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Science News
May 25, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Crystal Mobius Physicists in Japan have come up with a technique for twisting a crystalline ribbon of niobium selenide into a Mobius strip.   |
Reason
April 2002
Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
CIO
March 15, 2002
John Edwards |
Quantum Leap A quantum physics breakthrough could turn pipe dreams, such as ultra-high-speed quantum computers and teleportation, into real-world technologies... |
D-Lib
December 2001
Stephen Pinfield |
How Do Physicists Use an E-Print Archive? This paper describes how physicists make use of an established centralized subject-based e-prints service, arXiv (formerly known as the Los Alamos XXX service), and discusses the possible implications of this use for institutional multidisciplinary e-print archives... |
Wired
October 2001
Wil McCarthy |
Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch... |
Science News
September 29, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Follow the Leader Physicists Graeme J. Ackland and David Butler of the University of Edinburgh address a sort of "pack formation" in the Sept. 13 Nature. They created a mathematical model to predict when packs would form in orienteering and cycling competitions... |
Wired
September 2001
Mark K. Anderson |
Liquid Logic Say good-bye to the either-or binary digit. Quantum computing is riding a new wave of supercool subatomic bits that can be both 1 and 0 at once... |
Science News
September 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Waves of Congestion From a physicist's point of view, traffic flow can be regarded as a "many-body system of strongly interacting bodies." Various studies have revealed that such systems can show wavelike behavior and abrupt transitions from one state to another... |
Wired
August 2001
Mark Frauenfelder |
Smash Hits Videogames are getting seriously physical: The engine is the real-time force of nature. Now when you fight, the entire game environment fights back... |
Wired
June 2001
Brian Alexander |
Atomic Rulers of the World Nanoscale optics, quantum computing - the battle for technology supremacy is being fought inside the labs of a national standards agency called NIST. And the new enemy is in the White House... |
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