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Scientists: Faster-than-light finding still holds!
GENEVA (AP) — The chances have risen that Einstein was wrong about a fundamental law of the universe. Scientists at the world’s biggest physics lab said Friday they have ruled out one possible error that could have distorted their startling measurements that appeared to show particles traveling faster than light. Many physicists reacted with skepticism in September when measurements by French and Italian researchers seemed to show subatomic neutrino particles breaking what Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein … Read entire article »
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NASA launches super-size rover to Mars: ‘Go, Go!’
News from The Associated Press. By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rover of … Read more »
Huge ‘Ocean’ Discovered Inside Earth
Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern … Read more »
NASA Launches Twin Spacecraft to Probe Inside the Moon
Two identical space probes are on their way to the moon, after launching today (Sept. 10) on … Read more »
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Multiverse theory suggested by microwave background
The idea that other universes - as well as our own - lie within "bubbles" of space … Read more »
Astronomers discover planet made of diamond
An exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our … Read more »
Beautiful Photos of 300 New Species Discovered in Philippines
Photos: Beautiful Photos of 300 New Species Discovered in Philippines Jun 26, 2011 12:44 PM EDT Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences believe they have identified 300 new species during a biological expedition … Read more »
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Scientists invent lightest material on Earth. What now?
Photo: Ultralight metallic microlattice — which is 99.9% air — is so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it. Credit: Dan Little / HRL Laboratories – Deborah Netburn Scientists have invented a new material that is so lightweight it can sit atop a fluffy dandelion without crushing the little fuzzy seeds. It’s so lightweight, styrofoam is 100 times heavier. It … Read entire article »
Congress Weighs Taking the War-on-Drugs Approach to Fighting Internet Piracy
Protecting intellectual property is important, but the Stop Online Piracy Act would harm innocents and undermine due process Congress is weighing a bill that would fundamentally change how the Internet works. It would affect even the most casual web user, who does no more than browse Facebook or watch YouTube videos or store photos on Flickr. Despite its importance, few people … Read entire article »
NASA launches super-size rover to Mars: ‘Go, Go!’
News from The Associated Press. By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rover of “monster truck” proportions zoomed toward Mars on an 8 1/2-month, 354 million-mile journey Saturday, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet. NASA’s six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity, will reach Mars next summer and use its jackhammer drill, rock-zapping laser machine and … Read entire article »
You are Looking at the Future – Called Graphene
Author: J. D. Redmond – TheCyberati Welcome. You are gazing upon a new substance, in it’s infancy, called Graphene. You might have heard the word Graphene before, but didn’t really know what it was all about. Well, imagine future cell phones as thin and flexible as this. The iPad2 will look like a granite slab compared to how thin devices with Graphene … Read entire article »
CERN repeats its neutrino light-speed experiment
By Ted Thornhill Last updated at 5:44 PM on 28th October 2011 According to Einstein, the cosmic speed limit is 186,282 miles per second – the speed of light. But last month scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) claimed that they’d measured neutrino particles zooming along even quicker. Critics argued that the organisation’s measurements were simply wrong, so the experiment is … Read entire article »
Amazing video of the Earth spinning taken from the International Space Station
By Ted Thornhill Last updated at 11:18 AM on 28th October 2011 This is one film that’s sure to leave you in a spin. The crew of the International Space Station pointed a camera at North America and the resulting still pictures were spliced together into a mesmerising speeded-up sequence. It shows a rotation of the Earth in just a matter of seconds Nasa … Read entire article »
Speedy neutrino upsets scientific absolutes
By Charles Krauthammer October 8, 2011 Washington — “We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.”— Joke circulating on the Internet The world as we know it is on the brink of disintegration, on the verge of dissolution. No, I’m not talking about the collapse of the euro, of international finance, of the Western economies, … Read entire article »
What Completed Skype-Microsoft Deal Could Mean for Consumers
Microsoft announced today that it has mostly wrapped up its acquisition of the Internet communications company Skype. The $8.5 billion deal has received approval from the major regulators, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the European Union, although a few holdouts remain–Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Taiwan–which are expected to fall into line shortly. Now that Skype is in the Microsoft fold, … Read entire article »
Software Pioneer Dennis Ritchie Dies at 70
Software pioneer Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and key figure in the establishment of the founding principles of modern computer operating systems, died Wednesday after a long illness at the age of 70. The son of Bell Labs scientist and switching circuit pioneer Alistair E. Ritchie, Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1967, several years after graduating from … Read entire article »
