Blogs Posts in Physics category; 104 blog posts

Physicists find dark matter: It's everywhere

A group of Japanese physicists has revealed where dark matter is — though not what it is — for the first time. As it turns out, the mysterious substance is almost everywhere, drooping throughout intergalactic space to form an [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Magnetosphereic & Ionosphere / Thermosphere Physics

The Earth’s magnetosphere is a bubble of space around our planet dominated by the magnetic field produced within the Earth’s outer core. Furthermore, the Earth’s upper atmosphere, called the thermosphere, is ionized by E [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Physicist writes how universe evolved from nothing

"A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing" (Free Press), by Lawrence M. Krauss: In fall 2009, the theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss gave a talk about recent discoveries in cosmology that he enga [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Seeing Quantum Mechanics with the naked eye

A Cambridge team have built a semiconductor chip that converts electrons into a quantum state that emits light but is large enough to see by eye. Because their quantum superfluid is simply set up by shining laser beams on the device, it c [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Teaching Physics with Google Earth

Fabrizio Logiurato, a postdoctoal physics researcher at the University of Trento in Italy, proposed using Google Earth for teaching wave phenomena in a paper published on the arXiv preprint server. Logiurato argues that real-life examples [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Physicist creates scale model of Large Hadron Collider's par...

A physicist at Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute has recreated one of the two main particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider out of Lego - and the replica machine is to scale with the tiny Lego engineers that walk through its tunne [...]

Posted On : Dec, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Sticky Physics

In their study, scientists from Cambridge University created liquid streams ranging from pure water to pure glycerol, a naturally-occurring compound used to sweeten food and manufacture glue. The researchers then used a high-speed camera [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Physicist Brian Greene Explains New Planets, Higgs Particle

Astronomers say they’ve found two more earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. Planet hunters say this is a step toward finding a planet in the so-called “Goldilocks Zone,” a spot neither too cold, nor too hot, whic [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Scientists close in on linchpin of physics, the ‘God particl...

If rumors were dollars, the arcane world of particle physics would have enough cash to solve the Euro crisis. For weeks, statements circulating on physics blogs have hinted at the discovery of an elusive particle essential to our understa [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Physicists Anxiously Await New Data on ‘God Particle’

High noon is approaching for the biggest manhunt in the history of physics. At 8 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday morning, scientists from CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, are scheduled to give a progress report on the search f [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Basic physics distilled

Energy, power, climate change, atomic explosions — what scientific concepts should any future president of the United States be familiar with? One course at Carnegie Mellon aims to address exactly that. Markus Deserno, a professo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Physicists extract light from seeming emptiness

Physicists in Sweden say they have managed to create light from vacuum, the closest thing to empty space known to exist. In findings published this week in the research jour [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Bright future: Talented science students recognised at an aw...

All four members of the Pakistani team won bronze medals in the International Biology Olympiad held in Taiwan. Two students won Bronze Medals and two got Honourable Mentions in the Physics Olympiad hosted by Thailand. Two of the four Paki [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Physics research Earns professor Anacapa scholar

Trinanjan Datta, assistant professor of physics, was recently awarded the Anacapa Scholar, which is only given to the best of the best. In 2007, Datta came to Augusta State University to teach after being at Purdue University for six year [...]