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Astronomers have realized since the beginning of the global financial crisis that a lot less money will enter their pockets for conducting scientific research. Some very important projects were abandoned, even though they held great promise, so, now, the community has to turn to innovation to keep funds coming in. It... |
20 November 2009
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The launch of Intel's P55 mainstream platform has enabled the majority of motherboard manufacturers to update their portfolios with new products, specifically designed to provide consumers with support for the chip maker's latest LGA 1156-compatible Core i7 and Core i5 processors. Such is the case with Taiw... |
30 October 2009
04:32 GMT |
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Over recent years, a growing number of astronomers has come to believe that the Big Bang did not create just a single Universe, as in the one we inhabit, but many different ones, which only appear locally uniform. The Multiverse theory is catching wings fast, and physicists have recently taken another step for bringi... |
16 October 2009
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MSI, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance desktop platforms and motherboards, has just announced that one of its upcoming Intel P55-based motherboards, dubbed Big Bang, will be the first to include the THX TruStudio PC with Creative EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 audio technology. This is the same motherb... |
8 October 2009
05:44 GMT |
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The concept of entropy refers to a quantity used to measure chaos. Entropy has been on the rise in the Universe ever since the Big Bang, and a new scientific study, taking into account the latest astronomical data, has evidenced that massive black holes at the center of galaxies are the largest contributors to this i... |
2 October 2009
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It has become widely accepted among scientists that our Universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old. It's also known that the diameter of the observable Universe measures at least 93 billion light-years. However, if this is true, there is a hitch. In 13.7 billion light-years, light can only travel 13.7 billion li... |
25 September 2009
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Following the introduction of its new HYDRA 200 chip for multi-GPU configurations, LucidLogix has announced today that it has collaborated with the world's leading chip maker Intel to enable the new solution on the latest P55 platform, providing computer enthusiasts with a choice for a high-end computer system t... |
23 September 2009
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The recently launched Planck telescope finally began to observe the Universe on August 13th, during a test-observation period. Built specifically by the European Space Agency (ESA) to analyze the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the relic radiation left behind when the Cosmos first exploded into being, the telescop... |
17 September 2009
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Through accurate scientific analyses of datasets collected in 2005 and 2007, experts at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have managed to establish the most accurate limits on how gravitational waves formed and extended throughout the U... |
20 August 2009
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Experts in advanced mathematics have recently proposed a new model to explain our Universe that is so different from what we have held as true thus far, that it has left many gasping for air. According to the new theory, it may be that our Universe is not expanding at all. Rather, galaxies appear to be pushing away f... |
18 August 2009
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A US-European astronomy team has recently announced at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science meeting that it has discovered water spewing out of a black hole, at the center of a galaxy located billions of light-years away. The radio wavelength emissions that were observed in 2007 with the 100-meter German ... |
23 April 2009
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A new and very powerful South Pole telescope is being tuned at the moment in a way that will allow it to detect hypothetic gravitational waves, distortions of space-time that have been only hinted at by mathematical calculations. It is the hope of astronomers that the new instrument will discover them, if they indeed... |
24 February 2009
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Up until this point, astronomers have believed that when a supernova explodes there are only two possible outcomes – either a black hole or a neutron star. However, recent observations have shown that a third possibility also exists. Quark stars are celestial bodies that form when the pressure created by the su... |
23 February 2009
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Researchers at the Paris Observatory in France have managed to discover faint magnetic fields around young stars, which seem to originate back in the time of the Big Bang, they say. The stars are yet too young to have formed a field of their own, and the team is convinced they have come across a strong evidence of th... |
27 January 2009
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According to the latest theory on the creation of the Universe, dark energy is the force responsible for the multiple cycles everything around us undergoes. The year 2002 saw Paul Steinhardt, a scientist at Princeton University, and Neil Turok, at the University of Cambridge, developing the “never-ending cycle&... |
19 January 2009
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Every once in a while, I stay up a bit later than usual, and just wonder about what's beyond us, over the stars and far away. Although I have a pretty clear notion of the size of the Universe and its age, and I know that it looks somewhat like a bubble, I still find it hard to integrate its vastness into my head... |
17 January 2009
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A new challenge to classical cosmology comes from a novel field named loop quantum cosmology (LQC), which started from applying rules of loop quantum gravity on the context of general relativity. The new vision states that the universe we live in did not emerge from an infinitely small particle with a similarly infin... |
12 December 2008
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Galaxies still generate a far larger amount of questions than the answers they provide to scientists, ever since people first turned their attention towards outer space. Although several theories have been issued related to the process that leads to their formation, the exact paths and factors that influence said pr... |
28 October 2008
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A small number of scientists defines space dust as the observable portion of dark matter. Space dust is comprised of small particles (about 0.1 mm) which reflect light on a very large scale. This is what can be seen of dark matter, not observable directly, but its hypothetical effects have been noticed.Space dust, al... |
3 October 2008
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Freeverse, renowned developer of entertainment software, specializing in card and board games, has announced the official debut of its Big Bang Board Games for iPhone and iPod touch. The collection of 7 popular board games are brought to you in a special form - Sol and Luna, “intergalactic spirits of the cosmos... |
12 September 2008
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Results of computer simulations carried out at the Nagoya University, Japan show that, in the outcome of the tremendously energetic event that gave rise to what we now call the universe, ripples propagating through matter caused clouds of gas to condense and collapse, so as to form the first objects to shine visible ... |
1 August 2008
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Researchers of the Fermilab announced recently that they have been able to produce and observe one of the rarest diboson processes, the ZZ pair, during proton-antiproton collisions inside the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron. The discovery bears significant scientific relevance, since the... |
31 July 2008
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According to a new study carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, the mass ratio between the electron and the proton remained constant over the past 6 billion years. This comes to contradict the findings of a study conducted nearly two years ago which suggested that the masses of the two particles... |
14 July 2008
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The most detailed map of the chemical composition of the galaxy we live in has been recently released by the research team of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, after completing the study of a population of stars extending on a radius of more than 30,000 light years around the Sun. "This compilation of the compositions of... |
13 June 2008
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What was before this universe is currently anybody's guess, but it is highly likely that it was preceded by a similar universe and therefore time existed before the Big Bang. The evidence to back this theory is said to be found in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation left behind by the light created when th... |
7 June 2008
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Approximately a decade ago astronomers discovered that not only is the universe expanding in space-time, but also that this expansion is accelerating. Since there was no explanation to why this is happening, they proposed the concept of dark energy, a form of energy that makes up about 75 percent of the mass of the u... |
24 May 2008
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Supermassive black holes, weighing several billion times more than the Sun, are widely believed to have begun their lives as smaller black holes that fed on the large masses of gas surrounding them. Computer models however tell another story. Small black holes cannot feed and grow rapidly to super-size because there&... |
20 May 2008
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What better way to understand the universe than to create your very own? Of course, black holes, supernova explosions and Big Bangs are off limits for laboratories on Earth, but helium-3 cooled to only 17,7 degrees Celsius above absolute zero will do just as good in replicating the processes that took place soon afte... |
9 May 2008
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While observing galaxies in the early life of the universe, Yale University researchers discovered nine young galaxies presenting unusual high densities of stars. Although measuring only 5,000 light years in diameter, as opposed to the Milky Way which is more than 100,000 light years across, these galaxies contain am... |
29 April 2008
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Inflation theory predicts that, right after the Big Bang event, the universe went through a period of rapid expansion in space-time, which left behind a 'gravitational radiation' signature in the form of gravitational waves, distortions in the fabric of space-time, not yet proven to exist. However, a team o... |
16 April 2008
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The Big Bang theory says that the universe began at T=0 as it suffered a sudden expansion into space-time, from a singularity-like object of zero volume but of infinite mass and density. So what was before that? Certainly, things do not just appear out of nowhere. Some kind of structure must have preceded the current... |
10 April 2008
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Take a patch of the sky with an area four times that of the apparent size of the Moon, study it over a period of three years and you may obtain the most sensitive infrared map of the distant universe. By doing so, researchers from the University of Nottingham obtained the image of more than 100,000 galaxies, as they ... |
9 April 2008
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"Higgs Boson" or the "God Particle", was predicted almost four decades ago by British physicist Peter Higgs as a mean to explain how fundamental particles gain mass in the space-time continuum. Higgs believes that it will be found by CERNs Large Hadron Collider, expected to become operational by the end of this year.... |
8 April 2008
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Because light does not travel instantaneously through space, when we look towards distant objects in the universe we actually see them as they appeared in their past. By using this property, astronomers are able to observe how galaxies looked, back in the early days of the universe. Just recently, they discovered wha... |
2 April 2008
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LBG-2377 is a galaxy proto-cluster located 11.4 billion light years away from Earth - the most distant galaxies ever observed. In fact, these galaxies are so far away from us, that they appear as they looked when they were in the first days of their lives. Previously, the most distant such galaxy proto-cluster was lo... |
1 April 2008
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After two additional years of measurements with NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, which narrowed the uncertainty by a few tens of millions of years, last week astronomers finally confirmed the precise age of the universe: 13.73 billion years, give or take 120 million years. "Everything is tightening ... |
27 March 2008
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The Dark Ages, as we call the period of time between the Big Bang event and the birth of the first star in the universe, is one of the most debated topics in Cosmology, and one of the most unexplored periods in the history of the universe. All this will hopefully change in the near future with the design of the next-... |
12 March 2008
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Based on a prediction made more than three decades ago, CLEO physicists conducting a high-energy experiment claim to have discovered a new sub-atomic particle named 'charmed-strange meson'. The discovery of a new type of meson may be a pivotal point in particles physics and cosmology in special, by observin... |
11 March 2008
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The universe is certainly not empty, that's a fact, but its not very dense either. Today, the visible universe consists mostly of empty space, void, while ordinary matter accounts for only 4 percent of the total mass. So where is the rest of 95 percent of the universe's mass? In dark energy and dark matter,... |
6 March 2008
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Using the help provided by a gravitational lensing phenomenon created by a large galaxy cluster, known as Abell 1689, astronomers from NASA have discovered, with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, what seems to be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies in the universe, located more than 12.8 billion light y... |
12 February 2008
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Some may say that such actions are close to impossible, but researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC for short, have already achieved the performance of correcting the trajectory of particles traveling at 99,995 percent of the speed of light, by measuring fluctuations of particle beams as they speed t... |
7 February 2008
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The long expected CERN Large Hadron Collider will become operational somewhere this spring, and physicists all around the world can hardly wait to see what new discoveries it will bring. For example, whether the LHC accelerating particles towards each other at speeds close to that of light are able to prove the super... |
28 January 2008
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The Big Bang theory suggests that, in the early life stages of the universe, a massive number of black holes might have been created. Although not as massive as most of the black holes created from stellar remnants, a part of these tiny black holes might still be lurking through space. In the 1970s, the famous physic... |
23 January 2008
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String theory predicts that the universe could be populated with entities of pure mass-energy called cosmic strings, which are basically defects in the space-time fabric that are create while spacetime suffers a rapid change in phase. Such changes in phase might have taken place in the early stages of the universe, d... |
19 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Geza Dyuk, the director of Astronomy at the Adler Planetarium, says that the universe is indeed expanding. Incredibly, even the great German physicist Albert Einstein didn't know for certain if the universe was expanding or contracting, at the time when he published his Theory of Relativity back in 1905. So, whi... |
19 January 2008
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The universe mush have had some kind of beginning no doubt about that, thus the Big Bang model has been proposed as the simplest theory to explain the processes which took place in the first stages of the universe's life. Though physicists can approximate exactly what happed inside the universe just a few fracti... |
17 January 2008
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Even today, most of the scientific communities still believe that the universe might have originated in a Big Bang explosion, but have no way to prove such process ever took place. Furthermore, although singularity-like objects are allowed to exist in the fabric of space-time, models explaining how such structures c... |
15 January 2008
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As if the Wii wasn't casual enough already, Engine Software (Netherlands-based developer) has recently confirmed their debut title for download via Nintendo's WiiWare service. Project Bang!, as the developers have dubbed it will be a casual game with "addictive gameplay using the unique Wii Remote controlle... |
10 January 2008
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Current theories about the beginning of the universe predict that all the observed matter originated in a single point in space, a singularity, which suddenly expanded in space-time provoking the so-called Big Bang. The light emitted by the glowing matter in the beginning of the universe slowly shifted towards the in... |
27 December 2007
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The Milky Way usually spawns about four new stars every year, although the recent discovery of a new galaxy reveals that it is furiously creating a thousand times more stars than our own. Situated at more than 12 million light years away from Earth, the new galaxy appears as it looked 1.5 billion years after the Big ... |
19 December 2007
05:53 GMT |
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