Physical Sciences

Blackbody Radiation Shift: Quantum Thermodynamics Will Redefine Clocks

and, more basic still, knowing what the atoms' intrinsic energy levels should be once all external ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2012 - 6:00am

Fermi Telescope Boosts Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes Monitoring

in all, discovered through the new techniques. The scientists then compared the gamma-ray data to ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2012 - 3:00pm

Opera's Final Word On Opera's Superluminal Neutrinos

more checks- was the source of all the media attention and the bad PR aftermath. Uncharacteristically ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 7 2012 - 7:29pm

Rose Madder: 'Green' Battery From Ancient Red Dye Plant?

battery could be thrown away. Best of all, purpurin also turns out to be a no-fuss ingredient. "In ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2012 - 7:08pm

XMMU J004243.6+412519: Black-Hole Binary At The Eddington Limit

 Although astronomers know little about the physical nature of these jets, detecting them at all would ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2012 - 5:39pm

Not Just Christmas: Physicists Invoke Dreidel Metaphor To Discuss Nanowires

properties of two-dimensional materials- we all have those laying around the house to build Christmas gifts- ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2012 - 4:56pm

Better Than SST: Energy-Efficient Computer Memory Uses Voltage Rather Than Current

access memory- and say it has potential for almost all electronic applications as well as data storage. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2012 - 11:48am

'Evaporative Cooling'- Now In Molecules!

say it appears feasible to cool OH molecules to even colder temperatures, perhaps to a point where all ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2012 - 4:30pm

Smart Girls Guide To Guys Who Pretend Knowing Physics

crackpots on pseudo-science platforms like FQXi and Vixra and all that, namely a) Maybe but b) No way, then ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 15 2013 - 9:53am

Baksan: No Dark Matter In A 24 Year Long Exposure Of The Sun!

neutrinos), thus generating different upper limits once the detector acceptance and all other factors are ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 10 2013 - 6:28am