Physicists and engineers search for new dimension

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The universe as we currently know it is made up of three dimensions of space and one of time, but researchers in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech are exploring the possibility of an extra dimension.


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Looking for neutralinos at the Large Hadron Collider

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“We are looking at the heavens, and using the very biggest things to help up predict what will happen with the very smallest things,” David Toback tells PhysOrg.com. Toback is a professor at Texas A&M University in ...

FLASH Imaging Redux: Nano-Cinema is Born

Jul 08, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Flash imaging of nanoscale objects undergoing ultrafast changes is now a technical possibility, according to a recent paper published in the June 22 edition of Nature Photonics. The results are a direct ...

New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation

Jul 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach ...

Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble?

Jul 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Since 2003, worldwide oil prices have quadrupled. According to a new study, the price of oil is rising at a faster-than-exponential rate, and cannot be sustained. In other words, we’re in the midst of an oil ...

Australia joins push for open access to particle physics

Jul 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Australia has joined SCOAP3, an international consortium that aims to provide free access to major particle physics journals world-wide. Six of the Group of Eight universities in Australia have agreed to participate in the ...
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