Physicist Offers Foundation For Uprooting A Hallowed Principle Of ... - Space Daily
Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If confirmed, the abnormality would disprove the ...
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Learning More About Levitation - Time
Not Quite Yet: Jerry Lewis levitates in Visit to a Small Planet , 1960. Physics always seems to want to come out to play. Just when this most technical of sciences starts to seem impossibly arcane, it goes goofy on you, as it did last year with the ...
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Levitation At Microscopic Scale Could Lead To Nanomechanical Devices ... - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2009) ? Magicians have long created the illusion of levitating objects in the air. Now researchers have actually levitated an object, suspending it without the need for external support. Working at the molecular level, the ...
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Mysterious Force to Help Build Future Nanomachines - Medagadget.com
Filed under: in the news... Harvard University researchers have finally observed the repulsive Casimir force, a quantum phenomenon that was predicted back in the 1940's. The force comes into effect only when two particles locate themselves very close ...
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Study Reveals Hazards Of Severe Space Weather - Space Daily
A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth. The National Academy of Sciences in Washington conducted the study. The resulting report provides ...
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Schools tap '21st-century skills' - Christian Science Monitor
Reporter Stacy Teicher Khadaroo discusses education techniques modeled after those at New Technology High School in Napa, Calif. For decades, the emphasis in public education has been on making sure that students can read, write, and do math. But can ...
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Government turns to darts to encourage maths - Times Online
For years debate has raged over whether darts is really a sport. But there is no doubt in the Government?s mind that it is, at least, a branch of applied mathematics. As the World Professional Darts Championships hots up at the Lakeside, ministers ...
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Researchers measure elusive repulsive force from quantum fluctuations - HULIQ.com
The study, led by Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), will be published as the January 8 cover story of Nature. The discovery builds on previous work related ...
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IYA2009: The International Year of Astronomy - Itwire.com
The International Year of Astronomy 2009, as declared by the United Nations and coordinated by the International Astronomical Union, is coming to your local universe. The official statement (pdf file) by the 172nd session of the United Nations for ...
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President-Elect Obama: Want to Stimulate the Economy? Freeze Or Lower ... - Newsblaze.com
One way you can stimulate the economy at very little cost is to lower or, at minimum, freeze the existing tax rates on long-term capital gains. This will result in very little reduction in tax revenues while significantly stimulating the economy ...
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