 Solitons: Next wave in electronics? May 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Harvard scientists have solved the puzzle of how to generate a special form of wave in small electronic devices, allowing the electrical equivalent of the pulses of light that carry signals through optical ... | |
 Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like April 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 542 vote(s)
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In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature ... | |
 Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why May 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 290 vote(s)
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Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in ... | |
 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 ... | |
 A Two-Time Universe? Physicist Explores How Second Dimension of Time Could Unify Physics Laws May 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 334 vote(s)
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For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics — the equations describing matter, gravity ... | |
 Electron filmed for first time ever February 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 179 vote(s)
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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, ... | |
 Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 278 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 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, ... | |
 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 ... | |
 The Dark Side of Light February 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 193 vote(s)
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Light may not seem very interesting in our everyday lives. But to scientists, light’s properties are a constant source of intrigue. The nature of light as both wave and particle, light as the universal speed ... | |
 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. | |
Researchers develop 2-D invisibility cloak December 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world ... | |
 Tribute to MIT Physics Prof Lewin: Free-On-Line MIT Courses December 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering 1800 full courses on-line to the public at no charge. In part the work of Professor Walter H.G. Lewin of MIT is the reason for the popularization of higher ... | |
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