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CERN Traps Antimatter…wait, I already did this…
I guess it’s more official this time though. Although the trapping of antihydrogen for more than 15 minutes was in arXiv about a month ago, just now it has hit big news and been published in Nature....
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It’s F#*%kin’ Quantum Mechanics!
Great commercial for the Powermat wireless charger. I saw this on PhysicsBuzz, which also gives a brief explanation how inductive charging works. Coooool.Filed under: Physics Tagged: cell phone,...
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Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla: ‘Poker Face’ Played On Tesla Coils!
Yesterday was Nikola Tesla’s birthday, the man who is most famously known for giving us alternating current (AC). In celebration, enjoy ‘Poker Face’ by Lady Gaga played with Tesla Coils! Filed under:...
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Physicists Discover New Particle!
Researchers at the soon-to-be-closed-but-won’t-go-quietly Fermilab, have confirmed the existence of the neutral Xi-sub-b baryon. Baryons are particles composed of three quarks; quarks being elementary...
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Best Leave Some Things to the Professionals…
A man in Sweden with a penchant for science and chemistry was arrested for attempting to split atoms in his basement. Einstein would be so proud. Apparently Richard Handl even kept a blog about his...
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Realistic Simulation of the Formation of a Milky Way-Like Galaxy
The first realistic simulation of a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way has been generated by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Institute for Theoretical Physics...
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Canada Finds Evidence of Failed 1845 Arctic Expedition
Sir John Franklin In 1845, the Franklin Expedition, led by John Franklin, set sail from England looking for the Northwest Passage. Unfortunately, the expedition became stuck in the Arctic ice near King...
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Build Your Own Cloud Chamber!
Cloud chambers are nifty little tools which physicists used in the 1920s to 1950s to study ionizing radiation. They were responsible for the discovery of the positron in 1932, which garnered Carl David...
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Faster Than Light Particles! So, Warp Speed Ahead, Right???
The OPERA detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy I’ll have more to say about this story once I see the work on arXiv, but I feel I should comment now because this story is exploding. The...
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Fermilab Double-Checking CERN’s (and their own) Math
Detector used in the MINOS experiment at Fermilab. Of course the big news of the past week is the OPERA experiment’s measurement of neutrino’s travelling faster than light. The paper is up on arXiv....
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