 A Printer that Delivers 1,000 Pages a Minute? September 21, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 154 vote(s)
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Two researchers from The College of Judea and Samaria in Israel have designed an ink-jet printer head that could lead to printers capable of chugging out 1,000 pages per minute – or even more. | |
 Research Continues for Deep Space Travel Propulsion January 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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Graduate students and faculty researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are investigating propulsion concepts that could eventually revolutionize deep space travel. | |
 Researchers Look Beyond the Birth of the Universe May 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 184 vote(s)
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According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the Big Bang represents The Beginning, the grand event at which not only matter but space-time itself was born. While classical theories offer no clues ... | |
Can Newton's 2nd Law be Violated on Earth? March 20, 2007 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 117 vote(s)
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Astrophysicists have found evidence that a corrected version of Newton’s 2nd Law (which deals with the acceleration of mass) works well on the grand scale of the universe. These modifications to Newtonian physics are known ... | |
 Scientists Construct Model of the World Wide Web April 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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Although the Internet contains well over 100 million Web sites, two electrical engineers think they know what the traffic patterns of the entire Web look like. | |
'It might be life Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities August 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 180 vote(s)
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Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal ... | |
 Quantum mechanics may explain how humans smell February 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 102 vote(s)
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Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at University College London have newly analyzed an intriguing 10-year-old theory of smell, finding that the idea may make more sense than once thought. | |
 Particle decay may point to New Physics October 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 142 vote(s)
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A tiny flaw has caught the attention of physicists: the Standard Model (SM) predicts that the B meson mixing phase should be measured at nearly the same result using two different classes of decay modes. However, ... | |
 Professor proposes theory of unparticle physics June 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 196 vote(s)
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Howard Georgi, a physicist at Harvard University, has recently published a paper on so-called unparticle physics, which suggests the existence of “unparticle stuff” that cannot be accounted for by the standard ... | |
Engineers set new world record in generation of high-frequency submillimeter waves April 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 86 vote(s)
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Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a new world record in high-frequency submillimeter waves. The record-setting 324-gigahertz frequency was accomplished using a voltage-controlled ... | |
 Researchers may have solved information loss paradox to find black holes do not form June 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 115 vote(s)
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"Nothing there," is what Case Western Reserve University physicists concluded about black holes after spending a year working on complex formulas to calculate the formation of new black holes. In nearly 13 ... | |
 All change at the Earth's core August 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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It is hard to know what is going on over 3000 km beneath our feet, but until recently scientists were fairly confident that they understood the way the iron atoms in the Earth’s core packed together. However, ... | |
What happens when you pop a quantum balloon? April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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When a tiny, quantum-scale, hypothetical balloon is popped in a vacuum, do the particles inside spread out all over the place as predicted by classical mechanics? | |
Report: Scientists 'teleport' two photons September 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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Scientists in Germany say they have successfully teleported the combined quantum state of two photons. | |
 Physicists find way to 'see' extra dimensions February 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 130 vote(s)
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Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of the universe. | |
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