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World's longest lab experiment still going strong, via webcam - (Friday 27th of January 2012 02:55:00 PM)

In 1927, a physics teacher named Thomas Parnell launched an fling at on viscous liquids. 85
years later, we're still waiting for his results. It all began with a funnel, a beaker, and
some melted tar pitch. Parnell, a teacher at the tutelage  [...]

New periodic table elements finally get names, will probably want to trade them in - (Monday 05th of December 2011 02:10:00 PM)

Flerovium and livermorium. Prime names for really ugly babies -- or, equivalently, new
elements on the periodic table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry opted for
the latter last week, baptizing elements 114 and 116 just about  [...]

Scientists capture birth of new planet on camera, mother and child doing just fine - (Saturday 22nd of October 2011 02:34:00 AM)

After all the pushing, squeezing and screaming, the universe has finally given birth to a
new planet, in an eruption that two scientists managed to capture on film. The newborn pile of
liberal pudge, named LkCa 15 b, was discovered by Drs. Michael  [...]

Pour one out for the Tevatron particle accelerator, because it's shutting down today - (Friday 30th of September 2011 12:43:00 PM)

The eyes of the physics jungle are collectively fixed upon Illinois today, where, later
this afternoon, researchers at Fermilab will shut down the Tevatron particle accelerator... for
good. That's right -- the world's second-largest collider is being  [...]

NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El used to demo next-gen mobile graphics, blow minds (video) - (Monday 30th of May 2011 03:00:00 AM)

You might think homespun too grown-up to be wowed by shiny, glittery things, but we doubt
many will be able to watch NVIDIA's new Glow Ball tech demo without a smidgen of childlike
glee. Built to run on the company's quad-core Kal-El processor, it  [...]

NASA concludes Gravity Probe B space-time experiment, proves Einstein really was a genius - (Friday 06th of May 2011 12:29:00 PM)

Well, it looks like Einstein knew what he was talking about, after all. Earlier this week,
researchers at NASA and binet-simon test released the findings from their six-year Gravity
Probe B (GP- mission, launched to test Einstein's general theory of  [...]

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