(Needs confirmation) Light-speed barrier broken?
AP is reporting that CERN has made a beam of sub-atomic particles travel faster than the speed of light: University of Maryland physics department chairman […]
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Slow light.
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 […]
LHC milestone: As dense as it gets.
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 […]
We Are The Result Of This Asymmetry: A Song And Dance For Radiolab
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 […]
Inside Fukushima
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami: So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at […]
Nobel-winning goof-offs.
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… […]
Science Art: 5 of Wands – Fusion, by Janelle Schneider (from Science Tarot).
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 […]
Song of the God Particle.
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 […]
Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770
Click to embiggen Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock […]
Hot, Heavy Matter.
Science News reports on the hottest, heaviest science ever to come out of a research lab: Talk about hot and heavy. Scientists have taken the […]
Tying light in knots
Science Daily bends my head with their report on scientists who’ve tied lasers into knots: Optical vortices can be created with holograms which direct the […]
Another LHC baguatelle.
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 […]
Science Art: Von Karman Vortices
Click to embiggen vastly Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist […]
And we’ll use it to save the humpback whales.
PhysOrg brings back memories of Star Trek IV (the time-traveling whale one) with the revelation of a new state of matter – transparent aluminum: ‘What […]
SONG: This is the Sound.
SONG: “This is the Sound” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate”, Technology Review, 10 […]