In work to be presented at this week’s American Physical Society, Andrew Cleland and his team will describe results from an experiment where they have effectively supersized the effects of quantum physics. Normally, quantum effects are only apparent at the very smallest of scales.  However, scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara recently

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No, NASA geeks didn’t become Lady Gaga fans overnight, but they did find some surprising things as they investigated the depths of the Antarctican ice sheet. In an article on AOL News, scientists found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish living underneath 600 feet of the Antarctic ice sheet.  It is safe to say that

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As a recent article from Wired Science puts it, “one way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem.”  So, they interviewed Cal Tech physicist Sean Carroll about his talk at the recent meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science. Carroll’s latest book “From Eternity to Here: The

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A very cool article on what’s called “compressive sensing” is featured in the latest issue of Wired Magazine.  It turns out that our company (Areté Associates) has really been at the forefront of exploiting this technology (I’ve even worked with some great guys to develop a patent based on these approaches…).  Here’s the article on

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Here’s an article about a new International Space Station mission to look for proof of dark matter (the stuff that seems to make the universe work differently than we think it does…).  The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is scheduled to be launched from the Space Shuttle in July 2010. You can read the extensive article here.

Moon explorer Buzz Aldrin and Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss the eightieth anniversary of Pluto’s discovery on The Takeaway.  Too bad Pluto isn’t a planet anymore (it’s now merely a dwarf planet…), but it’s still worth commemorating. You can listen to the audio here.

OK – so this is pretty cool…  Today it was announced that astromoners have just observed the light directly from a planet outside our solar system.  Previously, scientists have never been able to observe a planet directly (like we can in our own solar system by looking through a telescope) - only indirectly through its eclipse

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Here’s an article showing pictures from the Hubble Telescope taken of the very, very early universe.  The galaxies have stars that are only about 600 million to 800 million years old – about as far back as the Hubble Telescope can see (the universe itself is about 13.7 billion years old…).