items tagged with Physics
Nanotube radio 100 billion times smaller than first 1900s radios
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-11-06 09:44:39
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-11-06 09:44:39
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?!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-17 10:06:57
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-17 10:06:57
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-09 07:01:07
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-09 07:01:07
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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It’s Knot a problem, or is it?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-05 11:02:49
U.S. physicists wondered why string, headphones, and other common extension cords would knot so often. Their experimental findings identified that the length of the string was key to whether it knotted or not, and by how much.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-10-05 11:02:49
U.S. physicists wondered why string, headphones, and other common extension cords would knot so often. Their experimental findings identified that the length of the string was key to whether it knotted or not, and by how much.
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West Virginia undergrad makes discovery of possible new space object
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-29 12:16:08
West Virginia University undergraduate student David Narkevic was looking at old radio data taken from an Australian radio telescope when he found something that looked like a very short and powerful burst of radio energy from a pulsar—but it wasn’t from a pulsar. So what is it?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-29 12:16:08
West Virginia University undergraduate student David Narkevic was looking at old radio data taken from an Australian radio telescope when he found something that looked like a very short and powerful burst of radio energy from a pulsar—but it wasn’t from a pulsar. So what is it?
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Nobel Laureate Weinberg calls space station an “orbital turkey”
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-21 10:53:38
While calling NASA’s “manned” space flight programs (such as Space Station) worthless with regards to science, Steven Weinberg calls NASA’s “unmanned” space flight programs (such as Martian probes Spirit and Opportunity, and earth-orbiting observatory Hubble Telescope) very important to the advancement of science.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-21 10:53:38
While calling NASA’s “manned” space flight programs (such as Space Station) worthless with regards to science, Steven Weinberg calls NASA’s “unmanned” space flight programs (such as Martian probes Spirit and Opportunity, and earth-orbiting observatory Hubble Telescope) very important to the advancement of science.
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IBM's atomic art on display
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2007-09-08 05:23:25
IBM scientists in 1990 famously wrote the letters of the company name by very carefully arranging single atoms. Now an online gallery of such atomic images has been opened for our wonder and delight.
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Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2007-09-08 05:23:25
IBM scientists in 1990 famously wrote the letters of the company name by very carefully arranging single atoms. Now an online gallery of such atomic images has been opened for our wonder and delight.
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NRC suggests NASA study Einstein’s dark force
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-06 09:03:44
On Wednesday, September 5, 2007, members of the National Research Council’s Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee released a study that suggests five space missions as part of NASA’s “Beyond Einstein” program. One of them is the Joint Dark Energy Mission.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-06 09:03:44
On Wednesday, September 5, 2007, members of the National Research Council’s Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee released a study that suggests five space missions as part of NASA’s “Beyond Einstein” program. One of them is the Joint Dark Energy Mission.
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IBM claims nano breakthroughs
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-31 00:47:18
A pair of breakthroughs made at IBM research labs in the US and Europe may potentially lead to atom-scale storage and molecule-scale processing.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-31 00:47:18
A pair of breakthroughs made at IBM research labs in the US and Europe may potentially lead to atom-scale storage and molecule-scale processing.
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Astronomers move live data 41,000 kilometres at 250Mbps
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-08-30 02:20:51
Scientists have successfully carried out the first very long electronic baseline interferometry (e-VLBI) observations by connecting telescopes in China, Australia and Europe with dedicated fibre optic links.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-08-30 02:20:51
Scientists have successfully carried out the first very long electronic baseline interferometry (e-VLBI) observations by connecting telescopes in China, Australia and Europe with dedicated fibre optic links.
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Ever wonder why dirt roads turn washboard rough?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2007-08-21 20:07:54
The washboard effect has “rocked and rolled” drivers and passengers for as long as dirt roads have existed. We didn’t know why they existed until three English physicists discovered the secret.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2007-08-21 20:07:54
The washboard effect has “rocked and rolled” drivers and passengers for as long as dirt roads have existed. We didn’t know why they existed until three English physicists discovered the secret.
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Space dust in plasma organizes into double helix shape—like DNA
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-08-21 09:05:31
Researchers used computer modeling to show that microscopic inorganic interstellar dust (space dust) injected into plasma will organize into single and double-helixes, the shape of DNA, with properties that look similar to living organisms.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-08-21 09:05:31
Researchers used computer modeling to show that microscopic inorganic interstellar dust (space dust) injected into plasma will organize into single and double-helixes, the shape of DNA, with properties that look similar to living organisms.
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Illinois to get world’s fastest supercomputer at one petaflops
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-11 10:46:35
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will house the $208 million Blue Water supercomputer to be built by IBM for operations beginning in 2011.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-08-11 10:46:35
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will house the $208 million Blue Water supercomputer to be built by IBM for operations beginning in 2011.
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U.S. Congress approves America Competes Act
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-08-04 10:48:52
On Thursday, August 2, 2007, the U.S. Congress approved legislation to encourage people to study and teach mathematics and science, along with supporting research into emerging technologies and increasing funds for federal science-based organizations.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-08-04 10:48:52
On Thursday, August 2, 2007, the U.S. Congress approved legislation to encourage people to study and teach mathematics and science, along with supporting research into emerging technologies and increasing funds for federal science-based organizations.
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Math leads the way to a good career in science
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-29 17:25:36
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-29 17:25:36
U.S. researchers find that mathematics is the best course to take in high school to succeed in science in college.
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Dark energy? It’s mysterious! It may decide the fate of our universe!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-22 09:33:56
Dark energy is a type of energy that is only hypothesized to exist. If it does exist, it may permeate all of the universe, may increase the rate of the universe's expansion, and finally decide our fate. To find out if it exists, cosmologists are proposing several large-scale experiments.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-22 09:33:56
Dark energy is a type of energy that is only hypothesized to exist. If it does exist, it may permeate all of the universe, may increase the rate of the universe's expansion, and finally decide our fate. To find out if it exists, cosmologists are proposing several large-scale experiments.
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Homestake Gold Mine in Dakota Black Hills selected as next national laboratory
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-07-10 21:17:04
On July 10, 2007, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) chose the abandoned Homestake gold mine in South Dakota as the location for its newest national underground laboratory—for the study of the evolution and characteristics of the universe.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-07-10 21:17:04
On July 10, 2007, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) chose the abandoned Homestake gold mine in South Dakota as the location for its newest national underground laboratory—for the study of the evolution and characteristics of the universe.
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Cosmic Forgetfulness: Time before the Big Bang
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-03 08:40:10
What if our universe is an endless series of Big Bangs (expansions) and Big Crunches (contractions)? Can we see time before the Big Bang? One scientist is looking into this possibility.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-03 08:40:10
What if our universe is an endless series of Big Bangs (expansions) and Big Crunches (contractions)? Can we see time before the Big Bang? One scientist is looking into this possibility.
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Engineering students say Go for tethered YES2 satellite
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-02 09:34:17
The Young Engineers’ Satellite 2 (YES2) is a student-built tethered satellite that is scheduled to be launched in September 2007 by the European Space Agency (ESA). YES2 has just passed a critical test for its launch, much to the excitement of its young builders.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-02 09:34:17
The Young Engineers’ Satellite 2 (YES2) is a student-built tethered satellite that is scheduled to be launched in September 2007 by the European Space Agency (ESA). YES2 has just passed a critical test for its launch, much to the excitement of its young builders.
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Full Moon July 1st weekend looks larger. Is it an illusion?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-01 08:44:36
The full Moon, when it first rises during the July 1, 2007 weekend, will be exceptionally low in the sky when compared to other full moons during the year. You will probably think it is larger than normal. You are viewing the "Moon Illusion".
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-01 08:44:36
The full Moon, when it first rises during the July 1, 2007 weekend, will be exceptionally low in the sky when compared to other full moons during the year. You will probably think it is larger than normal. You are viewing the "Moon Illusion".
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