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Science News
April 4, 2018
Hawking “really, really cared about the truth, and trying to find it,” says physicist Andrew Strominger of Harvard University, who collaborated with the famed scientist. Hawking “was deeply committed, his whole life, to this quest of understanding more about the physical universe around us.” After earning hisÃâà...
physicsworld.com
April 4, 2018
A fresh water rinse is just as important as washing in detergent for getting your clothes clean, according to physicists in the US and the UK. They claim that the rinse cycle plays a key role in removing dirt from deep within textiles, by setting up chemical and electrolyte gradients that draw it out. This couldÃâà...
NAU News
April 3, 2018
A new study published in Nature Physics describes how a team of scientists used a laser beam to gain access to long-lived sound waves in crystalline solids as the basis for a potentially new approach to information processing and storage. One of Northern Arizona University's newest physicists, assistantÃâà...
The Courier
April 2, 2018
However, Greene pointed out the burden of observational proof has never prohibited the theoretical imagining of physicists dreaming of solving the Universe's deepest mysteries. When Newton's universal law of gravitation was revealed in his revolutionary 1687 Principia, Einstein didn't hesitate to use theÃâà...
Boston College Chronicle
April 2, 2018
Some might see contradiction in the priestly vocation of Francis P. Xavier, S.J., and his scholarly work as a physicist exploring the origins of the universe. But Fr. Xavier, who is serving as Thomas I. Gasson, S.J., Professor in the Physics Department for 2017-18, sees faith and science as complementary. He will address theÃâà...
Democracy Now!
March 30, 2018
On Saturday, members of the scientific community, family, friends and fans alike will gather to remember the life and legacy of groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking died on March 14 at his home in Cambridge, England, at the age of 76. For decades, Hawking enchanted both scientists andÃâà...
The Bookseller
March 29, 2018
Ingrid Gnerlich at Princeton University Press has signed a book from Professor Jim Al-Khalili, provisionally titled The World Physics Made. Gnerlich signed world rights from Patrick Walsh at Pew Literary Agency. The World Physics Made is described as a short, reflective work which "will cover the essentialÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 29, 2018
Credit: Leiden Institute of Physics Leiden physicists have created a light source that emits individual particles in an identical state through optical fibers. Using this setup, their measurements can last longer and are more efficient, meaning they can perform more in-depth research on bizarre quantum effects,Ãâà...
Davis Enterprise
March 29, 2018
Physicists from UC Davis are taking a leading role in a new joint program between the United States and United Kingdom developing tools to help prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons. The first project of the Advanced Instrumentation Testbed, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear SecurityÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 29, 2018
He also wrote non-fiction books about 20th century physicists and fictional tales of heroes, scoundrels and ordinary people, many drawing on his own experiences and set in central Europe. “He was always a storyteller,” said his daughter Pauline. His fictional stories, colored by his Romanian youth, alwaysÃâà...
SFGate
March 29, 2018
Professor Richard Taylor's work helped explain the forces that govern our existence. Taylor, a Stanford University professor emeritus of physics who shared the Nobel in 1990 for his role in the discovery ... more. Photo: Chuck Painter / Tribune News Service. Image 2 of 25. FILE-- Stanford University physicistÃâà...
Sci-News.com
March 27, 2018
“The NA62 experiment is a particle physics experiment at CERN using a 400 GeV proton beam from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator,” the physicists said. “To look for kaon decays, we first make beams rich in kaons by firing high-energy protons from the SPS accelerator into a berylliumÃâà...
UC Davis
March 27, 2018
Boulby mine in England will house the Watchman neutrino detector. Boulby potash, polyhalite and salt mine on the northeast coast of England is Great Britain's deepest mine and the home of the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Boulby Underground Laboratory. The mine, operated byÃâà...
Futurism
March 26, 2018
Equal parts theoretical physicist, futurist, and popular science communicator, Kaku studies cutting-edge science and technology in order to understand the future. A graduate of Harvard University and Berkeley, Kaku has spent 25 years as a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York.
physicsworld.com
March 23, 2018
The mathematical physicists Alexandre Bovet of Belgium's University of Namur and Hernan Makse of the City College of New York have looked at how Twitter users interacted with purveyors of fake news during the 2016 presidential election in the US. Much to their surprise, they found that right-wing votersÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 23, 2018
This image shows the evolution of the universe from its Big Bang birth (on the left) to the present (on the right), a timespan of nearly 14 billion years. By producing the world's highest energy collisions, CERN's Large Hadron Collider in …more. Scientists at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and elsewhereÃâà...
Interesting Engineering
March 22, 2018
Physicists have been fascinated by this pattern for decades and they have hypothesized that if the atoms of a metal or another conductive substance could be arranged in such a pattern, the resulting material could display exotic electronic properties. When an electric current was passed across the atomicÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 22, 2018
Physicists at MEPhI have managed to solve this problem by building up the thick “transition” layer and steadily increasing the indium content in the active layer. As a result, the researchers have managed to increase it almost up to 100 percent while keeping the level of mechanical stress to a minimum.
Interesting Engineering
March 22, 2018
A team of physicists are about to attempt the theoretically-possible-but-yet-impossible task of transforming light into matter. The process called the Breit-Wheeler process is over 84 years old, and it effectively flips around E=mc^2 into m=E/c^2. Led by professor Steven Rose, physicists from the ImperialÃâà...
Science Daily
March 22, 2018
Physicists bring order to liquid droplets, offering promise for pharmaceutical development ... A team of physicists has developed a method to generate and self-organize liquids into well-defined patterns, a breakthrough that offers potential new pathways for the development of more sophisticatedÃâà...
Newsweek
March 22, 2018
Eight-four years ago, scientists Gregory Breit and John Wheeler theorized that it would be possible to turn light into matter. However, it was long thought that proving this would be beyond the capabilities of scientists. Now physicists from Imperial College London (ICL) in the U.K. are attempting to prove theÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 21, 2018
Electrical excitation causes a point defect in the crystal lattice of silicon carbide to emit single photons, which are of use to quantum cryptography. Credit: Elena Khavina, MIPT. Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have rediscovered a material that could be the basis forÃâà...
ScienceAlert
March 21, 2018
The process was first described in 1934, by a pair of physicists named Gregory Breit and John A. Wheeler, in the journal Physical Review. In their paper, Breit and Wheeler proposed that, if you smashed two photons - particles of light - together, the collision would result in a positron and an electron.
Phys.Org
March 21, 2018
An international research team produced an analog of a solid-body crystal lattice from polaritons, hybrid photon-electron quasiparticles. In the resulting polariton lattice, the energy of certain particles does not depend on their speed. At the same time, the lattice's geometry, particle concentration andÃâà...
SkyandTelescope.com
March 20, 2018
But physicists didn't know how to take this effect into account in collapsing stars. Carballo-Rubio derived equations that combine general relativity and quantum mechanics in a way that accounts for quantum fluctuations. Moreover, he found solutions that balance attractive and negative gravity for stellarÃâà...
DOGOnews
March 20, 2018
On March 14, 2018, the world mourned the loss of one of the most brilliant minds of the modern age – Stephen Hawking. The 76-year-old theoretical physicist, who was born exactly 300 years after the death anniversary of Galileo and died on Albert Einstein's 139th birthday, finally succumbed to ALSÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 15, 2018
In astronomical timescales, the black hole could evaporate, its once-enormous mass seeping out as cosmic static. These puzzling ideas—equal parts bizarre and exciting—spawned many others, some of which continue to challenge the physics community to this day. Theoretical physicists still grapple withÃâà...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 15, 2018
Daniel Holz is an Associate Professor in Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, at the University of Chicago. His... More. Stephen Hawking was a singular individual, revered both by his fellow scientists and by the public. His books wereÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 15, 2018
"I join the global community in mourning the loss of the greatest physicist of our era. #StephenHawking is free from the physical constraints of this earthly condition we all exist in and he is soaring above us now marveling at it all."—actress Mayim Bialik, who appeared with Hawking on the U.S. televisionÃâà...
The Economist
March 14, 2018
But he did share something with him, other than being a great physicist; he became famous as much for his suffering as for his physics. His was caused not by ecclesiastical politicians who preferred obedience to free enquiry, but by muscle-wasting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It meant that he, too, had toÃâà...
HuffPost India
March 14, 2018
Iconic Physicist Stephen Hawking Dies At 76 ... The world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist was best known for his work on black holes. .... In the early 1970s, Hawking and several other physicists co-wrote a proof of the hypothesis that all black holes can be described in terms of just theirÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 14, 2018
Scientists of the Tomsk State University (Russia), with colleagues from Sweden and Finland, have created an algorithm for calculating the photophysical and luminescent characteristics of molecules. This algorithm makes it possible to calculate optical and luminescent properties (luminosity and quantumÃâà...
euronews
March 14, 2018
Given just two years to live when he received his diagnosis, Hawking went on to have a lifetime of achievements, including his 1988 best-selling book, "A Brief History of Time," which translated the complex fundamentals of physics into simple language. As the world's best-known physicist, he became a popÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 14, 2018
The best-known theoretical physicist of his time, Hawking wrote so lucidly of the mysteries of space, time and black holes that his book, “A Brief History of Time,” became an international bestseller, making him one of science's biggest celebrities since Albert Einstein. Even though his body was attacked byÃâà...
Quanta Magazine
March 14, 2018
The renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, who died today at 76, was something of a betting man, regularly entering into friendly wagers with his colleagues over key questions in theoretical physics. “I sensed when Stephen and I first met that he would enjoy being treated irreverently,” wrote JohnÃâà...
BBC News
March 14, 2018
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, broadcaster Prof Brian Cox called him "one of the greats" and said physicists in 1,000 years' time "will still be talking about Hawking radiation", his theory about black holes. British astronaut Tim Peake, who flew in space in 2016, said Prof Hawking "inspiredÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
March 14, 2018
(Bloomberg) -- Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and black-hole theorist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book “A Brief History of ... Physicists say these invisible cosmic vacuums might allow travel through time and space via “wormholes,” a favorite of science-fiction writers.
WPIX 11 New York
March 14, 2018
... a theoretical physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “It really was quite revolutionary.” Horowitz said the find helped move scientists one step closer to cracking the unified theory. Hawking's other major scientific contribution was to cosmology, the study of the universe's origin and evolution.
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
March 14, 2018
The best-known theoretical physicist of his time, Hawking wrote so lucidly of the mysteries of space, time and black holes that his book, "A Brief History of Time," became an international bestseller, making him one of science's biggest celebrities since Albert Einstein. Even though his body was attacked byÃâà...
UChicago News
March 14, 2018
“Physicists do not live in an ivory tower; they are not spared the ravages of history,” wrote Prof. Peter Freund upon his retirement at the University of Chicago in 2002, following a half-century career in supersymmetry and string theory. Freund knew. Born into a Romanian Jewish family during a tumultuousÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 14, 2018
Disproving the belief that black holes are so dense that nothing could escape their gravitational pull, he showed that black holes leak a tiny bit of light and other types of radiation, now known as "Hawking radiation." "It came as a complete surprise," said Gary Horowitz, a theoretical physicist at the UniversityÃâà...
euronews
March 14, 2018
The famous physicist was also known for his inspirational quotes. Here's a selection of a few of them: — “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love,Ãâà...
Consequence of Sound (blog)
March 14, 2018
At the age of 21, Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). At the time, doctors gave him just two years to live. He survived 55 years, but the condition left him paralyzed. Despite the disability, Hawking continued to teach and publish, emergingÃâà...
Scientific American
March 14, 2018
There's a limit to how fast information can move through the universe, just like there's a limit to how fast everything else can move through the universe. It's a rule. But a team of quantum physicists, like quantum physicists often do, has figured out how to bend it. Under normal circumstances, the ultimate limitÃâà...
Cincinnati.com
March 14, 2018
With his participation, they shaped and molded it,” wrote American University science writing professor Declan Fahy, in the Columbia Journalism Review on the occasion of Hawking's 70th birthday in 2012. “This has led to tensions within his field. Other physicists have been, at times, ambivalent about hisÃâà...
Science Daily
March 13, 2018
In a recent research, an international team of experimental and theoretical physicists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Peking University (PKU) reported the observation of an SPT phase for ultracold atoms using atomic quantum simulation. This work opens the way toÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
March 12, 2018
Flat Earth conspiracy theorists TROLLED by famous physicist during YouTube interview. Neil deGrasse Tyson takes aim at ... Neil deGrasse Tyson is a world-renowned physicist who recently sat down to chat with Stephen Hawking about what took place before the Big Bang. Now he's taken aim at the FlatÃâà...
Interesting Engineering
March 12, 2018
Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have found out that graphene can behave at two electrical extremes: first as an insulator where electrons are blocked from flowing; and also as a superconductor, where electrical current can stream through without resistance. Graphene has been discovered in 2004Ãâà...
The Verge
March 12, 2018
Dr. Murry (Chris Pine) had disappeared years earlier, and Meg tracks him down with a combination of science and the supernatural — one that Brown University physicist Stephon Alexander helped shape. Director Ava DuVernay found Alexander through the National Academy of Science's Science andÃâà...
Live Science
March 12, 2018
There's a limit to how fast information can move through the universe, just like there's a limit to how fast everything else can move through the universe. It's a rule. But a team of quantum physicists, like quantum physicists often do, has figured out how to bend it. Under normal circumstances, the ultimate limitÃâà...
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