Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : excellent articleThe invention of the computer is perhaps the critical achievement in the technological evolution of the human race Through computing (and the internet) we have brought the world - and the peoples (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it's going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators's latest statement, I'm not so sure (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as mu (Read More)
Ars Technica:
It has been 100 years since the Geiger-Marsden experimentupendedhumanity's longstanding view of the atom as a nice, relativelyhomogeneousparticle. When the alpha particles shot at (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stimulus funding will enhance Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work. (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology t (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, connect his (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
To exploit the quantum world to the fullest, a key commodity is entanglement -the spooky, distance-defying link that can form between objects such as atoms even when they are completely shielded from one another. Now, physici (Read More)
MIT News:
In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I wish that Julian Voss-Andreae had made some of these sculptures when I was in school. While we can't really claim that they represent quantum physics concepts accurately, they still would've made reading about Bosons and F (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Somehow we missed Sony Computer Entertainment America's fourth wall-breaking patent application earlier this month, but here's how the concept would work: Using a PS3, you'd control an on-screen avatar to throw tomatoes at ac (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony, co- founders of Vista, CA-based Aptera. This comes on the heals of lay-offs at the startup. Aptera, which is building lightweight electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. It is backed by Idealab a (Read More)
Wired Science:
SANTA CRUZ, California — Four hundred years after Galileo’s telescope revolutionized humanity’s view of the universe, a gigantic telescope is in the works that could take us to a new, deeper level of understanding.The enormou (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum informationprocessor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- the rules governing th (Read More)
Gizmodo:
It may not overheat in the presence of bread, but this pop-up book has the most accurate paper Large Hadron Collider ever. Figures that a book would make ending the world by firing that bad boy up look fun. The book's called (Read More)
MIT News:
Two teams of astronomers have found a planet outside the solar system that might be orbiting backwards compared to its star’s rotation, a discovery that could shed light on how unique the relatively perfect alignment of our s (Read More)