 The Titanic: What Made It Sink Discovery News A perfect storm of fateful events conspired to cause the tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago, according to a study looking at the math and physics behind the tragedy. Bound from Southampton to New York, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson? io9 Its discovery will send shockwaves through the physics community and likely capture the public imagination. So the question, then, is what can other fields do to complete with all that? What events outside physics could pack the same punch as finding ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Why Women Don't Pursue Physics Careers LiveScience.com ATLANTA — Many of the strategies teachers have been using to encourage girls to pursue careers in physics aren't working, according to new research. A new study examined the effectiveness of five ways high-school science teachers have tried to nudge ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter Newswise (press release) The discovery of the phenomena that underlie the formation of spontaneous coherence of excitons is certain to produce a better scientific understanding of this new state of matter. It will also add new insights into the quirky quantum properties of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A Cold Lesson in Particle Physics PhysicsCentral.com (blog) Here at the 2012 April Meeting, we're celebrating the 100th anniversary of thediscovery of cosmic rays by Victor Hess. Also, the meeting is taking place just months after the 100th anniversary of the first successful expedition to the south pole. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| U of T-led Research Team Discovers New Quantum Encryption Method to Foil Hackers MarketWatch (press release) The discovery is outlined in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters. Quantum cryptography is, in principle, a foolproof way to prevent hacking. It ensures that any attempt by an eavesdropper to read encoded communication data will lead to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dr. Robert Saunders of the Open University, UK Algemeiner His cause is Scientific Materalism, an ideology whose central dogma is that every phenomenon we observe in the universe must have a purely naturalistic explanation which can be attributed to the impersonal and immutable laws of chemistry andphysics. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| A Little About Dark Energy AccuWeather.com (blog) One of the most amazing discoveries in the recent history of the field of astronomy, recognized with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, is that not only is our universe expanding, but that this expansion is accelerating. Not only are galaxies becoming ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Exoplanets Detected from Westminster College Observatory WCN (WestminsterCollege Network) These are not new discoveries, but the detections are significant because they demonstrate Westminster's capability to join the search for new exoplanets. The observations occurred during the last two weeks of March and were conducted by Dr. Thomas ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Newton's third law, scientific discoveries and human nature Economic Times Science and scientific discoveries are indeed wondrous things. That Newton's third law - about every action having an equal and opposite reaction - goes beyond physicsand applies to human nature is well known. After all, our propensity to often do ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Faster-Than-Light' Study Coordinator Resigns LiveScience.com The media and scientific ripples after a shocking announcement that physicists had detected particles seeming to travel faster than light have culminated with the project's coordinator, Antonio Ereditato, stepping down, according to Italy's National ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A Completely New Look Onto Fundamental Physics Science 2.0 I am a retired Physicist (born in 1941) with experience in chemistry, Fourier optics, image intensifiers, quantum logic, quantum physics, modular... People can already count since several millennia. Arithmetic is improved over time. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter Space Daily Many scientists think it's likely that the mystery will be solved with the discovery of new kinds of subatomic particles, types necessarily different from those composing atoms of the ordinary matter all around us. The search to detect and identify ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| America's Future Role in Physics PhysicsCentral.com (blog) At this year's April Meeting, scientists have been discussing the US's future role in thephysics community in light of a recent burst in physics collaborations around the world. Some are particularly worried about the US's role in particle physics ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Former Cornell president Dale Corson, physicist who co-discovered an element ... The Republic Blaine Friedlander, a spokesman for Cornell University, said Corson led the university through a time of student unrest in the 1960s and 70s and was involved in thediscovery of the element Astatine, a radioactive chemical element. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Despite incomplete status, Blue Waters yielding discoveries Daily Illini Supported by the National Science Foundation and the University, the Blue Waters Project will allow scientists to make discoveries in various fields of research using a newly developed supercomputer. This supercomputer will be capable of one petaflop ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Physicists explain the collective motion of particles called fermions Science Codex A paper detailing both the theoretical and experimental discoveries appears today in the journal Nature. Krotscheck said the scientists' success in developing accurate theoretical predictions lay, in part, in the fact that they focused on mathematical ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Humour in science ABC Online IgNobel Laureate Len Fisher from the Physics Department of the University of Bristol in the UK, tells us that scientists do have a sense of humour and humour can be a stimulus as well as the result in scientific research. Robyn Williams: Now the real ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Clocking an accelerating universe: First results from BOSS Space Daily "We've made precision measurements of the large-scale structure of the universe five to seven billion years ago - the best measure yet of the size of anything outside the Milky Way," says David Schlegel of the Physics Division at the US Department of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mount graphene to put brake on electrons Futurity: Research News The tricky part physicists have yet to figure out is how to control the flow of electrons through the material, a necessary prerequisite for putting it to work in any type of electronic circuit. Graphene behaves very differently than silicon, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| And now, here are marshmallow Peeps operating the Large Hadron Collider io9 When they're not busy exploding in microwaves, bunny and chick-shaped Peeps are making important discoveries in the field of particle physics. Take a look inside the sugary search for the Higgs Just Born. This brilliant Peeps diorama was created by ... See all stories on this topic » |
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