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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists have reported in the journal Nature that they have figured out by using computer simulations how wide binary stars are able to form. Wide binary stars are two stars that orbit each other at a distance up to a light year. Some binary stars can be very close, while other pairs are extremely far apart. Astronomers have known about wide binary pairs for a long time, but how they form has remained a mystery. Now, astronomers...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Penn State University scientists using techniques from modern physics have developed a new understanding of the earliest eras in the history of the universe. The scientists now have an extended analyses that include quantum physics farther back in time than ever before, heading back to the very beginning. The new paradigm of loop quantum origins show that the large-scale structures we see in the universe evolved from...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists have questioned how life began on a molecular level for a very long time. And now, an international team of researchers has presented evidence that sheds light on a possible mechanism by which life may have gotten a foothold in the chemical soup that existed early in the Earth's history. Several competing theories have been previously proposed for how life got its start even before the first genes or living cells emerged....
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Dark Energy is one of the major puzzles of modern astronomy, and one tool that astronomers use to understand this force is encoded in the distribution of clusters of galaxies. A new study by a team of astronomers, led by Dr. Jeeseon Song at the University of Michigan, has yielded exquisitely precise distances of a large sample of clusters. These precise distances may lead to breakthroughs in understanding the expansion history of our...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced that James M. Gower, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, is scheduled to present a company overview at the Jefferies 2012 Global Healthcare Conference in London on Thursday, November 15th at 1:40 p.m. GMT. To access the live webcast of the presentation or the subsequent archived recording, log on to www.rigel.com. Please connect to Rigel's website...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronomers, writing in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, have revealed that the rate of new stars in the Universe is dropping, which is a trend that could continue. The team of astronomers from five different countries said the rate of formation of new stars is now only 1/30th of its peak. The accepted model for evolution of the Universe suggests that stars began to form about 13.4 billion years ago....
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:RIGL) today reported financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. For the third quarter of 2012, Rigel reported a net loss of $25.5 million, or $0.36 per share, compared to a net loss of $17.9 million, or $0.25 per share, in the same period of 2011. Weighted average shares outstanding for the third quarters of 2012 and 2011 were 71.6 million and 71.2 million,...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Permabit Technology Corporation, the recognized leader in storage efficiency technologies, today launched a Windows-based version of its Albireo Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows service providers and hardware and software OEMs to quickly, easily and efficiently integrate storage optimization capabilities into their existing solutions without negatively impacting differentiating capabilities or reducing overall performance....
"In our current paper we present new computational results that explore how membranes may influence crucial biological processes", explains Richard Matthews, Lise-Meitner-Fellow at the University of Vienna and first author of the study. The focus of the investigation is the self-assembly of microscopic particles, the formation of structures or patterns without human intervention. More specifically, the effect of the interactions between membranes and proteins, which can influence the...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third year in a row Alexander Nevsky, Russian actor, producer and bodybuilder, has beat out the competition of more than 120 athletes and been crowned Mr. Universe 2012. The competition was organized by the World Bodybuilding Federation (WBBF) and took place in the beautiful picturesque Slovakian resort town of Brusno Kupele. The Mr. Universe title has been won by many famous actors including former California Governor Arnold...
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Image Caption: The Hubble Extreme Deep Field (XDF) was completed in September 2012 and shows the farthest galaxies ever photographed by humans. Each speck of light in the photo is an individual galaxy, some of them as old as 13.2 billion years; the observable universe is estimated to contain more than 200 billion galaxies. Credit: NASA/Wikipedia What is Cosmology? I once commented to an acquaintance that I was fascinated by the field of Cosmology, and mused that if I had more time, I...
Physics is a natural science involving the study of matter and its motion through space-time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. On a broader scale, it also involves the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves. Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines, perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy. Physics was part of natural philosophy until the Scientific Revolution in the 16th century, when the natural...
Centaurus Constellation -- Centaurus (the centaur) was one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, and counts also among the 88 modern constellations. A constellation of the southern hemisphere, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th century B.C.) and Aratus (3rd century B.C.), Ptolemy catalogued thirty-seven stars in it. It contains Proxima Centauri, the red dwarf that is the nearest known star (other than the Sun) to Earth, as well as Alpha Centauri, which is a double star to which Proxima...
Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos -- Stars are organised into galaxies which in turn appear to form clusters and superclusters, separated by voids. Prior to 1989 it was commonly assumed that the superclusters were the largest structures in existence, and that they were distributed more-or-less uniformly throughout the universe in every direction. However, in 1989, Margaret Geller and John Huchra discovered the "Great Wall", a sheet of galaxies more than 500 million light years long...
Cosmology -- area of science that aims at a comprehensive theory of the structure and evolution of the entire physical universe. Modern Cosmological Theories Present models of the universe hold two fundamental premises: the cosmological principle and the dominant role of gravitation. Derived by Hubble, the cosmological principle holds that if a large enough sample of galaxies is considered, the universe looks the same from all positions and in all directions in space. The second point...
