaborates...
