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No more solar wind for Voyager 1 spacecraft

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (48) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Researchers create light from 'almost nothing'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of physicists working out of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, have succeeded in proving what was until now, just theory; and that is, that visible photons could ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (40) | comments 59 | with audio podcast report

A hint of Higgs: An update from the LHC

The physics world was abuzz with some tantalizing news a couple of weeks ago. At a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble, France, physicists -- including some from Caltech -- announced that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

Faster than light neutrinos? More like faulty wiring

You can shelf your designs for a warp drive engine (for now) and put the DeLorean back in the garage; it turns out neutrinos may not have broken any cosmic speed limits after all.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (40) | comments 123 | 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

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 96 | with audio podcast weblog

Light speed

The recent news of neutrinos moving faster than light might have got everyone thinking about warp drive and all that, but really there is no need to imagine something that can move faster than 300,000 kilometres ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (40) | comments 89

'Faster-than-light' particles fade after cross-check

Neutrinos do not go faster than light, according to fresh measurements of a test last year that had suggested the particles broke the Universe's speed limit, CERN said on Friday.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 50

'Faster-than-light' particles spark science drama

Oh Albert. Did you get it wrong? In 2011, physics was shaken by an experiment which said the Universe's speed limit, enshrined by Einstein in his 1905 theory of special relativity, could be broken.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 82

New look at relativity: Electrons can't exceed the speed of light -- thanks to light itself, says biologist

When resolving why electrons can never beat the speed limit set by light, it might be best to forget about time. Thanks to insight from studying movement inside a biological cell, it seems that light itself -- not the relativity ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (53) | comments 161 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider smashes another record

The world's biggest particle collider set a new record early Monday, a feat that should accelerate the quest to pinpoint the elusive particle known as the Higgs Boson, a senior physicist said.

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 39

Study finds single photons cannot exceed the speed of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rule that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, c, is one of the most fundamental laws of nature. But since this speed limit has only been experimentally demonstrated for ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (28) | comments 91 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists drag light by slowing it to speed of sound

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have, for the first time, been able to drag light by slowing it down to the speed of sound and sending it through a rotating crystal.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

New picture of atomic nucleus emerges

(PhysOrg.com) -- When most of us think of an atom, we think of tiny electrons whizzing around a stationary, dense nucleus composed of protons and neutrons, collectively known as nucleons. A collaboration between ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

First, fast, and faster

(Phys.org) -- Scientists in PML's Quantum Measurement Division have produced the first superluminal light pulses made by using a technique called four-wave mixing, creating two separate pulses whose peaks ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Japan collab transmits record data speeds on terahertz waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Japan-based semiconductor manufacturer Rohm, together with a team from Osaka University, have come up with a chip that, in experiments, has achieved a wireless data transmission ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 20 | with audio podcast weblog