New York man builds his own nuclear reactor


A web designer from New York has revealed a home-made nuclear reactor which he's constructed himself in a Brooklyn warehouse.

Mark Suppes is said to be the 38th independent physicist in the word to achieve nuclear fusion from a self-built reactor.

The 32-year-old amateur physicist says the device cost him £25,000 and he built it because he sees it as a possible future energy technology.

New York man builds his own nuclear reactor

newslite.tv The Original Inventor of the World-Changing Homemade Fusion Reactor: Robert Bussard (Video)

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Ball lightning is all in the mind, say Austrian physicists


Physicists in Austria say they have solved the conundrum of "ball lightning", mysterious glowing spherical apparitions which baffled boffins have struggled to explain for centuries.

According to Josef Peer and Alexander Kendl of the University of Innsbruck, there is in fact no such thing as ball lightning in reality. Rather, powerful magnetic fields created by ordinary lightning affect the brains of humans nearby so that they see things which aren't there.

theregister.co.uk

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Quantenphysik: "Schrödingers Katze" wird Realität


Bis vor wenigen Jahren galt "Schrödingers Katze" noch als absonderliche Phantasie der theoretischen Physik. Nun ist sie nicht mehr weit von der experimentellen Umsetzung entfernt, berichtet Markus Aspelmeyer von der Universität Wien in einem ORF.at-Interview

Bis vor wenigen Jahren galt "Schrödingers Katze" noch als absonderliche Phantasie der theoretischen Physik. Nun ist sie nicht mehr weit von der experimentellen Umsetzung entfernt.

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LHC Reaches Record Energy


Yesterday evening the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time accelerated protons in both directions of the ring to 1.18 TeV. Even though the 1 TeV barrier per beam was first broken a week ago, this marks the first time that the beam was in the machine in both directions at the same time, allowing possibly for collisions at a center of mass energy of 2.36 TeV. Although the test lasted mere minutes, it was enough to have detectors record the very first events at 2.36 TeV.

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LHC knocked out by ANOTHER power failure


The Large Hadron Collider - most puissant particle-punisher ever assembled by the human race - has suffered another major power failure, knocking not only the atomsmasher itself but even its associated websites offline. The machine remains unserviceable at present. However its crucial cryogenics seem to have been unaffected, and no catastrophic damage is thought to have occurred.

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Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2009


Once more, we enter the month of December and the traditional western Holiday Season, and once again, I'd like to present a Hubble Space Telescope imagery Advent Calendar for 2009. Keep checking this page, because every day, for the next 25 days, a new photo will be revealed here from the Hubble Space Telescope, some old and some new.

nebula NGC 2818

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Scientists 'communicate with aliens via crop circles'


But Bulgaria's fame stretches far beyond our own planet, it seems: the country's space research institute claims it is in contact with aliens.

And the researchers say they have already posed the extra-terrestrials 30 questions, one of which might have been: 'Didn't you think of getting in touch with Nasa first?'

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Large Hadron Collider ready to restart


After a delay of over a year at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the massive underground particle accelerator, beginning on November 20, 2009, is already sending particles beams on paths within the circular, underground chamber.

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart

itwire.com Large Hadron Collider ready to restart 30 photos old shit

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Forscher züchten Penis-Schwellkörper im Labor


Es könnte einmal die Rettung für viele impotente Männer sein, was US-Forschern nun bei Kaninchen gelungen ist: Sie haben im Labor künstliche Schwellkörper herangezüchtet. Und die sind voll funktionstüchtig, wie die Kaninchenmännchen bei Paarungsversuchen eindrücklich demonstrieren.

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Penis promise for thousands of men - Organ implant tested on rabbits could be used in future on humans


Penis envy could soon be a thing of the past after scientists have found success with an unusual organ implant grown in the laboratory and tested on highly-sexed rabbits.

American researchers have completely rebuilt the "stiffening" elements of the penis from donor cells - and showed that they worked.

metro.co.uk

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Large Hadron Collider: Now This Is Just Getting Ridiculous


The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.

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First black hole for light created on Earth


An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time.

The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity.

First black hole for light created on Earth

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