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Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble?

July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 118 vote(s) | User comments: 27

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 ...


Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features

July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 91 vote(s) | User comments: 7

What do black holes and entangled particles have in common? Until about a year ago, physicists thought that the two entities existed in completely separate worlds. Then, in 2007, physicist Michael Duff from ...


Atomic Tug of War

July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s) | User comments: 5

A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body.


A front-row seat at this summer's physics extravaganza

July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s) | User comments: 4

Nearly 20 years in the making, the largest particle accelerator in the world will start running in Switzerland this summer, offering scientists a glimpse of particles that have never been seen before.


Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought

July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 55 vote(s) | User comments: 3

Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects - mangled steel, ...


Einstein was right: Unique stellar system provides 'laboratory' for testing relativity

July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 70 vote(s) | User comments: 3

Researchers at McGill University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, via observations ...


Australia joins push for open access to particle physics

July 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 2

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 ...


New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation

July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | User comments: 1

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 ...