Blogs Posts in Physics category; 130 blog posts

Next step for physics is destructible environments

Middleware maker Havok believes physics in the next generation will be about destructible environments. Speaking to GamesIndustry, Havok’s Andrew Bowell said the firm sees destruction as one of the main drivers for its products wit [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2013 | Comments : 0

The Next Big Physics Machines Are Neutrino Detectors

Now that the Large Hadron Collider has apparently found the Higgs Boson, a sort of malaise set over some of the scientists behind the project. What do you do next with a 17-mile underground ring? And will there be a successor—an eve [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2013 | Comments : 0

Tree physics limits height and leaf size, study shows

In both cases—leaf size and tree height—the explanations are rooted in the physics of the tree's plumbing, or the branching vascular system that nourishes the tree from leaf to trunk, the researchers write in this week' [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2013 | Comments : 0

2012 Physics Year in Review

Easily the biggest science story of the year (and dubbed 2012 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science and given the distinction of "Particle of the Year" by Time magazine) is the evidence from the Large Hadron Collider t [...]

Posted On : Jan, 01 2013 | Comments : 0

Physical Therapy Treatment

Find Physical Therapy Education in the United States and Canada. Some of the many career paths that individuals can take once they've attained the appropriate level of physical therapy education include professions as of course, thera [...]

Posted On : Nov, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Physics -- Classic and Quantum

This article presents the historical development of classical and quantum physics. It is intended for the layman who is interested in New Age topics, metaphysics, and spirituality. This is the first of four intended to provide background [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Landmark Higgs boson announcement clears key hurdle

PARIS — The announcement two months ago that physicists have discovered a particle consistent with the famous Higgs boson cleared a formal hurdle on Monday with publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Two laboratories working at the [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Frank Tipler on Muslim Contributions to Physics and Astronom...

Frank Tipler is a world-class mathematician, physicist, and cosmologist. Here are his thoughts on some popular claims about Islamic contributions to physics and astronomy. PJ MEDIA--In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, President [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

Physicists explore properties of electrons in revolutionary ...

The FINANCIAL -- Scientists from Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a new way to examine certain properties of electrons in graphene – a very thin material that may hold the key to new techno [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Physicists create world's smallest semiconductor laser

This is an illustration of the nanoscale semiconductor structure used for demonstrating the ultra-low-threshold nanolaser. A single nanorod is placed on a thin silver film (28 nm thick). The resonant electromagnetic field is concentrated [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

Satyendra Nath Bose towers over Higgs in world of physics

KOLKATA: City-based scientists are glad that Bengal remembered 20th century physicist Satyendra Nath Bose when the world celebrated the confirmation of the Higgs boson particle on Wednesday. But they were also anguished that Bose never qu [...]

Posted On : Jul, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

7 trillion degrees Fahrenheit: Atom-smashing physicists brea...

A giant atom-smashing racetrack of sorts has just broken a Guinness World Record by reaching the highest man-made temperature ever recorded, scientists announced Monday. How hot? 250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun. This [...]

Posted On : Jun, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

Watery Physics in ‘Angry Birds Seasons’ Update Takes You to ...

Seems like it’s hard to get enough of Angry Birds, and developer Rovio is more than happy to oblige our need for more avian-flinging techniques. Now there’s an update available for Angry Birds Seasons that introduces underwate [...]

Posted On : Jun, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

A KERFUFFLE has broken out between philosophy and physics. It began earlier this spring when a philosopher (David Albert) gave a sharply negative review in this paper to a book by a physicist (Lawrence Krauss) that purported to solve, by [...]