Breakthroughs in nanotechnology seem to be taking place on a daily basis anymore. First they build the Nanocar (and later an engine for it) and then nanotech batteries ... Read More

As May draws to a close, I offer up an article on wave particle duality. This gives a basic overview of the major concepts in the wave and particle ... Read More

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), discussed earlier this week, received approval for construction, according to an article in New Scientist magazine. The ITER was approved on Wednesday by the ... Read More

I first heard about the book Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity about week ago, when author David Bodanis was awarded the Royal Society's Aventis prize for the ... Read More

As mentioned earlier, my "theme" for the added content in May is waves. A number of new articles have been posted in the last week covering various aspects of ... Read More

New work at General Atomics in San Diego indicates that there might be a way to keep a nuclear fusion reactor from destroying itself. A nuclear fusion reactor would produce more ... Read More

Last weekend, Indiana University hosted the 2006 National Science Olympiad, an annual event that tests applications of scientific concepts in a variety of areas (here are the 2006 events). ... Read More

In the classic 1977 book The First Three Minutes, Nobel Prize-winner Steven Weinberg laid out the physics of what happened just moments after the Big Bang that created our universe. ... Read More

A pair of new atlases of the universe span 5.6 billion light-years out into space, about 40 percent of the way to the edge of the visible universe, encompassing over ... Read More

Quantum physics began in 1900 with Max Planck's explanation to the ultraviolet catastrophe in the blackbody radiation experiments. Planck proposed that energy could only be absorbed by an atom ... Read More

Earlier, I posted about organic light-emitting diodes (OLED). Last week, researchers affiliated with the Universite de Montreal announced that they developed a fabrication procedure which would work as a ... Read More

The idea of turning waste (or biomass) into electrical power is one which has a lot of research behind it. For years, it's been known that microbes can generate ... Read More

As computing power increases, heat becomes a factor. Fans used in computers have trouble controlling the temperature of smaller computer chips. British scientists have proposed using ceramic materials ... Read More

Protons are comprised of two up quarks and one down quark, though the properties from these quarks explain the charge, but not the mass or magnetic moment, of the proton. ... Read More

It's a regular Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) bonanza over at the website of Popular Mechanics magazine. The $120 million LBT, which is essentially two telescopes in one, will have ... Read More

Physicists have found more evidence that perhaps a couple of significant physical constants may have changed over the history of the universe. If these findings are confirmed, then it ... Read More

I've added the basic kinematic equations for both one-dimensional and two-dimensional cases. Together with the information on Newton's Laws of Motion and universal gravitation, this provides the mathematical ... Read More

In the last week, I've come across two articles focusing on biofuels, no doubt as part of the greater interest in Earth Day, as well as the rising gasoline prices. ... Read More