Physics News

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News from the biggest beat in the cosmos, going out 13.7 billion light-years and taking in everything from astronomy to zoology.

At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics and found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress/contract.

Two different accelerators have found evidence for a particle that appears to contains four quarks, according to papers published in Physical Review Letters .

The Large Hadron Collider is currently undergoing upgrades that will allow it to finally reach its intended top energy of 14TeV.

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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says it appears the much-criticized national electronic surveillance program foiled "dozens" of terrorist plots.

He was 77. Wilson, who died from complications of lymphoma, was in the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., when he won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for applying his research in quantum physics to phase transitions, the transformation that occurs when a substance goes from, say, liquid to gas.

Quantum computing is still far off, but investors at the QWave Fund aren't waiting.

Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine.

A 50-foot-wide, 15-ton magnet is about to set out on a 3,200-mile barge-and-truck tour down the East Coast of the United States, around Florida and up from the Gulf to Chicago before going to work to measure one of the smallest particles known to science.

While what exactly goes on within the event horizon of a black hole is still well within the realm of theoretical physics researchers are learning more and more about what happens in the immediate vicinity around a black hole, within the flattened disk of superheated material falling inexorably in toward the center.

Taking a page from computer-aided drug designers, Rice Univ. researchers have developed a computational method that chemists can use to tailor the properties of zeolites, one of the world's most-used industrial minerals.

Last week, in Nice, France, I was privileged to participate, along with 30 scholars, mostly scientists and mathematicians, in a conference on the question of whether the universe was designed, or at least fine-tuned, to make life, especially intelligent life.

On June 6, professors in Wayne State University's Department of Physics kicked off WSU's only National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program.

Musicians Martin Earley and Robert Rabinowitz have borrowed the physics theme for music.

IN AN increasingly knowledge and technology-based global community, science and innovative technology have become increasingly important as drivers of economic growth.

This was the first atomic clock. When it was developed in 1955, it was the most accurate timepiece in the world.

And if anyone could be expected to make a convincing case for the wider adoption of those methods, it's Carl E. Wieman.

The European project ELI-NP will start with the construction of the compound will host the highest laser in the world.