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Category: Physics/Astronomy

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 11:00 Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds Astronomers Say Yes.

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 03.09.2010 The smallest possible refrigerator

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 03.09.2010 ATHLETE Rover Steps Up to Long Desert Trek

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 03.09.2010 NASA Invites Media To Experience Future Of Human Space Exploration

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA Selects Investigations For First Mission To Encounter The Sun

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 Computer models explain patterns in bent crystals

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 02.09.2010 Caltech Chemists Develop Simple Technique to Visualize Atomic-Scale Structures

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 A decade of studying the Earth’s magnetic shield, in 3D

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA Selects Investigations for First Sun Encounter Mission

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 02.09.2010 Hot water discovered around a carbon star

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 01.09.2010 Caltech Mineral Physicists Find New Scenery at Earth’s Core-Mantle Boundary

Physics/Astronomy 01.09.2010 Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic Desert

Physics/Astronomy 01.09.2010 Researchers discover how to conduct first test of ‘untestable’ string theory

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 Astronauts Linda Godwin and Scott Altman Leave NASA

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 NASA and ATK Successfully Test Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 31.08.2010 Atmospheres of distant worlds probed with new technique

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 A versatile, clean and efficient way to enhance widespread application of carbon nanotubes

Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers two Planets Transiting Same Star

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 Tracing the Big Picture of Mars’ Atmosphere

Physics/Astronomy 25.08.2010 WISE Captures the Unicorn’s Rose

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 25.08.2010 Sunlight spawns many binary and "divorced" binary asteroids

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 24.08.2010 A possible new career for a vital biomolecule

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 New project will use pulsars to detect gravitational waves

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 NASA To Announce Latest Findings By Kepler Spacecraft

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Stars

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 23.08.2010 The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Good Vibrations: new atom-scale products on horizon

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 23.08.2010 $1.7 million grant for Sydney physicist

Mathematics - Physics/Astronomy 21.08.2010 Peregrine’s Solition observed at last

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 20.08.2010 Deputy Prime Minister opens University Solar Farm

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 20.08.2010 NASA Images Show Anatomy of Pakistan Flood Disaster

Physics/Astronomy 19.08.2010 Cosmic Lens Used to Probe Dark Energy for First Time

Physics/Astronomy - History/Philosophy 19.08.2010 New images show recent faulting and shrinkage of the moon

Physics/Astronomy - Law/forensics 19.08.2010 High speed beams, heaps of excitement and hunting the Higgs boson

Physics/Astronomy - Physics/Nanosciences/Material science 18.08.2010 AMS experiment takes off for Kennedy Space Center

Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 National report makes for ’a good day’ for CU astronomy

Electroengineering/Microtechnics - Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 Ho-hum to high performance: A boring material, when ’stretched,’ could lead to electronics revolution

Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 Galaxies’ Glory Days Revealed

Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 LISA Gravitational-Wave Mission Strongly Endorsed by National Research Council

Physics/Astronomy 16.08.2010 Proposed Cornell telescope project in Chile gets key boost

Physics/Astronomy 16.08.2010 Move Over Caravaggio: Cassini’s Light and Dark Moons

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 16.08.2010 You could have found a new star with your PC!

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 16.08.2010 Particle physics used to mitigate natural disasters

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 16.08.2010 Silicon: an ever-improving host for information on a quantum scale

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 15.08.2010 Overlooked element could be part of dream team for quantum computing

Physics/Astronomy 15.08.2010 NRC Recommends Three Astronomy/Astrophysics Projects with Potential Major Caltech Roles

Business/Economics - Physics/Astronomy 13.08.2010 Scientists call for a global nuclear renaissance in new study

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 13.08.2010 Penn State is partner in large telescope named top U.S. priority

Physics/Astronomy 13.08.2010 Lovell Telescope helps ‘citizen scientists’ make an exciting find

Physics/Astronomy 12.08.2010 NASA Plans Next Space Station Repair Spacewalk For Monday

Physics/Astronomy 12.08.2010 Home computers from Iowa and Germany, using Arecibo data, help discover unusual pulsar

Physics/Astronomy 11.08.2010 Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected Galaxies

Physics/Astronomy 11.08.2010 NASA and Israel Space Agency Sign Statement of Intent for Future Cooperation

Physics/Astronomy 10.08.2010 WISE Spacecraft Warming Up

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 10.08.2010 Scientists Conduct Inaugural Deployment of Buoys off Shore of Taiwan to Monitor the Typhoon Season

Physics/Astronomy 10.08.2010 Perseid meteors light up the sky this Thursday night

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 09.08.2010 Researchers demonstrate highly directional terahertz laser rays

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 09.08.2010 Send in the Clouds

Physics/Astronomy 09.08.2010 ’Spoof’ structures tighten up T-ray laser beam

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 09.08.2010 New device for patients to monitor blood glucose levels

Physics/Astronomy 07.08.2010 NASA Instrument Tracks Pollution from Russian Fires

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 06.08.2010 CSI in the snow: the search for the world’s coolest life forms

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 05.08.2010 Physicists use offshoot of string theory to describe puzzling behavior of superconductors

Physics/Astronomy 05.08.2010 NASA’s Great Observatories Witness a Galactic Spectacle

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 05.08.2010 Quantum networds advance with entanglement of photons, solid-state qubits

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 04.08.2010 Mimicking the Moon’s surface in the basement

Physics/Astronomy 04.08.2010 Hundreds of New Views from Telescope Orbiting Mars

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 04.08.2010 Four University of Illinois professors elected ACS fellows

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 04.08.2010 Researchers Find Universal Law For Material Evolution

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 03.08.2010 Quantum Networks Advance with Entanglement of Photons, Solid-State Qubits

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 03.08.2010 NASA Invites Media To View Space Station Cargo For STS-133 Mission

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 03.08.2010 NASA Moves Space Station Repair Spacewalk To Friday, Sets Briefings

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 New catalyst of platinum nanoparticles could lead to tall-free, stable fuel cells

Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 Aurora Alert: The Sun is Waking Up!

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 Caltech, Canadian Space Agency Awarded NASA Project to Develop Spectrometer Headed to Mars

Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 Engineers’ new solar energy conversion process could revamp solar power production

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 02.08.2010 NASA and ESA’s First Joint Mission to Mars Selects Instruments

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 02.08.2010 NASA And ESA’s First Joint Mission To Mars Selects Instruments

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 02.08.2010 Silicon can be made to melt in reverse

Physics/Astronomy 30.07.2010 NASA’s First Robotic Crew Member To Tweet From Space Station, Available For Interviews

Physics/Astronomy 29.07.2010 No rings around Saturn’s Rhea, astronomers find

Physics/Astronomy 29.07.2010 Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 29.07.2010 Graphene exhibits bizarre new behavior well-suited to electronic devices

Physics/Astronomy 29.07.2010 World-renowned astronomer Donald C. Backer dies at age 66

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 29.07.2010 Understanding plastic semiconductors better

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 400 years, 7,500 words: A history of planetary science

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 28.07.2010 Spitzer discovers buckyballs in space

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 First results from Large Hadron Collider

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 GRAIL Spacecraft Takes Shape

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity’s View

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star

Physics/Astronomy 27.07.2010 IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays

Medicine/Pharmacy - Physics/Astronomy 27.07.2010 Grant to combat counterfeit drugs

Physics/Astronomy 26.07.2010 UM’s One Water to Make Cable-TV Premiere on Planet Green Channel

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 26.07.2010 NASA Simulates Space Exploration At Remote Arctic Crater Site

Physics/Astronomy 26.07.2010 Earth-type planets will be found within years

Physics/Astronomy - Physics/Nanosciences/Material science 26.07.2010 ICHEP 2010 conference highlights first results from the LHC

Physics/Astronomy 23.07.2010 Mars Curiosity Takes First Baby Steps

Physics/Astronomy 23.07.2010 NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever

Physics/Astronomy 22.07.2010 Researcher calls supersolid helium into question

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 22.07.2010 NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time

Physics/Astronomy 22.07.2010 NASA’s Hubble Shows Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way

Physics/Astronomy 22.07.2010 Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way

Medicine/Pharmacy - Physics/Astronomy 22.07.2010 Eight Sydney scientists named as Eureka Prize finalists

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 22.07.2010 Researchers share nanotechnology knowledge

Physics/Astronomy 21.07.2010 Black hole at Milky Way core powers galaxy’s fastest stars

Physics/Astronomy 21.07.2010 Most massive stars ever discovered

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 21.07.2010 Caltech Team Finds Evidence of Water in Moon Minerals

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 20.07.2010 Orbiter Puts Itself Into Standby Safe Mode

Physics/Astronomy 20.07.2010 Studying the Sun

Physics/Astronomy 20.07.2010 Cassini Sees Moon Building Giant Snowballs in Saturn Ring

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 20.07.2010 ARC Centre of Excellence successes for Faculty of Science

Physics/Astronomy 19.07.2010 Watch: Studying the Sun

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 19.07.2010 Liverpool scientists construct molecular `knots’

Physics/Astronomy 19.07.2010 Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover’s Touchdown

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 19.07.2010 Cambridge researchers get backing for cosmic vision

Physics/Astronomy 19.07.2010 Record-breaking X-ray blast briefly blinds space observatory

Medicine/Pharmacy - Physics/Astronomy 19.07.2010 Graduation Ceremonies

Physics/Astronomy 16.07.2010 NASA’s WISE Mission Ready to Complete Extensive Sky Survey

Physics/Astronomy 16.07.2010 NASA’s WISE Mission to Complete Extensive Sky Survey

Physics/Astronomy 16.07.2010 UCL eyes triple stake in Cosmic Vision

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 15.07.2010 MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals New Information About Mercury

Physics/Astronomy 15.07.2010 See Beautiful Ontario Lacus: Cassini’s Guided Tour

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 15.07.2010 NASA Finds Super Hot Planet With Unique Comet-Like Tail

Physics/Astronomy 15.07.2010 ANU welcomes space research funding

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 15.07.2010 Scientists Measure Changing Lake Depths on Titan

Physics/Astronomy 14.07.2010 Astronomers Discover an Unusual Cosmic Lens

Physics/Astronomy 14.07.2010 Meet the Titans: Dust Disk Found Around Massive Star

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 14.07.2010 Scientists find unusual electrons that go with the flow

Physics/Astronomy 13.07.2010 ’Broken symmetry’ discovery in high-temperature superconductors opens new research path

Physics/Astronomy 13.07.2010 NASA Selects Student Experiments For International Space Station

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 13.07.2010 Understanding the structure of plastic-based solar cells

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 13.07.2010 Big Science Future for Australia

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 13.07.2010 Big science future for Australia

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 12.07.2010 NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter

Physics/Astronomy 12.07.2010 Sun's dark matter trap

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 12.07.2010 NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter

Computer Science/Telecom - Physics/Astronomy 12.07.2010 Photo competition captures engineering’s burning issues

Physics/Astronomy - Electroengineering/Microtechnics 12.07.2010 Researchers create fibers that can detect and produce sound

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 12.07.2010 Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a Mystery

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 12.07.2010 Researchers use light to create rare uranium molecule

Physics/Astronomy - Social sciences 12.07.2010 U of M project digitizes immigrant love letters

Physics/Astronomy 11.07.2010 NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun

Physics/Astronomy 11.07.2010 Core values set new date for birth of the Earth

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 09.07.2010 University team travel to ‘Armageddon’

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 09.07.2010 Superconductor breakthrough could power new advances

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 09.07.2010 National conference on particle accelerators begins today

Architecture - Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 Coral tests show fast construction pace for Polynesian temples

Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 Saturn Propellers Reflect Solar System Origins

Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 Researchers track ’propeller moons’ around Saturn for insight into solar system formation

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 Geologists study Sumatran tsunami

Physics/Astronomy - Physics/Nanosciences/Material science 08.07.2010 Protons – smaller than we thought

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 Stanford study: Heat waves could be common in U.S. by 2039

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 Proteins prove their metal

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 07.07.2010 NASA To Fly Into Hurricane Research This Summer

Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 Puff, the Magic Dragon?

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 NASA to Fly Into Hurricane Research this Summer

Physics/Astronomy - Literature/linguistic 07.07.2010 Ransom gets Denis Johnson's papers

Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 Newborn stars discovered in dark cosmic cloud

Physics/Astronomy 06.07.2010 Planck Takes It All In

Physics/Astronomy 06.07.2010 Cassini to Dive Low through Titan Atmosphere

Physics/Astronomy 05.07.2010 Scientist reveals detailed view of far galaxies

Physics/Astronomy 05.07.2010 Planck unveils the Universe – old and young

Physics/Astronomy 05.07.2010 Planck unveils the Universe now and then

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 02.07.2010 Scientists observe one of the heaviest elements

Physics/Astronomy 02.07.2010 Revisit the Living Planet Symposium

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 01.07.2010 Next Mars Rover Sports a Set of New Wheels

Physics/Astronomy 01.07.2010 Man in the Moon has ’Graphite Whiskers’

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 01.07.2010 Researchers Shed Light on Birth of the First Stars

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 01.07.2010 Bright outlook for space scientists

Physics/Astronomy 30.06.2010 Call for Media: Rosetta flyby of asteroid Lutetia on 10 July

Physics/Astronomy 30.06.2010 Shape-shifting structures on show at Royal Society's annual exhibition

Physics/Astronomy 30.06.2010 On a virtual Moon mission

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 30.06.2010 SMOS shines at symposium

Physics/Astronomy 30.06.2010 Proba-2 tracks Sun surging into space

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 30.06.2010 Photonic future bright thanks to IPOS

Physics/Astronomy 29.06.2010 Engineers Assess Dawn’s Reaction Wheel

Physics/Astronomy 29.06.2010 MetOp-B is ESA test centre’s latest task of busy year

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 29.06.2010 New molecular framework could lead to flexible solar cells

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 29.06.2010 GOCE giving new insights into Earth’s gravity

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues to Martian Past

Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 ’Hitchhiker’ EPOXI: Next Stop, Comet Hartley 2

History/Philosophy - Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 Science historian cracks

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 28.06.2010 Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 ESA’s biggest scientific symposium gets underway

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 Perspective on: Imagination and optimism in scientific discovery

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 27.06.2010 Pop goes the plasma: Extreme conditions inside imploding bubbles

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 25.06.2010 Summer science exhibits on show

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 25.06.2010 NASA Awards Space Station Mission Integration Contract

Administration and Government - Physics/Astronomy 25.06.2010 NASA Retires First Data Relay Satellite After Stellar Career

Physics/Astronomy 25.06.2010 Space Station Crew Vehicle Will Move June 28 for Cargo Ship Arrival

Physics/Astronomy 25.06.2010 Earth to Lend Helping Hand to Comet Craft

Physics/Astronomy - History/Philosophy 25.06.2010 Wet era on early Mars was global

Physics/Astronomy 25.06.2010 Cosmic clocks hold the key to the secrets of the Universe

Physics/Astronomy 24.06.2010 Stanford physicist awarded Europhysics Prize

Architecture - Physics/Astronomy 24.06.2010 Reflective Room at The Manchester Museum

Physics/Astronomy - History/Philosophy 24.06.2010 New Clues Suggest Wet Era on Early Mars Was Global