
South Africa Wins Panel's Backing to Host Square Kilometer Array Scope
South Africa wins science panel's backing to host SKA telescope

South Africa Wins Panel's Backing to Host Square Kilometer Array Scope
South Africa wins science panel's backing to host SKA telescope

Flavor of the Ray: Neutrino Measurement May Help Solve Mystery of Matter's Domination over Antimatter
In less than two months of operation, an experiment at a Chinese nuclear power plant has measured one of the missing parameters that describes neutrino behavior


Big Solar Flare May Bring Major Aurora
The next couple of nights may see intense northern lights shows, although the extent is hard to predict

Stars That Go Out with a Bang
A new supernova yields clues to how white dwarfs flame out

When 14 Billion Years Just Isn't Enough Time
Some say its glory days are long gone, but the universe has life in it yet. Brand-new types of celestial phenomena will unfold over the coming billions and trillions of years

Dual Interpretations: Milky Way's Outer Fringe of Stars Sparks Disagreement
Resolving how the galaxy's halo of stars was assembled would provide important clues about galactic formation

A Universe from Nothing: Einstein, the Belgian Priest and the Puzzle of the Big Bang
An excerpt from physicist Lawrence M. Krauss's new book explains why we are not the center of the universe

The Quantum Physics of Free Will
Do we have autonomy, or are our choices preordained? Is that a false choice? And what, if anything, does physics have to say about that?

A Sea of Spacetime Foam?

Is Space Digital?
An experiment going up outside of Chicago will attempt to measure the intimate connections among information, matter and spacetime. If it works, it could rewrite the rules for 21st-century physics

Should the U.S. Collaborate with China in Space?
During the cold war the U.S. found ways to work with the Soviet Union on space missions

Gigantic Radio Telescope to Search for First Stars and Galaxies
The array could be the most complex and versatile radio telescope ever attempted, with the capacity to sweep the entire northern sky in 45 days for low-frequency radio waves