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Baseball fans looking over the equipment list — balaclavas, tights, parkas, and hand warmers — are forgiven if they think the Phillies and Yankees are headed for a ski vacation.
Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Institute says Kao was honored for breakthroughs in fiber optics while Boyle and Smith were honored for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit.
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.
One of the most inspired and imaginative games to come along in a while looks like it was plucked from a 5-year-old’s coloring book.
The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday chose Michigan State University for a $550 million cutting-edge nuclear physics research facility that could attract top scientists from around the world and boost the state's economy.
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.
The schedule is taking shape for the startup of the world’s biggest particle-smasher — and for the lawsuit seeking to shut it down.
The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.
The effect is called giant magnetoresistance, but it enables amazing things at the miniature level. Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their discoveries of the phenomenon, which spurred some of computing's most astonishing developments, from video-playing handheld devices to PCs whose storage capacity now seems all but limitless.
Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery that lets computers, iPods and other digital devices store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard drives.
A map of the cosmic microwave background made by NASA's WMAP satellite shows density fluctuations in the early universe – regions of higher density were slightly warmer than voids. Similar maps by Planck may reveal the existence and shape of extra spatial dimensions (Image: NASA/WMAP Science Team)
Prior to the phase change, few pressure chains exist (Image: Robert Behringer / Duke University)
Jets emerge from the vicinity of a black hole or neutron star, which orbits a massive regular star in the LS 5039 system. Some of the gamma rays produced in the system are transformed into particles of matter and antimatter through collisions with ultraviolet photons (Illustration: HESS Collaboration/R Hynes)
Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars.
LEE SMOLIN is no magician. Yet he and his colleagues have pulled off one of the greatest tricks imaginable. Starting from nothing more than Einstein's general theory of relativity, they have conjured up the universe. Everything from the fabric of space to the matter that makes up wands and rabbits emerges as if out of an empty hat.
In a June 21 version of this story, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of Ageia Technologies Inc.'s co-founder, chairman and CEO. His name is Manju Hegde, not Hedge.
Alien Technology 2 - Reverse-Engineering The Roswell CraftI'm not sure of what to make of this! If he is a quack he is a very intelligent one. He explains the technology very well (as layman as he can get given the technology being explained). I'd love to see more of these. If anyone has links please let me know. Cheers,
*Exclusive* Great Footage by NASA of 2 UFOs Emerging From Earth and Visiting the Space ShuttleThis is interesting footage. I'm not sure what they are but there is no doubt in my mind that they aren't ice or debris.
Rainbow trapped for the first timeOh, to catch a rainbow. Well, it's been done for the first time ever – and with just a simple lens and a plate of glass at that. The technique could be used to store information using light, a boon for optical computing and telecommunications.
Ripples in space divide classical and quantum worldsWHY can't we be in two places at the same time? The simple answer is that it's because large objects appear not to be subject to the same wacky laws of quantum mechanics that rule subatomic particles.
Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein's SpacetimeA new "theory of everything" appears every three weeks, so I usually don't get very excited. This one, though.... It "smells" better than most...
Every Star in the Sky, in One PictureAxel Mellinger says that by the age of 12, he was in love with night.
Restored Machine to Explore Mysteries of Big Bang - ABC NewsScientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
New hydrogen-storage method discoveredScientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach the hydrogen-storage problem.
Has Fermi Seen New Evidence for Dark Matter?In English: if the dark matter is a weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP), individual WIMPs should occsasionally annihilate with other WIMPs, giving off a bunch of particles, including electron/positron pairs as well as high-energy photons (gamma rays).
3 men share 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for work in networking society, digital photographyThree scientists who created the technology behind digital photography and helped link the world through fiber-optic networks shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.
New study confirms exotic electric properties of grapheneNot only is this the thinnest material possible, but it also is 10 times stronger than steel and it conducts electricity better than any other known material at room temperature.
Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processorPhysicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- the rules governing the submicroscopic world -- using two quantum bits (qubi …
From David Sosa ( ), The University Of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy, Professor and Chair PhD, Princeton
Neutralinos--Candidate for Dark Matter and Lynchpin for Supersymmetry Next on List at LHCThe reason physicists are so excited about the LHC, though, is that the kind of supersymmetry that best solves the problem with the Higgs will become visible at the higher energies the LHC will explore.
Happy Carl Sagan Day!Welcome to the home of Carl Sagan Day. This November 7, 2009, we will celebrate the life and contributions of the great astronomer, author, and philosopher, Carl Sagan, on the 75th anniversary of his birth.
An Intergalactic Race in Space and Time : Einstein Wins a Round Against Quantum TheoryAstronomers 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
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate -- Caveman ScienceHolger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like "Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal" a …
Physicists Calculate Number of Universes in the MultiverseLinde and Vanchurin say that total amount of information that can be absorbed by one individual during a lifetime is about 10^16 bits. So a typical human brain can have 10^10^16 configurations and so could never disintguish more than that number of different universes.
Dark Flow RevealedAs if the universe weren't strange enough, scientists have recently discovered that entire galaxy clusters—the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of thousands of galaxies—are moving toward the same area.
LHC - Working From the Future to Thwart the Present...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested at the Large Hadron ColliderThe principle behind a novel form of spacecraft propulsion could be tested at the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
In a stunning development that has shocked the world, and many former Nobel Laureates, the voting members of the Nobel Physics Committee are in unanimous agreement that U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama, will retroactively share the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Invisible Hand Ruling Dark Matter"The pattern that the data reveal is extremely odd. It's like finding a zoo of animals of all ages and sizes miraculously having identical, say, weight in their backbones or something.
Bird Brains Better at Understanding Physics than Monkey Brains AreExperiments showed the birds - which belong to the corvid family that includes crows, ravens and magpies - perceive the physical rules of support with the same degree of intelligence as a six month old baby. More Articles
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | The 'first true scientist'By Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.
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