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Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged (Update 3)

One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the world's foremost laboratories.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (100) | comments 181

Theoretical physics breakthrough: Generating matter and antimatter from the vacuum

Under just the right conditions -- which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accelerator -- it could be possible to create something out of nothing, according to University of Michigan ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (76) | comments 120 | with audio podcast

New hope for ultimate clean energy: fusion power

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine if you could generate electricity using nuclear power that emitted no radioactivity: it would be the answer to the world's dream of finding a clean, sustainable energy source.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (58) | comments 65 | with audio podcast

Tractor beams come to life

Tractor beams, energy rays that can move objects, are a science fiction mainstay. But now they are becoming a reality -- at least for moving very tiny objects.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (47) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Seeing quantum mechanics with the naked eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cambridge team have built a semiconductor chip that converts electrons into a quantum state that emits light but is large enough to see by eye. Because their quantum superfluid is simply ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (44) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists build world's first anti-laser

More than 50 years after the invention of the laser, scientists at Yale University have built the world's first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (44) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Physicists prove Einstein wrong with observation of instantaneous velocity in Brownian particles

A century after Albert Einstein said we would never be able to observe the instantaneous velocity of tiny particles as they randomly shake and shimmy, so called Brownian motion, physicist Mark Raizen and his ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (44) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields results

A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 123

New plastics can conduct electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly discovered technique makes it possible to create a whole new array of plastics with metallic or even superconducting properties.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (37) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists move objects across meter-scale distances using only light (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 40 years, scientists have been using the radiation pressure of light to move and manipulate small objects in space. But until now, the movements have always been restricted to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 10 | with audio podcast feature

Glasperlenspiel: Scientists propose new test for gravity

A new experiment proposed* by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may allow researchers to test the effects of gravity with unprecedented precision at very short distances -- a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (37) | comments 105 | with audio podcast

Physicists turn to Maxwell’s equations for self-bending light

(Phys.org) -- Can light self-bend into an arc? Can shape-preserving optical beams truly bend along a circular path? A confident answer emerged in this week’s Physical Review Letters. Researchers at Israel’s Techni ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 27 | with audio podcast weblog

3D-printer with nano-precision

Printing three dimensional objects with incredibly fine details is now possible using "two-photon lithography". With this technology, tiny structures on a nanometer scale can be fabricated. Researchers at ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

For the first time, researchers observe graphene sheets becoming buckyballs (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering through a transmission electron microscope (TEM), researchers from Germany, Spain, and the UK have observed graphene sheets transforming into spherical fullerenes, better known as ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 11, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Gravity up close: Looking for extra dimensions by measuring gravity at the microscopic level

Scientists know how gravity works at big distances -- the inter-planetary or inter-stellar range -- but does it work the same way at the inter-atomic range?

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

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