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• Spaceflight at warp speed? Make it so
The idea involves manipulating dark energy – the mysterious force behind the universe's ongoing expansion – to propel a spaceship forward without breaking the laws of physics.
• ABOUT COSMIC LOG
As Europe's CERN particle-physics center is counting down to the official startup of the Large Hadron Collider , a report reassuring the public that the world's largest atom-smasher won't destroy the world is getting a second wave of publicity.
• Doomsday claims weighed
Department of Energy as well as Europe's CERN particle-physics center - say such fears already have been knocked down in a series of safety reports. The reports, drawn up by leading researchers in high-energy physics, note that cosmic-ray collisions ...
• Ex-professor guilty of passing military data
Jurors deliberated about six hours before finding plasma physics expert J. Reece Roth guilty Wednesday on 18 counts of conspiracy, fraud and violating the Arms Export Control Act. Prosecutors in the Knoxville trial said Roth gave the two graduate ...
• Era of scientific secrecy nears its end
In some areas, credit is mainly appreciation by peers (think mathematics and theoretical physics)," she said. "In other areas, money is a factor. That might be through patents or simply because some ideas can be used to make money directly. Consider ...