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Albert Einstein's famous theory of general relativity and the quantum mechanics theory are two of the most complete methods we have of explaining our surrounding realities. However, each of them only describes a part of the Universe, so an idea that would unify the two has been sought for over the last decades. ... |
18 August 2009
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Using artificial learning parameters, a robot devised by experts at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) can decide for itself if it's time to laugh, or time to frown. The machine's head looks just like an excited version of Albert Einstein's face, and the team believes that letting the rob... |
9 July 2009
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Developed by Hans Einstein, BatteryLife does not use the theory of relativity to speed up your mobile web browsing, but it does manage to tell you how much power you have on your iPhone. The application boasts a warm UI with appropriate indicators for everything you need to know about how much life your iPhone’... |
8 July 2009
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In a surprising turn of events, experts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the same involved in the creation of the first atomic bomb, have announced the creation of radio transmitters that incorporate a radio wave source that moves faster than the speed of light (superluminally). Behind the amazing achiev... |
30 June 2009
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Seeking to physically get a glimpse at how Albert Einstein's brain must have looked like, Florida State University (FSU) Paleoanthropologist Dean Falk recreated it using a technique commonly employed in analyzing ancient fossils. It would appear, she said, that at least on the surface, the eminent scientist'... |
22 May 2009
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In laser sciences, the photoelectric effect is a phenomenon that explains why stimulated light can rip electrons from their orbits around atomic nuclei and carry them away. But this theorem is about to be rewritten, some physicists say. In recent tests, they have noticed that, when using very powerful UV lasers, not ... |
4 May 2009
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The idea that apples might fall from trees differently in the summer and in the winter may seem preposterous, but Indiana University in Bloomington (IUB) Physicist Alan Kostelecky and graduate student Jay Tasson think that the idea may not be so far-fetched. They argue that violations in Newton's law may have ea... |
16 April 2009
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Ever since Isaac Newton first published his general universal law of gravitation, in 1687, the race to find the explanation of this mysterious force has been on. Countless generations of physicists have tried to answer a simple question, namely how is gravity transmitted with so much accuracy and almost instantly ove... |
16 March 2009
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A team of experts from nine research institutes are going to try to find the “first light” of the Universe over the next 10 years, its starting point, or at least the closest one they can link to it. In truth, they will be looking for very, very faint traces of gravitational waves, which Einstein's t... |
17 February 2009
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Einstein's relativity theory is one of the things people learn in basic physics, and most of the applications that shape today's science are applied on it. But what if the theory doesn't always hold true? That's not to say that it's wrong, but just that it didn't foresee everything. Phys... |
6 January 2009
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A new study performed with the help of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, focused on galaxy clusters, indicated that they are forming at a slower rate than they should be, which is considered a new piece of evidence in the complicated case of dark energy. These results, in tandem with those of previous extensive res... |
17 December 2008
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An international team of astronomers from Europe and the US have been able to infer a lot of data based on the observations of Einstein Cross made by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). This cosmic event, which largely magnifies the image of a very distant object, allowed the experts to perform, for the first time... |
14 December 2008
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A thorough look back through scientific history indicates that the major breakthroughs were the result of the genius and hard work of single gifted individuals rather than to the collective effort of savants working under institutional umbrellas. Einstein, Newton, da Vinci or Copernicus stand out as vivid examples to... |
10 December 2008
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In a recent article for the New Scientist publication, there is an interesting scientific explanation to the famous (albeit rather theological) question posed by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), "Why is there something rather than nothing?". However, the answer does not involve God, but rather how the universe was b... |
28 November 2008
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Perhaps one of the most famous equations in the world, in all scientific fields, is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, E=mc2. This means that the energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square speed of light. Recently, an international team whose members come from Germany, France and Hungary, led by L... |
22 November 2008
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The most complex satellite ever built was almost compromised by an extremely tiny flaw in its design, which made the results very hard to read and less precise than needed. The Gravity Probe B, as the device was called, was launched in 2004 with the goal of proving some aspects of Einstein's general theory of re... |
21 October 2008
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China's space attempt may be fueled by the newly-emerging technology that the majority of scientists are now contesting. Chinese researchers are currently trying to build the "Emdrive" (electromagnetic drive), which would change all space propulsion systems in case it becomes functional. Basically, the tech... |
25 September 2008
10:30 GMT |
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The refrigerator model proposed by Einstein was soon replaced with a better one, except now, as global needs change and technology improves, the savant's fridge doesn’t seem such a bad idea anymore, which is why scientists decided to "revive" the genius' electricity-free, environment-friendly icebox.M... |
22 September 2008
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In a recent book, physicist Joao Magueijo explains the principles of his varying-speed-of-light (VSL) theory, claiming that light can outrun itself. This idea of velocities beyond that of light has been discussed before, as two German scientists claim their quantum tunneling experiments proved it was possible. ... |
17 September 2008
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The letter sent by Albert Einstein to philosopher Eric Gutkind in January 1954 - " one year before the physicist's death" - detailing his beliefs about God and the Jewish people was auctioned on Thursday at Bloomsbury Auctions in London, and sold for the sum of 404,000 US dollars, including the buyer's prem... |
17 May 2008
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This is what Albert Einstein wrote in his letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, in response to his receiving the book "Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt". The letter was written on January 3, 1954, in German, and explains Einstein's personal beliefs regarding religion and the Jewish people; it was put on sa... |
14 May 2008
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In August 2002, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, became operational and started looking for the elusive gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein. It collected a massive amount of data, probably including some gravitational waves, however when scientists were put to the dauntin... |
3 April 2008
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So I've heard... But what does that even mean? It all goes back to German physicist Albert Einstein, who formulated the theories of Special and General Relativity in the early 1900s, in order to construct a better model that would explain the unique characteristics of space and time. Thus, relativity means that ... |
9 February 2008
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Time is relative, we all know that; as we do things that we enjoy, time seems to pass faster, but when we have a bad experience, it seems to take forever for time to pass. Albert Einstein proved in 1905 that this was not happening only in our mind, but time was truly relative and dependent on the speed at which an ob... |
12 November 2007
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When it comes to robots, so far, Asia rules. They're a few generations over competitors in the field and every day, they keep coming with new and impressive creations. Sony's AIBO was the first robot dog to recognize words and objects and Honda's ASIMO is the first humanoid robot that can walk on two ... |
30 July 2007
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A new experiment performed in the US has proved that a Bose-Einstein condensate can exist in polaritons, a cooled system of particles. This is not the first time scientists claim to have the proof of its existence, but in similar previous applications many suspected that the coherence was in fact the effect of the l... |
18 May 2007
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It may sound strange, but Newton's theory of gravity predicts that it would be possible for three planets with equal masses to race around one another in a strange looking orbit the shape of figure 8. Einstein's more accurate theory of gravity, general relativity, was not sure to support such a weird orbit... |
5 May 2007
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Could it really be that a rapidly oscillating molecule is capable of slowing down its fall in a gravitational field, much like skydivers that increase the area of body parallel to the Earth to glide on the air current? Einstein's theory of general relativity states that the presence of matter in huge amounts (... |
2 May 2007
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The new precision tool with a variety of applications will serve to test Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and it's called atom interferometry. Interferometry is the science and technique of superposing (interfering) two or more waves, which creates an output wave different from the input waves, which in tu... |
17 April 2007
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Albert Einstein' general Theory of Relativity, published in 1915/16, unified special relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation with the insight that gravitation is not due to a force but rather is a manifestation of curved space and time, with this curvature being produced by the mass-energy and... |
16 April 2007
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John Cramer, a physicist at the University of Washington, wants to test one of his controversial predictions, that says light particles can go backward in time. The test involves using a crystal to split a photon into two reduced-energy photons that, through careful manipulation, Cramer thinks could reveal a flash o... |
11 April 2007
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Sci-Fi fans are used to seeing virtual avatars that talk to you, answer your questions, and even do something more...physical. Remember the virtual doctor from "Star Trek - Voyager", or "Andromeda", or "Stargate Atlantis" with its very realistic virtual archive that turned out to be a real Ancient?Those of you for w... |
6 April 2007
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