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The image shows an artists rendering of a random laser that is pumped with incoherent light from the top and emits coherent light in random directions.

The world of physics is on fire about a new kind of superconductor , and a group of researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory led by physicist Pengcheng Dai are in ...

University of Oregon researchers trying to flip the spin of electrons with laser bursts lasting picoseconds instead found a way to manipulate and control the spin -- knowledge that may prove useful in a variety ...

Researchers in Japan have given a live public demonstration of their cold fusion device, a historic experiment that is likely to revive global interest in this controversial method of energy generation that was ...

European particle physics laboratory CERN is set to launch its gigantic experiment which hopes to throw light on the origins of the universe within a month, the laboratory's head said Tuesday.

The Incredible Hulk makes a terrific leap, and physicist Alejandro Garcia cringes.

Aim to produce new generation of astronomer that understands theory and observation The future of fundamental physics research lies in observing the early universe and developing models that explain the new ...

May 26. KAZINFORM. As the Swiss prepare to unveil a powerful particle accelerator, the United States finds itself in the "minor leagues" of particle physics, scientists say.

Washington, May 25: Scientists are hoping that the Atlas detector, which is one of six particle physics experiments part of the Large Hadron Collider, will help unlock some deep scientific mysteries and perhaps ...

Eight physics students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have been accepted into the prestigious National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, in which undergraduates ...

Nobel laureate Willis Eugene Lamb Jr., a physicist whose discovery of a minute difference between two energy levels of the hydrogen atom led to a basic reconsideration of the concepts underlying the application ...

WITH global warming, the Iraq war, terrorist acts here, there, everywhere and 7.8 magnitude earthquakes to boot, the world isn't such a happy place right now.

The future of fundamental physics research lies in observing the early universe and developing models that explain the new data obtained.

The physicist known as the "Trekkie professor" is leaving Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University for Arizona State University.

Scientists have spent 70 years trying to predict the properties of nuclei, but have had to settle for approximate models because computational techniques were not equal to the task.

Willis Lamb Jr., who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a slight and subtle discrepancy in the quantum theory describing how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom, died on Thursday in ...

An artist's illustration of NASA's Solar Probe making a close pass of the Sun. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun, as Pink Floyd once sang.

Shroud_050508_LA_002_John P. Jackson is the Director of the Turin Shroud Center in Colorado Springs.

At the 50th-anniverary celebration of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, Kevin Lohner, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, showed onlookers a "hybrid" rocket engine demonstration unit in ...

Mark Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics at Northeastern University's College of Arts in Sciences, and his research team have developed a method using optical tweezers to better understand how those ...

But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a ...

Modern 3-D computed tomography is an effective method for locating the prostatic apex for radiation therapy treatment planning in prostate cancer patients because it eliminates the need for an invasive ...

Ka Yee Lee, associate professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, and her associates study the characteristics of lung surfactant, a microscopically thin membrane that facilitates breathing.

MRI / PET / Ultrasound Article Date: 12 May 2008 Designer labels have a lot of cachet -- a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics.

“So we showed that such a gate is possible and demonstrated the first necessary steps in that direction.”

Computers based on the powerful properties of quantum mechanics have the potential to revolutionize information technology and security, but for decades they have remained more theoretical than practical, and ... via PhysOrg Weblog

“At the same time that's happening, there's increased tensions between science and society”

Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. via Athens Banner-Herald

“Physics wonder boy to test Einstein's theories”

May 09, 2008, 3:15 PM by Marni Soupcoff NIMA ARKANI HAMED Google loves swimsuit models and sex symbols, but occasionally it gives a particle physicist his day in the sun, too. via National Post

“This process has never been mapped properly, mainly because the technology was not available to do so”

Paul Planken of Delft University of Technology, in conjunction with two South Korean and one German research groups, have succeeded in mapping this process in depth. via Science Daily

“These are isotopes that are not easy to produce. That's the frontier we're working on”

Designer labels have a lot of cachet -- a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics. via EurekAlert!

“The conference provided an excellent blend between senior and junior researchers, all of them full of enthusiasm and joy of presenting hot and "shining”

ESF's EuroQUAM program holds inauguration conference Quantum matter has long fascinated the science community as many completely new physical phenomena have emerged from this field. via EurekAlert!

“There's lots of important physics there”

The hydrogen atom was drawn inexorably closer to the black hole, a dimensionless point a billion times more massive than the sun. via The Arizona Daily Star

For the first time, physicists have come up with a scheme that would allow a quantum mechanical expert to win every time in a con game with a victim who only knows about classical physics. via PhysOrg Weblog

“Three quarters of the universe is hydrogen and much of what we have learned about it has been found by studying ordinary hydrogen”

QATAR University's Positron Physics Laboratory is to be a key contributor, along with 20 other international research institutions, on antihydrogen research spearheaded by the Geneva-based CERN Laboratories. via Gulf Times

By Will Morgan, Representing You I teach high school physics. One of the basic concepts I teach my students is the law of gravity. via Savage Pacer - Newspaper and online c...

This is a Sept. 28, 2007 file photo of Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen of Freehold, N.J., is among 15 famous New Jerseyans selected as the first inductees to the New Jersey Hall of Fame. via CBC News

Ejection from the nucleus: for the first time in nature, astronomers have observed a supermassive black, which - propelled by gravitational waves - leaves its parent galaxy. via PhysOrg Weblog