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Searching In features, blog entries, column entries & news items, Under the topic Physics
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In sifting through the ashes of a short-lived subatomic particle called the kaon, physicists are slowly accumulating new hints that the theory of elementary particles might one day have to be modified.Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Found in: Matter & Energy and Physics -
Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.Published: Friday, August 15th, 2008Found in: Mathematics and Physics -
A new study suggests that a surprising number of universes, even those with laws of physics different from those in our universe, can still support stars.Published: Friday, August 15th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Physics
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God doesn’t play dice, Einstein said in his critique of quantum theory. But any alternative theory to quantum mechanics would require certain quantum events to influence each other 10,000 times faster than the speed of light, physicists have shown.Published: Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Found in: Physics
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Simulating new materials could help in building them — but only quantum simulators could fully model reality. A team reports a first step in realizing quantum simulation.Published: August 30th, 2008; Vol.174 #5Found in: Computers, Matter & Energy and Physics
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Scientists may have solved the mystery of what triggers the events that spark the northern and southern lights.Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2008Found in: Matter & Energy and Physics -
The length of bonds connecting water molecules could demonstrate quantum effects and help explain some of water’s weirdness.Published: August 16th, 2008; Vol.174 #4Found in: Chemistry, Molecules and Physics -
An essay by Tom Siegfried, SN's Editor in Chief, explores how signals from space to Earth could establish the reality of Einstein's worst fear.Published: August 2nd, 2008; Vol.174 #3Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Physics
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Raman spectroscopy may offer doctors, dentists and forensic scientists a better tool for molecular detection.Published: August 2nd, 2008; Vol.174 #3Found in: Body & Brain and Physics -
Electron microscopes can now image single atoms of hydrogen.Published: August 16th, 2008; Vol.174 #4Found in: Molecules and Physics -
When the Large Hadron Collider powers up this fall, protons moving at almost the speed of light will collide with energies high enough, physicists hope, to solve matter’s biggest mysteries.Published: July 19th, 2008; Vol.174 #2Found in: Atom & Cosmos, Matter & Energy and Physics -
An optical trap lets atoms in but not out, and it can be used to study matter at ultracold temperatures.Published: July 19th, 2008; Vol.174 #2Found in: Physics -
A Dutch science teacher found a novel celestial object that had eluded the notice of astronomers.Published: Thursday, June 19th, 2008Found in: Astronomy, Atom & Cosmos, Physics and Science & Society -
The mathematics of soapy water yields some clues to the origin of the genetic code.Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Found in: Genes & Cells, Mathematics and Physics
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Scientists reveal new details on how extendable jaws help fish capture prey.Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Found in: Life and Physics
