items tagged with Physics
Scientists straighten out baseball's curve ball
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-06-18 08:05:51
A Bucknell University professor led researchers in an explanation as to why a curveball in baseball breaks so much when seen by a batter. Their imagery won them Best Illusion of the Year for 2009 by Vision Sciences Society.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-06-18 08:05:51
A Bucknell University professor led researchers in an explanation as to why a curveball in baseball breaks so much when seen by a batter. Their imagery won them Best Illusion of the Year for 2009 by Vision Sciences Society.
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Physicists observe waves that heat Sun’s corona
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-04-20 11:21:10
For the first time scientists have directly seen magnetic waves that heat up the outer atmosphere of the Sun millions of degrees hotter than its surface interior. These Alfvén waves were imaged by the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-04-20 11:21:10
For the first time scientists have directly seen magnetic waves that heat up the outer atmosphere of the Sun millions of degrees hotter than its surface interior. These Alfvén waves were imaged by the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope.
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Quantum encryption broken with time travel?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-12-08 09:33:05
The field of quantum mechanics allows security codes to be sent completely free of being detected and read. However, U.S. scientists say they could break these quantum encryption codes with time travel, specifically, wormholes. That is, if wormholes exist?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-12-08 09:33:05
The field of quantum mechanics allows security codes to be sent completely free of being detected and read. However, U.S. scientists say they could break these quantum encryption codes with time travel, specifically, wormholes. That is, if wormholes exist?
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LHC atom smasher temporarily smashed
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-09-20 08:27:18
CERN officials announced that its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be inoperable for at least two months while repairs are conducted after it malfunctioned and was damaged during its initial startup on Friday, September 12, 2008.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-09-20 08:27:18
CERN officials announced that its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be inoperable for at least two months while repairs are conducted after it malfunctioned and was damaged during its initial startup on Friday, September 12, 2008.
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Bigger Bang Theory: Einstein’s Telescope dwarfs Large Hadron Collider
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-09-14 05:38:27
The Large Hadron Collider has got the world talking about life, the universe and everything. Oh, and black holes and death, of course. Just wait until people hear about it's big brother: the International Linear Collider...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-09-14 05:38:27
The Large Hadron Collider has got the world talking about life, the universe and everything. Oh, and black holes and death, of course. Just wait until people hear about it's big brother: the International Linear Collider...
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Green supercomputer heading to Canada
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-08-14 22:29:30
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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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-08-14 22:29:30
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-08-14 10:44:19
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-08-14 10:44:19
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?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-06-26 09:14:48
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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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-06-26 09:14:48
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-06-14 08:53:24
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-06-14 08:53:24
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-04 12:01:41
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-04 12:01:41
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
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-04-30 16:18:57
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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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-04-30 16:18:57
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-04-29 14:49:04
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-04-29 14:49:04
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!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-04-17 09:23:35
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-04-17 09:23:35
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-16 09:12:09
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-16 09:12:09
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
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2008-04-10 17:23:42
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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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2008-04-10 17:23:42
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-02-28 09:01:12
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-02-28 09:01:12
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
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-01 06:11:50
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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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-01 06:11:50
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-20 04:45:10
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-20 04:45:10
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-12-28 11:46:28
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-12-28 11:46:28
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-18 12:10:19
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-18 12:10:19
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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