Physics News

China Cleaning up Beijing's Act for Olympics

The Chinese government have announced funding for a large-scale wind farm on the outskirts of Beijing in an effort to cut pollution in time for the 2008 Olympics. The 580 mil...

iLightning

A paper in this week's New England Journal describes a man admitted to hospital with a rather strange pattern of skin injuries including ruptured eardrums, a broken jaw and burns t...

Researchers confirm the existence of water on an extrasolar planet

For the first time researchers have been able to say with certainty that there is water on a distant planet. Writing in this week's Nature, UCL's Giovanna...

Galaxy Zoo

Ever wanted to take part in astronomy research, but don’t have a telescope? Well now you can get a chance to look through some of the most beautiful astronomical images taken and m...

Rabies-based Trojan Horse to Smuggle Drugs into the Brain

Harvard Scientists have tamed one of nature's nastiest pathogens by turning part of the rabies virus into a powerful therapeutic tool. Manju Swamy and his team borrowed the surface...

Radiation-hungry fungi feed astronauts of the future

Inspired by findings from Chernobyl, biologists have discovered that some fungi can grow using radiation instead of light, this may make them ideal for growing in space for astrona...

What’s the matter?

Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have created a new form of matter, which they published in the journal Science this week.  Unfortunately it’s not a form of chocolat...

Sixth Sense for Submarines

Scientists would like to build robotic submarines that can be used in complex tight spaces such as coral reefs, wrecks, oil rigs etc. The problem is that to avoid crashing in these...

Diamonds Used to Probe Fundamentals of the Universe

One of the major ways of finding out about the universe is to smash particles together and look at what particles leave the collision.  To do this amongst other things, such a...

Can You Do Better Than NASA?

Ever thought you could do a better job than NASA?  Well Peter Homer from Maine, in the US, did and he scooped a two-hundred-thousand dollar prize for his efforts....