It's two years since Einstein was once again proven to earn the moniker of 'genius'. Consider his theorems are now over a century old and they are still being tested and confirmed to remarkable precision. At 5:51am [EST ] on the 14th of September 2015, the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors , located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford,…
In July of this year, four of Australia's senior meteorologists, David Jones [Head of Climate Monitoring and Prediction Services] , Blair Trewin [Climatologist, National Climate Centre ], Karl Braganza [Manager, Climate Monitoring Section] and Rob Smalley [Climatologist] co-authored an article for "The Conversation" highlighting 2013 as potentially one of the "hottest" on record. Warming and its associated effects is clearly the single most significant public…
This is most definitely one to file under " I learnt something new today"! Brinicles in Antarctica From: Wired Science 7th May 2013 It’s rare these days to uncover a phenomenon completely new to science, one that expands the world’s catalog of objects in strange and wondrous ways. But just as it’s happened in the past few years with uncontacted…
From CERN, the results are preliminary but...at a seminar held at CERN as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. The results presented today are labelled preliminary. They are based on data collected in 2011 and…
Energy of the Future: Igniting a Star With Laser Light. < < previous image | next image >> LIVERMORE, California – It may look like one of Michael Bay's Transformers, but this mass of machinery could soon be the birthplace of a baby star right here on Earth. Using 192 separate lasers and a 400-foot-long series of amplifiers and filters,…
A Nobel laureate gives credence to a malodorous solution to global warming: shooting sulfur into the Earth's atmosphere. By Elizabeth Svoboda. Link: This Global Warming Fix Stinks. [Source: Wired News: Top Stories]