Physics - Page 22

October 20, 2015

Physicist was initially paid just $200 for his Nobel-winning invention

Shuji Nakamura's world got a little bit brighter yesterday morning when he found out he'd won the Nobel Prize in physics, along with Japan's Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano.

October 20, 2015

Big discovery: Tiny electron's mass more precisely measured

Scientists have made the most precise measurement yet of the electron's atomic mass

October 20, 2015

National Ignition Facility announces promising results for nuclear fusion

Scientists say they've taken a key step toward harnessing nuclear fusion as a new way to generate power, an idea that has been pursued for decades.

October 20, 2015

Baby, it's cold inside: Scientists measure the universe's coldest stuff

Physicists from Australia and the United Kingdom have created a new way of measuring matter -- and as a result they now can study the coldest objects in the universe.

October 20, 2015

Something Congress could agree on: Helium

Congress is so mired in gridlock that it couldn’t agree upon a basic funding bill, resulting in a partial shutdown of government. But helium? Now there's an inert gas this inert Congress can agree on.

October 20, 2015

MIT, Harvard scientists accidentally create real-life lightsaber

In a reported first, researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a newfangled technology that theoretically could be used to construct an actual lightsaber.

October 20, 2015

Stephen Hawking gets superhero treatment in new comic

Living legend Stephen Hawking has already achieved superhero status in the eyes of many science geeks, and now his ideas are being honored in comic book form

October 20, 2015

What is nothing? Physicists debate

It was all much ado about nothing as physicists and thinkers came together to debate the concept of nothing at the American Museum of Natural History.

February 5, 2015

Celebrity scientists: Stars who love science

These stars were science geeks before they pursued careers in acting.

January 13, 2015

A second Higgs boson? Physicists debate new particle

The discovery of the Higgs boson is real. But physicists are cagey about whether the new particle they've found will fit their predictions or not.