This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson.
Which is to say, smart people… Read the rest “Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.”
I can’t even begin with this one. But yes, researchers at the Czech University of Agriculture have determined that dogs orient themselves to magnetic north when excreting:
… Read the rest “Dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field”We measured
One of a series of videos in which white-gloved technicians from the Florence Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Science and Technics Foundation) operate antique scientific equipment, demonstrating… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sodium D-line Observed with a Four-Prism Spectroscope by Florence Museo FirST”
BBC looks ahead to a brighter future… at least as far as our energy supply is concerned. Fusion reactors have gotten one small step closer, using lasers that zap hydrogen into heavier… Read the rest “Lasers make the power of tomorrow.”
FT.com introduces us to the genteel, cultured Fabiola Gianotti – accomplished pianist, paleontologist’s daughter, coffee enthusiast, trained classicist… and… Read the rest “Meet the woman who found “the God particle”.”
This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is that the pressure at the bottom of a column… Read the rest “Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl”
PhysOrg gets non-linear with their look at “time reversal” and how we might soon use it:
… Read the rest ““Once time runs backwards, we’ll….” Now wait a minute. What?”Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone remotely without even knowing
The Atlantic reveals the fluid dynamics of deadly mob disasters that shows how crowds can be so blindly powerful:
… Read the rest “Fear of crowds – it might not be so irrational.”“It happens like magic,” says Dirk Helbing, a professor in
Scientific American makes me jealous of the physicists at Livermore’s National Ignition Facility, who get to utter orders like, “Now, my assistants! Fire the FUSION LASER!”… Read the rest “World’s largest laser gets just a little larger (and closer to making fusion happen).”
Yeah, those funky electronic gizmos that sit on your desk and look oh sparkly! and not much else? Science Daily reports that they can turn water into an antibiotic:
… Read the rest “Plasma balls kill cholera, E. coli and Mad Cow.”University of California,
BBC reports on three ways scientists are bringing tractor beams into reality:
… Read the rest “Turning on the first tractor beams.”The $100,000 (£63,000) award will be used to examine three laser-based approaches to do what has until now
That’s the gist of this somewhat mournful piece in The Economist regarding America shuttering its largest particle accelerator:
… Read the rest “Science moves overseas.”It already looks likely that the successor to the
AP is reporting that CERN has made a beam of sub-atomic particles travel faster than the speed of light:
… Read the rest “(Needs confirmation) Light-speed barrier broken?”University of Maryland physics department chairman Drew Baden called it “a
University of Glasgow physicists haven’t gone faster than the speed of light… but they have done something almost as remarkable. They’ve slowed light down to the speed… Read the rest “Slow light.”
Digital Journal reports that the Large Hadron Collider has another superlative to stick in its yearbook. As well as being “most likely to succeed” and “most likely … Read the rest “LHC milestone: As dense as it gets.”
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