Physics
Watch History Live from the Large Hadron Collider
[/caption] CERN announced that on March 30 they will attempt to circulate beams in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5…
This is Getting Boring: General Relativity Passes Yet another Big Test!
[/caption] Published in 1915, Einstein's theory of general relativity (GR) passed its first big test just a few years later,…
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature’s “LHC”
[/caption] In a manner somewhat like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a…
Small Asteroids, Bread Flour, and a Dutch Physicist’s 150-year Old Theory
[/caption] No, it's not the Universe Puzzle No. 3; rather, it's an intriguing result from recent work into the strange…
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ESA’s Tough Choice: Dark Matter, Sun Close Flyby, Exoplanets (Pick Two)
Key questions relevant to fundamental physics and cosmology, namely the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter (Euclid);…
Does Zonal Swishing Play a Part in Earth’s Magnetic Field Reversals?
[/caption] Why does the Earth's magnetic field 'flip' every million years or so? Whatever the reason, or reasons, the way…
Einstein’s General Relativity Tested Again, Much More Stringently
[/caption] This time it was the gravitational redshift part of General Relativity; and the stringency? An astonishing better-than-one-part-in-100-million! How did…
Universe to WMAP: ΛCDM Rules, OK?
[/caption] The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team has finished analyzing seven full years' of data from the little…
What is Schrodinger’s Cat?
Schrodinger's cat is named after Erwin Schrödinger, a physicist from Austria who made substantial contributions to the development of quantum…
Nuclear Fusion Power Closer to Reality Say Two Separate Teams
[/caption] For years, scientists have been trying to replicate the type of nuclear fusion that occurs naturally in stars in…