News
Newton, Einstein and a monstrous calf (Sep 21)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/9/11
For the first time, the Royal Society is making the complete archive of
their journals freely available online. For a two month period, the
public will be able to access scientific papers going back to 1665, when
Henry Oldenburg published Philosophical Transactions, the first-ever
peer-reviewed journal in the English language.
Impossible supernova confounds astronomers (Sep 21)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/9/12
Researchers in Canada have detected a highly unusual Type Ia supernova
(SNLS-03D3bb) that is just over twice the usual brightness for such an
event. The finding could cause experts to re-evaluate a fundamental
measure that underpins our understanding of the universeâEUR(TM)s
expansion (Nature 443 308).
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