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- LHC scientists get death threats
- So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The physics of flocking in 3-D
- You might think that bird watchers are only amateurs armed with binoculars. But biologists have also been studying flocks of birds for a long time. And now, they're helped by physicists, according to this New Scientist article about how European researchers are capturing flocks in 3-D. With a couple of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Photos: Stephen Hawking's zero-gravity flight
- The physicist gets an "amazing" experience of weightlessness and a rare moment out of his wheelchair. His next goal: "Space here I come."
- Image galleries 2007-04-27
- Helper 1.15 (Windows)
- Helper is a software program intended to assist physicists, engineers, and other scientists and experts in performing computations. The program allows you to find quickly the majority of physical constants.
- Software downloads 2007-01-31
- Great balls of fire
- According to National Geographic News, two Brazilian physicists of the Federal University of Pernambuco have created artificial ball lightning in their lab. Like the ones you may have seen during a thunderstorm, these ball lightning move erratically and burn whatever they touch, even drilling a hole in one of the...
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
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- Geo-engineering can save this planet
- Geo-engineering can save this planetToo funnyI love it, socialism and government control of your daily life.Nothing like United Socialist States of Amerika....Population control is a better targetIf that kind of money was spent educating people about overpopulation - and how the earth can only support a finite number of humans...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developed
- There's always been an inverse relationship between density and durability when it comes to data storage. Today's silicon memory chips contain a lot of density, but with a lifespan of just a few decades, they lack durability. Yet primitive forms of storage such as information carved in stone are highly...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- I haven't had a good rant recently
- However, a colleague sent me this quote from CNN.com this morning note that the more grievous errors have since been corrected: "Somehow they have managed to get thousands of gigantic magnets, get them arranged so that they're within a few microns of where they're supposed to be,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- New atomic clock loses only a second every 300 million years
- The quest to create the perfect scientific timepiece has led to the development of an atomic clock that researchers from JILA claim to be fifty percent more accurate than results reported last year. JILA, is a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzy
- Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzyItanium doesn't stand a chance to NehalemOne things for sure (and probably why Intels Tukwila/Itanium has slipped by about a year) is that Itanium doesn't stand a chance against Nehalem and even when Tukwila does arrive, will have a tough ride against Nehalem-EX....
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Reknowned scientist takes unpopular stance on global warming
- Reknowned scientist takes unpopular stance on global warmingThe best summary yet?Enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories??This is the best summary of the state of Global Warming theory I have yet read, and fits exactly what many of us have been...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- Reknowned scientist takes unpopular stance on global warming
- Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson is not worried about global warming. He doesn't doubt things are getting hotter, but he does doubt that it's a serious problem. After all, plants love to breathe in CO2. What does Dyson think of the current level of sceince on...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Foster plan for open source education
- Bill Foster right, the physicist and Democrat who succeeded former Speaker Dennis Hastert in Congress, has what you might call a cunning open source plan. Any federal agency spending over $10 million on scientific education should put 2% of that money into creating open source materials, posting...
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Nano-sized radio plays Eric Clapton’s "Layla"
- Accurately more nano than the iPod Nano, a radio built out of a single carbon nanotube that detects and plays songs was singled out in the latest issue of Scientific American as one of the first truly functional nanoscale devices that has a "measurable effect on the larger, macroscale world."...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Hologram technology: the sub-atomic future of storage?
- I was recently talking to some folks at Google about storage, specifically the amount of data that's being stored on the cloud as users upload things like photos and YouTube video clips. Gigabytes. Terabytes. Petabytes. I couldn't help but wonder, as we talked about all of this...
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- New U.S. energy triumverate now in power
- This afternoon, hours after President Obama took office, the U.S. Senate confirmed three powerful new players in the American energy scene. The new secretaries of Energy, Interior and Agriculture are now in power. Together they will have considerable range to shape the next four years for alternative energy...
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Obama's Dr. Energy
- Obama's Dr. EnergyProof that being educated a physicistand winning a nobel prize does not guarantee you are not an idiot.A newsman since 1969, Harry Fuller still has not learned to spell check...C'mon Harry - just because it's on the Internet doesn't mean your readers don't deserve the professional courtesy of...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
- Obama's Dr. Energy
- The nominee for next Energy Secretary faced his Senate hearing today. Dr. Steven Chu, head of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been outspoken in his views on global warming, energy conservation and fossil fuels. For today's purpose, getting confirmed, the Nobel Prize winning physicist tempered some of his...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Getting a charge the wireless way
- Want to thank the contributors to Texas Instruments' TInergy blog for pointing out some information about Fulton Innovation, a company that is experimenting with what it calls "wireless power." Fulton is behind an initiative called eCoupled Intelligent wireless power. I am NOT a physicist, so I...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Signs of Armageddon: We're worrying about CO2 emissions of a Google search
- Take some interesting science statistics. Mix in a well-known company such as Google. Stir well. And you have a bunch of malarkey about how searching the Web is killing the planet. I suppose there's nothing else to worry about on the weekend Techmeme. First...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
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