Moving Beyond String Theory
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How do you get general relativity and quantum mechanics to live together? String theory is the darling for now, but other promising approaches are floating out there as well. By Mark Anderson.
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Anisotropy--there's a word you don't hear everyday. It's the focus of IBM research published this week that could result in incredibly tiny computers.
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A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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ONE of the seven great unsolved mysteries of mathematics may have been solved by an eccentric Russian. Grigori &#39;Grisha&#39; Perelman is an expert on Ricci flow.
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Our transporter is more Star Trek than yours Australian physicists are working on a new method of quantum teleportation which they say is closer to the visions of instant transport popularised by Star Trek.â¦
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Physicists in the US and Japan have seen the best evidence to date for a new form of superconductivity. Ying Liu and co-workers at Pennsylvania State University and Kyoto University have observed &quot;odd-parity&quot; superconductivity in strontium ruthenate.
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The world's biggest collider hopes to create a smorgasbord of exotic particles, from the so-called God particle to dark matter and maybe even miniature black holes. John Borland goes to the edge of theory.
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This is the second article in a series of four articles each with a separate explanation of different quantum phenomena. Each article is a piece of a mosaic, so every one is needed to understand the final explanation of the quantum astronomy experiment we propose, possibly using the Allen Array Telescope and the narrow-band radio-wave detectors being build by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Scientists are hoping that "playing" a tiny guitar string will be able to help weigh molecules to find out what they are.
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Plus: At 80, fractal discoverer Benoit Mandelbrot says he has much math work left to do. [News.com Extra]
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New observations portray black holes as Jekyll and Hyde characters. They can be creators as well as destroyers.
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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MIAMIÂ -- Professor Stephen Haggerty retrieves a 730-carat black diamond _ the size of an apple _ from his desk. It's nearly impossible to cut, potentially billions of years old and, he believes, a product of outer space.
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It's "all systems go" for one of the most ambitious physics experiments ever attempted. After more than 40 years of methodical planning and four months of intense troubleshooting, NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft has begun its search for a bizarre prediction of Einstein's relativity.
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Electronic textiles have applications far beyond cool shirts.
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Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime and are one of the more exotic predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity - General Relativity.
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Also: Molecular 'extension cord' for chemical computing. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.