Every few decades, the sun experiences a particularly large storm that can release as much energy as 1 billion hydrogen bombs. Officials from Europe and the U.S. say an event like that could leave millions on Earth without electricity, running water and phone service.

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute can speed up photons (particles of light) to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by adding a single, strategically placed layer.

Are we approaching free energy? Are we reaching the edge of current known physics? Read more in this exciting experiment. Warning: Only for the Geeky.

European space agencies are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot plasma formed during re-entry of returning spacecraft.

Source: Time of India
4 October 2009, 03:51pm IST
LONDON: An experiment that fires powerful radio waves into the sky has created a patch of ‘artificial ionosphere’, mimicking the uppermost portion of Earth’s atmosphere.
According to a report in Nature News, the experiment is called the ‘High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program’ (HAARP), near Gakona, Alaska.
It has spent [...]

Source:  Nature News
By Stuart Fox

Posted 10.15.2009 at 3:56 pm

Pocket Black Hole The icons depict the shape of the energy-trapping ridges on the disc at the center and the edges via arXiv.org

Just because most black holes are solar-system-sized maelstroms with reality-warping gravitational pulls doesn’t mean you can’t have one in your pocket! That’s right, just in [...]