 Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine' February 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 261 vote(s)
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Thane Heins knows the track record of inventors that claim to make breakthroughs in power generation methods, especially when they claim to defy the second law of thermodynamics. Every so often, a (usually ... | |
 Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 276 vote(s)
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To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel ... | |
 Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer. On September 10, LHC ... | |
 Physicists Seek Answers to Quantum Correlations August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 124 vote(s)
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After performing multiple tests on two entangled photons, physicists have yet again found that the photons seem to be communicating faster than the speed of light - at least 100,000 times faster. The researchers ... | |
 Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble? July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 178 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 A Test of the Copernican Principle May 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 93 vote(s)
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The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not the center of the universe, and that, as observers, we don’t occupy a special place. First stated by Copernicus in the 16th century, today the idea is ... | |
 Nonlocality of a Single Particle Demonstrated Without Objections November 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 151 vote(s)
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Usually when physicists talk about nonlocality in quantum mechanics, they’re referring to the fact that two particles can have immediate effects on each other, even when separated by large distances. Einstein ... | |
 Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? April 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 269 vote(s)
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Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, ... | |
A 'New Dimension' at the LHC July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 84 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Later this year, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, will begin operating, sending beams of protons hurling around circular tracks ... | |
 Evolution as Described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 105 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Often, physics and biology appear as different worlds, from a scientist’s point of view. Each discipline has its own language and concepts, and physicists and biologists tend to look at the ... | |
 Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor' April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 202 vote(s)
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HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. | |
Physicists investigate how time moves forward September 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 104 vote(s)
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As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future. But, as scientists Edward Feng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gavin Crooks of the Lawrence ... | |
Looking for neutralinos at the Large Hadron Collider July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 62 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 ... | |
 What Anthropic Reasoning Can Really Tell Us February 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 96 vote(s)
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Anthropic reasoning is under debate in the scientific community, and is considered by some as a cop-out. It has now lost further ground as physicists show that anthropic conclusions mostly reflect our biases ... | |
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