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Kepler Discovers 5 New Planets

NASA – NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Discovers its First Five Exoplanets .

If the Kepler spacecraft could discover 5 new planets after just 6 weeks on the job, imagine what else it may find during its tenure until 2012!

The future of office supplies, vehicles, and body implants (Oh, my!)

The ancient invention we call paper is getting a modern makeover. Scientists have been able to use paper with special inks to create batteries that are lighter, more versatile, and equally functional as the bulky batteries we use today. The applications for this technology is endless- can you think of more ways to use this [...]

Chromosome folding – Physics Update

When I tell people my major is biophysics, they usually say something like, “I didn’t know there was such a thing.” This article is one example of the sorts of things a biophysicist might discover, so I thought I would share it with the curious masses.

Chromosomes are crammed into tight little spaces in the nucleus [...]

How to keep planes from colliding with lasers

Here is a problem I didn’t know we had… I’m glad someone figured out a way to solve it before my next transcontinental flight, though. It’s like the class jerk shining a laser pointer into everyone’s eyes, except that it’s a really big laser coming from the ground like the freakin’ Batsignal gone haywire. And [...]

Large hadron collider to start up in three weeks – Physics Today News Picks

Large hadron collider to start up in three weeks – Physics Today News Picks.

I don’t have much to say about this one except that it’s really exciting that this project is getting off its feet. Hopefully. Snafus aside, the knowledge we could possibly gain from the hadron collider project could possibly change our understanding of… [...]