Faster Than Light Neutrino Error

The faster-than-light neutrino result measured by the OPERA experiment at CERN last September now appears to have been the result of a bad fiber optic connection between a GPS receiver and a computer.

The neutrinos appeared to make the 454 mile journey from CERN in Geneva to the Gran Sasso Laboratory 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light — a finding that contradicted Einstein’s special theory of relativity.
After tightening the connection and re-running the experiment, researchers found that the 60 second discrepancy was eliminated. Further tests are being run to confirm the source of the error.

Source: http://geeks.thedailywh.at/2012/02/22/faster-than-light-neutrino-error-of-the-day 

Everything about petabyte

I were wounder how it will call 1024 TB... so here we go:

ATV powered by jet engine

omg.. i wonder what top speed is.. :D

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Welcome to the 11th Dimension

Thw Wild West of Physics


The Potential of Strings


Getting to One Theory


Parallel Universes


Escaping Gravity


Riddle of the Big Bang


Signs of Strings


Too Elegant to be Wrong

String's the Thing

String's the Thing

Two Conflicting Sets of Laws


One Master Equation


The Birth os String Theory


The standard Model


Wrestling with String Theory


The Theory of Everything


Multiple Dimensions


Five Flavors of String Theory

Einstein's Dream

A Theory of Everything


Newton's Embarrassing Secret


A New Picture of Gravity


A Strange new World


The Quantum Cafe


Gravity The Odd Man Out


Strings to the Rescue


Science or Philosophy

News round-up - November 14, 2008

See a new technique to make photos come to life: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16048

Cannibalistic spiders: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16025

And the world's largest interactive video installation.

3D Display

Put simply, the Dreamoc 3D Display "can make it look like your phone has holograms shooting out of the screen."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpKmOBcR0vk

Tracking system is dam good news for salmon

Read more: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn15054?DCMP=youtube An extensive salmon tracking experiment shows how and where they perish during their first migration.

Play Windows Games on Linux

Linux Journal Gadget Guy Shawn Powers walks you through how to play Windows games on Linux.

Wired Science: World's Most Powerful Lasers

Wired Science heads to the National Ignition Facility, where an enormous 192-beam laser bay may become capable of fusing 2 Hydrogen atoms - creating an endless, clean source of energy.

New Scientist video round-up - October 10, 2008

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/ Carbon material gives more grip than gecko feet. Deepest-living fishes caught on camera for the first time. Digital zebrafish embryo provides the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate.

Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display

Description Page: http://www.alab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~siggraph/08/Tactile/SIGGRAPH08-Tactile.html

Shinoda Lab
(The University of Tokyo)
@SIGGRAPH2008 New Tech Demos

8-Foot Alien Captured on CCTV Cameras Brings the Cops Pretty Quickly [CCTV]

Britain is absolutely covered in closed-circuit TV cameras, ensuring that anyone walking through London is easily tracked by a shadowy group of law enforcement officials in some dark room somewhere. How unsettling and Orwellian! Well, one enterprising Brit decided to see just how long it would take for the cops to show up after parading around in front of the cameras in an 8-foot-tall alien outfit. Spoiler: not very long.

Esquire E-Ink Cover Hacked (To Death, With Knives and Fire)

When the much-hyped Esquire E-Ink cover finally shipped to newsstands a few weeks ago, we were kind of underwhelmed. Using conventional methods, the sectioned panel isn't really hackable in any meaningful way, so Phone Losers took a more proactive approach: violence.

As it turns out, E-Ink is ridiculously durable, standing up to bending, cuts, water, fire and even total punctures without ceasing to blink. The panel only died when microwaved for a few seconds, but that was just because all of its metal components (power connectors, mainly) vaporized in fantastic balls of lightning. [Phone Losers via Technabob]

LucidTouch - a see-through mobile device

Revolutionary design for touch-based device used with your fingers holding the back of the gadget to give a clearer view.

Read - http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12773

Credit: MERL
http://www.merl.com/projects/lucidtouch/

Solenoids

Though not very practical, this contraption -- made from electromagnetic solenoids -- puts on a great show to say the least, with the help of a computer program.

USB Lighter

This nifty 8GB USB Lighter from ThinkGeek "is refillable and the connector slides out of the bottom of the metal case, using a small slider lever located on the side of the lighter.

Horses as you've never seen them before

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19926752.700?DCMP=youtube

Watch this slideshow narrated by photographer Tim Flach showing photos from his book Equus which will be published on October 1.

New Scientist video round-up - September 26, 2008

Find out about a robotic dragonfly that could soon be sent to space, wasps that recognise recent acquaintances and a study that shows that babies may be less forgetful than we think.