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Back to the Future Redux

By On March 16, 2011 · 4 Comments

We’re obsessed with time. We spend, waste, count, measure, invest, lose, and take it. We think and write about time to no end.

And then there’s time travel.

Long the realm of science fiction and theoretical physics, we may be closing in a a way to determine if it’s actually possible. Enter Vanderbilt University theoretical […]

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Transparent aluminum? Scottie lives!

By On August 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Experimental set-up at the FLASH laser used to discover the new state of matter.

University of Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminum (across the pond, it’s “alumimium”) by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. ‘Transparent aluminum’ is an exotic new state of matter that previously existed […]

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