Physics News! - Spring 2011 Semester

Physics News! - Fall 2010 Semester

November 19

Antihydrogen trapped at CERN Bonus: the Nature article about the discovery
7 up is named for the atomic number of Lithium, an element it originally contained as a drug
Extragalactic Planet discovered in the Milky Way
Twins can see through each others eyes

November 12

Instantaneous Velocities of Particles in Brownian Motion Observed
Solar Activity Ramping Up

November 5

LHC Lead Ion collisions reproduce conditions similar to those present in the early universe
Jupiter's missing cloud belt returns

October 29

"How Solar Power Could Become Cheaper Than Coal"
LHC to begin lead ion collisions

October 22

Nasa discovers new evidence for liquid water on ancient Mars
Six new isotopes of superheavy elements discovered
Superstitious beliefs getting more common
China plans manned space station by 2020
A mysterious group of early humans who made tools 55,000 years ahead of their time
A large amount of water and other chemicals have been found on the Moon

October 15

Earth-sized worlds much more common than giant planets
Buckyballs may be quite common in the Inter-Stellar Medium
Correcting FMRI results with a dead salmon
"German radar satellites fly tight space waltz"
Changing the color of single photons emitted by quantum dots

October 8

The record for the oldest galaxy ever observed has been broken
"Why Graphene Won Scientists the Nobel Prize"
New species discovered in Arctic Ocean
Livermore Lab conducts first experiments with fusion fuel

October 01

Gliese 581 g!
Bonus material: What Sol (our home) looks like from Gliese 581
Quarks "swing" to the tones of random numbers
Hawking radiation (sort of) experimentally confirmed

September 23

io9: Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their fields
Pair of aluminum atomic clocks reveal Einstein's relativity at a personal scale

September 10

Random numbers game with quantum dice
The fine structure constant may vary spacially
Formulation of the "Cheerios effect"
Epic video: Balloon carries video camera to the edge of space (107000 feet)

September 3

The Ultimate Rube Goldberg Machine
Nasa to launch Solar Probe Plus
Edible Nanostructures
CNC bacteria swarm builds tiny pyramid
Stephen Hawking's new book, "The Grand Design", goes on sale next week.
The moon is shrinking

Physics News! - Spring 2010 Semester

April 2

LHC collides at 7 TeV on March 30th
LEC may pose some risk to earth
In the event that you have accidentally swallowed the Higgs Boson...

March 26

Blind Brit sees with lollipop
Can a human see a photon?
The first quantum effects recorded on a visible object
Physicists may have broken a "law" of nature for a tiny instant

March 12

Ever wondered how the one groove of a vinyl record can give you stereo sound?
Super-water repellant material uses physics, not chemistry
New way to create electricity?
Aluminum helmets actually assist the government in invading your brain
Tablecloth trick:

March 5

The physics of curling
60% efficiency reached converting sunlight to hydrogen gas, that doesn’t degenerate so quickly
New record breaking efficiency in solar cells, also have potential to be cheaply mass-produced
A way to change the spin of an individual electron, without disturbing the ones around it.
Awesomeness!

February 12

Entanglement at higher temperatures
WIMPs on earth?
Harnessing the power of walking
We might not need stem cells!
How many oranges does it take to charge an iPod?
Bonus: Thanks, Courtney!

February 5

Quantum computer hydrogen simulation
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24759/
High Altitude Weight Loss
Crystals in Meteorite discovered to be harder than diamonds
Zen bats hit their target not aiming it

January 29

Oil droplets work like lab rats through mazes.
Superman vision penetrates opaque glass
iPad released

January 22

A copper-based catalyst removes CO2 from air without affecting the oxygen.
"Potential energy" affects perception of distance
Oil droplets work like lab rats through mazes.
The splash result from a drop into a liquid

Physics News! - Fall 2009 Semester

November 06

Tachyons from the Future take the form of birds?
Some notes on FTL travel
New Ocean is forming in Africa
Debate on Decay Rates vs Temperature

October 30

Earliest discovery of a laser - possibly 100 years before we thought
Calculating the height of a giraffe from first principles
SIMES Physicists Demystify Electron Behavior in High-temperature Superconductors
Study on the half-life of a teaspoon

October 23

Patrick managed to lose the URL's for this week. Good going Patrick : (

October 16

Are the true odds of getting heads on a coin toss 50-50?
New drug to combat symptoms of sleep deprivation. Sign me up
Cheesecake and bacon have the same habit-forming effect on rat brains as heroine.
Super-powerful magnets
Modern man is a wimp
Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen to Support Life

October 09

New Ion Propulsion drives
Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Ribosomes
New Saturnese ring discovered
Moon bombing today! (It went better than expected, says NASA)
Nuclear batteries
Human echolocation

October 02

Quantum entanglement of multiple frequencies of light
AIDS Vaccine
Soccer games are not scientifically rigorous

September 25

Why is Mars red?
Sun chilling out
Ice near martian equator
Water on Mars, the moon, and other places?
More about the moonwater
Carl Sagan remix!

September 18

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/09/16/real_electrons.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6829727.ece
http://www.sgm.ac.uk/news/releases/IJS.0609.JLC.cfm
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090910/full/news.2009.903.html

September 4

http://www.physorg.com/news171213314.html
http://www.physorg.com/news171209923.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111593841&ps=rs

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