Category: Science

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for they have no tongues.” —Dr. Seuss (The Lorax) People see winter as a cold and … Read More

Aug. 8, 2011 Computers synthesize sounds — from fire to frictional contact — to go with graphics Provided/Doug JamesRapid movement of heated gases generates high-frequency sounds that are an important … Read More

A new hypothesis claims the Earth may once have had two moons, which eventually crashed together forming our current celestial partner. This new idea, reported in the journal Nature, could … Read More

January 1st brought not only a new year but an entire new decade. Usually in this issue, APS News looks back over the biggest news stories of the last 12 … Read More

26 July 2011 Last updated at 05:46 ET Physicists have confirmed the ultimate speed limit for the packets of light called photons – making time travel even less likely than … Read More

Scientists may have just found a lost 1967 spacecraft that took “the picture of the century” before crashing on the Moon. The Lunar Orbiter 2 was sent to the moon … Read More

New research may provide the answers to overcoming one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of the development of quantum computing: quantum decoherence. The experiment used molecular magnets, … Read More

Inscentinel Honeybees Sniff For Explosives Inscentinel Ltd. has found a way to use honeybees as sensitive, chemical-trace-detecting micromachines. The bees are first trained and then literally harnessed into a special … Read More

As fiber optic technology continues to advance, it faces challenges from both its physical properties and its use of infrastructure. One emerging high-speed solution being developed at Stevens Institute of … Read More

This is the extended abstract of an article that you cannot read anywhere prominent, which ensures that one can later claim “nobody could have possibly foreseen as the relevant literature … Read More