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Book Review: The Physics Book by Clifford Pickover

Book Review: The Physics Book by Clifford Pickover

Clifford Pickover's latest book presents the history of Physics in accessible, bite-sized chunks, and its gorgeous illustrations alone are worth picking this up.

 

The scientific finding that settles the climate-change debate

For the clueless or cynical diehards who deny global warming, it’s getting awfully cold out there. The latest icy blast of reality comes from an eminent scientist whom the climate-change skeptics once lauded as one of their own. Richard Muller, a respected physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, used to dismiss alarmist climate research as being “polluted by political and activist frenzy.” Frustrated at what he considered shoddy science, Muller launched his own comprehensive study to set the record straight. Instead, the record set him straight.

 

Studies of universe's expansion win physics Nobel

Studies of universe's expansion win physics Nobel

Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating....

 

Atom Smasher Shuts Down

Atom Smasher Shuts Down

The "God particle" may have to wait. The Tevatron, a once-cutting edge Chicago-area particle accelerator run by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and played a key role in the quest for the Higgs Boson or "God particle" was shut down for the last time Friday afternoon at 3:40 p.m. EDT.

Senh: I didn't know we had one of these.

 

Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged

Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged

One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the world's foremost laboratories....

 

Dark matter theory 'may be wrong'

Scientists’ predictions of the formation and characteristics of dark matter are shaken by research into dwarf galaxies surrounding the Milky Way.

 

Dark Matter Is an Illusion, New Antigravity Theory Says

Dark Matter Is an Illusion, New Antigravity Theory Says

The mysterious substance may not be needed, according to a new theory of gravitational interactions between matter and antimatter.

 

Atom-smashing hype gets a reality check

Atom-smashing hype gets a reality check

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The latest results from the Large Hadron Collider serve as a reality check for expectations that radical scientific discoveries are just around the corner.

 

Antimatter Belt Detected Orbiting the Earth

The PAMELA satellite has discovered that there's an antiproton belt present in the Earth's magnetosphere.

 

Physicists Create a Hole In Time to Hide Events

Physicists Create a Hole In Time to Hide Events

Researchers at Cornell University have made an astounding leap forward in cloaking technology. While other teams have been working on what have been traditionally seen as “invisibility cloaks” – using meta-materials to hide an object from visible light — this team has been working on something a bit more ambitious: hiding an actual event in time.

 

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