 CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle ... | |
 Tevatron experiments double-team Higgs boson August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab have combined Tevatron data from the two experiments to advance the quest for the long-sought Higgs boson. Their ... | |
China becomes a physics powerhouse August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. Michael Banks, Physics World's ... | |
 Quantum Chaos Unveiled? August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory - which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics - and the modern ... | |
Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric ... | |
Physicists Investigate Controversy over Room-Temperature Ice August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By confining water in nano-sized spaces, physicists from Leiden University in the Netherlands have turned water into ice at room temperature. While it’s not the first time scientists have created room-temperature ... | |
 Pouring oil on troubled waters – scientists solve secrets of the water-oil interface August 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When oil and water are poured together they meet each other head-on to form a strong and rigid boundary between each other, says new research into how interactions between oil and water work, ... | |
Rochester physicist's quantum-'uncollapse' hypothesis verified August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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In 2006, Andrew Jordan, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, together with Alexander Korotkov at the University of California, Riverside, spelled out how to exploit a quantum quirk to accomplish ... | |
 Researchers make milestone discovery in quantum mechanics August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently reached what they are calling a milestone in experimental quantum mechanics. | |
Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed August 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. ... | |
 Now That's Cool: Engineers Out to Thaw the Mysteries of Ice 6 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Ye canna change the laws of physics!" Scotty warned Captain Kirk on Star Trek. But engineers and physicists at the University of Maryland may rewrite one of them. | |
 Researchers explain odd oxygen bonding under pressure August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Oxygen, the third most abundant element in the cosmos and essential to life on Earth, changes its forms dramatically under pressure transforming to a solid with spectacular colors. Eventually it becomes metallic ... | |
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