The SpaceMarauder blog is looking forward to some singular explosions down here on Earth, thanks to the news that the Large Hadron Collider is back online:
… Read the rest “Return of the Supercollider”Originally slated for an early
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all:
… Read the rest “Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.”…[I]t may seem a bit out of place that, in 1833, an Italian physicist
New Scientist goes behind the music to tell the real story of Manchester rocker and physics prof Andrew Murray, who figured out a new way to take atoms apart using his guitar amp:
… Read the rest “For That Atomic Guitar Sound.”Murray’s
The aptly-named NoiseAddicts online magazine delves into some unusual research as Norwegian acoustic scientists study violinist Mari Kimura, who’s able to play sounds that she… Read the rest “Sounds that should not be.”
SONG: “(We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider” (To download:double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: CERN progress updates throughout… Read the rest “SONG: (We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider”
Here, this is science art you can try at home: Ordinary fluorescent lights + power lines = GLOW.
Really. You can do it yourself.
That work was inspired by Richard Box, who set up large installations… Read the rest “Glowing under the wires.”
And we all just shifted back in time by 3.214 seconds. Did you feel that?
Yes, the LHC is exciting. I own that.
But is it *this* exciting?
That’s a bunch of particle physicists (I think) dancing inside the LHC to a rap by science writer Kate McAlpine. I think… Read the rest “Large Hadron Rap”
So, the BBC is talking about one of Nikola Tesla’s dreams (he of the AC current and the plasma ball) coming true in an Intel lab, where engineers are broadcasting power wirelessly: … Read the rest “Unplugged.”
The great thing about laser weapons, New Scientist says, isn’t just that you can fry your enemy from miles away. You can also shrug your shoulders and say, “No, really, I didn’t… Read the rest “The plausibly deniable death ray.”
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch”When Spitzer launched Monday, 25 August 2003 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT from Cape
PopSci answers the question everyone will be asking once they see The Watchmen preview and its blue-skinned nuclear superman: How worried should you be if you’re stuck inside the… Read the rest “Calling Doctor Manhattan….”
Step back, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Telegraph reports on a new a levitation machine:
… Read the rest “Levitate me.”Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have
I’m quite impressed by “Cosmology in 10 Minutes” by Danielle Fong, her attempt to explain why scientists believe what they do about how this all came to be:
… Read the rest “The Totality of the Universe (nutshell version).”Guth said,
Discovery News has a weird little story about a weird little vehicle coming up out of the swamp. I suppose you could call it a UFFO – a University of Florida Flying Object:
… Read the rest “Gators got a UFO.”Subrata Roy,
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