http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers are making plans to create a galaxy-sized observatory to look for gravitational waves. The project is part of a joint effort with astronomers from Australia and Europe, who also aim to try to detect gravitational waves. http://www.physorg.com/news172400153.html Physics Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:56:18 EST news172400153 (PhysOrg.com) -- Generally, scientists prefer to avoid the concept of perpetual motion. The idea of a machine that could produce movement that goes on forever, and using that movement to generate an endless stream of energy, is usually considered more science fiction than science. But recently, physicist Pavel Ivanov has investigated previous speculation that an exotic fluid with unusual properties could cause energy to flow continuously between different regions of space, resulting in a runaway transfer of energy. If an advanced civilization were able to construct a device to capture this energy, it might finally possess its own "perpetuum mobile" -- or perpetual motion. http://www.physorg.com/news172225206.html Physics Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:50:02 EST news172225206 (PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation by a major scientific group has advanced understanding of the early evolution of the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news169907305.html Physics Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:29:09 EST news169907305 (PhysOrg.com) -- An astrophysics experiment in America has demonstrated how fundamental research in one subject area can have a profound effect on work in another as the instruments used for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) pave the way for quantum experiments on a macroscopic scale. http://www.physorg.com/news166941860.html Physics Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:45:09 EST news166941860 (PhysOrg.com) -- Neutron stars have the potential to play an important role in understanding some of the mysteries of the universe. One of factors that could help lead to an understanding of gravitational waves and the mechanisms involved in giant flares in magnetars is the strength of the crust that forms on the outside of a neutron star. In an effort to better understand the neutron star crusts, Charles Horowitz, at Indiana University in Bloomington, and his colleague Kai Kadau, at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, have used molecular dynamics to model neutron stars and come up with improved estimates of the breaking strain. http://www.physorg.com/news162561360.html Physics Tue, 26 May 2009 12:56:45 EST news162561360 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. http://www.physorg.com/news160827120.html Space & Earth Wed, 06 May 2009 11:12:28 EST news160827120 Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the project and donated time on their computers to search gravitational wave data for signals from unknown pulsars. http://www.physorg.com/news157113935.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:45:58 EST news157113935 Austrian scientists are trying to understand the mysteries of the holographic principle: How many dimensions are there in our universe? http://www.physorg.com/news152905022.html Physics Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:37:29 EST news152905022 (PhysOrg.com) -- "In Geneva," Anupam Mazumdar tells PhysOrg.com, "there is a big effort to discover supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider. But that is not the only way to find these particles. We should also be able to see supersymmetry in the sky through the observation of gravitational waves." http://www.physorg.com/news145108222.html Physics Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:50:22 EST news145108222