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Games have been messing around with the fixed rules of the universe ever since the first platform title was brought to life. And the favorite constant-turned-variable is without a doubt the law of gravity. On purpose, games have never truly defied the “all things that go up must eventually come down” sayi... |
21 October 2009
04:29 GMT |
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The future of nanoengineering, and of any science involving the use of nanomaterials for that matter, is entirely dependent on tools that allow for precise measurements of the events unfolding at the nanoscale, while at the same time correcting errors that may appear in the process. Experts at the Georgia Institute o... |
2 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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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
06:06 GMT |
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Hollywood movies have always had the talent of inspiring panic where there was usually nothing to fear, and the latest productions are no different, what with the threat of the Vatican being destroyed by antimatter generated at the Large Hadron Collider and all that. Needless to say, the script is pure fantasy, but p... |
29 May 2009
05:52 GMT |
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According to the latest developments in Austria, the country will remain a part of the massive European physics research initiative CERN, the main operator of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Earlier this month, the nation announced that it would withdraw from the cooperation, in order to invest the money it had caug... |
19 May 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Austrian science minister Johannes Hahn has recently announced that the nation would withdraw from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), seeking to reinvest the money it has caught up in the scientific project into other endeavors. The announcement comes at a very bad time, just six months before the... |
9 May 2009
05:25 GMT |
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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
19:01 GMT |
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The study of subatomic particles is, as everyone knows, mostly conducted in particle accelerators, those huge devices that accelerate protons and electrons to nearly the speed of light, and then smash them together. The ensuing collision breaks the objects into their basic components, and physicists then spend an eno... |
13 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A new conservation law is always a very important thing, and experts working for the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) take high pride in their work.By carefully analyzing the collective spin state of very mobile electrons inside... |
3 April 2009
06:41 GMT |
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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
10:16 GMT |
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Finding the elusive Higgs boson, the particle that makes energy acquire mass, has been the goal of physicists for several decades, and projects such as Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have appeared to accomplish exactly that. Now, due to the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy (DOE)'s Fe... |
12 March 2009
10:32 GMT |
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For us, wanting to go back in time is as natural as thinking and breathing. Around the world, countless people, myself included, believe that a simple trip to a certain point in our past would most likely change the course of our lives, maybe for the better, because I imagine no one would like to go back and make thi... |
14 February 2009
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Since the dawn of civilization, music has been an integrated part of a child's education, as everyone has realized the potential that sounds have in shaping the mind of a young pupil. In most countries in the world today, music lessons are still offered in schools as part of the basic curricula, along with sport... |
11 February 2009
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Over the years, theoretical physicists have identified a number of potential deterrents for time travel, including general obstacles, as well as various paradoxes of such a travel. The predestination issue is one of the most complex and with most implications, as it advocates that people going back or forth through s... |
7 February 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Following important advancements in the field of quantum physics and energy, scientists are currently working on a way to create Schrodinger's cat, a macroscopic object that is both dead and alive at the same time. It takes advantage of oddities recorded in quantum mechanics for electrons and molecules, which re... |
29 January 2009
02:33 GMT |
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The predestination paradox is just one of the many paradoxes that are theoretically possible in time travel, and it is highly controversial because it grips people's control of their own lives from their hands and places it with a higher power. Basically, what the principle says is that people who would pot... |
24 January 2009
05:17 GMT |
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According to Nwi website, a ten year-old boy from Hammond, Indiana, got his tongue stuck to a light pole on Wednesday. The local paper reports that, most likely, the kid was triple-dared by peers in a game. However, he won't forget this accident very soon, as freezing body parts to metal objects can be very pain... |
17 January 2009
05:43 GMT |
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A new class of quantum materials is hinted at theoretically by researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the University of Maryland. They propose a new method of turning ultracold gas atoms into a supersolid, which is a state of matter that behaves very int... |
14 January 2009
05:18 GMT |
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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
11:31 GMT |
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There is a problem that does not only address Physics, but most of the courses taught in educational institutions, more pregnantly in high school. It involves the fact that the knowledge found in average school textbooks is old news. Physics, for example, spans over the discoveries of 2 millennia, covering the buoyan... |
2 December 2008
06:40 GMT |
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Surely, the field of physics is far from being the first thing that presidents concern themselves with when it comes to the skills they require for the job. However, having a more solid knowledge of the way things happen around the world and in nature in general, as well as in space, might make the difference at some... |
3 November 2008
11:08 GMT |
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The acoustical magic of the Boston Symphony Hall is due to the fact that the architectural company that built it resorted, for the first time in history, to the services of a physicist. It was built based on the design of Leipzig's Gewandhaus, which was devastated later on, during World War II. Constructed ... |
15 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Physics is bound to become a major part of upcoming graphics cards, as well as future game releases, which is why major players in the industry are seriously considering the development and adoption of physics-ready hardware. This also includes Intel and Havok, two companies that have joined forces in a recently anno... |
1 October 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Theoretical thinking certainly received a forward push in Monday's historic conference at Stanford University. World's brightest physicists gathered there to expose and discuss their revolutionary theories. Among the weirdest ideas stated was the one that suggests our universe is just a tiny atom in somethi... |
12 September 2008
05:09 GMT |
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It looks like AMD is working hard on the introduction of Havok on GPU. The company wants to make it run faster than Physics on a GPU, at least that is what AMD's Physics department seems to have told news site Fudzilla. While Ageia's PhysX was able to leverage the physics in original Ghost Recon Advanced Wa... |
8 August 2008
05:07 GMT |
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NVIDIA is trying to convince us that its PhysX technology is the best way for handling in-game physics, although its technology isn't much supported by current games. In fact, Havok, NVIDIA's competitor in the physics department, is doing quite well, especially since it has support for almost 300 games and ... |
3 July 2008
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If you haven't already found out, Advanced Micro Devices has entered a collaboration agreement with Intel's subsidiary, Havok, which is expected to bring forward a new physics engine for AMD's graphics cards. As part of this collaboration, the companies have recently announced that they will try to opt... |
16 June 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Since the Santa-Clara based company has finalized the acquisition of Ageia, gaming users have been waiting for a graphics card that will implement the physics technology developed by Ageia. Although there have been extensive talks about NVIDIA's upcoming graphics card lineup, it appears that the real PhysX-enabl... |
9 June 2008
08:52 GMT |
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Strange, but true nonetheless. The Standard Model represents a theory that incorporates all the characteristics of the material which makes up the universe we live in. There is only one problem though, out of the four elementary forces exerted between interacting matter, the Standard Model only describes three of the... |
3 March 2008
04:20 GMT |
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The rumors we have already been talking about seem to have reached the target. It is very likely that simple words, once laid down even digitally, get a contractual value. This might have been a little scary for the AMD monster who quickly decided to draw it all back. Or this could be as well seen as divulging corpor... |
23 November 2007
08:55 GMT |
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Computer gaming is more than classy graphics and excellent storyline. The digital television impacted over the gamers' brain, who now demand detail depth and realistic physics. Of course, these features get reflected in complicated mathematic calculations, necessary for particle rendering accuracy. If you experi... |
22 November 2007
06:10 GMT |
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Sowmya Subramanian, an Engineering Manager at Google Maps came across a very, no, extremely interesting application of the mapping tool provided by the Mountain View based company. Google Maps for literature? You might ask if you're still hooked on the title and intrigued as I was when I saw the Google Lat Long ... |
16 November 2007
04:22 GMT |
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Non-locality, says in theory, can't possibly treat separated physical systems as independent. The simplest example of non-locality is a wave. Any object is space must obey the principle of wave-particle duality, therefore all objects in the universe are non-local. Non-locality does not imply the lack of causalit... |
10 November 2007
04:08 GMT |
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AGEIA is a well known company among the gamers, game development firms and hardware manufacturers communities that introduced some time ago a revolutionary processor dedicated to complex calculations that could make computer games feel more real. Unfortunately, the hardware support for such calculations already exist... |
22 August 2007
10:10 GMT |
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One of the basic ideas in physics is that one can't take credit for discovering something if the experimental procedure that led to the discovery cannot be repeated under controlled conditions, again and again. Basically, this is considered a fluke.Many so-called discoveries have actually been shown to be nothi... |
2 July 2007
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In physics, time and space are considered fundamental and can not be defined in other terms. Periodic events and periodic motion, like the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, the swing of a pendulum, heartbeats, have long served as standards for units of time.Spacetime is a notion that... |
20 June 2007
08:22 GMT |
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Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher and alchemist, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science. He is probably most famous for describing the laws of universal gravity, after seeing an apple fall from a tree.He's not only famous for his... |
18 June 2007
08:21 GMT |
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X-rays have many uses in some very sensitive areas of technology. They are primarily used for diagnostic radiography and crystallography, but also in astronomy, microscopic analysis and fluorescence.Digital color x-rays are an advancement of this technology and it's used in nuclear physics to search for element... |
24 May 2007
05:13 GMT |
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The popular understanding of the term vacuum is that of a volume of space that contains nothing, or even worse, that doesn't contain air (blame the term - vacuum cleaner - for this misconception).In fact, it is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, so that gaseous pressure is much less than sta... |
11 May 2007
05:41 GMT |
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The word Laser is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". Lasers are possible because of the way light interacts with electrons. Electrons exist at specific energy levels or states characteristic of that particular atom or molecule. The energy levels can be imagined as rings or orbi... |
17 April 2007
10:25 GMT |
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If you ask professional poker players, they'll tell you that there's no sure method of winning.Statistical physicist Clement Sire - and champion bridge player - has created a model of the poker variant Texas hold 'em that enables him to do everything from predicting the length of a tournament to figur... |
10 April 2007
06:50 GMT |
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Spring is definitely here, Easter is just around the corner, birds are singing, trees are blossoming and children are happily playing in the grass. What a fine day for science this is, isn't it? Well, you could argue it actually is a very unfortunate day for science, but I was in the mood for something education... |
6 April 2007
11:12 GMT |
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A particle accelerator is a device that uses electric fields to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds and to contain them. An ordinary CRT television set is a simple form of accelerator. There are two basic types: linear (in a straight-line) accelerators and circular accelerators.In a linear accelerat... |
31 March 2007
07:09 GMT |
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The US Pioneer program of unmanned space missions was designed for planetary exploration. There were a number of such missions in the program, but the most notable were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, which explored the outer planets and left the solar system. Both carry a golden plaque, depicting a man and a woman and i... |
30 March 2007
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