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  On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen "structures" are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says. Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour—a mov
• 3     Secret physics message in the source code of Digg.com
  

  Have you ever had a good look at the source code for Digg.com?
  Perhaps you don't even know what the source code for a website is; in that case you may not be interested in this. But for the rest of you, I have found something that is quite strange and there appears to be a comical physicist worki
• 2     What We Research - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  

  You can find six new online sources of info about hot topics in modern physics at the 'What We Research' outreach page of Perimeter Institute. The info includes text, graphics and online presentations dealing with Cosmology, Superstring Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Inform
• 2     Hawking to retire as Lucasian Professor of Maths
  

  Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will next year retire as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Isaac Newton, the university said on Thursday. A spokesman said it was policy for the title holder to retire at 67. Hawking, who has held the position since 197
• 3     9 Lessons Richard Feynman Taught Us About Creativity
  

  If there is a scientist who could teach us about creativity, it must be Richard Feynman. He was a Nobel Laureate who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. But aside from just a scientist, he was also a very creative person. He often found ideas in unusual ways. The idea which earned him the Nobel
• 2     3 win Nobel for subatomic physics research
  

  Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday. American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery of a
• 1     Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments
  

  Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference - Assuming the earth is spherical, its circumference spans 360 degrees. So if the two cities are seven degrees apart, that would constitute seven-360ths of the full circle -- about one-fiftieth. Estimating from travel time that the towns were
• 2     How do you turn molten metal into perfect spheres? Just pour it off the roof
  

  About 230 years ago, molten lead that rained from the sky—historically something to avoid at all costs—became a clever new way to manufacture an important commodity: shotgun ammo. Precisely round pellets fly straighter, but casting each in its own 1/8-inch mold isn’t exactly mass production. In zer
• 2     Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle
  

  Physicists have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b. The particle contains two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and weighs about six times the proton mass. This is probably one of the last noticeable sub-a
• 3     Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research
  

  After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab. Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physi

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