Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion
May 27, 2008 |
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To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel ...
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 ...
South Pole Neutrino Detector Could Yield Evidences of String Theory
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Jan 26, 2006 |
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Researchers at Northeastern University and the University of California, Irvine say that scientists might soon have evidence for extra dimensions and other exotic predictions of string theory. Early results ...
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, ...
Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Thane Heins knows the track record of inventors that claim to make breakthroughs in power generation methods, especially when they claim to defy the second law of thermodynamics. Every so often, a (usually ...
Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin: hotter than the interiors of stars
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Mar 08, 2006 |
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Sandia’s Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin — hotter than the interiors of stars. The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could ...
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 ...
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
Jul 01, 2007 |
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New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we live in today will be announced in the early on-line edition of the journal Nature Physics on 1 July 2007 and wi ...
New plastic is strong as steel, transparent
Oct 04, 2007 |
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By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent.
Tabletop nuclear fusion device developed
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Feb 13, 2006 |
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature, providing confirmation of an earlier experiment conducted at the University ...
Physicists establish 'spooky' quantum communication
Sep 05, 2007 |
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Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky."
Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor'
Apr 30, 2008 |
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HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.
Sonofusion Experiment Produces Results Without External Neutron Source
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Jan 27, 2006 |
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A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences has used sound waves to induce nuclear fusion without the need for an external neutron source, according ...
Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes
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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 ...
