Physics News

Jun 14, 2012 by News Staff

Italian scientists have proposed an explanation for the origin of mysterious ripples on stalactites. Stalactites in the Choranche caves in the Vercors, France (David Monniaux) Stalactites grow from cave ceilings not as dull cones but often sporting elegant corrugations. Two researchers from the Polytechnic University of Turin have now explained these mysterious, wavy patterns using standard fluid mechanics. The new theory, detailed in the journal...

May 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A European scientist has presented an explanation for the origin of sliding friction between solid objects. An experiment to demonstrate static and sliding...

Apr 27, 2012 by News Staff

A team of physicists from the University of Zurich’s Physics Institute working with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at CERN has observed...

Feb 20, 2012 by James Freeman

Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK, have produced technology capable of accurate measurements of Planck’s constant, the final...

Jan 26, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time ever, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin has cloaked a 3D object standing in free space. According to the...

Jan 11, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, a team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has developed a plastic material which enables to detect nuclear...

Dec 21, 2011 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Italy, has found that the Shroud...

Nov 28, 2011 by News Staff

A team of experts has created a reproduction of a 1704 Stradivarius violin, using computed tomography imaging and advanced manufacturing techniques. Original...

Nov 20, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in creating light from vacuum – observing an effect first predicted over 40 years...

Nov 18, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from University of California Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material...

Sep 21, 2011 by News Staff

An innovative method for examining paintings has revealed a hitherto unknown painting beneath Goya’s Portrait of Don Ramón Satué, one of his most celebrated...

Sep 14, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, during tests of new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage, have discovered that it...

Sep 6, 2011 by News Staff

A constant stabilization experiment of a quantum state has been successfully completed for the first time by a team from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel,...

Aug 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature. Writing...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

The CLOUD experiment at CERN has been designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols under controlled laboratory...

Aug 18, 2011 by News Staff

A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has shown how to disrupt the ‘coffee ring effect’ — the ring-shaped stain of particles left...

Aug 16, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists in a lab with Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station in southern Guangdong Province have found neutrino through two detecting instruments, which is...

Aug 15, 2011 by News Staff

An international team of researchers takes an important step toward giving physicists the ability to effectively make movies of individual electrons. If...