The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics has just been announced, and instead of rewarding some esoteric, hard-to-fathom theoretical physics work, it's gone to pioneers in two fields close to tech-lovers hearts: Fibre-optics and digital ...READ»
Let's face it: it's almost August, the official month of no productivity. Why not start off a week early? Here's seven bits of Internet fun stuff that topped the social news sites this week. Sit back and enjoy.
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The Large Hadron Collider is like the Moon--round, large and mystical. To doubting thinkers, it's like the Moon missions: expensive and unnecessary. If you're a Dan Brown fan, it's dangerous. But whatever you think of it, the LHC is ...READ»
Physicist Sean Gourley thinks he may be able to model and predict violence in Iraq.
And it's not just Iraq; Gourley, who works for the San Fransisco-based startup YouNoodle, has used his military side project to map the ...READ»
Scientists hoping to design a tiny, spinning motor capable of assisting in brain surgery are cribbing secrets from an unlikely source: Pizza-dough throwers.
Standing-wave ultrasonic motors are related to the motors used in the ...READ»
Teleportation is no longer science fiction. If that information is hard to swallow check this out: A U.S. science team has successfully teleported a bunch of Ytterbium metal ions across their laboratory. For real.
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The clever chaps at Duke University have been busy beavering away for years to make the sci-fi staple cloaking device a reality, and their recent results mean a real product is closer than ever. They've fabricated a better ...READ»
Digital photography has leaped forward over the years for three reasons: improved batteries, larger and cheaper memory cards, and revolutions in sensor technology. And now researchers in Scotland are trying to improve the sensors even ...READ»
Near the end of the 1900s, scientists found the tau neutrino. It is the last of the fundamental building blocks of matter. My free article at helium.com:
The tau neutrino and its place within the century of science
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Near the end of the 1900s, scientists found the tau neutrino. It is the last of the fundamental building blocks of matter. My free article at helium.com:
The tau neutrino and its place within the century of scienceREAD»
