Applied Physics

After 50 years, laser technology is still advancing. Scientists at Yale University have announced the world's first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly cancel each other out, a break ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2011 - 5:19pm

Ultrasound Wireless Power Technology Even Works Through Steel Walls

While wireless Internet has been wonderful, true wireless devices- with no need for batteries- are the real revolution needed in technology to make a more positive environmental scenario for the future. We're getting closer. A doctoral student at ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2011 - 2:58pm

In Time For March Madness, The Physics Of The Basketball Bank Shot

If you have a chance to win a basketball game but need to make a shot from 10 feet away on the right side of the court, do you try a direct shot or use the backboard to bank home the winning basket? New research by engineers at North Carolina State Univers ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2011 - 4:32pm

Japan's Nuclear Tragedy- Is A Solution Close At Hand?

South Korea has agreed to send some 50 tons of boron from its reserves to Japan to help fight the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima reactor plant. The scientists at TEPCO have been sent samples for analysis and a decision should be made pretty quickly. [Re ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 16 2011 - 11:02am

Wave Blaster: Putting Out Fires Using Electricity

Future firefighters may use electricity instead of water to control flames, according to results of a discovery that could underpin a new genre of fire-fighting devices, including 'sprinkler' systems that suppress fires not with water, but with ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2011 - 1:18pm

New World Record: Calculations With 14 Quantum Bits

Entanglement, the quantum mechanical phenomenon, was coined as a term by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 but is still not understood completely. From an applied perspective, while entangled particles cannot be defined as single particles with defined states b ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2011 - 12:31pm

Why Does A Moving Bicycle Stay Up?

You know this already- given sufficient forward speed, a bicycle pushed sideways will not fall over. Since the bicycle was invented, s cientists have postulated various reasons as to why a bicycle is self stable above a certain speed. The consensus has be ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2011 - 8:05pm

I Let My Computer Use My Brain

The most prestigious journal in the field of microscopy published an article by us this year and the work also already spawned a book chapter. Apart from the work not being critical of anything and having many cute pictures, the reason for it making it in ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 29 2011 - 3:34pm

Unobservable Universe, Unobservable Science

Science 2.0 is all about making a difference in a positive way, bringing lots of people in the world together to talk with each other about science. We're the only open science site of decent size, meaning you don't have to be famous or bring ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2011 - 2:56pm

A Tattoo That Can Monitor Your Brain Waves

Micro-manufacturing even the "Sons of Anarchy could love- a new type of ultra-thin, self-adhesive electronic 'tattoo' that can effectively measure data about the human heart, brain waves and muscle activity. No bulky equipment, conductive ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2011 - 6:23pm