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Photonics: Beam me up

'Tractor beams' of light that pull objects towards them are no longer science fiction. Haifeng Wang at the A*STAR Data Storage Institute and co-workers have now demonstrated how a tractor beam can in fact be realized on a ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Is a classical electrodynamics law incompatible with special relativity?

(Phys.org) -- The laws of classical electromagnetism that were developed in the 19th century are the same laws that scientists use today. They include Maxwell’s four equations along with the Lorentz la ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 43 | with audio podcast feature

Physicist uses art to make physics more accessible

Based on research she conducted for her doctoral dissertation several years ago, Jatila van der Veen, a lecturer in the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara and a research associate in UC Santa Barbara's physics ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Spain the dunces in international science test

Spaniards came bottom of the class in an 11-nation science test and nearly half of them could not name a single important scientist in history, a survey showed Tuesday.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Measuring transient x-rays with lobster eyes

(Phys.org) -- A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Italian physicist behind 'faster-than-light' test resigns

An Italian physicist at the head of a team that made a cautious but hugely controversial claim that neutrinos may travel faster than the speed of light resigned on Friday following calls for his dismissal.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (17) | comments 34

Einstein's archive now available online

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you ever wanted to glimpse into Albert Einstein's thoughts, now you can. Last week, the complete catalog of about 80,000 documents written by or addressed to Einstein—letters, postcards, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Israel university upgrades Einstein archive

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday launched an updated version of its online Einstein Archives website, providing access to more than 80,000 documents connected to the seminal physicist.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Physicist suggests Einstein could have beaten Bohr in famous thought experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Way back in the 1930’s, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr were sparring over ideas related to whether the new field of quantum mechanics was correct. In one thought experiment that Einstein said showed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (22) | comments 56 | with audio podcast weblog

Quantum physics mimics spooky action into the past

Physicists of the group of Prof. Anton Zeilinger at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Quantum internet: Physicists build first elementary quantum network

(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics realizes a first elementary quantum network based on interfaces between single atoms and photons.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array: Famous radio telescope officially gets new name

Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its transformation ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

South Pole Telescope hones in on dark energy, neutrinos

Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy — the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

When dark energy turned on (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some six billion light years distant, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (19) | comments 68 | with audio podcast

Europe launches third robot freighter to space station

An automated craft laden with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) headed into space on Friday in the heaviest launch ever undertaken by Europe.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0