Physics
Green supercomputer heading to Canada
By: Stephen Withers
The University of Toronto is set to become home to the largest - though perhaps not the fastest - supercomputer outside the US.
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By: Stephen Withers
The University of Toronto is set to become home to the largest - though perhaps not the fastest - supercomputer outside the US.
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With Einstein's ok: Star Trek-type spacecraft can travel at warp speeds
By: William Atkins
American physicists Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy are proposing a “hypothetical propulsion device” that could travel faster than the speed of light without violating any laws of physics. However, we’ll have to ask Scotty for enormous amounts of dilithium crystals!
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By: William Atkins
American physicists Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy are proposing a “hypothetical propulsion device” that could travel faster than the speed of light without violating any laws of physics. However, we’ll have to ask Scotty for enormous amounts of dilithium crystals!
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ABC NewsRadio axes StarStuff program – why?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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MSNBC list 10 scientifically inaccurate disaster movies
By: William Atkins
MSNBC states “Science sometimes gets twisted for the sake of a well-told story.” The website list ten disaster movies with improbable to impossible plots. Can we name more?
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By: William Atkins
MSNBC states “Science sometimes gets twisted for the sake of a well-told story.” The website list ten disaster movies with improbable to impossible plots. Can we name more?
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Pioneer Anomaly partially explained with heat
By: William Atkins
The Pioneer Anomaly is a mystery involving the NASA Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. Launched in 1972-73, they have traveled hundreds of millions of kilometers to explore the outer solar system and, soon, interstellar space. However, their speed is wrong, at least according to our generally accepted laws of physics.
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By: William Atkins
The Pioneer Anomaly is a mystery involving the NASA Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. Launched in 1972-73, they have traveled hundreds of millions of kilometers to explore the outer solar system and, soon, interstellar space. However, their speed is wrong, at least according to our generally accepted laws of physics.
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HP turns theory into fact with memristor memory
By: Stephen Withers
It's been 37 years since Leon Chua hypothesised the existence of the memristor - the 'missing' basic electronic circuit element to complement the capacitor, resistor and inductor - but Hewlett-Packard scientists have finally made one.
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By: Stephen Withers
It's been 37 years since Leon Chua hypothesised the existence of the memristor - the 'missing' basic electronic circuit element to complement the capacitor, resistor and inductor - but Hewlett-Packard scientists have finally made one.
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Electron discovered April 30, 1897, by Joseph John Thomson
By: William Atkins
Of course electrons have been zipping around before we knew about them. However, 111 years ago, Joseph John Thomson first announced that he had discovered the existence of electrons, which he named "corpuscles,” or small bodies.
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By: William Atkins
Of course electrons have been zipping around before we knew about them. However, 111 years ago, Joseph John Thomson first announced that he had discovered the existence of electrons, which he named "corpuscles,” or small bodies.
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Pop-ups in baseball not that easy to catch: It’s the physics!
By: William Atkins
U.S. researchers (and, no doubt, baseball fanatics) find that the trajectories of baseballs that are popped up almost vertically are complicated due to the collision of the ball with the bat and the air resistance around the ball itself in flight.
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By: William Atkins
U.S. researchers (and, no doubt, baseball fanatics) find that the trajectories of baseballs that are popped up almost vertically are complicated due to the collision of the ball with the bat and the air resistance around the ball itself in flight.
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Stephen Hawking to give NASA 50th anniversary speech
By: William Atkins
NASA has announced that British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will speak at NASA’s Fiftieth Anniversary Event on April 21, 2008, at George Washington University. The event will be carried live on NASA Television.
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By: William Atkins
NASA has announced that British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will speak at NASA’s Fiftieth Anniversary Event on April 21, 2008, at George Washington University. The event will be carried live on NASA Television.
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Racetrack memory promises major storage expansion for devices
By: Stephen Withers
New non-volatile memory technologies pop up from time to time, but they don't always make a lasting impression. Remember bubble memory? What about FRAM? Now IBM reckons its 'racetrack' memory could deliver the performance and reliability of flash memory with the low cost and high capacity of hard drives.
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By: Stephen Withers
New non-volatile memory technologies pop up from time to time, but they don't always make a lasting impression. Remember bubble memory? What about FRAM? Now IBM reckons its 'racetrack' memory could deliver the performance and reliability of flash memory with the low cost and high capacity of hard drives.
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March 1, 1896: Radioactivity discovered by Becquerel
By: William Atkins
On February 26, 1896, Henri Becquerel stored a photographic plate with uranium salts lying on top of it. He intended to later perform an experiment on phosphorescent emissions stimulated by the Sun. However, something unusual happened!
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By: William Atkins
On February 26, 1896, Henri Becquerel stored a photographic plate with uranium salts lying on top of it. He intended to later perform an experiment on phosphorescent emissions stimulated by the Sun. However, something unusual happened!
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Talking security with Bruce Almighty
By: Sam Varghese
When the good folk at Linux Australia sat down with the organisers of the Australian national Linux conference and decided that Bruce Schneier would be the keynote speaker on the opening day of the main conference, they couldn't have made a more correct decision.
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By: Sam Varghese
When the good folk at Linux Australia sat down with the organisers of the Australian national Linux conference and decided that Bruce Schneier would be the keynote speaker on the opening day of the main conference, they couldn't have made a more correct decision.
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Science and the U.S. Presidential Campaign of 2008
By: William Atkins
You can submit your science questions and vote for your favorite science questions to ask the presidential candidates, both Republican and Democratic, at Politico.com.
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By: William Atkins
You can submit your science questions and vote for your favorite science questions to ask the presidential candidates, both Republican and Democratic, at Politico.com.
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Florida scientists simulate curvy light
By: William Atkins
George Airy predicted in the 1800s that wave-like objects such as electromagnetic radiation (light) could be directed to follow curved trajectories. University of Central Florida researchers have accomplished this simulation of the curving of light.
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By: William Atkins
George Airy predicted in the 1800s that wave-like objects such as electromagnetic radiation (light) could be directed to follow curved trajectories. University of Central Florida researchers have accomplished this simulation of the curving of light.
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Surfing the universe, part-time physicist snowboarding toward explanation of everything
By: William Atkins
U.S. physicist Garrett Lisi is working on an explanation of the Theory of Everything, a theory that would explain everything in the universe.
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By: William Atkins
U.S. physicist Garrett Lisi is working on an explanation of the Theory of Everything, a theory that would explain everything in the universe.
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Nanotube radio 100 billion times smaller than first 1900s radios
By: William Atkins
University of California—Berkeley physicists have created what they call a nanotube radio, or nanoradio, which is one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. They predict “Good Vibrations” from their new invention.
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By: William Atkins
University of California—Berkeley physicists have created what they call a nanotube radio, or nanoradio, which is one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. They predict “Good Vibrations” from their new invention.
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Subtracting a photon of light sometimes adds a photon: What?!
By: William Atkins
According to research by Italian physicist Marco Bellini, when he used a laser to remove a photon of light from a light pulse, the result sometimes produced more photons.
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By: William Atkins
According to research by Italian physicist Marco Bellini, when he used a laser to remove a photon of light from a light pulse, the result sometimes produced more photons.
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2007 Nobel Prize in Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg
By: William Atkins
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 was announced on Tuesday, October 9, 2007, by the Nobel Foundation to go to French physicist Albert Fert and German physicist Peter Gruenberg. Their award goes "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance."
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By: William Atkins
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 was announced on Tuesday, October 9, 2007, by the Nobel Foundation to go to French physicist Albert Fert and German physicist Peter Gruenberg. Their award goes "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance."
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