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Feed SubscriptionThe History of the Universe: From Big Bang to Big Blah
After the furies of birth, the mature cosmos now evolves more slowly.
Read More »When 14 Billion Years Just Isn’t Enough Time (preview)
Time’s seemingly inexorable march has always provoked interest in, and speculation about, the far future of the cosmos. The usual picture is grim. Five billion years from now the sun will puff itself into a red giant star and swallow the inner solar system before slowly fading to black
Read More »John Glenn: The Man Behind the Hero
On March 1, 1962, thousands of people lined New York City s Broadway.
Read More »Redefining the kilogram
New research, published by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), takes a significant step towards changing the international definition of the kilogram which is currently based on a lump of platinum-iridium kept in Paris. NPL has produced technology capable of accurate measurements of Planck's constant, the final piece of the puzzle in moving from a physical object to a kilogram based on fundamental constants of nature. The techniques are described in a paper published in Metrologia on the 20th February.
Read More »Mn-doped ZnS is unsuitable to act as a dilute magnetic semiconductor
Dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) have recently been a major focus of magnetic semiconductor research. A laboratory from the University of Science and Technology of China explored the feasibility of doping manganese (Mn) into zinc sulfide (ZnS) to obtain magnetic semiconductors.
Read More »Is the Keystone Pipeline a Shortcut to Catastrophic Climate Change?
“Game over” for climate change . So opines NASA climatologist Jim Hansen when it comes to the development of the Canadian tar sands.
Read More »FDA to review inhalable caffeine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
Read More »Twitter Reveals People Are Happiest in the Morning
“Happy hour” is not when you might expect it to be, according to a new analysis of about half a billion Twitter messages from around the globe. On average, people are chipper when they wake up and become grouchy as the day wears on.
Read More »Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the United States, ultrafast trading in financial markets between 2006 and 2011 was the underlying factor for over 18,000 extreme price changes, according to a new study.
Read More »Twists to quantum technique for secret messaging give unanticipated power
Quantum cryptography is the ultimate secret message service. Now new research, presented at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting, shows it can counter even the ultimate paranoid scenario: when the equipment or even the operator is in the control of a malicious power.
Read More »Atomtronics: A new phase
Just as NASA engineers test new rocket designs in computer studies before committing themselves to full prototypes, so physicists will often model matter under various circumstances to see whether something new appears. This is especially true of atomtronics, a relatively new science devoted to creating artificial tailored materials consisting of neutral atoms held in an array with laser beams, or atoms moving along a desired track under electric or magnetic influence
Read More »Raising the Dead: New Species of Life Resurrected from Ancient Andean Tomb
QUITO, ECUADOR--Long before the Spanish conquered the Incas in 1533, and centuries before the Incas inhabited this area, the present-day site of Quito International Airport was a marshy lake surrounded by Indian settlements--the Quitus on one shore and the Ipias on the other. Between A.D.
Read More »Fracking Could Work If Industry Would Come Clean
VANCOUVER Resistance to hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. has risen steadily in recent months.
Read More »Why Online Dating Doesn’t Work
Online dating might give you something, but it’s probably not a soulmate. [More]
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