LHC to Restart in September, not Spring

CERN has extended the timetable for the restart Large Hadron Collider to next September, not this Spring as had been hoped. Last September 19, just nine days after its initial start, the LHC suffered electrical...

Israeli world first: Surgeons weld wounds shut with surgical laser

This is a first in the world. An opportunity to seal incisions using a new method that discourages infection by its application and procedure."Surgeons of the future may have to learn welding rather than sewing,...

Spin flip trick points to fastest RAM yet

"Do you wish your computer was faster? Engineers and physicists from Germany have demonstrated the quickest prototype yet of an advanced form of RAM tipped by hardware manufacturers to be the future of computing. The device is so fast it brushes against a fundamental...

New Report: Sun Major Factor behind Global Warming, Mars Warming as well

 New Report Humans off the Hook, The Sun is to Blame for Global Warming By Albert N Milliron, Opinion-Editorial The American Physical Society, consisting of over 50,000 physicists were touted as...

UFO 2008

"UFO Pursued by Military Helicopter in Washington, USA Gilliland Ranch-UFO Click for 3648x2736 Image. 25 June 2008-WASHINGTON, USA - A military helicopter was photographed pursuing a super fast UFO in Washington...

Is the Atom Smasher Safe?

Stop the scientists before they destroy us all!  That's what a Hawaii man with a background in nuclear physics is asking a court to do." Walter F. Wagner and his colleague Luis Sancho have filed a...

Time travellers from the future 'could be here in weeks'

"The first time travellers from the future could materialise on Earth within a few weeks.Physicists around the world are excitedly awaiting the start up of the £4.65 billion Large Hadron Collider, LHC - the most powerful atom-smasher ever built - which is supposed to shed...

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

"An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists."

No More Surfer Jokes! A Laid-Back Surfer Dude May Be Next Einstein

No more Spicoli "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" fur sure, archetypes about surfers:From Fox News: A surfer dude with no fixed address may be this century's Einstein. A. Garrett Lisi, a physicist who divides his...

Surfer Discovers the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything

Duuuude, I just had the most gnarly idea for einstein's gravity induction proposal! Apparently this surfer dude, who spends most of his days impoverished, surfing and snowboarding (and happens to have a doctorate in theoretical physics), has come up with a new universal...

Physicists pin down atomic spin for spintronics

"BERKELEY – Scientists who dream of shrinking computers to the nanoscale look to atomic spin as one possible building block for both processor and memory, yet setting the spin of an atom, let alone measuring it, has been a challenge. Now, University of California, Berkeley,...

Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation

"Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists. Beijing saleswoman demonstrates toy which levitates by magnetic force; Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation In theory the discovery...

Magic Science: Physicists Move Light

This sort of thing is mind-blowing. When they say "transporting light"< do they mean like in STAR TREK or like in DR. WHO?"In a quantum mechanical sleight of hand, Harvard physicists have shown that they can not only bring a pulse of light, the fleetest of nature's...

Physicist's letter to Congress, February 1, 2007

"United States Congress Washington, DC Dear Member of Congress: As physicists, members of the profession that brought nuclear weapons into existence, we write to urge you to pass binding legislation to restrict the authority of the President to order nuclear strikes against...

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