Flash imaging of nanoscale objects undergoing ultrafast changes is now a technical possibility, according to a recent paper published in the June 22 edition of Nature Photonics. The results are a direct precursor to research that will be conducted using SLAC`s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).
European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach heralds the next era of faster, smaller and more efficient electronics.
July 11, 1811 - Italian physicist and chemist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoirs, in which he defines his theories about the molecular nature of gases. It would be nearly a...
Cardiff University has created a new Black Hole Hunter game. In this game, you listen to audio files which are simulations of waveforms that might result from collisions of massive...
Over at Science, John Bohannon recounts (form the June 20 issue) his experience in organizing a conference that, ultimately, lead to the tragic death of University of Maryland computer scientist...
July 5, 1687 - Sir Isaac Newton publishes the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Known to posterity as the Principia, this three-volume work is where Newton laid out his three laws...
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at the 2005 NASA Advisory Council in Washington, DC.
It's been a busy couple of weeks for astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. First, on June 25, Dr....
A little over a month ago, a 1954 letter from Albert Einstein to philosopher Eric Gutkind sold at auction for quite a lot of money - 170,000 pounds ($404,000 US...
June 26, 1824 - British mathematician, engineer, and physicist William Thomas, 1st Baron Kelvin ("Lord Kelvin"), was born. He did much work in electricity and thermodynamics, devising a scale of...
I get a lot of notices and one that recently came my way was the announcement that the website Engineering.com has begun allowing their members to have blogs through their...
Critics of CERN's new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project have very serious concerns - basically, they are worried that the attempt to re-create energies near those of the big bang...
June 21, 1781 - French mathematician and physicist Simeon-Denis Poisson is born. Poissons mathematical achievements were instrumental in the development of the mathematics related to electromagnetic field equations by Gauss,...
The UK's science-funding crisis could not have come at a worse time for the physics community
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