Time to overhaul Newton's theory of gravitation? Galaxy cluster models cast doubt on dark matter October 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 105 vote(s)
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For almost 75 years, astronomers have believed that the Universe has a large amount of unseen or ‘dark’ matter, thought to make up about five-sixths of the matter in the cosmos. With the conventional theory of gravitation, ... | |
 WMAP reveals neutrinos, end of dark ages, first second of universe March 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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NASA released this week five years of data collected by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) that refines our understanding of the universe and its development. | |
 New Metamaterial a 'Perfect' Absorber of Light June 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke University has developed a highly-engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the light that strikes it – to a scientific standard of perfection – ... | |
 More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 146 vote(s)
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The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence collected by a collaboration of researchers from the Department of Energy's Stanford ... | |
 Invisibility cloak now within sight: scientists (Update 2) August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 84 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development ... | |
 Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter February 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment today announced that they have regained the lead in the worldwide race to find the particles that make up dark matter. The CDMS experiment, conducted ... | |
Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation and Memory in Tandem January 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 102 vote(s)
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In research that may be a key step toward real-life quantum communication—the transmission of information using atoms, photons, or other quantum objects—researchers created an experiment in which a quantum bit of information ... | |
 MIT tests unique approach to fusion power March 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 140 vote(s)
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An MIT and Columbia University team has successfully tested a novel reactor that could chart a new path toward nuclear fusion, which could become a safe, reliable and nearly limitless source of energy. | |
Chemist Travels World to Study Mysterious Properties of Neutrinos August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles — the neutrino — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their expertise from ... | |
Do classical laws arise from quantum laws? November 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 103 vote(s)
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“The physics community is mostly divided into two groups,” Johannes Kofler tells PhysOrg.com. “One group believes that quantum theory is underlying the classical world, and that classical physics comes from the quantum. ... | |
 Proving an aspect of the AB effect: when Newton's Third Law doesn't work December 04, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 96 vote(s)
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An action doesn’t always result in a reaction. | |
Physicists and engineers search for new dimension March 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 64 vote(s)
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The universe as we currently know it is made up of three dimensions of space and one of time, but researchers in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech are exploring ... | |
 Liquid Crystals Slow Light Pulses to a Snail's Pace June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 97 vote(s)
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In a vacuum, the speed of a light pulse is always a constant at 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. But by changing the medium through which light travels, physicists can slow down light pulses, and possibly ... | |
 Scientists reveal effects of quantum 'traffic jam' in high-temperature superconductors August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, ... | |
 Quantum Chaos Unveiled? August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 73 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 ... | |
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