Articles about physics

	Recordings on Predicting the Existence of Parallel Worlds Found
...nterpretations by too many unskilled readers." The work of the physicist started one of the most confusing mysteries to from quantum mechanics. His theory includes a consequence stating that tiny particles, including electrons, are able to behave in a very interesting way, which permits them to be in 2 places at once. Later Bohr commented: "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Accordin...
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	The Evolution of the First Stars that Lighted Up the Universe Revealed
...studied the Universe and came up with the idea that it took 500 million years for the first stars to bring light to the Universe. In 2001 NASA launched WMAP, the mission of which was to estimate the particles of light that was left shortly after the Big Bang. According to scientists, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy probe (WMAP) gathers information about the shape, the age and the way Universe was formed. It is drawing a...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist. According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu...
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	InfoNIAC Announces a New Service
...ffensive or commercial content will be deleted (for more information on this, see our TERMS OF USE). Thus, after you leave at least 20 comments, you will be authorized to submit your own news and articles and point to their sources via hyperlinks, if necessary. Note that we do not support plagiarism in any form. If spotted, the author of the post will receive a warning, while his post will be deleted. InfoNIAC a...
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	Animal Crew Returns from Space
...ies. Researchers wanted to find out how will a butterfly grow inside a cocoon, what kind of wings they develop, if any at all or what sense of space they will have. Scientists hope to learn a lot about biological effects of space flight. The research capsule with collection of insects and mammals provided almost complete weightlessness, which is very hard to create, said Yury Nosenko, the deputy chief of the Russian F...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...mbryonic development, aging, adult physiology and diseases. Thanks to this technology over ten thousand mouse genes were made inactive, which means that scientists have researched the significance of about a half of all genes in the mammalian genome by "knocking out" certain genes. The gene targeting technology has already produced over 500 mouse models of human disorders, such as cardiovascular, neuro-degenerative diseas...
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	Scientists Discovered the Smallest Black Hole
...rchers was mentioned at the meeting of American Astronomical Society High-Energy Astrophysics Division held in Los Angeles. According to scientists the mass of J1650 is of 3.8 Suns and it would be about 15 mile across. "This makes the black hole one of the smallest objects ever discovered outside our solar system," concluded Shaposhnikov. "Amazingly, equations from Albert Einstein predict that a black hole with 3.8 ...
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	Data from Disk Drive Recovered After Shuttle Columbia's Accident
...e disk, as, besides the fact that metal and plastic elements where completely burned, the seal found on the side that protects from dirt and dust melted. Such damage may cause the penetration of the particles that can scratch small materials stored inside the disk, thus making it impossible to preserve data in endless 0s or 1s. Fortunately no damage was spotted on the spinning platters that in fact register information....
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	Research Secretly Identified Users of Mobile Phones Outside US
...lied by researchers, which is "de jure" illegal in the United States. As regarding the results of the study, it should be mentioned that people move around very little throughout their daily life. About 75 percent of studied people mostly stayed within a 20 mile-wide circle for a half-year period. Researchers refused to disclose where the study was performed. They only mentioned that the studied region was an industria...
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	Fox Interactive Media Purchased Strategic Data Corp.
...to building a business, and in case there will be other applications the company will act aggressively. According to statistical data provided by comScore Media Metrics in December MySpace attracted about 90 millions users worldwide. The majority of users were from the United States. Fox is also the owner of IGN, a video game site, and AmericanIdol.com. In 2006 Fox Interactive Media signed a deal with number one search...
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	Google's New Purchase Called Adscape
... already received funding from Atlanta's HIG Ventures. Several large players in the industry of video games starting gaining more interest in in-game advertising, however, they are still cautious about having high expectations. According to the data provided by Park Associates, in-game advertising in 2005 had revenue of $ 80 million and the company forecasts that the revenue is to increase up to $ 605 million. Toda...
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	First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon
...st adventurer to walk to the North and South poles without any assistance. Now his aim is to build a center on a Russian base, which is situated on King George Island. The center is to teach children about several important things about Antarctica. They will learn about the climate change and most importantly they will learn about the things that they can do for protecting our planet. The base itself has a size of 40 b...
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	European Union is Angry on Microsoft
...e of 497 million Euros was imposed on Microsoft by the European Commission on April 2004. This was because the software giant failed to provide information to the developers of small-business servers about the need to compete with its own products. The officials from Microsoft outlined that the company will be charging for interoperability information. This is because the information was based on Microsoft's personal in...
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