Showing posts with label Science and Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science and Technology. Show all posts

07 November 2011

Huge asteroid headed for close encounter with Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - A huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon on Tuesday, giving scientists a rare chance for study without having to go through the time and expense of launching a probe, officials said.

04 October 2011

2011 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to the discoverers of the expanding universe

Photo credit from http://www.nobelprize.org.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Would you believe the universe is actually expanding?

Never did the discoverers of the expansion work in the universe that they actually believed it was also true until they've found out.

02 October 2011

Zuck utilizes Facebook the entire day

When talking about most of the CEO's, I think you could capture a picture that they are very busy dealing with their clients, but not with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

From Techcrunch.com, here is the captured conversation between Jeremiah Cohick and was immediately responded by Mark Zuckerberg.

The internet visionary....

26 September 2011

CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured

GENEVA (AP) — A fundamental pillar of physics — that nothing can go faster than the speed of light — appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run around Albert Einstein's theories.

Scientists at the world's largest physics lab said Thursday they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than light. That's something that according to Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity — the famous E (equals) mc2 equation — just doesn't happen.