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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it looks quite likely that at least some alien life out there might not be so "alien" after all [...] the combined actions of thermodynamics and subsequent natural selection suggest that the genetic code we observe on the Earth today may have significant features in common with l …

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

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THEY came for the Moon, and for the first three orbits it was to the Moon that the astronauts of Apollo 8 devoted their attention.

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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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The Thermodynamics of Hell

As you study for exams, remember its not the quantity it's the quantity. And remember there is no substitute for pure unadulterated bull --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Today, scientists understand pretty well how life evolves, by mechanisms based on Darwin's theory of natural selection for survival of the fittest.

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As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future.

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"Ye canna change the laws of physics!" Scotty warned Captain Kirk on "Star Trek." But engineers and physicists at the University of Maryland may rewrite one of them.

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Philippe Chomaz, a distinguished nuclear physicist, takes the head of the Saclay Institute for Research into the Fundamental laws of the Universe (IRFU), succeeding to Jean Zinn-Justin, a theoretician physicist arrived at the end of its term.

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The first thorough federal review of research on how global warming may affect extreme climate events in North America forecasts more drenching rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long-lived greenhouse gases contin …

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Researchers are working on a thermoelectric generator that converts the heat from car exhaust fumes into electricity. The module feeds the energy into the car's electronic systems. This cuts fuel consumption and helps reduce the CO2 emissions from motor vehicles.

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The Stirling engine, a technology that's been around since the 19th century, converts the heat [from solar collectors] into electricity. Infinia used to be called Stirling Cycles, and has been around for more than two decades.

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Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It's Jan. 24, a Thursday afternoon, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he'll demonstrate an invention that appears – though he doesn't dare say it – to operate as a perpetual motion machine.

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Kucinich signed an agreement yesterday with SmartPower in which he promises that if elected president, he will make the White House 100 percent energy efficient (enter veggie-oil-filled WH joke here).

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In the "it sounds like we've heard this before" category, British scientists have invented a revolutionary device they claim can 'create' energy from virtually nothing.

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...Sure, that's what they all say. But be it batteries or bubblegum, everything stops sometime. The only thing that goes on forever is the propensity to make this stuff up.

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Yet more of a divergence from the "consensus" on climate change from the perspective of "global temperature".

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It has to be the closest ever shave.

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Many of nature's most dramatic processes, from lightning to hurricanes, exist simply because they are efficient ways of transferring energy.

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For forty years supersolid behavior has been predicted, and since the 1970s, theories about supersolid behavior involving helium-4 have been developed. However, it wasn't until 2004 that some evidence of supersolid behavior was found.

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Physicists and engineers in the US have discovered for the first time that glass can completely return to its original state after being bombarded with high-energy electrons.

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