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• The anatomy of the first video game
So Takacs and his fellow physicists used modern, solid-state chips to reproduce it. But these newfangled chips don’t tolerate the big voltage spikes generated by the game’s operation as well as the old-school analog computer, and they kept ...
• X-rays emitted from ordinary Scotch tape
NEW YORK - Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular ...
• Broken atom smasher inaugurated anyway
Physicists have used smaller, room-temperature colliders for decades to study the atom. They once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of the atom's nucleus, but the colliders showed that they are made of quarks and gluons and ...
• post from September 28
Physicists say universe evolution favored three and seven dimensions — I don't know why I find this so funny.  I think because I have absolutely no understanding of how they get this it sounds like they're making it up and it's a pretty funny thing ...
• Cosmic Log: Big bang on the Web
Newsweek provides some expert commentary on the LHC from Nobel-winning physicist Leon Lederman, author of "The God Particle," and from a flock of physicists including Stephen Hawking. Speaking of Hawking, reports that the world-famous British scientist ...