Physics articles

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  Stephen Hawking as man and machine

  By Amar Toor on January 9, 2013 03:51 am + 12 comments

  Tuesday marked Stephen Hawking's 71st birthday, an occasion that anthropologist Hélène Mialet Continue reading…

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  Absolute zero is no longer absolute zero

  By Ben Kersey on January 4, 2013 08:51 am + 141 comments

  Scientists have rewritten the known laws of physics after hitting a temperature lower than absolute Continue reading…

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  Quantum imaging could be the end of radar jamming

  By Aaron Souppouris on December 14, 2012 04:41 am + 52 comments

  Physicists have used quantum mechanics to create an unjammable imaging system that could be used in Continue reading…

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  NASA physicist explains how a warp drive could be a 'passport to the universe'

  By Aaron Souppouris on November 27, 2012 07:55 am + 60 comments

  Back in September, plans for a NASA-built warp drive were revealed, bringing with them the Continue reading…

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  'A Slower Speed of Light' turns the strangeness of near-light speed travel into a game

  By Joshua Kopstein on November 6, 2012 02:00 pm + 16 comments

  In our day-to-day lives, we don't have much opportunity to realize just how weird the laws of Continue reading…

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  Physicists devise test to see if we're living in 'The Matrix'

  By Jeff Blagdon on October 11, 2012 06:54 am + 90 comments

  If it's true, it would provide evidence that we are all stuck in a computer If we were in a Continue reading…

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  Comparing 'Angry Birds' pigs to the 'Bad Piggies'

  By Amar Toor on October 2, 2012 12:17 am + 53 comments

  In theory, the pigs of Angry Birds should be no different from those featured in Bad Piggies, Continue reading…

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  First images from the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (Fermilab)

  on September 18, 2012 11:26 pm

  Fermilab is posting the first images obtained by the new 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera. The Continue reading…

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  Researchers capture more energy from motion by remixing the lithium-ion battery

  By Evan Rodgers on August 20, 2012 01:32 am + 13 comments

  Researchers at the Georgia Institute for Technology have developed a lithium-ion battery with a few Continue reading…

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  The Large Hadron Collider and processing data at a million gigabytes per second

  By Justin Rubio on August 3, 2012 11:53 am + 10 comments

  Using the Large Hadron Collider, CERN recently discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson, Continue reading…