http://www.newser.com/story/125008/did-the-earth-once-have-two-moons.html

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Armed with state-of-the-art supercomputer models, scientists have shown that colliding neutron stars can produce the energetic jet required for a gamma-ray burst. Earlier simulations demonstrated that mergers could make black holes. Others had shown that the ( Read more... )

Quantum Physics & Particle Physics | Large Hadron Collider

A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle ( Read more... )

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110315_lhc

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110316_dimensions.htm

The fa­mil­iar three di­men­sions of space - height, width and length - may have been just one or two when the un­iverse was formed, some phys­i­cists say. In the March 11 is­sue of the re­search ( Read more... )

European Southern Observatory | Cold, Dim Stars | Space.com

http://www.space.com/11204-coldest-star-discovered-brown-dwarf.html

Astronomers have detected a new candidate for the coldest known star - one whose temperature is roughly equivalent to a ( Read more... )

Cosmology, Space & the Universe | Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Astronomy

http://www.space.com/11129-dark-energy-theory-universe-expansion.html

New measurements of the expansion rate of the universe lend new support for the theory of dark energy that ( Read more... )

http://www.livescience.com/13129-physics-string-theory.html

Theory of Everything: Holy Grail -- or fruitless pursuit?

And see Black Strings: Black Holes With Extra Dimensions | LiveScience and 8 Shocking Things We Learned From Stephen Hawking's Book | ( Read more... )

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110223_blackhole

http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/science/4345/the_cosmic_quintessence.html

And see Quintessence, Cosmic Coincidence, and the Cosmological Constant, Phys. Rev. D 65, 044007 (2002): Holographic cosmic quintessence on the dilatonic ( Read more... )