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<title>LHC Scientists Now Sure They Found the Higgs Boson, Just Not Sure Which One</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists at CERN are edging ever closer to calling the Higgs boson, i.e. the particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the Higgs boson. While physicists said they discovered a particle which looked like the Higgs boson, they were weary of actually calling that, pending more analysis.  Now though, th...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Quantum Entanglement Travels at Least 10,000 Faster than Light</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Quantum entanglement describes the link between two particles that are not physically close or in any form of contact, i.e. there's no information exchange, as far as modern physics is concerned, between the two particles. 

Yet, these two particles are intrinsically linked, a property of one is mirrored in the other. Ex...]]></description>
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Yet, these two particles are intrinsically linked, a property of one is mirrored in the other. Ex... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Quantum-Entanglement-Travels-at-Least-10-000-Faster-than-Light-335365.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 Mar 2013 20:11:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Disappointingly, the Higgs Boson Looks Exactly Like It Was Supposed to Look Like</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The search for the Higgs boson continues, but the latest update from CERN scientists is that they're on the right track. 

While the Large Hadron Collider is down for maintenance and upgrade and won't be operational again until 2015, scientists have mountains of data to sift through.
...]]></description>
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While the Large Hadron Collider is down for maintenance and upgrade and won't be operational again until 2015, scientists have mountains of data to sift through.<br />
... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Disappointingly-the-Higgs-Boson-Looks-More-and-More-Like-What-It-Was-Expected-It-to-Look-Like-335207.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 Mar 2013 12:11:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Black Holes and the Firewall Paradox That Has Baffled Physicists</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe and one of the most interesting. They've been the subject of countless debates and are of great interest to astronomers and theoretical physicists alike. 

This, while black holes haven't even been conclusively proven to exist, though we've seen many s...]]></description>
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This, while black holes haven't even been conclusively proven to exist, though we've seen many s... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Black-Holes-and-the-Firewall-Paradox-that-Has-Baffled-Physicists-335008.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Mar 2013 20:21:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Physicists Provide Solution to the Black Hole Firewall Paradox that Has Puzzled the Greatest Minds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The so-called black hole "firewall paradox" created plenty of waves among physicists last year. The paradox claimed that only two of three major principles of physics could be true at the same time in the case of a black hole.   Despite the idea being so radical, which usually means it...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>If the Higgs Boson Exists, the Universe Is Doomed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The discovery of a particle very similar or quite possibly the actual Higgs boson is one of the big achievements of experimental physics in the last few years. With it, the Standard Model is complete, the LHC has proved its usefulness and so on, plenty of reasons to celebrate.  But there may be one reason to worry. As it stands, the H...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/If-the-Higgs-Boson-Exists-the-Universe-Is-Doomed-2.png" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />The discovery of a particle very similar or quite possibly the actual Higgs boson is one of the big achievements of experimental physics in the last few years. With it, the Standard Model is complete, the LHC has proved its usefulness and so on, plenty of reasons to celebrate.<br /> <br /> But there may be one reason to worry. As it stands, the H... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/If-the-Higgs-Boson-Exists-the-Universe-Is-Doomed-331143.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ultra Ever Dry, Nanotech Coating That Makes Getting Wet Impossible</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Lots of experiments and discoveries are made &ldquo;for science,&rdquo; but there are some inventions that have an easier lifestyle as the sole goal, like the Ultra Ever Dry coating.  Rain, puddle splashes, plumbing failures, cooking accidents, all can lead to people getting wet, which is never fun.  Well, some m...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Exotic Hydrogen Experiment Finds Bafflingly Small Proton, Hints at Physics Beyond the Standard Model</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With physicists pretty much done in their search for the elusive Higgs boson and now getting ready to discover even more exotic particles, if they exist to be found, you'd think that they'd have something as banal as the proton all wrapped up by now.But you'd be wrong, one of the most interesting developments in recent years h...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/Exotic-Hydrogen-Experiment-Finds-Bafflingly-Small-Proton-2.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />With physicists pretty much done in their search for the elusive Higgs boson and now getting ready to discover even more exotic particles, if they exist to be found, you'd think that they'd have something as banal as the proton all wrapped up by now.<br /><br />But you'd be wrong, one of the most interesting developments in recent years h... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Exotic-Hydrogen-Experiment-Finds-Bafflingly-Small-Proton-324003.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A New Way of Cooling Antihydrogen Atoms, Keeping Them Together for Longer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We've "known" about antimatter for a long time, but there's still little we actually understand about it. The reason is that it's hard to study something you can't actually get ahold of. There's not much antimatter going round and even if you manage to create some, keeping it stable is no small feat.  Now, scie...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/A-New-Way-of-Cooling-Antihydrogen-Atoms-Keeping-them-Together-for-Longer-2.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />We've "known" about antimatter for a long time, but there's still little we actually understand about it. The reason is that it's hard to study something you can't actually get ahold of. There's not much antimatter going round and even if you manage to create some, keeping it stable is no small feat.<br /> <br /> Now, scie... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/A-New-Way-of-Cooling-Antihydrogen-Atoms-Keeping-them-Together-for-Longer-319056.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Quantum Physics, the Universe&amp;#039;s Ultimate Troll, Ruins Absolute Zero, Negative Temperatures Achieved</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There aren't that many things set in stone in science, but Absolute Zero, the lowest possible temperature at which atomic movement stops altogether was one of them. But you can thank quantum physics, the ultimate troll of the physics world, for ruining this as well.  Scientists have...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:21:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Scientists Are 99.9999999999 Percent Sure the Higgs Boson Is There</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While CERN won't go out and say it, for good reason too, the Higgs boson has been essentially discovered. In fact, the latest reports from CERN scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, which are now rounding up their first three years of activity, show that the particle which seems to fit the Higgs boson as predicted by the standard model, exists with a 7 sigma degree of certainty.  Scientists normally require a sigma 5 level to label something a "discovery," meaning that it's...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[While CERN won't go out and say it, for good reason too, the Higgs boson has been essentially discovered. In fact, the latest reports from CERN scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, which are now rounding up their first three years of activity, show that the particle which seems to fit the Higgs boson as predicted by the standard model, exists with a 7 sigma degree of certainty.<br /> <br /> Scientists normally require a sigma 5 level to label something a "discovery," meaning that it's... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scientists-Are-99-9999999999-Percent-Sure-the-Higgs-Boson-Is-There-315600.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>LHC&amp;#039;s Atlas Hints at Two Higgs Bosons, a Bizarre Situation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, the researchers at CERN announced that they had found, with significant evidence, a particle corresponding to the Higgs boson in their experiments with the Large Hadron Collider.

They didn't come out and say they discovered the Higgs boson since there was still a, very slim, chance that it was something e...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/LHC-s-Atlas-Hints-at-Two-Higgs-Bosons-a-Bizarre-Situation-2.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />Several months ago, the researchers at CERN announced that they had found, with significant evidence, a particle corresponding to the Higgs boson in their experiments with the Large Hadron Collider.<br />
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They didn't come out and say they discovered the Higgs boson since there was still a, very slim, chance that it was something e... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/LHC-s-Atlas-Hints-at-Two-Higgs-Bosons-a-Bizarre-Situation-315374.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Detonation Engine Built to Reduce Fuel Consumption</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Military researchers and General Electric (GE) scientists are working together on the construction of a new engine, meant to reduce the extremely high military expenses.   It was estimated that the fuel consumption in military ships, airplanes or power plants could register a 25% decrease, if the project succeeds.  The N...]]></description>
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<title>NASA Is Working on a Space Atom Interferometer to Detect Gravity Waves, Still Theoretical After a Century</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gravity remains one of the most mysterious and less understood forces in the universe. While Einstein spent a big chunk of his career laying the foundation of how it works in his general theory of relativity, which he published in 1916, the science community hasn't done much to advance the s...]]></description>
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<title>CERN Wants to Teach Little Kids Quantum Physics Using Angry Birds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Angry Birds is doing everything these days. Literally everything, from theme parks to movies and books. Now it's partnering with CERN, that would be the CERN where the Higgs Boson may have been discovered and where the World Wide Web was created, incidentally, in a learning program dubbed Angry Birds Playground.

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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:11:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MIT Says Lithium-Air Batteries Are Four Times Better Than Conventional Ones</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most PCs and consumer electronics nowadays, those that don't need to be constantly plugged into a power socket to work, use lithium-ion batteries, but it wouldn't hurt to have some better ones, so MIT is doing its best to provide.   Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been looking...]]></description>
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<title>Physics Nobel Prize Goes to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for Quantum Optics Experiments</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Prize committee has announced the recipient of the second award of the year, for physics. The 2012 Nobel Prize awards started yesterday with the Physiology and Medicine prize. The physics prize was awarded to two scientists for quantum optics, the interaction between light and matter. ]]></description>
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<title>Innovative Optical Device Could Make Your Downloads Faster</title>
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<description><![CDATA[University of Minnesota experts announce the development of an innovative microscale optical device, which is capable of using the force generated by light to activate or inactivate a mechanical switch, at very high speeds. 

The instrument could be used for effective and rapid data transmission, as well as for increasing do...]]></description>
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<title>Etching of Semiconductor Can Now Be Monitored in Real Time</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Current semiconductor manufacturing methods are not really very revealing, in the sense that experts instruct a machine to perform a series of operations, but they cannot intervene in the process to make adjustments. A new study by researchers in the United States now addresses this shortcoming.   Thanks to this approach the...]]></description>
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<title>Curved Crystals Can Heal Themselves</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Syracuse University (SU) reveal in a new paper that single-layer crystals are capable of healing themselves when an extra particle is inserted into their lattices, provided that the layer itself is curved.  

In order to demonstrate this process, the team only had to insert an extra particle into the lattice, and then stand back...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/Curved-Crystals-Can-Heal-Themselves-2.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />Researchers at the Syracuse University (SU) reveal in a new paper that single-layer crystals are capable of healing themselves when an extra particle is inserted into their lattices, provided that the layer itself is curved. <br /> 
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Building the First 4D Crystal into an Everlasting Clock</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have announced recently that they plan to lead an international collaboration of scientists in developing the world's first space-time crystal.

Also known as a 4D crystal, such a device displays a periodic structure in both ...]]></description>
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Also known as a 4D crystal, such a device displays a periodic structure in both ... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Building-the-First-4D-Crystal-into-an-Everlasting-Clock-294541.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Japan to Use Sugar in New Generation of Batteries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Japan may soon be rid of its dependency on foreign lithium, which it needs to create advanced lithium-ion batteries. According to a team of experts at the Tokyo University of Science, a material called hard carbon, obtained by pyrolyzing sucrose, can make effective anodes for a new class of batteries.  Sucrose is the main ingredient ...]]></description>
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<title>Organic Lasers Can Now Be Printed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A team of investigators at the University of Cambridge announces the development of a method for printing lasers on a wide array of materials, using common inkjet technologies. The achievement could find numerous applications in medicine and electronics, the group believes. 

Scientists say that it may be possible to use it for the manufacturing of ...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/Organic-Lasers-Can-Now-Be-Printed-2.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />A team of investigators at the University of Cambridge announces the development of a method for printing lasers on a wide array of materials, using common inkjet technologies. The achievement could find numerous applications in medicine and electronics, the group believes. <br />
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<title>Achievement Unlocked: Acoustic Levitation [Video]</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of investigators at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announces the development of an acoustic levitator, a device that uses sound waves to levitate individual droplets of liquid. 

The instrument holds great promise for improving drug development procedures, although the link may not be immed...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/Achievement-Unlocked-Acoustic-Levitation-Video-2.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />A group of investigators at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announces the development of an acoustic levitator, a device that uses sound waves to levitate individual droplets of liquid. <br />
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The instrument holds great promise for improving drug development procedures, although the link may not be immed... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Achievement-Unlocked-Acoustic-Levitation-Video-293012.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Fusion Liners Prove Their Worth at Sandia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) say that their preliminary tests of specially designed, magnetically imploded tubes called liners were successfully concluded recently.   The goal the SNL team set for itself is to achieve scientific &ldquo;break-even&rdquo; energies in nuclear fusion, which...]]></description>
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<title>Pair of Key Papers on the Higgs Boson Published</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, researchers working for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced the discovery of a new particle in the proposed mass range of the Higgs boson. The two papers detailing the discovery have just been published in the September 10 issue of Physics Letters B.  The magazine is one of the world's lea...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Focused Light Beams Could Improve Future Chips</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Optical system technologies currently used on computer chips are plagued by several issues, the most important of which is signal loss caused by light dispersion. In a new study, an international team of experts proposes a solution, in the form of a &ldquo;needle beam&rdquo; of light. 

The reason why the light produced by the new techn...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/Focused-Light-Beams-Could-Improve-Future-Chips-2.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />Optical system technologies currently used on computer chips are plagued by several issues, the most important of which is signal loss caused by light dispersion. In a new study, an international team of experts proposes a solution, in the form of a &ldquo;needle beam&rdquo; of light. <br />
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The reason why the light produced by the new techn... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Focused-Light-Beams-Could-Improve-Future-Chips-290677.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Unified Theory of Dark Matter and Dark Energy Proposed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[American and Chinese mathematicians propose a new unified theory on dark matter and dark energy, which changes some of the most basic tenets of Albert Einstein's field equations for gravity.

The most important hypothesis the study contains is that the law of energy and momentum conservation, as understood and supported by Einst...]]></description>
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The most important hypothesis the study contains is that the law of energy and momentum conservation, as understood and supported by Einst... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Unified-Theory-of-Dark-Matter-and-Dark-Energy-Proposed-290560.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gravity Measurement Devices Can Identify Underground Resources</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every object that has mass is a source of gravity. This truth, well known to physicists, was used in space exploration technologies to assess the distribution of mass within other planets and moons. But now the technology may have found a use closer to home, particularly in the search for fossil fuels.

Devices used to m...]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://news.softpedia.com/images/newsrsz/Gravity-Measurement-Devices-Can-Identify-Underground-Resources-2.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px;" />Every object that has mass is a source of gravity. This truth, well known to physicists, was used in space exploration technologies to assess the distribution of mass within other planets and moons. But now the technology may have found a use closer to home, particularly in the search for fossil fuels.<br />
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Devices used to m... (<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gravity-Measurement-Devices-Can-Identify-Underground-Resources-290229.shtml">read more</a>)]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Study Explains How Matter Can Be Shaped with Light</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of physicists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in California, announces the creation of a special, synchronized laser, which was used to reveal how light beams shape matter at the atomic scale. 

Not many people are familiar with the exact extent to which light is...]]></description>
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