Jan 16
While Sony might currently be spoken about in TV circles for its blazing 4K sets, the future could hold something quite different. In fact, Sony’s Next Big Thing—Triluminous displays—will be powered by quantum physics. More »
Jan 15
How to Literally Shoot the Moon
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Isaac Newton laid out the physical ballistic requirements to hit the moon with a gun in his famous Cannonball thought experiment. Since Newton, and for years before him, humans have relentlessly sought to shoot the man in the moon in his big, smirking face. Now, we’ve nearly figured it out. More »
Jan 07
The Kilogram Is Putting on Weight
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There’s long been debate over the accuracy of the standardized kilogram. Now, though, scientists have shown once and for all that the lump of metal defining the unit of mass has been putting on some weight. More »
Dec 14
There are two things we here at Gizmodo love unabashedly: science and beer. So, when we saw that the gang at the UK’s Institute of Physics had launched a site about the physics of beer, we just had to invite them to come for a chat. More »
Nov 30
You probably knew that it’s impossible to pull apart two phonebooks put together with interleaving pages. But did you know that the bond—caused by the mechanical friction of the interleaving pages—is so strong that it can lift an entire car? This video demonstrates exactly that. The best part, however, may be to watch the car fall when they burn the phonebooks. More »
Nov 28
Large Hadron Collider may have produced a previously undetected form of matter
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Teams at the Large Hadron Collider must be developing a knack for producing tangible evidence of theoretical particles. After orchestrating 2 million collisions between lead nuclei and protons, like the sort you see above, the collider’s Compact Muon Solenoid group and researchers at MIT suspect that stray, linked pairs of gluon particles in the mix were signs of color-glass condensate, a currently theory-only form of matter that sees gluons travel in liquid-like, quantum-entangled waves. The clues aren’t definitive, but they were also caught unexpectedly as part of a more routine collision run; the team is curious enough that it’s looking for more evidence during weeks of similar tests in January. Any conclusive proof of the condensate would have an impact both on how we understand particle production in collisions as well as the ways gluons and quarks are arranged inside protons. If so, the CMS and MIT teams may well answer a raft of questions about subatomic physics while further justifying CERN’s giant underground rings.
Source: MIT
Nov 28
Physicists need love, too. Just ask Paul Frampton, the physics professor who was sentenced recently after an alleged scam involving drugs and a bikini model. More »
Nov 22
There’s a hackneyed scientific description of what it means to touch things: your ass never actually “touches” a chair when you sit down, so it goes, but instead is repelled because of electrons that come up against each other. But is that really the case? More »
Nov 17
Alt-week 11.17.12: freestyle brain scans, hovering moon base and robot dolphin replacements
Posted in: Today's ChiliAlt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
This week we’re all over the place. Sorry about that, but it’s all for the greater good. We start things off right down at the quantum level, then head to the oceans, before a quick jaunt into space before landing back deep inside your mind. All in the name of science, of course. Science and hip-hop that is. This is alt-week.
Alt-week 11.17.12: freestyle brain scans, hovering moon base and robot dolphin replacements originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nov 11
If you want to be a world leader in science and technology, it’s important that your kids learn all about the science that makes technology work, right? Physics forms the backbone of our understanding of the universe, but our high school physics curriculum are more than a little lacking when it comes to things from the past 150 years. More »
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