Tag: physics
Planck satellite scientists release picture of early universe
Scientists from the European Space Agency's Planck Surveyor satellite have mapped cosmic imprints from the earliest moments in the universe. The findings help explain what the universe was like seconds after the Big Bang....
Physicists anxiously await 'God particle' announcement from CERN
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are scheduled to make an announcement Wednesday about the elusive "God particle." Researchers at the facility have spent billions of dollars trying to locate the theoretical particle that forms the basis of modern physics....
MIT professor explores planets for signs of life
Professor Sara Seager is certain life has evolved on another planet. Seager, a planetary scientist and astrophysicist at M.I.T., is one of the leaders of the hunt for new planets that demonstrate evidence of life. ...
Albert Einstein's archives going online
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem began posting online the archive of Albert Einstein on Monday. Currently about 2,000 documents totaling 7,000 pages are available to view in full. Over the coming years the entire archive, totaling more than 80,000 pages, will be available to the public....
Physics theory suggests everything that moves is based on a 'flow system'
Constructal law, designed by Duke University professor Adrian Bejan, is a new way of looking at how the world works. According to the law, everything that moves, whether animate or inanimate, is based on a flow system, which is tree shaped....
Einstein's Law of Relativity challenged by experiment
One of the world's foremost laboratories says they've found subatomic particles called neutrinos that travel even faster than the speed of light....
The science of time travel
Physicist David Goldberg says time travel is within the realm of how the universe works, and he has a time machine in mind....
The Wonders of Physics
Why our president should understand physics, why physicists are an eccentric bunch and a must-read physics thriller....
Quantum teleportation
An article in the "American Journal of Science" says scientists have successfully teleported information between two atoms....
Einstein, God and the Universe
Einstein once said 'science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind' -- a look at the science-religion debate....
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