Tag Archives : Physics

A professor at Keio University in Japan, Adrian K. Cheok, is developing a technology that will work with electrical impulses applied directly to the brain, causing the body to experience sensations of touch and taste via electronic means such as internet and mobile. Professor Cheok is developing an augmented reality technology that uses electrical [...]

For decades, electronic computers have helped scientists to store, process and analyze data. But as an explosion of new knowledge has changed the landscape of science, technology also is expanding the power of computers. In this new context, the machines are simple analysis to formulate hypotheses, entering an area hitherto exclusive to humans. According [...]

Steven Chu is a Nobel Laureate in Physics and even after becoming the Energy Secretary he has not stopped being a physicist. He has been urging all Americans to paint their roofs in a lighter color that reflects the sunlight better and help cool the planet a little. He says the cost of making your roof white or black is the same so it makes perfect [...]

Scientists test method that uses lasers to increase the condensing water in clouds and create rain. The laser ionizes the molecules of oxygen and nitrogen around the beam, forming a “plasma channel” of ionized molecules which serve to water condensation. In the laboratory, physicists Jérôme Kasparian of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), [...]

For a long time, physicists have held the belief that ‘the universe will end with an icy sputter known as “heat death”.’ This is the phenomenon when ‘the universe finally uses up all its energy, with all motion stopping and all the atoms in creation grinding to a halt.’ Now, a group of Australian physicists have come up with some new and [...]

The plot is action-suspense formula: some stolen antimatter from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and a threat to use that antimatter to blow up the Vatican during Conclave, by the Illuminati or some scientists driven underground during the 17th century and who are now going to make the Vatican pay by killing thousands of innocent people. ‘Angels [...]

Medical practitioners have been aware of the placebo effect for decades now. Some administer it. Still some attempt to explain it as a biochemical effect. However, no one knows exactly what it is and how it comes about. Cosmologists wrack their brains over an explanation to the horizon problem. Some come up with this explanation of inflation: “You [...]

Physicists, being what they are, refuse to acknowledge the connection at molecular level between emotional and psychological states and physical state. The concept known as ‘quantum entanglement’ just doesn’t fly with scientists who say that the ‘relationship is purely correlational and not causal.’ The concept of ‘quantum entanglement’ [...]

All through the days of high school drudgery, we have studied about the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Apparently, there is a fourth state of matter and it could help building microchips in a grand way. Researchers at the University of McGill have discovered the quasi-three-dimensional electron crystal, which could be used to manufacture [...]