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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a study in the journal Nature, a team of international scientists has found the first ever direct evidence of pear-shaped atomic nuclei. Bizarre pear-shaped nuclei could be the key to understanding one of the great mysteries of the universe: the reason for the Big Bang’s creation of a massive imbalance between matter and antimatter. "If equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created at the Big Bang, everything...

TSX VENTURE: AMW  VANCOUVER, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Alpha Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: AMW), (the "Company" or "Alpha"), and its Joint Venture partner Fission Energy Corp (TSX-V:FIS) are pleased to release additional results from the current core drill program. Since the announcement of the discovery hole PLS12-022 (see news release Nov. 5, 2012), two more vertical holes have been completed, PLS12-023 located 10 meters grid north of Hole PLS12-022 and Hole PLS12-024 located 10...

Trading Symbol TSX-V - AMW VANCOUVER, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Alpha Minerals Inc. (formerly ESO Uranium Corp.) (TSX-V: AMW), (the "Company" or "Alpha"), and its Joint Venture partner, Fission Energy Corp (TSX-V:FIS) report that core drilling on the Patterson Lake South project ("PLS") located in the Athabasca Basin area of northern Saskatchewan, has intersected a 6.0 metre wide interval of high grade mineralization with visible massive pitchblende in veins (up to 21...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Radioactive titanium associated with supernova remnant 1987A has been directly detected by ESA's Integral space observatory. The glowing remnant around the exploded star has likely been powered by the decaying from this titanium for the last 20 years. The first space observatory that can simultaneously observe objects in gamma rays, X-rays and visible light, Integral's principal targets are violent explosions known as gamma ray...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking into how Moon and Martian soil could be used to help shield astronauts in space. ESA is teaming up with Germany's GSI particle accelerator for a two-year project in assessing promising materials for shielding future astronauts en route to the Moon, an asteroid or Mars. “We are working with the only facility in Europe capable of simulating the high-energy heavy atomic nuclei found in...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The fall leaves look like confetti piling up in your back yard with brilliant reds, golds, and oranges. They can be thought of as natural stores of carbon, as well as a beautiful nuisance that you have to rake up each Autumn. Leaves soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the spring, converting the gas into organic carbon compounds. In the fall, the leaves fall from the trees and decompose in the soil as they are eaten by...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Predicting solar flares still remains a hit-or-miss task for scientists, but new research may shed more light on helping to predict just when the events could occur. Researchers discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, which could help provide advanced warnings to protect satellites, power grids and astronauts. As the sun transitions into "solar maximum" next year, more solar activity is...

Pocar, Kumar and the team of 60 scientists using an instrument called the EXO-200 detector, succeeded in setting a new lower limit for the half-life of this ephemeral nuclear decay; though no one has yet seen it, important progress was made Physicists Andrea Pocar and Krishna Kumar of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, part of an international research team, recently reported results of an experiment conducted at the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO), located in a salt mine one-half...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have for the first time simulated and quantified the early stages of radiation damage that will occur in a given material. "A full understanding of the early stages of the radiation damage process provides knowledge and tools to manipulate them to our advantage," said Alfredo Correa, a Lawrence Fellow from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Quantum Simulations Group. Nuclear radiation leads to highly energetic ions that can...

Physicists searching for a hypothetical and rare process involving radioactive decay of atomic nuclei have gotten their most sensitive results to date, suggesting that these mysterious particles behave like other elementary particles at the quantum level. If such a discovery can be made, the researchers said the process could have profound implications for how scientists understand the fundamental laws of physics and could help solve some of the biggest mysteries of the universe. The...