Articles tagged "physics"

Physicist David Deutsch argues that everything contains objective truth.

No biggie, just looking for distortions in space-time.

Quick: What does nü-metal have to do with materials science?

Who knows? But at least researchers have discovered a way to figure it out.

Make some popcorn, physics-spotters. We're just getting started.

D-Wave has a boy-who-cried-wolf problem.

This is slightly more conclusive than last summer, when CERN said it found a particle that resembles the Higgs Boson but couldn't confirm it was.

As physics heads into the Higgs home stretch, it appears the God particle might not have many surprises.

A weird anti-dark matter theory matches new observations.

Meet the long-range spin-spin interaction.

This fancy new quantum spin liquid could change everything.

Forget the spray-decay of trillions upon trillions of subatomic particle collisions. Turns out all of physics is a chaotic, entangling, beautiful mess--especially one of its most rudimentary mainstays: the drawing board.

There’s a whole tier of hackers, serious thieves, who can not only find their way through a maze of code, but can actually tap into the very wires that carry that code from place to place. It’s a serious threat, and not even the most sophisticated fi…

Forget about jetpacks. And we're never going to see time travel, teleportation, spaceships with warp drives, or the inside of a worm hole. But cheer up, futurists—lifelike androids, nuclear fusion power, and lunar colonies are still in the cards.

Here's a thing I became mildly obsessed with this weekend (thanks to the "new issue"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/How-Biomimicry-is-Inspiring-Human-Innovation-165592706.html of _Smithsonian_): "tunnel boom." Tunnel boom is a common phe…

When the Tevatron opened in 1983 at Fermi National Laboratory, outside Chicago, it was the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, designed to smash protons and antiprotons together in order to see what makes up the universe.

For all of the pop culture, mainstream buzzing devoted to the Higgs boson, it seems almost bizarre that at least some amount of comparable attention isn't devoted to dark matter and dark energy. Is that the price tag that comes with high energy colli…

Detecting and cross-checking (and cross-checking again) the existence of the Higgs boson is a big undertaking and an important one, so its attention from the press is understandable - laudable, even. But the problem with covering the Higgs boson sear…

Yesterday's "announcement":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?_r=1&hpw of a "Higgslike" particle at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the most expensive science experiment ever, is less…

Physicist Rob Roser is head of the Scientific Computing Division and formerly a spokesman for the CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator, in Batavia, Illinois, an hour outside of Chicago. The Tevatron was switched off last September, leavi…

Of course _you_ know what the Higgs boson is -- it's the theorized particle that composes the energy field that endows every other particle with mass. It's the particle that makes the universe possible, let's nature construct things, like humans, or

Tomorrow, when the world hears a giant announcement about the Higgs boson from scientists at Europe’s CERN laboratory, they might not notice its American accomplice. On Monday, the Fermi National Laboratory, or Fermilab, which is situated in the midd…

Hey, did you hear the big news? The Higgs boson has been discovered!!!! Oh wait. No it hasn't. Well, at least not yet. So please, for the love of theorized God particles, please refrain for the time being from shitting bricks and/or popping the bu…