Category Archives: physics

Discovery of a particle consistent with the theoretical Higgs boson

2012-7-4 – 6:17 am

CERN Press Release » PR17.12 04.07.2012 The Large Hadron Collider was constructed with the goal of hunting down the Higgs boson.  Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in [...]

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QGP (Quark Gluon Plasma) News

2010-11-27 – 9:14 pm

“We don’t yet know how it behaves and we think we have created it.” O.K., then… Well, that’s that… Um, just keep us apprised, eh?

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Above the Tree Line Wind Energy

2010-2-27 – 11:03 am

There are more areas where tall wind turbines would have the 30% minimum capacity factor making them an economically smart decision.

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Thinking about Momentum

2008-12-13 – 2:27 pm

The projected repair cost of the Large Hadron Collider is $25 million. What has that got to do, got to do, with the price of eggs in Alaska, I will leave you to ponder.

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3 D Porous Silicon

2008-11-12 – 6:52 pm

A team of researchers at South Korea’s Hanyung University claims “a breakthrough that could extend lithium ion battery charge life up to 8 times over current values.”

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Solvent Free Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

2008-6-30 – 7:44 am

This breakthrough brings us closer to practical application of “lightweight, inexpensive, flexible dye-sensitized solar films that are stable over long periods of light and heat exposure.”

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IBM Concentrator Photo Voltaic Cells

2008-6-5 – 12:04 pm

70W of usable electric power from a square centimeter on a solar panel, excellent!

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Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

2008-5-20 – 11:13 am

The American Institute of Physics is launching a new peer-reviewed journal in Fall 2008.

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Lithium Nickel Nitride Negative Electrode

2008-2-26 – 10:31 pm

Nitrides of iron, copper and nickel have been described and successfully tested in lithium batteries.

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Gallium Arsenide Nanowires

2008-2-6 – 4:12 pm

The aim is to produce flexible, affordable solar cells composed of Group III-V nanowires. Unfortunately, seeding with gold seems to work better than aluminum.

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