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'Zeno Effect' Verified-Atoms Won't Move While You Watch
Phys.org - Fri Oct 23, 2015
One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory - that a system can't change while you're watching it - has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. More»

Scientists Discover Antimatter In Storms On Earth
IFL Science - Wed May 13, 2015
A team of high-flying scientists think they have discovered that pockets of antimatter exist within lightning storms. More»

Quantum Harmonies: Modern Physics and Music
PBS - Wed Sep 10, 2014
From Pythagoras to string theory, explore the surprising connections between music and physics. More»

Subatomic calculations indicate finite lifespan for universe
Reuters - Tue Feb 19, 2013
BOSTON - Scientists are still sorting out the details of last year's discovery of the Higgs boson particle, but add up the numbers and it's not looking good for the future of the universe, scientists said Monday. More»

Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC
BBC - Wed Jul 4, 2012
Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. More»

Scientists: Particles appear to travel faster than light
CNN - Thu Sep 22, 2011
Scientists in Switzerland say an experiment appears to show that tiny particles traveled faster than the speed of light - a result that would seem to defy the laws of nature. More»

'God particle' goes missing: Higgs boson 'may not exist' say Hadron Collider scientists
The Daily Mail - Wed Sep 14, 2011
Signals reported in July seemed to indicate that the Higgs boson - a long-theorised particle seen as a missing link in our current understanding of physics - might have been detected among data the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. More»

Large Hadron Collider: Damaged by a Time-Traveling Bird?
Time - Wed Nov 11, 2009
Sometime on November 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. More»

French arrest physicist suspected of al-Qaida link
Associated Press - Thu Oct 8, 2009
GENEVA - A nuclear physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to the Algerian branch of al-Qaida, another blow to a project that has been plagued by glitches and was shut down after a massive electrical failure a year ago. More»

Mice Levitated in Lab
Live Science - Wed Sep 9, 2009
Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields. More»

Gigantic Lightning Jets Shoot from Clouds to Space
Live Science - Sat Aug 22, 2009
Strokes of lightning flashing down towards the ground are a familiar sight during summer thunderstorms, but scientists have capture an image of a rare lightning bolt shooting out upwards from a cloud, almost to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere. More»

Scientists Claim New State of Matter Created
Associated Press - Tue Jul 28, 2009
Scientists claim to have created a form of aluminum that's nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet radiation and which is a new state of matter. More»

New Class Of Black Hole Could Explain Cosmic Leviathans
AFP - Tue Jun 30, 2009
PARIS - Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies. More»

Star Trek's Warp Drive: Not Impossible
Live Science - Wed May 6, 2009
The warp drive, one of Star Trek's hallmark inventions, could someday become science instead of science fiction. More»

Electricity Measured Inside Space Tornadoes
Space.com - Fri Apr 24, 2009
Dorothy's tornado was nothing compared to the giant swirls of plasma that storm in outer space. More»

Dramatic Image Shows Volcano's Lightning
Live Science - Tue Apr 7, 2009
For the first time, scientists have been able to "see" and trace lightning inside a plume of ash spewing from an actively erupting volcano. More»

Sun Induces Strange 'Breathing' of Earth's Atmosphere
Wired News - Mon Dec 15, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, California - New satellite observations have revealed a previously unknown rhythmic expansion and contraction of Earth's atmosphere on a nine-day cycle. More»

X-rays detected from Scotch tape
Associated Press - Tue Oct 21, 2008
NEW YORK - Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. More»

Largest particle collider conducts successful test
Associated Press - Tue Sep 9, 2008
GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons around a 17-mile underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe. More»

CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang
Associated Press - Sun Sep 7, 2008
GENEVA - It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe - or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. More»

Mars' Architect-in-Chief? Water, Says Study
Discovery News - Mon Aug 25, 2008
Scientists are moving closer to a unilateral opinion that water, even in relatively modern times, exists on Mars. More»

Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system
AFP - Thu Aug 21, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets. More»

Scientists: Nothing to fear from atom-smasher
Associated Press - Sat Jun 28, 2008
MEYRIN, Switzerland - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. More»

Astronomers mystified by 'weird' star
AFP - Thu May 15, 2008
Astronomers are puzzled by the discovery of a pulsar with an unusual orbit never before seen in similar fast-spinning neutron stars that beam regular pulses of radio waves. More»

Greatest experiment ever in particle physics nears countdown
AFP - Sun Mar 23, 2008
GENEVA - In a vast circular underground tunnel below the French-Swiss border, the final pieces of a gigantic machine are being set in place for an extraordinary investigation into the infinitely small at CERN: Europe's atom-smashing laboratory. More»

Are we missing a dimension of time?
Telegraph UK - Tue Oct 9, 2007
A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year. More»

Mysterious Solar Ripples Detected
Space.com - Sun Sep 2, 2007
Mysterious waves that help transport the sun's energy out into space have been detected by scientists for the first time. More»

Space Dust: It's Alive and It's ... Us?
Wired - Fri Aug 17, 2007
That life should be carbon-based is a pretty dated assumption. More»

Scientists reveal secret of levitation
AFP - Mon Aug 6, 2007
LONDON - Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionise the design of micro-machines, a new report says. More»

Crystals 'helped Viking sailors'
BBC - Wed Feb 7, 2007
Vikings may have used a special crystal called a sunstone to help navigate the seas even when the sun was obscured by fog or cloud, a study has suggested. More»

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