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Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed Physics / Physics April 12, 2007 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 331 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 ...

Cluster spacecraft makes a shocking discovery Physics / Physics 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.

Wormholes on Earth? Physics / Physics November 14, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 157 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 ...

Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble? Physics / Physics 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 ...

Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer Physics / Physics June 07, 2007 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 315 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 ...

Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor' Physics / Physics 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.

Engineers create 'optical cloaking' design for invisibility Physics / Physics April 02, 2007 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 145 vote(s) \| No comments yet Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak."

Physics Reveals the Key to a Great Golf Swing Physics / Physics December 18, 2006 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 77 vote(s) \| No comments yet What happens when a golf-loving researcher injures a shoulder and can't play for three months? Rod White, a metrologist (measurement scientist), used the spare time off the course to undertake an analysis that ...

The Dark Side of Light Physics / Physics February 19, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 193 vote(s) \| User comments: 23 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 Create New Form of Matter Physics / Physics May 17, 2007 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 178 vote(s) \| No comments yet Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors - superconductors.

Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity Physics / Physics February 15, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 118 vote(s) \| User comments: 6 If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a ...

Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature? Physics / Physics June 07, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 107 vote(s) \| No comments yet Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding ...

Physicists Develop Test for 'String Theory' Physics / Physics January 23, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 132 vote(s) \| No comments yet For decades, scientists have taken issue with “string theory”—a theory of the universe which contends that the fundamental forces and matter of nature can be reduced to tiny one-dimensional filaments called strings—because ...

Physicists establish 'spooky' quantum communication Physics / Physics September 05, 2007 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 195 vote(s) \| No comments yet Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky."

No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model Physics / Physics January 30, 2007 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 186 vote(s) \| No comments yet A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

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Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed Physics / Physics April 12, 2007 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 331 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 ...

Cluster spacecraft makes a shocking discovery Physics / Physics 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.

Wormholes on Earth? Physics / Physics November 14, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 157 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 ...

Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble? Physics / Physics 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 ...

Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer Physics / Physics June 07, 2007 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 315 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 ...

Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor' Physics / Physics 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.

Engineers create 'optical cloaking' design for invisibility Physics / Physics April 02, 2007 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 145 vote(s) \| No comments yet Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak."

Physics Reveals the Key to a Great Golf Swing Physics / Physics December 18, 2006 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 77 vote(s) \| No comments yet What happens when a golf-loving researcher injures a shoulder and can't play for three months? Rod White, a metrologist (measurement scientist), used the spare time off the course to undertake an analysis that ...

The Dark Side of Light Physics / Physics February 19, 2008 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 193 vote(s) \| User comments: 23 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 Create New Form of Matter Physics / Physics May 17, 2007 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 178 vote(s) \| No comments yet Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors - superconductors.

Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity Physics / Physics February 15, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 118 vote(s) \| User comments: 6 If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a ...

Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature? Physics / Physics June 07, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 107 vote(s) \| No comments yet Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding ...

Physicists Develop Test for 'String Theory' Physics / Physics January 23, 2007 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 132 vote(s) \| No comments yet For decades, scientists have taken issue with “string theory”—a theory of the universe which contends that the fundamental forces and matter of nature can be reduced to tiny one-dimensional filaments called strings—because ...

Physicists establish 'spooky' quantum communication Physics / Physics September 05, 2007 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 195 vote(s) \| No comments yet Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky."

No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model Physics / Physics January 30, 2007 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 186 vote(s) \| No comments yet A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed

Cluster spacecraft makes a shocking discovery

Wormholes on Earth?

Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble?

Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer

Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor'

Engineers create 'optical cloaking' design for invisibility

Physics Reveals the Key to a Great Golf Swing

The Dark Side of Light

Researchers Create New Form of Matter

Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity

Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature?

Physicists Develop Test for 'String Theory'

Physicists establish 'spooky' quantum communication

No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model

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