Physics News

LAHORE: GCU Lahore has the honour of housing Dr Abdus Salam's, oroginal Nobel certificate.

Bahram Mosher will speak on "What Do We Know About the History of the Universe?" Tuesday, Nov.

At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon, the high-performance computer QPACE was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.

When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.

Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.

The Large Hadron Collider is nestled inside a circular tunnel on the Swiss-French border.

The Large Hadron Collider experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said.

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first 'universal' programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics-the rules governing the submicroscopic world-using two quantum bits of information.

Relative biological effectiveness for cell-killing effect on various human cell lines irradiated with heavy-ion medical accelerator in Chiba carbon-ion beams Export by: M. Suzuki International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics , Vol.

A new generation of "green" automobile tires that can boost fuel efficiency without sacrificing safety and durability is rolling their way through the research pipeline.

Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie.

First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes.

Previously, we have found that the build-up dose from abutting narrow electron beams formed with unfocussed electron multi-leaf collimator steal leaves was higher than with the respective open field.

Scientists have repaired the world's largest atom smasher and plan by this weekend to restart the machine that was launched with great fanfare last year before its spectacular failure from a bad electrical connection, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Los Angeles - A former Caltech physics graduate student linked to millions of dollars in firebombing damage to dozens of SUVs in the San Gabriel Valley was resentenced today in Los Angeles to 100 months in federal prison.

Muslims in many countries are increasingly rejecting Darwin's theory of evolution, under the influence of conservative elements in Islam, a science conference was told yesterday.

How do you make a bottle to store antimatter in? Don't ask Dan Brown; ask Professor Mike Charlton of Swansea University, who is researching the complex world of particle theory, in Cern Tom Hanks in Dan Brown's thriller, on the way to Cern.

The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code is a state-of-the-art hydrodynamic model that can be used to simulate aquatic systems in one, two, and three dimensions.

What is quantum physics and the law of attraction? It is not nearly as impossible to understand as many people believe.

Nov. 24 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species.' In the book, Darwin lays out the case, in a very detailed manner - and barely mentioning humans - for his theory of evolution through natural selection.