To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel and produces almost zero waste. Essentially, cold fusion would make oil obsolete.
However, many experts debate whether money should [...]
Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion
Google Joins MIT in Search for Earth-like Planets
“When starships transporting colonists first depart the solar system, they may well be headed toward a TESS-discovered planet as their new home.”
George R. Ricker, senior research scientist at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT
Google has joined MIT scientists who are designing a satellite-based observatory -the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)- [...]
Nearest star’s wobbles could reveal Earth’s twin
Another Earth may be orbiting the star next door, and we could detect its presence within a few years, a new study argues. A telescope trained permanently on Alpha Centauri should be able to pick up the slight stellar wobbles induced by a small, rocky, Earth-like planet.
Alpha Centauri lies just over 4 light years away [...]
‘Test tube universe’ hints at unifying theory
A “universe in a test tube” that could be used to assess theories of everything has been created by physicists.
Time is running out – literally, say scientists”
Are we missing a dimension of time?
Are dark forces at work in space?
The test tube, the size of a little finger, has been cooled to a fraction of [...]
The World As I See It -An Essay By Albert Einstein
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and [...]
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The U.S. Senate is about to vote on the NASA funding for next year. They may also consider an amendment by Senators Mikulski and Hutchison adding $1 billion to [...]
Science should be ‘as exciting as science fiction’ says Hawking
CAMBRIDGE, England (AFP) – British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking revealed his desire on Monday to make “real science as exciting as science fiction” as he publicised a new book for children about the cosmos.
“It is easier to explain things to children because they have open minds and are eager to learn,” he told reporters at the [...]
Nuclear Reactions in the Lab Mimic Supernovas
Burning more brilliantly than a billion suns, the energy-packed star deaths known as supernovas have lately enabled scientists to discover fundamental properties of the universe.
Now physicists hope to uncover new cosmic secrets by recreating some supernova features in the lab.
The REsonator SOLenoid with Upscale Transmission (RESOLUT) joins a small number of facilities around the world [...]
Researchers create gravity in lab experiment
Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could help physicists to make a significant step towards the long-sought-after quantum theory of gravity.
Just as a [...]
Scientists break the speed of light
It was supposed to be the one speed limit you cannot break.
But scientists claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of travel faster than the speed of light.
The feat contradicts one of the key tenets of Einstein’s special theory of relativity – that nothing, under any circumstances, can move faster than 186,000 miles per [...]
