 Tabletop nuclear fusion device developed February 13, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 223 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature, ... | |
Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush April 17, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 365 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have ... | |
 Electron filmed for first time ever February 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 179 vote(s)
| User comments: 6
Now it is possible to see a movie of an electron. The movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed, ... | |
 Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed April 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 332 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Through photosynthesis, green plants and cyanobacteria are able to transfer sunlight energy to molecular reaction centers for conversion into chemical energy with nearly 100-percent efficiency. Speed is the ... | |
Wormholes on Earth? November 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 158 vote(s)
| User comments: 7
According to a group of mathematicians, it may be possible to create devices with internal tunnels that are invisible to detection by electromagnetic waves—wormholes, in a sense. The group discusses the idea in a paper published ... | |
 The Physics of Friendship March 10, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 158 vote(s)
| No comments yet
By comparing people to mobile particles randomly bouncing off each other, scientists have developed a new model for social networks. The model fits with empirical data to naturally reproduce the community ... | |
 Cluster spacecraft makes a shocking discovery May 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 118 vote(s)
| No comments yet
ESA's Cluster was in the right place and time to make a shocking discovery. The four spacecraft encountered a shock wave that kept breaking and reforming – predicted only in theory. | |
 Physicists Discover an Atomic Oddity January 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 92 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Working with an international team of scientists, a Florida State University physics professor has taken part in an experiment that resulted in the creation of a silver atom with exotic properties never before ... | |
 Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble? July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 178 vote(s)
| User comments: 39
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 ... | |
 Towards a new test of general relativity? March 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 355 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than ... | |
 Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer June 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 320 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being ... | |
Quantum telecloning: Captain Kirk's clone and the eavesdropper February 16, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 189 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Imagine Captain Kirk being beamed back to the Starship Enterprise and two versions of the Star Trek hero arriving in the spacecraft's transporter room. It happened 40 years ago in an episode of the TV science fiction classic, ... | |
 Japanese Device Uses Laser Plasma to Display 3D Images in the Air February 27, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 437 vote(s)
| User comments: 2
A collaboration of the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Keio University and Burton Inc. has produced a device to display "real 3D images" consisting of dot arrays ... | |
 Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor' April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 202 vote(s)
| User comments: 28
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. | |
 New material means 'x-ray specs' no longer required February 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 165 vote(s)
| No comments yet
A new optical effect has been created in a London laboratory that means solid objects such as walls could one day be rendered transparent, scientists report today in the journal Nature Materials. | |
PhysOrg Video
- Nobel Prize For Chemistry Awarded , October 9
- Nobel Prize For Chemistry Awarded , October 9
- Chinese Zodiac - Part I , October 5
- How To Make An Apple Pie , October 5
- Chinese Zodiac - Part II , October 5
- CHEF'S CORNER: OKTOBERFEST , September 30
- PhysOrg Video »
Most popular stories
-
World first for sending data using quantum cryptography,
October 08, 2008
-
NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere,
October 02, 2008
-
Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon,
October 09, 2008
-
Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people,
October 02, 2008
-
Broken symmetry: Answering the solace of quantum,
October 07, 2008
- Most popular »
News Pix
-
Odyssey,
October 10, 2008
-
Venus Express searching for life – on Earth,
October 10, 2008
-
Lava pours out of Montserrat,
October 09, 2008
-
Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon,
October 09, 2008
- More news pix »
PhysOrg Forum
Video
Editorials
Free Magazines
Free White Papers
PhysOrg Jobs
Newsletter
Goto Archive
Suggest a story idea
Send feedback
