PhysOrg.com | Archive 03/23/2006

Mar 23, 2006 | 3.8 / 5 (160) | 1

Can anything travel faster than the speed of light? "No," is what Albert Einstein would likely say if he was alive today -- and he would be the man to ask, because scientists have been taking his word for it ...

A Truly 'Super' Fluid

Mar 23, 2006 | 4.7 / 5 (94) | 0

In the world of quantum mechanics, surprising discoveries are often made. For instance, what happens when you take a fermionic superfluid and convert it into a bosonic superfluid? The answer: a new superfluid that has surprising ...

What happened to the antimatter?

Mar 23, 2006 | 4.7 / 5 (79) | 0

Scientists of the DZero collider detector collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that their data on the properties of a subatomic particle, the B_s ...

Arctic, Antarctic Melting May Raise Sea Levels Faster than Expected

Mar 23, 2006 | 4.6 / 5 (23) | 0

Ice sheets covering both the Arctic and Antarctic could melt more quickly than expected this century, according to two studies that blend computer modeling with paleoclimate records. Led by scientists at the ...

New coating protects steel and superalloys

Mar 23, 2006 | 4.9 / 5 (21) | 0

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new ceramic-based coating for steel and superalloys that prevents corrosion, oxidation, carburization and sulfidation that commonly occur ...

A microscopic view into a thin slice of the Martian meteor Nakhla

Mars meteorite similar to bacteria-etched earth rocks

Mar 23, 2006 | 4.7 / 5 (19) | 0

A new study of a meteorite that originated from Mars has revealed a series of microscopic tunnels that are similar in size, shape and distribution to tracks left on Earth rocks by feeding bacteria. And though ...

Pay your cell-phone bill by watching ads

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Mar 23, 2006 | 4 / 5 (21) | 0

Hate cell-phone bills? Israeli customers of mobile operator Orange who have 3G phones will soon be able to kiss their bills goodbye -- if they're willing to watch a few commercials instead.

Fluorescence micrographs of cyanobacteria

New research reveals oxygen's contributions to evolution

Mar 23, 2006 | 4.5 / 5 (18) | 0

It's common knowledge that humans and other animals couldn't survive without oxygen. But scientists are now learning a good deal more about the extent of our evolutionary debt to a substance that was once a ...

A German youth sticks his head in the mouth of a dinosaur figure

Fossil of new dinosaur species is found

Mar 23, 2006 | 3.6 / 5 (15) | 0

Scientists reportedly have found the fossil of a previously unknown species of dinosaur that lived more than 100 million years ago in what is now Mongolia.

Old ice provides insights into major climate change

Mar 23, 2006 | 4.4 / 5 (10) | 0

All cold periods throughout the past 740,000 years were associated with a significantly larger sea ice cover around the Antarctic than warm periods. At the same time, South America’s south was significantly ...

Illustration shows area covered by Judea Group Aquifer, with outlets into Dead Sea springs

There's Water Under the Desert -- But It's Hardly Being Used

Mar 23, 2006 | 3.5 / 5 (12) | 0

The one place in water-short Israel where natural groundwater is available and not being fully exploited is – of all places – in the mostly uninhabited Judean desert.

Problem: What to do with 7 million fish

Mar 23, 2006 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 0

About 125 years ago a few carp were introduced into Utah Lake and began multiplying -- now Utah officials don't know how to get rid of 7.5 million carp.

Ancient asexuals: the boys are back in town

Mar 23, 2006 | 3.7 / 5 (10) | 0

The record-holders for the longest abstinence from sex may be about to lose their status, following a discovery on a Japanese island. Every specimen of darwinulid ostracod (a shrimp-like freshwater animal with ...

Scientists advance photonic technology