http://physics.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Physics GuideSite. http://z.about.com/f/lg/s10.gif http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2008-05-04T21:49:23Z hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://physics.about.com/b/2008/05/05/this-week-in-physics-history-may-5-11.htm May 11, 1918 - American physicist Richard Phillips Feynman is born. May 9, 1927 - German biophysicist Manfred Eigen is born. Eigen recieved the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/05/05/this-week-in-physics-history-may-5-11.htm 2008-05-05T01:00:03Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/05/04/do-birds-see-magnetic-fields.htm A curious question which science has never adequately answered is how migratory birds are able to navigate their annual passages. In fact, research in this unlikely area abound and... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/05/04/do-birds-see-magnetic-fields.htm 2008-05-04T21:49:23Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/05/04/space-travel-in-science-fiction.htm In a new article, Popular Science addresses the The Science of Sci-Fi by asking what science fiction films can teach us about space travel. This is just one example... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/05/04/space-travel-in-science-fiction.htm 2008-05-04T13:51:30Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/28/this-week-in-physics-history-april-28-may-4.htm Apr. 30, 1006 - The brightest supernova in recorded history, Supernova SN 1006, first appears in the constellation Lupus. May 3, 1892 - English physicist George Paget Thomson is born. The... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/28/this-week-in-physics-history-april-28-may-4.htm 2008-04-28T01:00:08Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/27/blazars-in-space.htm When a quasar is oriented so that it points directly at the Earth, it is called a blazar. A team at Boston University has focused on the study of... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/27/blazars-in-space.htm 2008-04-27T11:17:23Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/26/still-more-on-quantum-computers.htm A new report indicates that we might be approaching the world of quantum computers even faster than previously anticipated. It seems like the new findings on this front of... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/26/still-more-on-quantum-computers.htm 2008-04-26T23:56:14Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/21/this-week-in-physics-history-april-21-27.htm Apr. 23, 1858 - German physicist & Nobel laureate Max Planck is born. Planck is credited as the father of quantum physics, because his solution to the ultraviolet catastrophe in... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/21/this-week-in-physics-history-april-21-27.htm 2008-04-21T01:00:19Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/20/even-more-nano-tiny-graphene-transistor.htm Over a year ago, we told you about graphene nano-transistors which were about one-fourth the size of a transistor. About a month ago we spoke of graphene semiconductors, which allows... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/20/even-more-nano-tiny-graphene-transistor.htm 2008-04-20T10:37:45Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/14/this-week-in-physics-history-april-14-20.htm April 15, 1874 - German physicist Johannes Stark is born. Stark's work in discovering the doppler effect in canal rays and splitting of spectral lines in electric fields (known as... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/14/this-week-in-physics-history-april-14-20.htm 2008-04-14T01:00:51Z http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/12/no-glue-in-high-temperature-superconductivity.htm It's been a busy week for superconductivity. First, there is the discovery of its antithesis - a superinsulator - by a team out of the Argonne National Laboratory. ... http://physics.about.com/b/2008/04/12/no-glue-in-high-temperature-superconductivity.htm 2008-04-12T21:07:13Z