Page-8 of General Science – Physics

Magnetosphere

A magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are controlled primarily by that object’s magnetic field rather than by the ambient...

June 9, 2018

Marie Curie

Marie Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, was a Polish-born and naturalised French physicist and chemist whose pioneering research transformed the scientific understanding...

June 8, 2018

Meteor

A meteor, often referred to colloquially as a shooting star, is a streak of light produced when a small extraterrestrial body, usually a meteoroid, enters Earth’s atmosphere and...

June 5, 2018

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday was an English physicist and chemist whose pioneering work in electromagnetism and electrochemistry fundamentally shaped modern science and technology. Born on 22 September 1791 and largely...

June 5, 2018

Applications of Neutrinos

The neutrino is a tiny elementary particle, but it is not part of the atom. They exist in nature. Neutrino has a very tiny mass, no charge and...

May 21, 2018

Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. Interaction of hydrogen or deuterium gas with metals such as palladium, Zirconium, Nickel is claimed...

May 2, 2018

Rydberg Polarons

An international team of physicists have successfully created a giant atom and filled it with ordinary atoms, creating a new state of matter termed Rydberg polarons. The atoms...

May 2, 2018

Time Crystals

A time-crystal or a space-crystal is basically an open system which shows time translation symmetry breaking (TTSB). The concept was first proposed by the Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek...

May 2, 2018

Quantum Communication

Quantum communication refers to an almost hackproof communication with use of quantum cryptography. The most common application of quantum cryptography is Quantum Key Distribution (QKD in which the quantum mechanical...

May 2, 2018

Gravitational Lensing

Normal lenses such as the ones used in a magnifying glass or a pair of spectacles bends the light rays that pass through them by refraction and focuses...

May 1, 2018

Kilogram (WATT Balance)

International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) had decided that the kilogram will no longer be pegged to this cylinder made of 90% platinum and 10% iridium. Background...

May 1, 2018

Rydberg Polarons

An international team of physicists have successfully created a “giant atom” and filled it with ordinary atoms, creating a new state of matter termed “Rydberg polarons”. These atoms...

April 24, 2018