Physics
Playing With Water… in Space!
Expedition 30 astronaut and chemical engineer Don Pettit continues his ongoing "Science off the Sphere" series with this latest installment,…
Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside
[/caption] Planning a little space travel to see some friends on Kepler 22b? Thinking of trying out your newly-installed FTL3000…
Faster Than Light? More Like Faulty Wiring.
[/caption] You can shelf your designs for a warp drive engine (for now) and put the DeLorean back in the…
Dancing Water Drops In Earth Orbit
An astronaut once told me that fellow space flier Don Pettit could fix anything with a paper clip. Indeed, Pettit…
Guest Post: The Cosmic Energy Inventory
[/caption] Now that the old year has drawn to a close, it's traditional to take stock. And why not think…
Slower than Light Neutrinos
[/caption] Earlier this year, an international team of scientists announced they had found neutrinos -- tiny particles with an equally…
TV Viewing Alert: New Mini-Series: Fabric of the Cosmos
A new 4-part mini-series debuts tonight on PBS station in the US, featuring theoretical physicist Brian Greene. The series is…
Particle Physics and Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos…Discuss.
On September 22, an international team of researchers working on the OPERA project at the Gran Sasso research facility released…
Breaking the Speed of Light
[/caption] It's been a tenet of the standard model of physics for over a century. The speed of light is…
Q&A with Brian Cox, part 3: ‘Wonders’ and Popularizing Science
[/caption] Professor Brian Cox is the Chair in Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS…