Physics
Hawking Update: Condition Improved
[/caption] Physicist/mathematician Stephen Hawking has improved after spending the night at a hospital near his home in Cambridge, England, and…
Physicist Hawking Gravely Ill
[/caption] Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has been rushed to a hospital and is seriously ill. Cambridge University released information…
Small Engine For the Big Job of Testing Theory of Relativity
[/caption] Researchers from the European Space Agency are testing what they describe as the smallest, yet most precisely controllable engine…
Warp Drives Probably Impossible After All
[/caption] Just when I was getting excited about the possibility of travelling to distant worlds, scientists have uncovered a deep…
Astrophysics Satellite Detects Dark Matter Clue?
[/caption] An international collaboration of astronomers is reporting an unusual spike of atmospheric particles that could be a long-sought signature…
New Particle Throws Monkeywrench in Particle Physics
[/caption] The hits just keep on coming from Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. So far this month, the lab…
Fermilab Putting the Squeeze on Higgs Boson
[/caption] Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world’s most precise measurement of the…
Fermilab Scientists Discover Rare Single Top Quark
[/caption] Scientists at Fermilab have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks, a 1 in 20 billion find. This…
Is There a Mysterious Black Hole Constant?
[/caption]If you found yourself in the unfortunate situation of orbiting a black hole, you may be in for a rather…
Powerful Fusion Laser to Recreate Conditions Inside Exoplanets
[/caption]We've all heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide particles together at previously unimaginable energies. In doing so,…