New research has found, for the first time, a scientific solution that enables future internet infrastructure to become completely open and programmable while carrying internet traffic at th... Read more
Light is an extremely useful tool for quantum communication, but it has one major disadvantage: it usually travels at the speed of light and cannot be kept in place. A team of scientists at... Read more
Artist Mark Rademaker has unveiled a set of concept images imagining what a spaceship capable of traveling to other stars in a matter of months would really look like. Although it may look l... Read more
Everyone needs a little light relief sometimes, including the Nobel winning economist and writer/blogger extraordinaire Paul Krugman. A few months back he reminded the world of a short paper... Read more
Technology could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science, medicine In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, r... Read more
Bringing light to a halt: Physicists at the technical university freeze motion of light for a minute
Efficient information storage by stopped light. Physicists in Darmstadt have been able to stop something that has the greatest possible speed and that never really stops: light. The physicis... Read more
New laboratory opens its doors with a symposium, a festival and seven new games MIT has established new game research facilities in the Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories (Building 26), where... Read more
University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein’s theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein’s theory holds that nothing could... Read more
The first steps towards interstellar travel have been taken, but the stars are very far away. Voyager 1 is about 17 light-hours distant from Earth and is traveling with a velocity of 0.006 p... Read more
It would be possible to communicate between any two points on Earth without using satellites or cables A group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Rochester and North Car... Read more
A perfect vacuum is impossible to achieve, at least in theory. As anyone with any interest in quantum physics would know, the vacuum is full of various particles that fluctuate in and... Read more
Einstein released many theories during his scientific career, but it was the publishing of his two theories of relativity that literally shook the foundations of physics. The theories propos... Read more
Image via Wikipedia OUR taste for the Internet is insatiable — traffic is growing so fast that its transmission systems may soon be filled to capacity. But scientists are coping, finding ing... Read more