Collaborate Disseminate
As the Sun and stars themselves can attest, nuclear fusion could be an essentially unlimited energy source, if we can only harness it. The problem is that the plasma used is inherently unstable, and large eruptions can damage the reactors con… Continue reading Nuclear fusion plasma could be stabilized against large eruptions – by causing lots of small ones
Open source hardware and software company Arduino has teamed up with Google to develop and launch the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab. Designed for students aged 11 to 14, the kit helps kids experiment with forces, motion, magnetism and condu… Continue reading Arduino and Google get middle schoolers kitted out for science
What goes up must come down. And what goes way, way up can come down way, way too fast to survive the sudden stop. That’s why [Tom Stanton] built an altitude recording projectile into an oversized golf ball with parachute-controlled descent. Oh, and there’s a trebuchet too.
That’s a lot …read more
From the heart of Silicon Valley comes a new buzzword. Gallium nitride is the future of power technology. Tech blogs are touting gallium nitride as the silicon of the future, and you are savvy enough to get in on the ground floor. Knowing how important gallium nitride is makes you …read more
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Superb explanatory post – via Julien Aubert from l’Institut de physique du globe de Paris (CNRS/IPGP/IGN/Université de Paris), and writing at CNRS – focusing on the phenom of geomagnetic jerks. Today’s Must Read… Continue reading The Geomagnetic Jerk
We don’t know whether quantum physics proves the universe is truly a strange place or that we are living in a virtual reality simulation, but we know it turns a lot of common sense into garbage. Take noise, for example. Noise — as in random electrical noise — is bad, …read more
Dancers performed as electrons, brain processes, and teaching tools. Continue reading Watch Scientists Express Their Research in Interpretive Dances
In the early 1990s, I was lucky enough to get some time on a 60 MeV linear accelerator as part of an undergraduate lab course. Having had this experience, I can feel for the scientists at CERN who have had to make do with their current 13 TeV accelerator, which only manages energies some 200,000 times larger. So, I read with great interest when they announced the publication of the initial design concept for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), which promises collisions nearly an order of magnitude more energetic. The plan, which has been in the works since 2014, includes …read more
Continue reading The Future Circular Collider: Can it Unlock Mysteries of the Universe?
Scientists have created a laser-cooled neutral plasma for the first time that will be used to simulate some of the hottest and most exotic matter in the universe. Continue reading Scientists Made Plasma That Is 50 Times Colder Than Deep Space
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell says she has battled “imposter syndrome” at many points in her career as a physicist. Continue reading Physicist Wins $3 Million Prize for Discovering Pulsars, Donates it All to Promoting Diversity in STEM