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Hybrid device is a billion times more sensitive to light

I go back and forth about the whole question of scientific accuracy in tv shows and movies. On the one hand, I think that complaining "Explosions don't make noise in space!" is one of the worst forms of humorless dorkitude, and I'm generally happy to let bad science slide by in the service of an enjoyable story. On the other hand, though, I am a professional physicist, and it's hard to turn that ...

CONTRARY to popular belief, heavy metal music hasn’t died and is very much alive in Malaysia, as evidenced by the 15,000 people who thronged Surf Beach in Sunway Lagoon recently to catch Avenged Sevenfold — or A7X — in action.

Depending on which early reviews you have decided to place faith in, “ The Avengers ” — Joss Whedon’s superheroes-to-the-seventh-power epic that opens tonight at midnight — either contains failures that “are significant and dispiriting” ( A.O. Scott of the New York Times ); will cause Comic-Con nerds to have “multiple orgasms” ( David Edelstein of New York Magazine ); or is “more efficient than ...

Clever analysis points to new particles in Fermi-satellite data

The SLAC-built Large Area Telescope (LAT), the main instrument of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has been studying the gamma-ray sky for almost four years. During that time, the LAT has identified hundreds of gamma-ray sources, including pulsars and active galactic nuclei. It has shown that the Crab Nebula isn't the steady emitter of gamma rays it's long been thought to be. The LAT has ...

Research proves fundamental relationship between properties of waves

Armchair adventurers and space sightseers are in for a guided tour of the cosmos when Burlington's Brian Metzger - and NASA Einstein Fellow at Princeton University - speaks to the public at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Burlington's Congregational Church on subjects ranging from magnetic winds and black holes with occasional forays into gamma-ray bursts and neutron stars.

Hudson County rockers have a date tonight at McFaddenn’s Pub, 17 E. 21st St., in Bayonne. Following three regional tour dates with his act, Audio Insight, Bayonne native Anthony Celi will play alongside fellow Hudson County rockers Artic Flame...

[ Watch the Video ] There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort, no one knows what this "dark matter" really is. Many scientists think it's likely that ...

There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies.