Baseball in the cold a mental, physical challenge

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.

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Excerpts from 2009 Nobel physics prize

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.

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Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

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3 Americans share Nobel physics prize

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.

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Nature’s fireworks on display

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Indulge your inner child with 'Crayon Physics'

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.

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Michigan State awarded nuclear physics facility

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.

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Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

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Nobel physics prize goes to 2 Japanese, 1 American

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.

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Big-bang machine’s battle plan set

The schedule is taking shape for the startup of the world’s biggest particle-smasher — and for the lawsuit seeking to shut it down.

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Atom-smasher fears spark lawsuit

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.

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Two Europeans Win Nobel Prize in Physics

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.

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Physics Nobel Goes to German, Frenchman

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.

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Satellite could see shadow of extra dimensions

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)

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Glowing discs reveal sudden granular jamming

Prior to the phase change, few pressure chains exist (Image: Robert Behringer / Duke University)

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Gamma ray 'clock' found creating antimatter

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)

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Americans Win Nobel Prize in Physics

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.

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You are made of space-time

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.

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Physics May Take Video Games to Next Lev

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.

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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.

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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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Holger 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 …

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Linde 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.

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As 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.

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

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The principle behind a novel form of spacecraft propulsion could be tested at the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

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Barack Obama wins Nobel Physics Prize retroactively

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.

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"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.

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Experiments 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

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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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A new method for combining six photons together results in a highly robust qubit capable of transporting quantum information over long distances.

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Researchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.

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Twenty years ago this week, on Sept. 28, 1989, an IBM physicist, Don Eigler, became the first person to manipulate and position individual atoms. Less than two months later, he arranged 35 Xenon atoms to spell out the letters IBM.

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By firing calcium isotopes into a plutonium target inside a particle accelerator, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have finally confirmed the Russian discovery of the superheavy element 114.

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Are physicists in Europe trying to get YOUR kids to have SEX? These people think so!

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Diamonds are a laser's best friend

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18–Tomorrow's lasers may come with a bit of bling, thanks to a new technology that uses man-made diamonds to enhance the power and capabilities of lasers.

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Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely.

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Here is a 6 minute clip showing many ufo photos and footage. Many are without explanation but it's definately worth a view. Cheers, Lenny.

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Sometimes, halfway through reading a paper, I wonder if the editors have been Sokaled (if this is not a word, it really should be), fooled by a vaguely scientific-sounding parody. This is one of those occasions.

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Lack of recognition for National Heroes.

I haven't gone back to Pakistan in the nearly 14 years it has been since my family emigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. I was just 10 years old at the time.

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With 800 sightings reported between 1993 and 1996 it's reasonable to conclude that many of these have rational explanations (I'm not the type who believes that all reports are evidence).

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Narayan said IBM and Caltech's breakthrough in DNA-based chip design could help maintain Moore's Law well into the future. More Articles

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The world seems to be putting itself together piece by piece on this damp gray morning along the coast of Maine.

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I don't know what to think of these pics. They look strange but maybe they are experimental aircraft created by the powers that be. However, an interesting watch.

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