en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/science/physics/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/science/divisive_idea_explains_galaxies/ A controversial theory of physics may explain some aspects of galaxy behaviour better than rival, but more widely accepted, ideas. That is the claim of an astronomer who studied eight so-called dwarf galaxies. Modified Newtonian Dynamics (Mond) is p news science 2008-04-07 08:22:51 http://www.newsique.com/science/divisive_idea_explains_galaxies/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7329444.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/divisive_idea_explains_galaxies/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/princeton_physicists_connect_str/ Princeton physicists connect string theory with established physics String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than w news science 2007-05-03 16:25:33 http://www.newsique.com/science/princeton_physicists_connect_str/ www.princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S17/80/32S21/index.xml?section=newsreleases Interesting [8] 95 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/princeton_physicists_connect_str/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/physicists_modify_double-slit_ex/ Work completed by physics professors at Rowan University shows that light is made of particles and waves, a finding that refutes a common belief held for about 80 years. Shahriar S. Afshar, the visiting professor who is currently at Boston's Institute news science 2007-03-13 09:31:01 http://www.newsique.com/science/physicists_modify_double-slit_ex/ Physorg http://www.physorg.com/news92937814.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/physorg/ 91 Interesting [6] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/physicists_modify_double-slit_ex/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/physics_agency_instigates_review/ The body overseeing UK astronomy and physics is to commission an independent review of its operations. The probe into the effectiveness of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) follows widespread concern over the status of its budget. news science 2008-06-18 08:17:59 http://www.newsique.com/science/physics_agency_instigates_review/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7460162.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/physics_agency_instigates_review/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/uk_woes_could_hit_euro_physics/ The future development of one of Europe's scientific "crown jewels" may be affected by the current woes over the UK's physics budget. The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is a world-leading centre for the study of the structure of materia news science 2008-01-25 08:19:41 http://www.newsique.com/science/uk_woes_could_hit_euro_physics/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7207330.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/uk_woes_could_hit_euro_physics/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/uk_physics_has_brighter_future/ The "doom and gloom" being spread about the state of UK physics and the funding of research is unhelpful and paints an inaccurate picture, says Keith Mason. The chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council claims the likely fallout news science 2008-01-23 08:20:50 http://www.newsique.com/science/uk_physics_has_brighter_future/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7200456.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/uk_physics_has_brighter_future/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/ministers_review_physics_funding/ The government is to review its funding for physics after scientists warned of an �80m research shortfall. Leading physicists criticised the threatened cutbacks which they said could "damage" physics research. Science Minister Ian Pearson said fun news science 2007-12-11 08:19:42 http://www.newsique.com/science/ministers_review_physics_funding/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7137387.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/ministers_review_physics_funding/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/a_two-time_universe_physicist_ex/ For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics — the equations describing matter, gravity and the other forces of nature. Those news science 2007-05-16 08:40:01 http://www.newsique.com/science/a_two-time_universe_physicist_ex/ Physorg http://www.physorg.com/news98468776.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/physorg/ 91 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/science/a_two-time_universe_physicist_ex/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/the_universe_is_a_string-net_liq/ In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of "particles" with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives of ordinary peopl news science 2007-03-16 10:38:08 http://www.newsique.com/science/the_universe_is_a_string-net_liq/ New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325954.200?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=fourth-state http://www.newsique.com/sources/newscientist/ 87 Under Rated [1] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/the_universe_is_a_string-net_liq/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/out_there_-_dark_energy/ Three days after learning that he won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, George Smoot was talking about the universe. Sitting across from him in his office at the University of California, Berkeley, was Saul Perlmutter, a fellow cosmologist and a probable f news science 2007-03-12 11:23:16 http://www.newsique.com/science/out_there_-_dark_energy/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11dark.t.html?ex=1331182800&en=95ca4e035aa630cc&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Interesting [1] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/out_there_-_dark_energy/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/physicists_remember_when_superco/ Like the musical Woodstock, the legend of the “Woodstock of Physics” grows year after year. Twenty years ago this month, nearly 2,000 physicists crammed into a New York Hilton ballroom to hear about a breakthrough class of materials called high-tem news science 2007-03-06 08:46:44 http://www.newsique.com/science/physicists_remember_when_superco/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/science/06supe.html?ex=1330837200&en=dbdf1b963faea1eb&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Interesting [4] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/physicists_remember_when_superco/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/price_of_next_big_thing_in_physi/ The price of exploring inner space went up today. At a news conference in Beijing an international consortium of physicists released the first detailed design of what they believe will be the Next Big Thing in physics: a machine 20 miles long that will news science 2007-02-08 15:44:24 http://www.newsique.com/science/price_of_next_big_thing_in_physi/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/science/08cnd-collider.html?ex=1328590800&en=9b7528c9bc5aeb8b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Interesting [5] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/science/price_of_next_big_thing_in_physi/#comments