Physics
Ten Mysteries of the Solar System
[/caption] We've all wondered at some point or another what mysteries our Solar System holds. After all, the eight planets…
Could Jupiter and Saturn Contain Liquid Metal Helium?
[/caption] The interiors of the two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, are pretty extreme places. With atmospheric pressures of around…
Get Ready for September 10th: CERN Announces LHC Switch-On
[/caption] It's official, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will begin operations in a little over a month. On September 10th,…
IBEX Mission Will View the Final Frontier of the Solar System
[/caption] Space is far from empty. The Solar System can be viewed as a "bubble" of solar matter - filled…
Particle Physicists Discover Lowest Energy “Bottomonium” Particle
Particle physicists working with the BaBar detector at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center have discovered a new particle in the bottomonium…
Large Hadron Collider Could Generate Dark Matter
One of the biggest questions that occupy particle physicists and cosmologists alike is: what is dark matter? We know that…
Forget Neutron Stars, Quark Stars Might be the Densest Bodies in the Universe
So neutron stars may not be the densest exotic objects in the cosmos after all. Recent observations of ultra-luminous supernovae…
Newsflash: The LHC Won’t Punch a Hole in the Earth After All…
Its official: We're not going to be blown up, smothered in stranglets, sucked into a black hole or turned into…
Can a Wormhole Generate its Own Magnetic Field?
Wormholes are a strange consequence of Einstein's theory of general relativity. These "shortcuts" through the fabric of space and time…
How do you Model the Earth’s Magnetic Field? Build your own Baby Planet…
The Earth's magnetic field is quite a mystery. How is it generated? How does it remain so stable? We have…