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Scientists discover new water waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- By precisely shaking a container of shallow water, researchers have observed wave behavior that has never been seen before. In a new study, Jean Rajchenbach, Alphonse Leroux, and Didier Clamond ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 26 | with audio podcast feature

Frequency stabilization in nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators

Using Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) expertise in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices, a new strategy for engineering low-frequency noise oscillators capitalizes on the intrinsic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists examine possibility of a phonon laser, or 'phaser'

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the optical laser celebrated its 50th anniversary earlier this year, some scientists have been working on a new type of coherent beam amplifier for sound rather than light. Scientists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 25 | with audio podcast feature

Play on: Google posts synthesizer tribute to Moog

(AP) -- Bob Moog's synthesizer helped change the sound of modern music. On what would have been his 78th birthday, Google is paying tribute to the man with a virtual version of his famous Moog on their homepage ...

Technology / Other

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Detection of cosmic effect may bring universe's formation into sharper focus

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first observation of a cosmic effect theorized 40 years ago could provide astronomers with a more precise tool for understanding the forces behind the universe's formation and growth, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

The physics of how wet animals dry themselves (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using slow-motion movie cameras have been trying to discover the physics behind the "wet dog shake."

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (22) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report

A quantum connection between light and motion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have demonstrated a system in which light is used to control the motion of an object that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye at the level where quantum mechanics governs ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 6 | 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

New theories emerge to disprove OPERA faster-than-light neutrinos claim

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's been just two weeks since the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) team released its announcement claiming that they have been measuring muon neutrinos moving faster t ...

Physics / General Physics

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Hitches emerge as culprit in 'faster-than-light' particle (Update)

Scientists who last year found particles that appeared to break the Universe's speed limit are looking at two technical issues that could have skewed the controversial finding, CERN said Thursday.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 20

Physics team calculates that graphene disks could be complete optical absorbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In optical devices designed and used to collect light, there has always been a loss of light due to reflection, now, new research by a team of physicists from Spain and England has found, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Brain implant reveals the neural patterns of attention

A paralyzed patient implanted with a brain-computer interface device has allowed scientists to determine the relationship between brain waves and attention.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First results from RENO: Observation of the weakest neutrino transformation

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillations (RENO) research team announced the first result of the search for the remaining, most elusive puzzle of the neutrino transformation. They have found disappearance of neutrinos ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Long term North Atlantic surface temperature fluctuations linked to aerosols

(PhysOrg.com) -- Manmade pollution doesn’t always cause atmospheric warming, a group of researchers from Britain’s Met Office Hadley Centre, write in their paper published in the journal Nature, someti ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

Cold winters caused by warmer summers, research suggests

Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere; increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating more snowfall in the autumn ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Oscillation

Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar examples include a swinging pendulum and AC power. The term vibration is sometimes used more narrowly to mean a mechanical oscillation but sometimes is used to be synonymous with "oscillation". Oscillations occur not only in physical systems but also in biological systems and in human society.

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