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Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wavy structures in Saturn’s atmosphere and the source from which the jets derive their energy. In a new study appearing in the June edition […]
Super Physics Smackdown: Relativity v Quantum Mechanics…In Space
June 25, 2012
The only way to study the conflict between relativity and quantum mechanics is to test them over enormous distances in space. And physicists are already making plans One of the great puzzles of modern science is that the laws that govern the universe on the largest scale are entirely different from the ones that govern […]
Scientists to ‘hack’ Hawking’s brain …
June 25, 2012
… in bid to help him communicate more easily By DANIEL BATES Scientists are working out a way to ‘hack’ into Stephen Hawking’s brain to enable him to communicate more easily. The world-famous physicist has been trying out the ‘iBrain’ which picks up his brain waves and sends them to a computer for analysis. Hawking […]
Higgs Discovery on the Brink, but is it THE Higgs?
June 25, 2012
By now you should know that physicists working on the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are about to announce important new results in the search for the Higgs boson. The announcement will be made on the morning of the 4th July at CERN in advance of the ICHEP conference in Melbourne […]
June 25, 2012
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