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Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century
Physics /
Apr 04, 2006 |
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With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein’s relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating ...
Water forms floating 'bridge' when exposed to high voltage
Sep 28, 2007 |
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While it's one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists. Much research has been done to uncover the structure of water beyond the H2O scale, whi ...
Hybrid Cars -- Pros and Cons
Jan 19, 2006 |
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If you listen to the makers, hybrid cars are the best invention since sliced bread. While there are many reasons to buy a hybrid car, including a new tax incentive for US owners, it helps to have a good understanding ...
Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like
Apr 17, 2007 |
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In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature ...
40% efficient solar cells to be used for solar electricity
Jun 01, 2007 |
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Scientists from Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, have recently published their research on the fabrication of solar cells that surpass the 40% efficiency milestone—the highest efficiency achieved ...
Japanese Device Uses Laser Plasma to Display 3D Images in the Air
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Feb 27, 2006 |
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A collaboration of the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Keio University and Burton Inc. has produced a device to display "real 3D images" consisting of dot arrays ...
For Better Nanowires, Just Add Diamond
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 15, 2006 |
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Among the positive characteristics of diamond, such as its beauty and unsurpassed hardness, are less well known properties that make it a valuable material in the electronics industry. Now, according to two scientists at ...
Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense
Dec 11, 2006 |
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In a recent study, fuel cell expert Ulf Bossel explains that a hydrogen economy is a wasteful economy. The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), ...
Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why
May 10, 2007 |
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Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in ...
Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe?
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, ...
Dark Energy and Dark Matter – The Results of Flawed Physics?
Sep 11, 2006 |
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There are few scientific concepts as intriguing and mysterious as dark energy and dark matter, said to make up as much as 95 percent of all the energy and matter in the universe. And even though scientists ...
Interstellar Spaceflight: Is It Possible?
Dec 07, 2005 |
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With current space travel limited to just a few robotic probes visiting nearby planets, how realistic is it to think about reaching the nearest stars? For the short term, not very – especially when we speak ...
Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes
Physics /
Feb 24, 2006 |
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On Monday, October 19, 1987 – infamously known as “black Monday” – the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.9%, marking the largest crash in history. Using an analytical approach similar to the one applied to explore ...
Professor proposes theory of unparticle physics
Jun 11, 2007 |
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Howard Georgi, a physicist at Harvard University, has recently published a paper on so-called unparticle physics, which suggests the existence of “unparticle stuff” that cannot be accounted for by the standard ...
Study of 'Solitons' Adds Insight into Nanomagnet Behavior
Feb 02, 2006 |
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Scientists are a long way off from a complete understanding of the interactions and behaviors that govern nanomagnets — magnets on the scale of a billionth of a meter. However, a groundbreaking new study helps ...
