Posts Tagged ‘Einstein’
Today’s physics news: Friday, 24 September 2010
Space station undocking delayed Three crew return to the International Space Station after the Russian spacecraft due to take them home fails to undock. BBC Saturn’s aurora captured on film A spectacular light show seen dancing across the atmosphere of the planet Saturn is helping scientists understand one of nature’s most beautiful and mysterious phenomena [...]
Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 15 September 2010
£130m hunt for Einstein’s gravitational waves The hunt for one of the most elusive phenomena in the Universe, predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago yet never directly detected, is to step up next month when scientists start to upgrade an instrument that should find gravitational waves for the first time. Times Call to [...]
Today’s physics news: Monday, 9 August 2010
Coalition comes out in favour of graduate tax Graduates face paying thousands of pounds more for their degrees after the Government announced that a tax on future earnings was its preferred option for university funding. Times THE Space station repairs ‘only partial success’ Two astronauts have carried out an eight-hour spacewalk to try to repair [...]
Particles and violins collide on physicsworld.com
As icons go, Albert Einstein was one of a kind – making so many remarkable contributions to so many different areas of physics. But in addition to his scientific achievements, much is made of Einstein’s colourful personal life, not least his life-long passion for music. That’s the theme of a unique collaboration between Jack Liebeck, [...]
