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SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Apr 7, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- A controversial theory of physics may explain some aspects of galaxy behaviour better than rival, but more widely accepted, ideas. That is the claim of an astronomer who studied eight so-called dwarf galaxies. Modified Newtonian Dynamics (Mond) is p.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu May 3, 2007 @ 4:25pm neoform

www.princeton.edu -- Princeton physicists connect string theory with established physics String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than w.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Jan 23, 2007 @ 12:15am neoform

Physorg -- Physicists have devised a theory that unifies two widely studied mysteries of the universe: why there is an imbalance between regular matter and anti-matter (scientists expect to see equal amounts of each, but observe less anti-matter), and the identity o.. Read More

SCIENCE / OPINION Tue Jan 2, 2007 @ 9:38am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- People's fascination for religion and superstition will disappear within a few decades as television and the internet make it easier to get information, and scientists get closer to discovering a final theory of everything, leading thinkers argue today... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Oct 27, 2006 @ 8:16am neoform

Physorg -- Professor John Lattanzio from Monash's School of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics said the confusion surrounding the Big Bang revolved around the amount of the gas Helium 3 in the universe... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Mysterious bands of shadow which sometimes pass across the ground during an eclipse might be produced by sound pulses, according to a new theory. "Shadow bands" have been observed travelling across the ground before and after totality - when the Moon c.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. He was 90. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he came up with the scientific concept that small effects lead to big.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 10:03am neoform

BBC News -- An analysis of the World Trade Center collapse has challenged a conspiracy theory surrounding the 9/11 attacks. The study by a Cambridge University engineer demonstrates that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and t.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 10:07am neoform

CBS News -- Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved. The discovery by Meave Leakey, a member of a famous famil.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sun Jun 24, 2007 @ 12:28pm neoform

BBC News -- A longstanding theory of how HIV slowly depletes the body's capacity to fight infection is wrong, scientists say. HIV attacks human immune cells, called T helper cells. Loss of these cells is gradual, often taking many years. It was thought infected.. Read More

SCIENCE / OPINION Mon Feb 26, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

Scientific American -- When Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 143 years ago, the scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular biology and other fields gradually.. Read More

SCIENCE / OPINION Fri Dec 15, 2006 @ 8:17am neoform

Physorg -- In the standard theory of gravity—general relativity—dark matter plays a vital role, explaining many observations that the standard theory cannot explain by itself. But for 70 years, cosmologists have never observed dark matter, and the lack of direct.. Read More