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Chemists Strike Gold With New Gold Catalysts
March 23, 2007 Few people look beyond gold's glitter and rarity, but chemists have found that its chemical properties are just as interesting, making it a unique catalyst for producing unusual organic molecules. UC ... > full story -
A Hidden Twist In The Black Hole Information Paradox
February 27, 2007 Professor Sam Braunstein, of the University of York's Department of Computer Science, and Dr Arun Pati, of the Institute of Physics, Sainik School, Bhubaneswar, India, have established that quantum ... > full story -
Clock Comparison Yields Clues To 'Constant' Change
February 15, 2007 Years of comparisons among the world's best atomic clocks -- based on different atoms -- have established the most precise limits ever achieved in the laboratory for detecting possible changes in ... > full story -
Professor Resolves Einstein's Twin Paradox
February 14, 2007 Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day ... > full story -
Physicists Find Way To 'See' Extra Dimensions
February 3, 2007 Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of ... > full story -
Gravitational Wave Background
January 30, 2007 In the standard model of cosmology, the early universe underwent a period of fantastic growth. This inflationary phase, after only a trillionth of a second, concluded with a violent conversion of ... > full story -
Theoretical Physicists Develop Test For String Theory
January 24, 2007 For decades, many scientists have criticized string theory, pointing out that it does not make predictions by which it can be tested. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University; the University of ... > full story -
Dark Energy May Be Vacuum
January 16, 2007 Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have brought us one step closer to understanding what the universe is made of. The new data shows that ... > full story -
Superstrings Could Add Gravitational Cacophony To Universe's Chorus
January 8, 2007 Albert Einstein theorized that moving matter would warp the fabric of four-dimensional space-time, sending out ripples of gravity called gravitational waves. No one has observed such a phenomenon so ... > full story -
Science Of Santa Claus: Jolly Old Elf Really Can Deliver Presents In One Night, Says Engineer
December 24, 2006 Don't believe in Santa Claus? If you're skeptical of Santa's abilities to deliver presents to millions of homes and children in just one night, North Carolina State University's Dr. Larry Silverberg, ... > full story
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