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NIST Adjusts Universal Constants Based on the latest studies, experts with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published their internationally recommended values of the fundamental constants of nature. The new numbers bring some modifications for the values of gravity and electromagnetism.According to the researcher...	20 July 2011 06:00 GMT

Speed of Light May Have Varied in the Early Universe Modern-day physicists take the speed of light as one of the most reliable measures and constant in science, but some experts are proposing that this level of confidence may be excessive. They are saying that the light may have traveled at a different speed in the early Universe. Portuguese cosmologist João Mag...	15 July 2011 03:58 GMT

Laws of Physics Not the Same Throughout Universe According to a recent investigation conducted with an impressive telescope, it would appear that Albert Einstein's equivalence principle – which states that all laws of physics are constant throughout the Universe – is wrong. The data indicates that some constants may not be constant after all. Scien...	28 December 2010 10:40 GMT

The Sun Influences the Decay of Radioactive Elements In spite of being located no less than 93 million miles away from Earth, the Sun appears to be influencing the decay of radioactive elements inside research labs on the planet.The conclusion belongs to a new investigation, which was carried out by experts at the Purdue University and the Stanford University. The prob...	25 August 2010 11:05 GMT

Pi Gets 127 Billion New Digits Using nothing more than a home desktop computer, scientist Fabrice Bellard managed to calculate an additional 127 billion digits that followed the number 3 in Pi. The concept is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in certain kinds of geometry. Usually, t...	7 January 2010 04:45 GMT

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