News tagged with physical world

Lifestyle changes can help prevent 30% of cancers: WHO

More than 30 percent of cancers can be prevented by lifestyle changes, the World Health Organization said Friday, on the eve of World Cancer Day.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The future of Fermilab

In this month's Physics World, reviews and careers editor, Margaret Harris, visits the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) to explore what future projects are in the pipeline now that the Tevatron particle accele ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Through hardship to the stars

"Humanity's adventurous, stubborn, mad and glorious aspiration to reach the stars" is the subject of Physics World's lead feature in January.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Book on Richard Feynman nets honors for Arizona State professor

"Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science," ASU Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Project Lawrence M. Krauss' recent book about a legendary and sometimes very public modern physicist, has been chosen ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cosmic research picked in breakthroughs of 2011

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a groundbreaking method for measuring long distances in the universe using light from quasars. Quasars ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

U of Toronto experiment named top breakthrough of 2011 by Physics World

Aephraim Steinberg and colleagues at the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control at the University of Toronto had the top physics breakthrough of the year according to Physics World magazine.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 19

A new 'lens' for looking at quantum behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, researchers Daniel Terno (Macquarie University, Australia) and Radu Ionicioiu (Institute of Quantum Computing, Canada) provide a new perspe ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Possible signs of the Higgs remain in latest analyses (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have nearly eliminated the space in which the Higgs boson could dwell, scientists announced in a seminar held at CERN today. However, the ATLAS ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

LHC to narrow search for Higgs boson

Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher have new data that shows with greater certainty where to find a long-sought theoretical particle that would help explain the origins of the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A dash of physics thrown into the cocktail mix

Ever wondered how your martini maintains its crisp and balanced taste, or why a manhattan remains clear if stirred but turns cloudy when shaken?

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Norman Ramsey dies

(AP) -- Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into molecules and atoms that led to the creation of the atomic clock, has died in Massachusetts. He was 96.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers roll out a new form of lighting

In this month's edition of Physics World, Paul Blom and Ton van Mol from the Holst Centre in Eindhoven describe a way of creating thin, flexible sheets of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) using a cheap, newspaper-style "roll- ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Early mortality risk reduced up to 40 percent through increased physical activity and sports

Even though previous studies have been shown the link between regular exercises and improved health the exact dose-response relation remains unclear. Guenther Samitz, researcher in physical activity and public ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicists consider their own carbon footprint

In October's issue of Physics World, Phil Marshall, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, calls on physicists to pull their weight when it comes to climate change, drawing on his own research showing that astronomers ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Shutdown looms at pioneering American atom smasher

(AP) -- Aside from the slogan on the water tower that reads "City of Energy," there is little in this leafy Chicago suburb of gently rolling hills to indicate that it has been the center of the universe when ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1