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Science News
May 26, 2001 |
Cosmic Numerology Some history of scientists' attraction to special numbers and mathematic simplicity in physics and astronomy.   |
D-Lib
May 2001 |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory This month's featured collection, the Fermilab website, is not only among the best examples of scientific information dissemination on the web, it is also one of the oldest U.S. websites... |
Science News
April 7, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Strange Orbits Like toy cars chasing each other on a looped racetrack, three stars can, in principle, trace out a figure-eight orbit in space... |
Science News
March 24, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Buses on Quantum Schedules Anyone who has waited for a bus in the city has probably casually observed that, after an inordinately long wait, two or three buses often come along at the same time. The question of why such bunching seems to happen has prompted all sorts of speculation... |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
Wired
January 2001
Ed Regis |
Zip Drive NASA scientists are building a hot little ride: Vasimr, a rocket that runs on million-degree plasma and could someday fuel a fast-track trip to Mars... |
Science News
December 23, 2000 |
Science Safari: Snowflake Central Stunning photos, fascinating historical material, and an informative snowflake physics primer highlight this Web site... |
D-Lib
December 2000 |
PhysDoc A Distributed Network of Physics Institutions Documents: Collecting, Indexing, and Searching High Quality Documents by using Harvest.. |
Science News
October 7, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Staying in Step Researchers expand on a 17th-century experiment into the odd tendency of side-by-side pendulum clocks to synchronize themselves... |
Wired
September 2000
Charles Platt |
Bright Switch A tiny crystal full of holes is about to smash the electronic speed limit, and in the coming photonics era, superfast optical networking is only the beginning. |
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