Stories by Eugenie Samuel Reich

Missing Galaxy Mass Found

A puzzle from the big bang's echo is solved using the technique of gravitational lensing

NASA Pulls the Plug on Plutonium Power Source

Planetary scientists wanted the efficient power supply to explore the outer solar system

Physicists Now Want a Very Large Hadron Collider

The proposed project's accelerator ring would be 100 kilometers around and run at seven times the energy of the LHC

Highly Anticipated Dark Matter Update Expected Next Week

The influential Large Underground Xenon experiment, a dark matter detector based in South Dakota, is set to release its first results

'Higgsogenesis' Proposed to Explain Dark Matter

Interactions of Higgs bosons and anti-Higgs in the early universe may also have caused the observed asymmetry between matter and antimatter

Ultimate Upgrade for Synchrotron Particle Accelerator at National Lab

Argonne National Laboratory is banking on beam-bending magnets in its bid for the world's most focused X-ray light source

Quantum Paradox Seen in Diamond

A real-life version of Zeno's ancient Greek conundrum could advance quantum computing

Long-Predicted Polarization Detected in the Cosmic Microwave Background

The B-mode polarization signal provides a way for astronomers to calculate neutrino masses, as well as to chase a class of "primordial" B-modes that could be used to confirm inflation

Cyclotrons Come Full Circle

U.S. Physicists hope to rejuvenate a classic technology to support neutrino experiments

Magnetar Found at Giant Black Hole

A newly discovered magnetized neutron star could be used to test Einstein's general theory of relativity

Metal Oxide Chips Show Promise as Transistors

Materials that flip from insulator to conductor could make more energy-efficient transistors, although the metals are not yet close to competing with silicon

Electron Beams Set Nanostructures Aglow

Physicists borrow an old tool from geology to focus "cathodoluminescence" and use it to probe the interior layers of metamaterials in lasers, light-based circuits and solar cells

Exotic Quantum Effects Could Follow from Compound Now Confirmed to Conduct Only at Surface

New findings from three teams may solve a 40-year-old mystery regarding the odd electrical behavior of samarium hexaboride, which may be a topological insulator in its bulk form

Fairly Simple Math Could Bridge Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

A framework that relies on college-level mathematics could describe what happens to particles in so-called spacetime rips, gravity fluctuations such as those that occur during the birth of a black hole...

Tandem Satellite Mission Reveals a Thinner Lunar Crust

The first results from the GRAIL gravity-mapping mission suggest that the crust's average thickness is only 30 kilometers, not twice that as Apollo seismometers estimated

Discredited Vaccine-Autism Researcher Defended by Whistleblower Group

Pathology records are at the centre of a new disagreement over disgraced medic Andrew Wakefield.

Science after 9/11: How Research Was Changed by the September 11 Terrorist Attacks

New work in forensics, biodefense and cyber security blossomed after the attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and in the skies over Pennsylvania, but increased regulations have also stymied international collaboration as well as work on some infectious diseases...

The Specter of Fraud

Stimulus funds for science raise concern about misconduct

Stimulus Funds for Science Raise Concern about Misconduct

About $31 billion in stimulus funds will go to science. Can watchdogs keep track of those funds?

Turning Crowds into Watchdogs