News tagged with velocity
Weighted ping-pong balls can fall endlessly through a granular medium (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a meteor impacts a planet or a moon, it always stops at a relatively shallow depth, even when impacting at high speeds. Until now, researchers have assumed that all objects impacting ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Physicists show that superfluid light is possible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Superfluidity – the phase of matter that enables a fluid to move up the sides of its container – has been known about since the 1930s. Since then, superfluidity has become a prime ...
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- "For years, we have been using laser cooling to trap and manipulate atoms," David DeMille tells PhysOrg.com. "This has been very useful for both basic science and many applications. Recent ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Graphene's shining light could lead to super-fast Internet
Internet connection speeds could be tens of times faster than they currently are, thanks to research by University of Manchester scientists using wonder material graphene.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 30, 2011 |
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Gas rich galaxies confirm prediction of modified gravity theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent data for gas rich galaxies precisely match predictions of a modified theory of gravity know as MOND according to a new analysis by University of Maryland Astronomy Professor Stacy McGaugh. ...
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of planet hunters led by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (three ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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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 ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Exoplanets Clue to Sun's Curious Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. ...
Nov 11, 2009 |
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32 New Exoplanets Found (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-metre ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Transit Search Finds Super-Neptune
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While Neptune ...
Jan 20, 2009 |
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Teenager reportedly finds solution to 350 year old math and physics problem
(Phys.org) -- In Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica published in 1687, the man many consider the most brilliant mathematician of all time used a mathematical formula to describe the path taken by an obj ...
May 29, 2012 |
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Study finds European starlings flocking patterns similar to metals being magnetized
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and amateur enthusiasts alike have long been fascinated by the abilities of some groups of animals to move in lockstep with one another, most specifically with schools of fish and ...
Mar 14, 2012 |
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A wealth of habitable planets in the Milky Way
An international team has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft: Trajectory maneuver slated for Jan. 11
(PhysOrg.com) -- An engine firing on Jan. 11 will be the biggest maneuver that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft will perform on its flight between Earth and Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 09, 2012 |
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