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The surprising experimental results agree with independent numerical simulations produced by collaborating scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia.

India's lunar explorer, Chandrayaan-1, will try to unravel the moon's origins as it scouts for minerals and water there, according to project director M. Annadurai.

A team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Source: Lockheed Martin Corporation - Comments NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission -- the first designed to globally image the extreme edge of ...

The co-operation agreement is aimed at strengthening the working relationship between the two organizations.

Main Category: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound ; Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 15 Oct 2008 - 2:00 PDT Small body movements that occur while breathing are enough to cause ...

The use of mathematics is an essential and natural part of everyday life. It is used to calculate the most efficient way to reach classes.

A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and medicine.

Physicist Michio Kaku had a nice editorial in Forbes , " Beauty Is Truth ," where he discusses the symmetry relationships recognized in the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics in near-poetic language.

Iran brushes aside the parallel drawn by the NATO chief between its conventional missile program and Israel's 'supposed nuclear arsenal'. Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer had said on Monday that because ...

Abstract In recent years topology has firmly established itself as an important part of the physicist's mathematical arsenal.

The Feynman Lectures are the bible of physics. Because it's the definitive and authoritative sacred text? Nope.

While most of the instruments at the Spallation Neutron Source are dedicated to materials and condensed-matter studies, the Fundamental Neutron Physics Beam Line will explore questions in nuclear physics.

Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.

Covering topics such as Feynman diagrams and path integrals, the author emphasizes the path integral approach, the Wilsonian approach to renormalization, and the physics of non- abelian gauge theory.

"I'm really glad to be here-I'd like to talk to you about some very, very cold things today," Nobel Prize winner Eric Cornell said to an audience of about 150 physics junkies, professors, community members and ...

Up to 40 people suffered broken bones and other injuries when a Qantas plane carrying more than 300 passengers was involved in a 'mid-air incident' and was forced to make an emergency landing in Western ...

Two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American researcher have won this year's Nobel Prize for physics.

Submitted by News Staff on 10 October 2008 - 12:20am. Mathematics In a seminar co-organized by Stanford University and the American Institute of Mathematics, Kannam Soundararajan, Professor of Mathematics, ...

The CERN Computer Center is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe.