News articles tagged with 'mass'
How much water does the ocean have?
— 15 Nov 2009 15:41 | EnvironmentThe calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of geodesists and oceanographers... — full story
To understand the universe, science calls on the ultrasmall
— 16 Aug 2009 17:00 | PhysicsWill the universe expand outward for all of eternity and end in a vast, dark, cold, sterile, diffuse nothingness? Or will the 'Big Bang' - the gargantuan explosion that formed the universe... — full story
Caltech physicists create first nanoscale mass spectrometer
— 23 Jul 2009 16:55 | TechnologyUsing devices millionths of a metre in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in... — full story
Intermediate-mass black hole
— 1 Jul 2009 17:00 | AstronomyThe detection of an ultraluminous X-ray source is now the strongest observational evidence for the existence of intermediate-mass black holes, as reported in a paper titled 'An intermediate-mass... — full story
Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes
— 30 Jun 2009 13:09 | PhysicsWhether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These... — full story
Astronomers discover youngest and lowest mass dwarfs
— 22 Apr 2009 15:34 | AstronomyAstronomers have found three brown dwarfs with estimated masses of less than 10 times that of Jupiter, making them among the youngest and lowest mass sub-stellar objects detected in... — full story
Mass-loss leaves close-in exoplanets exposed to the core
— 21 Apr 2009 12:36 | AstronomyAn international team of scientists has found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime. The team found that... — full story
Erratic black hole regulates itself
— 25 Mar 2009 18:00 | AstronomyNew results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a major advance in explaining how a special class of black holes may shut off the high-speed jets they produce. These results... — full story
Calculations show Saturn's rings may be more massive, older
— 23 Sep 2008 11:16 | AstronomySaturn's rings may be more massive than previously thought, and potentially much older, according to calculations that simulate colliding particles in Saturn's rings and their erosion... — full story
Halos of planetary nebulae revealed
— 11 Sep 2008 15:09 | AstronomyStars without enough mass to turn into exploding supernovae end their lives blowing away most of their mass in a non-explosive, but intense stellar wind. Only a hot stellar core remains... — full story