NASA's Cosmicopia -- Basics -- Composition News Archive

December 31, 2008: Top ten physics stories of the year -- includes the Large Hadron Collider, quarks, and GCRs -- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
December 24, 2008: Researcher nabs doubly magic tin isotope, a North American first -- Science Daily
December 12, 2008: Michigan State will host rare isotope facility -- Physics World
December 3, 2008: Speaker sees new collider as a cooperative effort to solve nature's mysteries -- AAAS
November 20, 2008: Nuclear masses calculated from scratch -- Nature
November 20, 2008: It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations -- New Scientist
November 17, 2008: Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
November 17, 2008: Molecular plasma is cooler than you think -- Physical Review Focus
November 10, 2008: New theories may shed light on dark matter -- Scientific American
November 4, 2008: PAMELA bares all -- Physics World
October 30, 2008: Searching for primordial antimatter -- NASA
October 21, 2008: McGill physicists find a new state of matter in a 'transistor' -- Eurekalert
October 14, 2008: Nobel Focus: Particle physics gets a break -- Physical Review Focus
October 9, 2008: Spallation Neutron Source sends first neutrons to 'Big Bang' beam line -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
October 7, 2008: The 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics goes to -- AIP
October 6, 2008: Arizona State University research team selected to guide search for life -- Astronomy.com
October 3, 2008: Zooming way in, technique offers close-ups of electrons, nuclei -- Eurekalert
September 26, 2008: Journey to the center of the neutron -- Physical Review Focus
September 18, 2008: Unique dark-energy probe to measure more than a milion galaxies and quasars -- Science Daily
September 17, 2008: MACSJ0025: Two giant galaxy clusters collide -- APOD
September 3, 2008: Fermilab physicists discover "doubly strange" particle -- Fermilab
September 1, 2008: Electrons discover their individuality -- Max Planck Society
August 26, 2008: XMM-Newton's massive discovery -- Astronomy.com
August 23, 2008: The matter of the Bullet Cluster -- APOD
August 22, 2008: Some solar flares may be caused by dark matter -- New Scientist
August 19, 2008: Chemist travels world to study mysterious properties of neutrinos -- Brookhaven National Lab
August 13, 2008: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula -- APOD
August 13, 2008: Physicists await dark matter confirmation -- NAture
August 6, 2008: Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium -- UC Berkeley
July 25, 2008: Tracking down origin of matter and antimatter -- Science Daily
July 18, 2008: A super mix inside neutron stars -- Physical Review Focus
July 16, 2008: Where balloons have made advances -- Nature
July 14, 2008: Particles retain weight for billions of years -- Space.com
July 10, 2008: R&D 100 Award for new UM-NIST neutron detector -- University of Maryland
July 9, 2008: Physicists discover new particle: The bottom-most "Bottomonium" -- SLAC
July 5, 2008: First underwater neutrino telescope has been constructed -- Science Daily
June 26, 2008: Dark matter is denser in the solar system -- Universe Today
June 24, 2008: 'Frozen' stars could shed light on dark matter -- New Scientist
June 4, 2008: Physicists to target neutrinos -- Nature
June 3, 2008: Super-luminous supernovae -- Astronomy.com
June 3, 2008: Protons pair up with neutrons -- Brookhaven National Laboratory
May 29, 2008: Astronomers map the metals in millions of Milky Way stars -- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
May 29, 2008: New form of artificial radioactivity -- AIP
May 21, 2008: The many versus the one -- Physical Review Focus
May 21, 2008: Looking for ET's neutrino beam -- Physics World
May 20, 2008: Atomic neutrality -- CERN
May 20, 2008: Hubble Space Telescope survey finds missing matter, probes intergalactic web -- University of Colorado
May 20, 2008: Willis Lamb: 1913-2008 -- Physics World
May 15, 2008: Can one 'pin down' electrons? -- Eurekalert
May 9, 2008: Designer isotopes push the frontier of science -- NSF
May 7, 2008: XMM-Newton discovers part of the missing matter in the universe -- Astronomy & Astrophysics
May 1, 2008: The heaviest element yet? -- Nature
April 30, 2008: Plasma physics: From black holes to radio reception -- Scientific American
April 29, 2008: High-flying electrons may provide new test of quantum theory -- NIST
April 27, 2008: The Galactic Center Radio Arc -- APOD
April 24, 2008: Exotic quantum state of matter discovered -- Science Daily
April 21, 2008: The range of annihilation -- HEAPOW
April 21, 2008: Quarter electrons may enable exotic quantum computer -- Scientific American
April 16, 2008: Particle physics proves that arsenic didn't kill Napoleon -- CERN
April 10, 2008: Optical clocks get better -- AIP
April 9, 2008: Higgs boson: A ghost in the machine -- Time
April 9, 2008: Newly discovered fundamental state of matter, a superinsulator, has been created -- Science Daily
April 8, 2008: 'God particle' expected to be found soon -- Time
April 8, 2008: 14-year-old CEO makes chemistry a game with 'Elementeo' -- Eurekalert
April 7, 2008: Periodic table: Nuclear scientists eye future landfall on a second 'island of stability' -- Science Daily
April 3, 2008: Matter-antimatter split hints at physics breakdown -- Scientific American
April 2, 2008: Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms -- Eurekalert
April 1, 2008: Compressed stars: Physicists compress unstable nucleus of nickel 56 for first time -- Science Daily
March 30, 2008: Weak lensing distorts the universe -- APOD
March 28, 2008: Why matter matters in the universe -- University of Melbourne
March 25, 2008: Atom cloaking -- AIP
March 24, 2008: Physicists show electrons can travel more than 100 times faster in graphene -- University of Maryland
March 19, 2008: Japanese particle accelerator hints at 'new physics' -- New Scientist
March 15, 2008: Crashed probe yields sun secrets -- BBC
March 6, 2008: Controlling most atoms now possible -- Eurekalert
March 3, 2008: Particle collider's last big piece set -- National Geographic
February 27, 2008: US experiment takes the lead in the competitive race to find dark matter -- Caltech
February 25, 2008: Dawn of the Large Hadron Collider -- APOD
February 25, 2008: Electron gets film debut in first-ever video of its kind -- Science Daily
February 1, 2008: Dark fluid: Dark matter and dark energy may be two faces of the same coin -- Science Daily
January 31, 2008: New discovery on magnetic reconnection to impact future space missions -- Science Daily
January 29, 2008: Nowhere to hide: New ultra-powerful microscope probes atomic world -- Science Daily
January 23, 2008: A new calculation explains the mechanics behind carbon dating -- AIP
January 22, 2008: Milky Way's antimatter linked to exotic black holes -- New Scientist
January 22, 2008: Future of top U.S. particle physics lab in jeopardy -- Scientific American
January 22, 2008: CERN: Celebrating the lowering of the final detector element for Large Hadron Collider -- Science Daily
January 17, 2008: The future of physics -- Scientific American
January 17, 2008: Large Hadron Collider: The discovery machine -- Scientific American
January 17, 2008: The coming revolutions in particle physics -- Scientific American
January 9, 2008: Integral discovers the galaxy's antimatter cloud is lopsided -- ESA
January 9, 2008: Vast cloud of antimatter traced to binary stars -- NASA GSFC
January 9, 2008: Japanese particle physics in good health -- Physics World
January 2, 2008: Large Hadron Collider at CERN expected to go live summer of 2008 -- Science Daily
January 1, 2008: Helium supplies endangered threatening science and technology -- Washington University in St. Louis
December 22, 2007: The best of 2007 -- Physics World
December 21, 2007: The size of the helium-8 nucleus has been measured -- AIP
December 21, 2007: Transparent nuclei -- Physical Review Focus
December 19, 2007: US budget cuts a 'body blow' to particle accelerator -- New Scientist
December 13, 2007: Ten top physics stories for 2007 -- AIP
December 10, 2007: Major physics breakthrough in understanding supersolidity -- Science Daily
November 30, 2007: First estimate of size of new atomic particle (from 1937) -- Science News
November 30, 2007: Galaxies are born of violence between dark matter and interstellar gas -- Science Daily
November 28, 2007: Einstein's biggest blunder? Dark Energy may be consistent with cosmological constant -- Science Daily
November 20, 2007: Nuggets of new physics -- APS
November 17, 2007: Young's experiment performed in a hydrogen molecule -- Science Daily
November 15, 2007: Physicists peer closely at radioactive decay of a rare isotope at the edge of nuclear existence -- Science Daily
October 25, 2007: Newly created forms of magnesium and aluminum -- NSF
October 9, 2007: How can graphite and diamond be so different if they are both composed of pure carbon? -- Scientific American
October 5, 2007: Shining a light on mysterious 'dark matter' -- Science Daily
September 13, 2007: Matter or antimatter? Why not both? -- Australian Broadcasting Company
July 23, 2007: Ruling unruly substances -- Staying out of jams -- Science Daily
June 6, 2007: Researchers catch motion of a single electron on video -- Eurekalert
November 22, 2006: Genesis findings solve Apollo lunar soil mystery -- MoonDaily
August 21, 2006: Heavy hydrogen clumps in space -- Australian Broadcasting Company
April 6, 2006: It's the Sun, but not as we know it -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation News
November 15, 2005: Cosmochemist to receive National Medal of Science -- EurekAlert!
February 27, 2005: The solar spectrum -- NASA GSFC APOD
January 27, 2005: NASA sends first Genesis early-science sample to researchers -- NASA HQ
October 6, 2004: An overview of cosmic-ray elemental compositions -- ACE News
July 28, 2004: Sun spikes: Solar quakes fuel hot tendrils -- Space.com
July 28, 2004: Solar spicules explained -- Astronomy.com
April 6, 2004: Solar wind sampler seals its scoops -- New Scientist
April 5, 2004: No variability of N/O in the solar wind implies non-solar origin of lunar nitrogen -- ACE News
April 5, 2004: NASA spacecraft locks the vault on its sapphire, diamond payload -- NASA JPL
April 2, 2004: Here comes the Sun -- SpaceDaily
November 11, 2003: Solar flare 'reproduced' in lab -- BBC News
October 15, 2003: Revised periodic table slanted toward astronomers -- ScienceDaily
September 11, 2003: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory reports new measurements - thanks to table salt! -- ScienceDaily
June 19, 2003: "Dark side" of the Universe is coming to light -- National Geographic
April 12, 2003: Mapping the 'cosmic web' of dark matter -- Spaceflight Now
April 3, 2003: How the Sun shines -- Space.com
March 19, 2003: New telescope is upside-down at the bottom of the sea -- Space.com
January 28, 2003: South Pole telescope follows trail of neutrinos -- Spaceflight Now
January 17, 2003: What is the solar neutrino problem? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
January 1, 2003: Looking forward to physics at Tevatron Run II -- CERN
December 6, 2002: Sun is ok, says latest neutrino experiment -- Eurekalert
December 4, 2002: Researchers make first images of Earth's plasma sheet, discover possible breakthrough for monitoring and predicting space weather -- NASA GSFC
December 13, 2002: What carries more kinetic energy than a Randy Johnson fastball, yet is only the size of an atom? -- NASA GSFC Science Question of the Week
November 1, 2002: Detecting dark dimensions -- Physical Review Focus
October 29, 2002: Researchers get first look into antimatter atoms -- NSF
October 29, 2002: Researchers get first look into antimatter atoms -- SpaceRef.com
October 23, 2002: Gamma-ray telescope to sleuth for origin of elements -- NASA GSFC
September 20, 2002: Antimatter breakthrough: Big batch created in lab -- National Geographic
September 16, 2002: Nuclei reveal novel decay -- PhysicsWeb
September 1, 2002: Particle physics: A world without borders -- CERN Courier
July 17, 2002: Element 118 dropped from periodic table -- Scientific American
April 23, 2002: When neutrinos change type, some must have mass -- UniSci
April 22, 2002: Experiment confirms Sun theories -- BBC
April 22, 2002: Solar neutrinos really do change -- Berkeley Lab
April 11, 2002: Neutrinos from the Sun and from a factory described -- UniSci
April 10, 2002: Cosmic X-rays reveal evidence for new form of matter -- NASA HQ
March 20, 2002: A new form of matter -- Science@NASA
February 1, 2002: The Standard Model in trouble? -- Jupiter Scientific
January 22, 2002: Neutron bounce quantized in Earth gravity -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 30, 2001: Plucky IMP completes 28-year observing marathon -- NASA HQ
October 29, 2001: Plasma physics meeting this week one of the largest -- UniSci
June 27, 2001: Cluster's whispers probe the electrifying plasmasphere -- Spaceflight Now
June 26, 2001: Cluster's whispers probe the electrifying plasmasphere -- Spacer.com
June 20, 2001: Solar neutrino problem solved -- Spaceflight Now
October 1, 2000: "God particle" possibly discovered -- Jupiter Scientific
July 20, 2000: Science finds particle perfection -- BBC News
September 7, 1999: Plasma, plasma, everywhere -- NASA MSFC
February 22, 1999: New electron states observed by Caltech physicists -- Caltech