Physicists

In print (Science News)

4 Jul 2008

When the Large Hadron Collider powers up this fall, protons moving at almost the speed of light will collide with energies high enough, physicists hope, to solve matter’s biggest mysteries.

First Measurements Of The Solar Wind Termination Shock By Voyager 2 Spacecraft (Science Daily)

3 Jul 2008

Space physicists report that the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which has been traveling outward from the sun for 31 years, has made the first direct observations of the solar wind termination shock, according to an article in the journal Nature.

Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features (PhysOrg)

3 Jul 2008

What do black holes and entangled particles have in common? Until about a year ago, physicists thought that the two entities existed in completely separate worlds. Then, in 2007, physicist Michael Duff from Imperial College London demonstrated a correlation between the entanglement of three qubits and the entropy of a black hole. In the past year, several studies have demonstrated even more ...