Category: Science

Although the physicists are only speculating on how this discovery will be applied to the computer of the future, we can't help but see the magickal possibilities held in this discovery.

Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky."

Astronomers at the University of Rochester have discovered five Earth-oceans’ worth of water that has recently fallen into the planet-forming region around an extremely young, developing star.

Dan Watson, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, believes he and his colleagues are the first to see a short-lived stage of protoplanetary disk formation, and the manner in which a planetary system’s supply of water arrives from the natal envelope within which its parent star originally formed.

Is heading straight for a goal the quickest way there? If the name of the game is evolution, suggests new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the pace might speed up if the goals themselves change continuously.

Nadav Kashtan, Elad Noor, and Prof. Uri Alon of the Institute’s Molecular Cell Biology and Physics of Complex Systems Departments create computer simulations that mimic natural evolution, allowing them to investigate processes that, in nature, take place over millions of years. In these simulations, a population of digital genomes evolves over time towards a given goal: to maximize fitness under certain conditions. Like living organisms, genomes that are better adapted to their environment may survive to the next generation or reproduce more prolifically. But such computer simulations, though sophisticated, don’t yet have all the answers. Achieving even simple goals may take thousands of generations, raising the question of whether the three-or-so billion years since life first appeared on the planet is long enough to evolve the diversity and complexity that exist today.

Einstein's predicted distortion of space-time occurs around neutron stars, University of Michigan astronomers and others have observed. Using European and Japanese/NASA X-ray observatory satellites, teams of researchers have pioneered a groundbreaking technique for determining the properties of these ultradense objects..

Neutron stars contain the densest observable matter in the universe. They cram more than a sun's worth of material into a city-sized sphere, meaning a few cups of neutron-star stuff would outweigh Mount Everest. Astronomers use these collapsed stars as natural laboratories to study how tightly matter can be crammed under the most extreme pressures nature can offer.

University of Adelaide researchers have discovered a way of creating a male mouse without a Y chromosome by manipulating a single gene in the developing foetus.

University of Adelaide researchers have discovered a way of creating a male mouse without a Y chromosome by manipulating a single gene in the developing foetus.

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Astronomers have discovered a scene unlike any witnessed before in a "train wreck" between galaxy clusters. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes revealed a dark matter core that was mostly devoid of galaxies, which seems to contradict current theories on dark matter.

Astronomers have discovered a chaotic scene unlike any witnessed before in a cosmic “train wreck” between giant galaxy clusters. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes revealed a dark matter core that was mostly devoid of galaxies, which may pose problems for current theories of dark matter behavior.

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This multi-wavelength image shows the chaotic aftermath of the collision of at
least two galaxy clusters, some of the most massive objects in the Universe.
X-rays from Chandra (red) show the hot gas the envelopes the clusters. The
individual galaxies appear in visible-light observations (yellow and orange),
which also reveal the presence of dark matter (blue) by the subtle distortions of
the distant objects. The behavior of the dark matter with respect to the galaxies
and hot gas in Abell 520 is very unusual. These data can be explained by
changes to the current understanding of dark matter or how galaxy clusters
interact when merging.

If you think that the idea of a morning person or an evening person is nonsense, then postgraduate student Martin Sale and his colleagues from the University of Adelaide have news for you.

If you think that the idea of a morning person or an evening person is nonsense, then postgraduate student Martin Sale and his colleagues from the University of Adelaide have news for you.

They have found that the time of day influences your brain’s ability to learn - and the human brain learns more effectively in the evening.

According to Einstein, the speed of light cannot be broken. Two German scientists beg to differ.

Two physicists in Germany claim they have broken the speed of light, an accomplishment which, according to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, is impossible. The claim is made by Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, both of the University of Koblenz.

Is China shocking the world again after the Great Wall and terra-cotta warriors?

After 16 years' hard work, Xiao Jing Jin Xi Yong, from Korea, has tracked down a large underground kingdom, located below the Chinese Inner Mongolian prairie. The origins of this most ancient Chinese civilization are unknown.

A new book by West Coast high tech consultant John Palacio suggests that the fabric of space itself is capable of movement. The implications of Palacio's "Kinetic Space Theory: The Solution to Gravity and other Puzzles in Theoretical Physics" lead to solutions to some of modern science's most classic puzzles including a solution for the puzzle of gravity.

Ever since inconsistencies began to appear between the two major pillars of theoretical physics, quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, physicists have pursued a "Theory of Everything" (T.O.E.) with a fervor reminiscent of knights searching for the Holy Grail. The T.O.E as described by Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe, is "the ultimate explanation of the universe at its most microscopic level." String theory is a well-publicized current example of a T.O.E. Now, a new T.O.E. has been proposed in a book just published by Globulus Communications of Calabasas, CA.