Astronomers have used a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy to test the fabric of space and time. The work is the best test yet of attempts to create a 'theory of everything'. More Articles

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...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.

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Though my farm-raised father insists differently, there's something a bit spooky about cows standing in a field. They're just a bit too placid; I've always suspected that those limpid eyes hide strange secrets.

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...people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the "giant magnetoresistance effect," which made it possible to pack more data onto smaller and smaller hard drives.

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Were major extinction events real biological catastrophes or were they merely the result of gaps in the fossil record? Research by a team of geologists from the Universities of Bristol, Plymouth, and Saratov State in Russia, has shed new light on a debate that has divided scienti …

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..the universe underwent an unimaginably brief but enormous growth spurt immediately after birth. The baby cosmos ballooned from one billionth of a trillionth of a hydrogen atom's diameter to that of a soccer ball within just 10-35 seconds...

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In a nominating letter, Nidhal Guessoum, chair of physics at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, wrote that d'Espagnat "has constructed a coherent body of work which shows why it is credible that the human mind is capable of perceiving deeper realities."

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.:⋅⋅⋅ SPACE ⋅⋅⋅:. Why is time so hard to comprehend? Should it be easier to comprehend than space?

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"We've now shown that both 2-D and 3-D acoustic cloaks theoretically do exist," Cummer said.

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Dr. Young predicts that it won't be long before an unscrupulous suitor could sneak a pharmaceutical love potion into your drink. More Articles

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Using the human hand as a model, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and its medical school have developed a microscopic tool that might one day be used inside the body.

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The authors of [an earlier] paper concluded that you could either have perfect invisibility at one color, or imperfect invisibility at three colors.

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Comparing the values of cloaking and resonance frequencies, it is seen that the values are interleaved with each other: it may be shown that in general, when passive materials are employed, there is always a resonant peak between two neighboring cloaking frequencies, and vice ver …

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"I'm a bit surprised the agency bothered to commission an investigation - it would probably have been enough to just ask an in-house science advisor," he says. More Articles

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Physicists don't like coincidences. They like even less the notion that life is somehow central to the universe, and yet recent discoveries are forcing them to confront that very idea.

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Basically, Wolpert — building on previous work by Alan Turing — formalized a description of "inference machines," i.e. machines capable of arriving at inferences about the world (human beings are one example of such machines).

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Questions: Zero-Point Energy, Quanta, DSR, c, etc.

I created comment boxes below that correspond to each numbered question/topic.

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The LHC could help scientists look behind the curtain and study the "water" in which we live: the very fabric of the Grid. If that sounds mysterious, it is. Here's an edited Q&A that dives into the depths of the Grid concept... More Articles

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...a simulated layer system with the Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) Modelling method, which is able to hide, in certain frequencies, the objects placed in an electromagnetic simulator. Such studies are the germ to achieve invisibility to radars or even to the human eye...

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Somehow, cattle seem to know how to find north and south, say researchers who studied satellite photos of thousands of cows around the world

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Duck! Plasma bullets are zinging past Earth.

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Friction of Time

The speed of light is denoted by the symbol c. It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum. Electromagnetic radiation is a wave/particle that has both electrical and magnetic properties, but no mass.

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Neutron stars – not just rocky planets and moons – can boast topographical features such as plateaus or mountains, a new computer simulation suggests.

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The solar physics community is abuzz this week. No, there haven't been any great eruptions or solar storms. The source of the excitement is a modest knot of magnetism that popped over the sun's eastern limb on Dec.

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The first milestone in magnetic cooling has been achieved. Between 5 and 10 degrees of cooling – this was the success criteria for the first milestone in a project involving magnetic cooling at Risø National Laboratory – Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

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