Physics

Stephen Hawking on Health Care Reform: NHS Has Saved My Life

Michael Santo — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:46:12 -0500

Stephen Hawking, 62, the world-famous physicist who has been a victim of ALS since his early 20s, was born in Oxford, England and still lives in the U.K. He teaches at the University of Cambridge. That makes this paragraph from an Investor's Business Daily editorial, that has since been edited, an out-and-out lie.

Stephen Hawking Now Expected to Recover

Michael Santo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:16:17 -0500

Stephen Hawking, who was rushed to the hospital on Monday with a chest infection, and was said to be "very ill," is expected to make a full recovery, according to a statement issued by Cambridge University on Tuesday.

Stephen Hawking "Very Ill," Hospitalized

Michael Santo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:50:46 -0500

Stephen Hawking, renowned theoretical physicist, mathematician, and author of the best-seller "A Brief History of Time," has been hospitalized at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and is said to be "very ill."

Foundation for uprooting hallowed principle of physics

harminka — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:58:23 -0600

Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance."

What if Copernicus was Wrong?

harminka — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:21:49 -0500

Dark energy is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, but it may be nothing more than an illusion, according physicists at Oxford University.

Large Hadron Collider Shuts Down Until Spring

Michael Santo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:03:03 -0500

The helium leak which caused the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to shut down last Friday will mean that the LHC will be in hibernation until Spring 2009. While the repairs will take approximately two months, as I indicated earlier, the lab shuts down in the winter to save costs. Officials with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) decided not to restart the world's largest particle accelerator until next year.

Unlocking secret of Kondo Effect

harminka — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:14:14 -0500

A team of scientists including researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL (University College London) and the IBM Almaden Research Center has forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing phenomenon in fundamental physics: the Kondo effect. The findings are reported online today in the scientific journal Nature Physics.

Hackers Break Into a Large Hadron Collider Computer

Michael Santo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:18:25 -0500

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been making headlines this week, as despite death threats, the world's largest particle accelerator fired up this week. Some have expressed concern that the LHC could possibly end the world.

Boon or Doom as the Large Hadron Collider Spins Up?

Michael Santo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:58:55 -0500

On Wednesday, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will fire up. The LHC is a massive particle accelerator 17 miles in circumference. And some are worried that spinning up the world's largest atom smasher, located beneath the French-Swiss border, will end the world. Updating the story: ABC refering to AP writes that a beam of protons was successfully fired all the way around a 17-mile tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.

Michigan integral to world's largest physics experiment

harminka — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:08:27 -0500

After 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its mission.

Researchers Make Material That Bends Light

Armen Hareyan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:58:00 -0500

For years, science fiction writers have imagined cloaking devices that could make objects or people invisible. While invisibility cloaks are still a fantasy, scientists have developed the optical materials that could some day make the illusion a reality. As VOA's Jessica Berman reports the materials, which bend light, have more serious applications as well.

Wiley-Blackwell to Publish the Asian Journal of Control

aboey — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:21:55 -0500

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), today announced a new agreement to publish the Asian Journal of Control on behalf of the Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS) and the Asian Control Association (ACA). Wiley-Blackwell will assume publishing responsibilities beginning with Volume 10, Number 1.