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Would a human traveling in a high-speed rocket age slower than a human on Earth? An international group of scientists collaborated over 15 years to prove…

  • Editage Insights
  • September 22, 2014

Anton Zeilinger, a physicist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, has developed a method of taking pictures using light that has not interacted with the…

  • Editage Insights
  • August 28, 2014

Anders Nilsson and his team at Stanford University in California have made forays into understanding the yet unexplored properties of water. They took…

  • Editage Insights
  • June 25, 2014

In the 1980s, researchers weren’t successful in manipulating micron-sized objects with focused laser beams through “optical tweezers” due to the law of…

  • Editage Insights
  • June 9, 2014

Oliver Pike, a plasma physicist at Imperial College London, and his peers have devised a plan for a device that would use a key piece of fusion equipment…

  • Editage Insights
  • May 20, 2014

According to a new study, light-gathering macromolecules in plant cells transfer energy by taking advantage of molecular vibrations whose physical descriptions have no equivalents in classical…

  • Clarinda Cerejo
  • January 17, 2014

When a solid object like a rubber ball is compressed onto a solid surface, it retains its original form when decompressed. In contrast, a water droplet’s…

  • Editage Insights
  • December 19, 2013

In a recent study, physicists placed the strictest limit yet on how much the alpha could change with the density of nearby matter. Read on for more details…

  • Clarinda Cerejo
  • October 17, 2013