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Science News
May 14, 2005 |
From the May 11, 1935, Issue Pastime of Kings Revived... New Anti-Aircraft "Ears" Hear "Enemy" 12 Miles Away... Einstein Attacks Quantum Mechanics...   |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2014
Philip Ball |
The quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty This book explores the cultural reception of quantum physics since its earliest days, when Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and others grappled with the bizarre findings of their research, telling them how the world is structured. |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2015
Matt Gunther |
Einstein was right! In his new book, Einstein was right!, Karl Hess attempts to understand Einstein's motivations for criticizing quantum theory and how, in the end, he was right to do so. |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2013
Philip Ball |
Quantum leaps of faith There's no reason to suppose that the way quantum mechanics was discovered is the most logical or obvious means to comprehend its conceptual foundations. In some recent re-evaluations of quantum theory, the 'quantum' becomes almost incidental. |
Science News
July 16, 2005 |
From the July 13, 1935, Issue Soundproofing Gives Wall Look of Underground Cave... Professor Albert Einstein Announces a New Theory... Expansion of Universe Sole Explanation of Red Shift... |
Chemistry World
January 16, 2014
Timothy Hele |
Quantum mechanical tunneling in chemical physics There are few texts on quantum tunnelling and its many applications, so it is gratifying to see an attempt to supply a much-needed addition to the field by Nakamura and Mil'nikov. |
Wired
January 2005
Duff McDonald |
The BlackBerry Brain Trust First Mike Lazaridis reinvented the way we get email. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
Reason
March 2007
Kenneth Silber |
No Small Matter Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry? Book Review: The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin. |
Science News
March 31, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 28, 1931 Prince lion-cub speaks a word for himself... Einstein finds past events not knowable with certainty... Physicists now sure vibrations occur in heart of atom... |
Science News
February 15, 2003 |
TimeLine: February 11, 1933 Yellow sodium light effective outdoors... Tuning in on atomic hearts makes their breaking easier... Einstein develops quantum mechanics in latest paper |
Wired
September 2006
Adam Rogers |
Physics Wars String theory was supposed to reconcile the subatomic world with the vast reaches of spacetime. Now Lee Smolin wants to unravel it. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Quantum Cryptography Cracked? Swedes find vulnerability in supposedly secure quantum cryptography system. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory and Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2012
Caryl Richards |
Theory of quantum optical devices Semiconductor Quantum Optics by Mackillo Kira and Stephan Koch is an extremely detailed description that rapidly builds on the fundamental concepts to the more esoteric light - -matter phenomena in low-dimensional semiconductors. |
Smithsonian
June 2005
Richard Panek |
The Year of Albert Einstein His dizzying discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid all the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math. |
Scientific American
August 2007
JR Minkel |
The Gedanken Experimenter In putting teleportation, entanglement and other quantum oddities to the test, physicist Anton Zeilinger hopes to find out just how unreal quantum reality can get. |
Science News
January 27, 2001 |
TimeLine: January 24, 1931 Einstein discusses revolution he caused in scientific thought... Women remember pleasant events, men unpleasant... |
Science News
May 26, 2001 |
Cosmic Numerology Some history of scientists' attraction to special numbers and mathematic simplicity in physics and astronomy. |
Salon.com
July 6, 2000
John Farrell |
Did Einstein cheat? Is the great physicist's most famous theory a crock? Members of the anti-relativity underground think so. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Mark Anderson |
String Theory Made Easy Two books tackle one of the most complex theories known to man with surprisingly satisfactory results |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
Science News
October 10, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics By Leonard Susskind The deepest issues are treated conversationally and accessibly, recounting efforts to persuade the physics community to appreciate the crisis that Stephen Hawking's work on black holes created. |
Technology Research News
September 10, 2003 |
Quantum computing has limits Researchers from the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M University have shown that quantum computers, while theoretically useful for very large problems, are likely to always need very large amounts of power. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Albert Einstein We may love Einstein. But do we really know him? |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Cast Wary Eye On Atomic-Level Computing Experts point out that quantum computers could execute calculations several millions of times faster than conventional systems, but that the technology still is years away from becoming truly functional. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
Scientific American
November 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: The Superorganism Quantum Ten by Sheilla Jones captures the scientific and the human aspects of quantum physics... The Superorganism by Bert Holldobler presents a rich and diverse natural history facts that illustrate superorganismic traits in insect societies... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Joshua J. Romero |
Physicist Named MacArthur Fellow for Work on Quantum Computing Alexei Kitaev's theoretical studies may lead the way to quantum computers that catch their own errors |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Could Someone Really Teleport Out of Jail?: Fringe Fact vs. Fiction In last night's episode of Fringe, "Ability," a man teleports out of prison. Scientists offer insight on how close this is to reality. |
Science News
May 19, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Cosmic Numerology Imbued with the same conviction of a natural order that drove Pythagoras and his followers to search for an underlying numerical harmony, Johannes Kepler maintained that the physical universe was laid out according to a mathematical design... |
Chemistry World
July 23, 2014
Jonathan Prance |
The quantum age In this entertaining and accessible book, Brian Clegg explains the weirdness of quantum mechanics through the effects it has on the world around us and the technologies we use |
Technology Research News
June 30, 2004 |
Chip protects single atoms Researchers have found a way to closely control the quantum states, or traits, of single atoms trapped in a microchip. The method is a step toward building devices like miniature atomic clocks that are an order of magnitude more accurate than those that exist today. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber Scientists in Scotland say they have created a black hole's event horizon using laser pulses and microstructured optical fiber. |
Science News
December 9, 2006 |
Timeline: From the December 5, 1936 Old Glass in New Forms... New Element Discovered in Interstellar Space... Einstein Invents Automatic Camera with "Electric Eye"... |
Technology Research News
January 29, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Quantum computers go digital One of the challenges of building a quantum computer is reducing errors. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have eased the problem with a method that reduces error rates by two orders of magnitude. |
BusinessWeek
March 15, 2004
John Carey |
Physics: "Putting The Weirdness To Work" Scientists say quantum materials will be the basis for amazing devices, but when? |
Science News
March 10, 2007 |
Timeline: From the March 6, 1937, Issue Machine-Made Jobs... Sound Waves Prevent Smoke Belching From Chimneys... Sticks to Old Viewpoint to Interpret Transmutation... |
National Defense
May 2012
Eric Beidel |
Air Force Seeks Impossible-to-Intercept Communications The Air Force has enlisted a group of researchers to create quantum memories based on the interaction between light and matter that would result in a new form of encryption that some experts have called "perfect." |
Wired
Brian Greene |
Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure Science is about immersing ourselves in piercing uncertainty while struggling with the deepest of mysteries. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Mark Anderson |
Quantum Weirdness: Two Times Zero Doesn't Always Equal Zero Researchers think they can extract quantum information from two noisy channels that are individually useless |
Technology Research News
January 14, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Quantum dice debut Researchers have overcome a major obstacle to generating random numbers on quantum computers by limiting the possibilities in the otherwise unlimited randomness of a set of quantum particles. |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Michael Brooks |
Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting Physicists say they can make money that can't be copied -- at least in theory |
