New ‘Nuclear Battery’ Runs 10 Years, 10 Times More Powerful May 12, 2005 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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A battery with a lifespan measured in decades is in development at the University of Rochester, as scientists demonstrate a new fabrication method that in its roughest form is already 10 times more efficient than current ... | |
 Self cleaning Lotus leaf imitated in plastic by using a femtosecond laser January 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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A plastic cup that can be reused without washing it, simply because contamination has no chance to stick to the surface? A self-cleaning surface like that of the leaf of a Lotus plant is ideal for many applications ... | |
 Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon January 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 182 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image ... | |
 Scientists Predict How to Detect a Fourth Dimension of Space May 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 308 vote(s)
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Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory ... | |
LSU professor resolves Einstein's twin paradox February 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 382 vote(s)
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Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics. | |
Scientists create darkest material January 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 97 vote(s)
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A scientist at a Houston university has created the darkest known material -- about four times darker than the previous record holder. | |
 Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? April 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 275 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, ... | |
The Mathematical Structure of Terrorism May 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 130 vote(s)
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The complex patterns of the natural world often turn out to be governed by relatively simple mathematical relationships. A seashell grows at a rate proportional to its size, resulting in a delicate spiral. The gossamer network ... | |
 Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes February 24, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 219 vote(s)
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On Monday, October 19, 1987 – infamously known as “black Monday” – the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.9%, marking the largest crash in history. Using an analytical approach similar to the one applied to explore ... | |
 Panasonic Develops VCSEL Laser with World's Highest Data Transmission Rate May 31, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is generally known, today announced the development of the 850 nm AlGaAs/GaAs VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser) capable ... | |
 Alternative theory of gravity explains large structure formation -- without dark matter December 14, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 189 vote(s)
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In the standard theory of gravity—general relativity—dark matter plays a vital role, explaining many observations that the standard theory cannot explain by itself. But for 70 years, cosmologists have never ... | |
Alloy of hydrogen and oxygen made from water October 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 147 vote(s)
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Water, the only indispensable ingredient of life, is just about the most versatile stuff on Earth. Depending on its temperature we can heat our homes with it, bathe in it, and even strap on skates and glide across it, to ... | |
 Space-time Vortex November 17, 2005 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
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Is Earth in a vortex of space-time? We'll soon know the answer: A NASA/Stanford physics experiment called Gravity Probe B (GP-B) recently finished a year of gathering science data in Earth orbit. The results, ... | |
Sonofusion Experiment Produces Results Without External Neutron Source January 27, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 186 vote(s)
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A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences has used sound waves to induce nuclear fusion without the need for an external neutron source, according ... | |
 Scientists interpret physics behind invisibility cloaks August 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 184 vote(s)
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Is a perfect invisible cloak theoretically possible? Are there certain wavelengths—such as those in the visible spectrum—that can’t be made invisible? How will using imperfect materials affect the performance ... | |
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