 Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon January 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 182 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image ... | |
 Scientists Predict How to Detect a Fourth Dimension of Space May 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 308 vote(s)
| User comments: 1
Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory ... | |
LSU professor resolves Einstein's twin paradox February 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 382 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics. | |
 Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision August 28, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 189 vote(s)
| User comments: 26
The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered ... | |
 First Ever World Map of Happiness Produced July 28, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 302 vote(s)
| No comments yet
A University of Leicester psychologist has produced the first ever 'world map of happiness.' | |
Scientists create darkest material January 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 97 vote(s)
| User comments: 10
A scientist at a Houston university has created the darkest known material -- about four times darker than the previous record holder. | |
 Long-Lost Da Vinci Masterpiece Found Behind Palazzo Walls June 17, 2005 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
| No comments yet
It could be a scene from the "Da Vinci Code:" A high-tech art sleuth finds a hollow space behind an Italian palazzo’s murals, and believes he may have discovered a Da Vinci masterpiece not seen since 1563.
| |
Ancient flying dragon discovered in China March 21, 2007 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Chinese scientists say they've found the remains of a small "flying dragon" that lived around the time of the dinosaurs. | |
 First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved April 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 272 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture ... | |
 Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? April 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 275 vote(s)
| User comments: 30
Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, ... | |
 Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 117 vote(s)
| User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at ... | |
Research confirms theory that all modern humans descended from the same small group of people May 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 163 vote(s)
| No comments yet
Researchers have produced new DNA evidence that almost certainly confirms the theory that all modern humans have a common ancestry. | |
 IBM 3D TV November 11, 2005 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 69 vote(s)
| No comments yet
International Business Machines, a worldwide leader in technology innovation, has announced a new and affordable 3D video system that works with normal DLP (Digital Light Processing) televisions. Before now, ... | |
The Mathematical Structure of Terrorism May 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 130 vote(s)
| No comments yet
The complex patterns of the natural world often turn out to be governed by relatively simple mathematical relationships. A seashell grows at a rate proportional to its size, resulting in a delicate spiral. The gossamer network ... | |
 Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes February 24, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 219 vote(s)
| No comments yet
On Monday, October 19, 1987 – infamously known as “black Monday” – the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.9%, marking the largest crash in history. Using an analytical approach similar to the one applied to explore ... | |
PhysOrg Video
- Nobel Prize For Chemistry Awarded , October 9
- Nobel Prize For Chemistry Awarded , October 9
- Chinese Zodiac - Part I , October 5
- How To Make An Apple Pie , October 5
- Chinese Zodiac - Part II , October 5
- CHEF'S CORNER: OKTOBERFEST , September 30
- PhysOrg Video »
Most popular stories
-
World first for sending data using quantum cryptography,
October 08, 2008
-
Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon,
October 09, 2008
-
NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere,
October 02, 2008
-
Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people,
October 02, 2008
-
Broken symmetry: Answering the solace of quantum,
October 07, 2008
- Most popular »
News Pix
-
Odyssey,
October 10, 2008
-
Venus Express searching for life – on Earth,
October 10, 2008
-
Lava pours out of Montserrat,
October 09, 2008
-
Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon,
October 09, 2008
- More news pix »
PhysOrg Forum
Video
Editorials
Free Magazines
Free White Papers
PhysOrg Jobs
Newsletter
Goto Archive
Suggest a story idea
Send feedback
