• 磷酸盐 一种有应用前景的新材料

    16-04-29 Two-dimensional phosphane, a material known as phosphorene, has potential application as a material for semiconducting transistors in ever faster and more powerful computers. But theres a hitch. Many of the useful properties of this material, like i...

  • PreMed Physics

    15-04-15 One day our professor was discussing a particularly complicated concept. A pre-med student rudely interrupted to ask Why do we have to learn this stuff? To save lives, the professor responded quickly and continued the lecture. A few minutes later, t...

  • 量子物理学没我们想象的那么复杂

    14-12-23 Here's a nice surprise: quantum physics is less complicated than we thought. An international team of researchers has proved that two peculiar features of the quantum world previously considered distinct are different manifestations of the same thin...

  • 物理定律支配飞机技术的发展

    14-07-23 Researchers believe they now know why the supersonic trans-Atlantic Concorde aircraft went the way of the dodo(古代巨鸟) -- it hit an evolutionary cul-de-sac. In a new study, Adrian Bejan, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science...

  • 打破传统物理的限制

    12-06-08 With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense -- the world is different than most people believe. The e...

  • 脉冲星:宇宙的物理学“礼物”

    12-02-21 Pulsars(脉冲星) , superdense neutron stars, are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe. Research on these extreme and exotic objects already has produced two Nobel Prizes. Pulsar researchers now are poised to learn oth...

  • Saving Lives 救人

    11-10-28 At a pre-med university in St. Louis, we had to take a difficult class in physics. One day the professor was discussing a particularly complicated concept. A student rudely interrupted to ask Why do we have to learn this stuff? To save lives. The pr...

  • 霍金:宇宙是大爆炸产生的

    10-09-11 God did not create the universe and the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. 英国著名理论物理学家史蒂芬霍金在新书中称,上帝并没有创造宇宙,宇宙...

  • 探索:我们的宇宙之外是否存在另一个宇宙?

    10-04-07 Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole(蛀洞,虫孔) which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe? Such a scenario in which the universe is born from inside a wormhole (also called an Einstein...

  • 研究:神秘的E8系统不存在“简单的万有理论”

    10-03-29 The exceptionally simple theory of everything, proposed by a surfing physicist in 2007, does not hold water, says Emory University mathematician Skip Garibaldi. Garibaldi did the math to disprove(反驳) the theory, which involves a mysterious struc...