Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations in the hot soup of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons produced in energetic collisions. The new observations, reported inPhysical Review Letters, suggest that “bubbles” formed within this quark soup may disobey the so-called “mirror symmetry” that […]
Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, say that the increased turbulence and storms first observed on Jupiter more than two years ago are still raging, prompting a theory that Jupiter is in the throes of a major climate change. Examining the new images from the Hubble Space Telescope (the first since Jupiter emerged from […]
The increasing popularity of laptop computers, together with evidence that elevated scrotal temperature can result in sperm damage, has prompted researchers from the State University of New York to undertake the first study into the effect of heat from laptop computers on scrotal temperature. With the exception of an anecdotal report of genital burns, the […]
Over the next 100 years, the eastern United States will see more winter precipitation because atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are increasing. But more precipitation does not necessarily mean more snow, according to Arthur T. DeGaetano, a Cornell climatologist who was one of several speakers at the Impacts of Climate Change on Horticulture symposium, held last […]
