Physics and Earth

Worlds Smallest Movie IBM

A Boy and his Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

IBM has released “the world’s smallest movie” – verified by Guinness World Records – by moving thousands of precisely placed atoms, magnified over 100 million times, frame-by-frame.

Running the ALPHA experiment.

Physicists zoom in on antimatter behaviour

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

A new experiment has been devised that could answer one of particle physics’ greatest questions: do the same laws of gravity apply to antimatter?

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The art of physics

Monday, 22 April 2013

Julian Berengut’s research into the fundamental physics of the universe goes beyond pure science and into philosophical questions of human existence, he says.

Screen Shot 3-D printer human tissue

3-D printer makes tissue-like material

Friday, 5 April 2013

A custom-made 3-D printer has been used to make living tissue-like material that could one day serve medical purposes, according to British scientists.

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Europe readies for solar storm risks

Thursday, 4 April 2013

Europe has launched its first space weather coordination centre to raise the alarm for possible satellite-sizzling solar storms that also threaten astronauts in orbit, plane passengers and electricity grids on Earth.

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First clues in search for dark matter

Thursday, 4 April 2013

A massive instrument circling the globe aboard the International Space Station has provided a first glimpse of what may be mysterious dark matter in the universe.

The CERN campus outside  Geneva, Switzerland.

Rare find backs shape-shifting neutrino

Thursday, 28 March 2013

New evidence supports a theory that neutrinos that go ‘missing’ on the journey from the Sun to Earth are in fact shape-shifting along the way, arriving undetected.

Interactions can be detected between a mechanical resonator and a qubit, connected together on the surface of a cooled semiconductor chip.

Living in a quantum game

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 - 1 comment

For scientists in the field of quantum information, the swirling chaos of space and the delicate intricacies of life are nothing more than a game.

A new type of clock_COSMOS science magazine

New clock hints at beginning of time, could redefine kilogram

Tuesday, 19 February 2013 - 1 comment

American scientists have developed a novel method of measuring time that may hint at its fundamental origins, and is an “exciting prospect” for replacing the international standard for the kilogram.

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