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.”
The Vimeo page for this says it better than I could: On a hilltop in Maine, students at Colby College express their incredible joyfulness that everything exists.
Everything exists. Don’t… Read the rest “We Are The Result Of This Asymmetry: A Song And Dance For Radiolab”
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami:
… Read the rest “Inside Fukushima”So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at the core of both reactors
In case you missed it this morning, NPR had a story about graphene, the single-atom-thin form of carbon that won its inventors a Nobel prize… even though it all started as a lab joke … Read the rest “Nobel-winning goof-offs.”
I’m a tarot enthusiast. I take the same approach to the cards as do the folks behind this deck – as a good way to create meaningful stories about your life (which is a good way to … Read the rest “Science Art: 5 of Wands – Fusion, by Janelle Schneider (from Science Tarot).”
The BBC has a simulation of the sound of the Higgs boson.
That’s what the harmonics of the mass-bearing subatomic particle will sound like if one really does turn up at the Large Hadron… Read the rest “Song of the God Particle.”
Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock rifles.
As well as studying… Read the rest “Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770”
Science News reports on the hottest, heaviest science ever to come out of a research lab:
… Read the rest “Hot, Heavy Matter.”Talk about hot and heavy. Scientists have taken the temperature of a minuscule glob of dense, hot
Science Daily bends my head with their report on scientists who’ve tied lasers into knots:
… Read the rest “Tying light in knots”Optical vortices can be created with holograms which direct the flow of light. In this work,
Yeah, so the LHC really, really can’t catch a break. Not only are bizarre electrical failures, Al Qaeda operatives and time travelers out to get them – PopSci reveals that even… Read the rest “Another LHC baguatelle.”
Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist knows, when a fluid moves around an… Read the rest “Science Art: Von Karman Vortices”
PhysOrg brings back memories of Star Trek IV (the time-traveling whale one) with the revelation of a new state of matter – transparent aluminum:
… Read the rest “And we’ll use it to save the humpback whales.”‘What we have created is a completely
SONG: “This is the Sound” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein … Read the rest “SONG: This is the Sound.”
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