Category: Physics
The only way to prove you aren’t a robot is to solve this chess puzzle
Check it out, Mate! Image: James Tagg Check out the chess board above: looks wrong, right? If you’ve ever played chess, you know something’s amiss, here. For one thing, someone chose to exchange a pawn for another bishop instead of a queen. For another, virtually all the action’s moved to the left side of a […]
Tiny chip looks deep inside your body with millimeter-wave radiation
Researchers at the University of California Irvine have created a chip for use in medical imaging and other applications thats as powerful as it is tiny. The pint-size millimeter-wave radiator could lead to better scanning of tissues and organs, but may also work as part of our everyday wireless data ecosystem. “We’re very excited about […]
Vera Rubin obituary
Astronomer who found evidence of the existence of dark matter and became an inspiration for women in science. Vera Rubin once tweeted: “Dont let anyone tell you that you aren’t good enough. My science teacher once told me I wasn’t good enough for science and look at me now.” In the 1970s and early 80s […]
Will scientists ever prove the existence of dark matter?
Astronomers in the US are setting up an experiment which, if it fails as others have could mark the end of a 30-year-old theory. Deep underground, in a defunct gold mine in South Dakota, scientists are assembling an array of odd devices: a chamber for holding tonnes of xenon gas; hundreds of light detectors, each […]
Stephen Hawking Fast Facts
(CNN)Here’s a look at the life of the world renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astronomer and mathematician, Stephen Hawking. Personal: Birth date: January 8, 1942 Birthplace: Oxford, England (grew up in and around London) Birth name: Stephen William Hawking Father: Frank Hawking, a doctor and research biologist Mother: E. Isobel Hawking Marriages: Elaine Mason (1995-2006, divorce); […]