Physics News

Human Surgery in Zero Gravity

Doctors lead by Frances Chief Surgeon Dominique Martin have become the first ever to perform surgery on a human in zero-g. The European Space Agency-backed ...

'Face on Mars' a Figment of Imagination

Many of you out there will be familiar with the image taken by the Viking 1 spacecraft that appears to show a giant face sculpted into the Landscape of Mars, but ...

Computer Chips Communicating With Light

As computer chips get faster and faster moving information around them is getting more difficult, as sending information very fast electrically uses lots of...

A Strange Supernova is worrying cosmologists

A supernova is basically an exploding star, the explosion can be cause for a variety of reasons. A very important type is 1a, this is caused where an old star ember called a white ...

PCs Saving the World

f you have a computer at home or at work which is on for long periods of time then you could be helping to find new drugs for HIV/AIDS, contributing to a model of...

Wanted People with Time on their Hands

The brains of bored volunteers could be the key to unlocking the secrets of distant star systems. Scientists working on the Stardust Mission, which returned from...

See the Attachment... Ooops I Forgot.

How many times have you done that - sent an email and forgotten to add the attachment? Well now help is at hand in the form of  a system being developed by Fernando Pereira an...

Heavanly Hotel

With an eye on the tourist industry of the future, US space company Bigelow aerospace have successfully deployed in orbit 550km above the Earth the first...

Tooth for a Tooth, buy an Eye for Virtual Reality...

Allegedly 1 million people in the UK fail to visit the dentist because of a phobia, but perhaps they'd be more willing to attend if they could use Finnis...

Atomic Tweezers

Scientists from the University of Bonn have constructed the world's smallest pair of tweezers which are capable of moving atoms around one by one and might ...