Applied Physics

Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology

2013-05-23 20:40:00

The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...

Pinning down the physics of bubbles

2013-05-11 06:00:00

Bubbles are a serious business. While they're beloved as a childhood pastime and a bathtub luxury, the physics behind the delicate, iridescent clusters remains remarkably complex. Now mathematicians have pinned down the ephemeral physical processes that...

Edward Frieman dies at 87; leading figure in American science

2013-04-28 13:00:00

Edward A. Frieman, a leading figure in American science for decades as a researcher with wide-ranging interests, a top-level governmental advisor on defense and energy issues, and director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has...

Cosmology's future lies with the dark side, Stephen Hawking says

2013-04-17 11:30:00

Want to discover the next big breakthrough in cosmology? Turn to the dark side, says renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. “The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy,” Hawking said Tuesday night...

Stephen Hawking rocks Caltech

2013-04-17 12:25:00

The fanfare that accompanied Stephen Hawking’s entrance into Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium on Tuesday evening was at once cosmologically grand and a bit tongue-in-cheek. It was Richard Strauss’ 1896 “Thus Spake Zarathustra,’&...

Stephen Hawking talks about unified theory and his biggest 'blunder'

2013-04-10 06:41:00

Humans are on the cusp of discovering how the universe works on its biggest and smallest scales, Stephen Hawking said during a lecture Tuesday in Los Angeles. The renowned theoretical physicist made his name studying black holes, massive structures that...

Deep in a former gold mine, scientists hunt for dark matter

2013-04-08 06:00:00

LEAD, S.D. — The scientists don hard hats, jumpsuits and steel-toed boots to pile into a metal cage for a rumbling 11-minute descent into an abandoned South Dakota gold mine. They step over old mine-cart rails, through rough-walled tunnels and...

PASSINGS: Donald A. Glaser, Jewel Akens

2013-03-05 00:00:00

Donald A. Glaser Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donald A. Glaser, 86, a Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley physicist who invented a device called the bubble chamber, which allowed researchers to track the paths of high-energy atomic particles after...

CERN: We've found 'a Higgs boson'; but is it predicted version?

2013-03-14 10:57:00

Evidence indicates that the new particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider is a Higgs boson, officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, said Thursday.� But whether it is the version of the Higgs boson...

Data reveal that the Higgs boson still looks like a Higgs boson

2013-03-06 15:08:00

It seems increasingly likely that the subatomic particle ferreted out by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider� near Geneva last year is indeed a Higgs boson, scientists said Wednesday after a day of talks at a physics conference in Italy. First...

PASSINGS: Robert C. Richardson, Richard Briers, Shadow Morton, Bill Eadington

2013-02-21 00:00:00

Robert C. Richardson Won Nobel Prize for physics in 1996 Robert C. Richardson, 75, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, died Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y., from complications of a heart attack,...

Carl Woese dies at 84; evolutionary biologist

2013-01-22 00:00:00

Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that microbes now called archaea look like bacteria but...

Misha Malyshev, chief executive of Chicago-based Teza Technologies, has joined buildOn's global leadership council. BuildOn is a non-profit organization active in Chicago area schools, working to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service and education.

2013-03-29 00:00:00

Ninth-grade physics students, Andrea McKinley, 15 (reflected), Logan Kirnbauer, 15, holding, and Andrew Arredondo, 15, learn optics in class at Tinley Park High School.

2013-03-07 00:00:00

Prior to joining Utah State University in 2006, Larson was the deputy director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Pennsylvania State University.

2012-12-12 11:18:00