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Backreaction: Experimental Traffic Jams More detail on the Japanese simulation of Washington, DC. (tags: physics science experiment video youtube) What is the matter with the universe? - Telegraph An article on CP violation experiments, which is pretty good, but might be dated=-- I thought…
Welcome to Syracuse University News. "Andrea Farina, a senior communications design major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' School of Art and Design, won the World Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) Championship" (tags: silly sports) Cocktail Party Physics: just an ordinary man Celebrating…
COROT surprises a year after launch Stellar seismology and a new extrasolar planet. (tags: astronomy news science planets) The quest for a new class of superconductors An article positing superconductors in which electrons pair up through something other than phonon interactions. (tags: physics…
In the reader request thread, Brad asks about superconductors: Why is a room temperature superconductor so hard? Why do things have to be cold for there to be no resistance (I can guess, but my knowledge of super conductors consists of the words "Cooper pairs" which does not get me very far.)…