Physics : Science World Report

Mar 05, 2013 06:11 PM EST

Super Effective Camera Chips And Solar Cells Possible With Graphene

Theoretically expected, it was now experimentally proven by scientists for the first time that the fascinating new material graphene is also highly efficient at converting light into electricity--which makes it an ideal candidate to boost the sensitivity of imaging sensors and also to increase the m...

Mar 04, 2013 09:30 PM EST

Physicists Use Water To Create 'Knotted Vortex' Loop [VIDEO]

The vortex knot was a mere theory a century ago, but now physicists at the University of Chicago have created a vortex knot in a lab environment for the first time, the university said in a statement.

Mar 04, 2013 05:17 PM EST

Photon Switch On Superconducting Chip The Newest in Quantum Computing

With a method to efficiently manipulate light on a superconducting chips, physicists at UC Santa Barbara are adding another module to build the quantum devices of the future, which includes quantum computers.

Mar 04, 2013 09:39 AM EST

New Discovery Challenges Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Advancing Quantum Mechanics

Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle may not be as uncertain as once thought. Researchers have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure the polarization of light

Feb 26, 2013 07:26 PM EST

Astronomers Reconstruct Russia Meteor Path Back to its Origins [VIDEO]

Using videos and a bit of trigonometry Colombian astronomers figured out the trajectory of the meteor that injured 1,000 in Chelyabinsk, Russia earlier this month.

Feb 26, 2013 02:09 PM EST

Quantum Computing Breakthrough With New Algorithm

An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol, UK, and the University of Queensland, Australia, has demonstrated a quantum algorithm that performs a true calculation for the first time.

Feb 26, 2013 05:42 AM EST

Astronomers Track the Origin of Russian Meteor

Astronomers from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia have traced the origin of the meteorite that fell in Central Russia and Urals regions injuring over thousand people earlier this month.

Feb 23, 2013 06:53 PM EST

Nascar Nationwide Series: Crash Shows Dangers of Sport, Average Speed of Nascar Vehicle is 140 to 180 MPH (VIDEO)

Today was not a great end for NASCAR. Michael Annett was unfortunately taken to the Halifax Health Medical Center after a multi-car crash near the end of the Nationwide Series hit the driver heart on the Daytona International Speedway.

Feb 22, 2013 03:13 PM EST

Next-Gen Super Collider Design Teams Join Forces

In an effort to build a next generation of super-colliders to gain ever deeper insights into the fundamental mechanisms of the universe, and especially to examine the properties of the Higgs-like particle that was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva last year, a new partnership called ...

Feb 19, 2013 12:47 PM EST

LHC Beauty Experiment Data Was Last Before Long Shutdown

Just before the Long Shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this month, the LHC beauty (LHCb) experiment took data from collisions between protons and ions for the first time during the recent lead-proton run.

Feb 19, 2013 01:43 AM EST

Higgs Boson Will Destroy The Universe Eventually

Astonishing news about the end of the universe--and this is NO joke--were announced today, saying as much that the Higgs boson particles are unstable and will one day cause the destruction of our whole universe by swallowing it. Ongoing calculations by scientists about the Higgs boson particle that ...

Feb 18, 2013 09:38 PM EST

Dark Matter Experiment on ISS to Announce First Results

One of the most exciting, and with $1.5 billion also most expensive experiments aboard the International Space Station, is poised to be put into the spotlight in two weeks, when the first comprehensive paper with results about the hunt for dark matter will be published.