Two earth sized planets orbiting Kepler-20 have been found
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vnfv/ncurrent/full/nature10780.html http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4550
View ArticleDemonstration of temporal cloaking
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7379/full/nature10695.html http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2062
View ArticleWould you like to earn 100000$ ?
Scott Aaronson, a well-known MIT computer scientist, has offered 100000$ to the person that convinces him (and in the same time the entire physics community) that scaleable quantum computing is...
View ArticleGJ667Cc – earth 2.0?
A team of astonomers under direction of Guillem Anglada-Escudé has reported a new exoplanet called GJ667Cc. It circles a red dwarf with a period of 28.15 days and a minimum mass of 4.5 times the mass...
View ArticleFirst two-dimensional map of an exoplanet
Astronomers around Carl Majeau, Seattle, managed to get a two-dimensional image of an exoplanet. It’s an intensity map that has been calculated from measurements of its brightness. The technique they...
View ArticleNew class of planets – GJ 1214 b
The definition of planets has to be extended due to a press release from Harvard-Smithonian center of astrophysics. In short: There are three different types of planets: rocky, terrestrial worlds...
View ArticleSpeech-Jamming gun
A japanese team of researchers have built a gun that can silence somebody from 30m distance. The basic idea is simple: Psychologist have known for a long time that if your speech is recorded and send...
View ArticleHow to hug a chicken via the internet.
Adrian David Cheok the first person to hug a chicken via the Internet, has some advice for creative engineers trying to make their own mark on history. Rule one: Embrace your idiosyncrasies. Rule two:...
View ArticleHabitable-zone super-Earth candidate in a six-planet system
Habitable-zone super-Earth ONLY 42 lightyears away!
View ArticleAn Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star
Quintana et al., Science (2014)
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