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Study finds twist to the story of the number line
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
Tape measures. Rulers. Graphs. The gas gauge in your car, and the icon on your favorite digital device showing battery power. The number line and its cousins - ...
Scientists develop 'most powerful' quantum simulator
Apr 25, 2012 (AFP)
Physicists in the United States said Wednesday they have developed a simulator that will allow them to observe the behaviour of subatomic particles impossible t...
Quantum physics mimics spooky action into the past
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
Physicists of the group of Prof. Anton Zeilinger at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), the University of Vienna, and the Vienna C...
Raising the prospects for quantum levitation
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
More than half-a-century ago, the Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrik Casimir calculated that two mirrors placed facing each other in a vacuum would attract. Th...
Magnetic fields can send particles to infinity
Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) have mathematically shown that particles charged in a magnetic field can escape into infinity...
Astro-H agreement signed with JAXA
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
An agreement was signed by ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for cooperation on Astro-H, an important mission that will provide a unique ...
Time machine will study the early universe
Apr 16, 2012 (SPX)
A new scientific instrument, a "time machine" of sorts, built by UCLA astronomers and colleagues, will allow scientists to study the earliest galaxies in the un...
Cosmic Mirages Confirm Accelerated Cosmic Expansion
Apr 16, 2012 (SPX)
Quasars are very luminous objects powered by accretion of gas into supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. A quasar is typically located fa...
'Time machine' instrument sees the past
Apr 11, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. researchers say a new instrument will be a "time machine" to allow scientists to study the universe's earliest galaxies that could never be studied before....
NASA to Fly Deep Space Atomic Clock to Improve Navigation Technology
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
When people think of space technologies, many think of high-tech solar panels, complex and powerful propulsion systems or sophisticated, electronic guidance sys...
Black Holes Grow Big by Eating Stars
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, have a supermassive black hole at their center weighing millions to billions of suns. But how do those black holes grow ...
'Ordinary' black hole discovered 12 million light years away
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of scientists have discovered an 'ordinary' black hole in the 12 million light year-distant galaxy Centaurus A. This is the first time tha...
Particle collider runs at record energies
Apr 05, 2012 (UPI)
The Large Hadron Collider is operating again after a winter break, at higher energies than ever, officials at CERN, the European nuclear research center, said. ...
The role of physics in the sinking of the Titanic
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, science writer Richard Corfield takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the 'unsinkable' s...
UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter. In a paper published in t...
Clocking an accelerating universe: First results from BOSS
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
Some six billion light years ago, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mut...
Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter
Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)
An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on...
Physicists Explain the Collective Motion of Particles Called Fermions
Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)
Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to ac...
How quantum physics could make 'The Matrix' more efficient
Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered a new way in which computers based on quantum physics could beat the performance of classical computers. The work, by researchers ba...
Video Reveals Wave Character of Particles
Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)
Quantum theory describes the world of atoms very precisely. Still, it defies our macroscopic conception of everyday's world due to its many anti-intuitive predi...
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