Stories tagged "physics"

A group of scientists known as the ArgoNeuTs--a word play on the Argonauts, the heroes of Greek mythology--have overcome the first hurdle in their scientific quest to observe neutrinos.

Using tiny wires and fishnet structures, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found new ways to bend light backward, something that never occurs in nature.

INVISIBILITY devices, long the realm of science fiction and fantasy, have moved closer after scientists engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects...

If you want to know why the bicycle is the most efficient way of transport ever invented and how it works... make sure you read this article...

If you don't know why a cat survives even from falling off a sky-scraper, then, you need to read this article! Very interesting...

A date has finally been announced for the switching on of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.

As the LHC supposedly gears up, Harvard physicist Kevin Black, based at CERN, investigates rumors that the particle accelerator may, in fact, soon be shut down—by ripples from the future

In a research center in the Arctic Circle, building a picture of the Greenland climate from the ice age through the present warming period.

A total solar eclipse was sweeping across Earth Friday, providing a rare sight for people in the upper Northern Hemisphere.

Their theory posits that if in fact Earth and our surrounding neighbors are in fact in an unusual or special region of space, ie, a void, then our perspective on the universe would be severely chal...