Physics
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Computing
Materials’ light tricks may soon extend to doing math
A simulation paves the way toward metamaterials that can perform ultrafast complex mathematical operations using light waves.
- Physics
Google search fails to find any sign of time travelers
A search of the Internet for signs of time travelers from the future fares no better than the party hosted by Stephen Hawking that nobody attended.
- Physics
Tom’s top 10 time travel movies
The lack of a credible scientific basis doesn’t stop movie makers from making films about time travel.
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- Physics
Year in Review: Below absolute zero, but hot
Lab trickery pushes atoms to a negative temperature.
- Animals
Penguin huddles move like traffic jams
When one emperor penguin takes a step, he sets off a wave of movement.
- Chemistry
Salt spices up chemistry
Hot, compressed sodium chloride stretches the fundamental rules of matter.
- Particle Physics
Electrons’ roundness frustrates researchers
Experiment finds no signs of asymmetry, which would point to undiscovered particles.
- Materials Science
Nanoglue attaches tissues to each other
Silica particles could repair and help engineer human organs.
- Particle Physics
Higgs boson tale wins book prize
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll.
- Materials Science
Material inspired by dragonfly wings bursts bacteria
Silicon studded with nanostructures could act as antimicrobial coating on medical devices.
- Physics
Ripple effect
If you want ripples in your icicles, just add salt. This recipe comes from physicists reporting in the October New Journal of Physics.
