Category: Physics
9 February 2012
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Video: Scales Give Sharks Their Speed
Tiny ridges on shark skin reduce drag and provide thrust when swimming
7 February 2012
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The Unusual Physics of Floating Pyramids
Hovering objects suggest that future robots could fly like jellyfish
7 February 2012
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Hot Idea for a Faster Hard Drive
Tiny heat pulses promise new way to flip magnetic memory "bits," could increase speeds hundreds of fold
30 January 2012
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Breaking the Law or Bending the Terminology?
One team of physicists skirts a fundamental limit on a phenomenon called diffraction—sort of
27 January 2012
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North Star May Be Wasting Away
Polaris could be casting off the equivalent of Earth's mass every year, observations suggest
25 January 2012
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Physicists Squeeze X-Ray Laser Light Out of Atoms
Advance doesn't replace accelerator-based x-ray lasers, however
13 January 2012
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Scientists Create World's Tiniest Ear
"Nano-ear" detects sound a million times fainter than our ears can hear
9 January 2012
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A Guide to the Dark Side
Astronomers create the largest ever map of dark matter
20 December 2011
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ScienceShot: Probing a Black Hole
Pulsars could reveal complex physics at event horizon
15 December 2011
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Solar Cells Capture Lost Energy
New materials generate more electrical charges than the number of photons that energize them
14 December 2011
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Mechanical Amplifier Nears Quantum Noise Limit
Device could boost the signals from quantum computers
14 December 2011
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Live Chat: The Higgs Boson at Last?
Chat with experts about this week's big announcement from CERN
13 December 2011
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ScienceShot: Light Me Up, Buttercup
Researchers reveal how flower casts a yellow glow on the human chin
13 December 2011
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In Search for Higgs Boson, Physicists Report a Definite Maybe
Dueling experiments see coinciding clues, but case for long-sought particle remains unpersuasive
12 December 2011
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ScienceShot: 'Burgeroids' Cause Double Rainbows
Scientists say the unusual displays stem from fat water drops
8 December 2011
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Video: Self-Lubrication Speeds Avalanches
Colliding ice particles melt at the surface, allowing faster flow
29 November 2011
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Walk-Through-Wall Effect Might Be Possible With Humanmade Object, Physicists Predict
Others say that a demonstration of "quantum tunneling" with a micrometer-sized widget will be very difficult at best
23 November 2011
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ScienceShot: How to Make a Tank Disappear
Nanotubes camouflage three-dimensional objects
22 November 2011
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Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed
But interpretation as sign of dark matter still in doubt
22 November 2011
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The Physics of Wine Swirling
Researchers illustrate the factors that make waves in a wine glass
22 November 2011
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ScienceShot: How Ink Flows
Calculations reveal competing forces of pen on paper
18 November 2011
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Podcast: Tractor Beams, Leonardo’s Trees, and More
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
17 November 2011
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Particle Smasher Hints at Physics Breakthrough
Result might help explain why the universe is full of matter, not antimatter
15 November 2011
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Video: Catapulting Frogs
High-speed movies reveal the secret behind the frog's leap
14 November 2011
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Not Pulling Your Leg: Tractor Beams May Be Possible
Several different groups come up with similar ideas for laser beams that can pull objects
14 November 2011
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Leonardo's Formula Explains Why Trees Don't Splinter
Geometry rule probably evolved to help prevent wind breakage
10 November 2011
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ScienceShot: How to Tame Lightning
Researchers spark mammoth electrical arc
9 November 2011
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ScienceShot: Nano Car Is World's Tiniest
Four-wheel-drive vehicle is made of just a few dozen atoms
8 November 2011
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Christmas Ornaments, Packed Like Sardines
Physicist figures out a better way to pack spheres into cylinders
4 November 2011
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Fundamental Constant May Depend on Where in the Universe You Are
Retread of old idea meets with skepticism, however
2 November 2011
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Jumping Rope by the Numbers
Mathematical model shows how a subtle bend in the rope helps reduce drag
1 November 2011
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The Viking Sunstone Revealed?
Physicists show how Vikings could have used calcite crystals to navigate to North America
28 October 2011
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Podcast: Annoying Sounds, Washer Lint, and Pushing Objects With Light
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
4 October 2011
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Cosmic Speed-Up Nabs Nobel Prize
Award honors discovery of increasingly expanding universe
28 September 2011
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Galaxy Clusters Validate Einstein's Theory
Light escaping from massive objects follows rules of general theory of relativity
28 September 2011
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Live Chat: Have Neutrinos Broken the Speed Limit of Light?
Chat with experts about last week's controversial finding
22 September 2011
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Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment
Others doubt the mind-boggling claim, which would overturn Einstein's theory of special relativity
1 September 2011
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Physicists Turn a Single Atom Into a Mirror
Advance could help light the way to atomic-scale optical systems on chips
23 August 2011
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Molecules Imaged Most Intimately
Physicists devise a way to directly observe the orbitals of a molecule
22 August 2011
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Hints of Higgs Boson Appear Weaker
But most-coveted particle is running out of places to hide
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