News tagged with stationary objects

How You Feel the World Impacts How You See It

In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects -- like rocks -- appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1




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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 (20) | comments 46 | with audio podcast feature

Laser scan at full speed

Is a contact wire missing or is it faulty? What‘s the situation in front of the entrance to a railway station or a tunnel? A 3D laser scanner can increase the train‘s safety and reliability.

Physics / General Physics

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

Paint and bombs try to save ships from Titanic fate

We've painted them, tagged them, bombed them, monitored them with radar and watched them from space -- but icebergs like the one that sank the Titanic are still a threat to ships today.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | 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

NASA's proposed 'InSight' lander would peer to the center of Mars in 2016

A Phoenix-like lander that would mine the deepest hole yet into Mars- to a depth of 5 meters – and unveil the nature of the mysterious deep interior and central core of the Red Planet is under consideration ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Direct measurement of the formation length of photons

How long does it take an electron to form a photon? The answer would normally be: so short a time that it cannot be measured. However, the international CERN team responsible for experiment NA63 -- mainly staffed by physicists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, researchers say

A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 66 | with audio podcast

Chaos puts a path on nanoparticles

At just over seven feet tall, Shaquille O’Neal is easy to spot in crowd. But the individual virus structures that give him, and us, a cold aren’t so easy to see.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Pions don't want to decay into faster-than-light neutrinos, study finds

When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein's theory of special relativity and couldn't find any mistakes in their work, they asked the world to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (35) | comments 170 | with audio podcast


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