Archive for the 'Science News' Category

Holographic Universe

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

There is a scientific instrument in Germany called the GEO0600 that is used to measure gravitational waves thrown off by dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. It keeps measuring some odd noise, which the Director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics says the noise is the fundamental limit of space-time. [...]

New Species Found in Australia

Monday, January 19th, 2009

I picked up a new news article:
Scientists said Sunday they had uncovered new marine animals in their search of previously unexplored Australian waters, along with a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt and ocean-dwelling spiders.
A joint US-Australian team spent a month in deep waters off the coast of the southern island of Tasmania to “search for life [...]