Physics

  1. Earth

    Improved Cars: Chu on It

    Hey Detroit: Lighten up, the incoming Energy Secretary recommends.

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  2. Chemistry

    Of Presidents and Nobels

    It appears Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will soon have produced two Nobel laureates to offer White House counsel and directives on science policy.

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  3. Tech

    Obama selects Steven Chu as Energy Secretary

    Featured blog: Chu is an energy researcher who also shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.

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  4. Space

    Reading ripples in the cosmic microwave background

    Researchers analyzing the wiggles imprinted on the cosmic microwave background, the radiation leftover from the Big Bang, have now demonstrated that those wiggles can be used to find the fingerprints of dark energy.

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  5. Physics

    Superglass could be new state of matter

    Simulations of helium-4 show that a superglass, in which atoms flow without friction, is possible.

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  6. Physics

    Physicists Hot for Ultracold

    Physicists have recently coaxed molecules into ultracold states in which motion is nearly gone.

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  7. Space

    First LHC proton collisions postponed further

    The world’s most powerful atom smasher won’t reopen for business until the end of June at the earliest, rather than in April as scientists had previously estimated.

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  8. Computing

    New theory defines faster MRI

    Better equations could improve MRI quality, or even bring quantum computing closer.

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  9. Physics

    Standard model gets right answer for proton, neutron masses

    Correct calculation strengthens theory of quark-gluon interactions in nuclear particles.

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  10. Physics

    Superconductivity does the twist

    Electron fluctuations could explain why exotic material conducts without resistance.

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  11. Space

    Misplaced muons either mundane or monumental

    During an experiment in Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator, a group of elementary particles called muons showed up in a strange place. Physicists are considering the likely implications.

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  12. Physics

    Take the time to break quantum encryption

    A time-travel scenario permitted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity offers a bit of possibility for breaking quantum encryption.

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