s c i n f o

My SciTek Stream

• Superluminal Neutrino Result Caused by Faulty Connection?
  A data transmission problem? (Wikipedia/BigRiz) Although still awaiting full confirmation, a breaking news report in Science (and Nature , see below) indicates that the measurement of an apparently faster-than-light travel time for muon-neutrinos generated at CERN and detected at the Gran Sasso laboratory – which hit the world headlines back in September 201 […]
• Could GPS Problems Explain Seemingly Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos?
  OPERA apparatus. Credit: CERN One of the biggest stories in science last year was the announcement by a European physics collaboration that neutrinos can seemingly travel faster than light. Most physicists were skeptical of the result , which would upend a well-tested tenet of modern physics namely, that nothing outpaces light. And the researchers on the OPE […]
• Cruise finds Fukushima pollution
  An international research cruise off Japan detects radioactivity in sampled seawater and marine organisms, but well within safe levels. […]
• Being Happy: Social and Natural Factors Are More Important than Money (Especially in Costa Rica)
  It’s easy to find an online test that will purportedly tell you how happy you are. But how happy are the people of an entire nation? And which nation’s people are happiest ?That’s hard to measure. So for decades world organizations like the United Nations that concern themselves with improving people’s well-being have used a single proxy for happiness: gross […]
• Faster-than-light neutrinos explained?
  The detector at the Gran Sasso end of the OPERA experiment. Credit: OPERA The faster-than-light neutrinos seen by the OPERA particle physics experiment last year may have just been explained. By a loose cable. I wish I was joking. [More] […]
• New Family of Limbless Amphibians Discovered in India
  From Nature magazine. [More] […]
• Faster than light neutrinos? More like faulty wiring
  You can shelf your designs for a warp drive engine (for now) and put the DeLorean back in the garage; it turns out neutrinos may not have broken any cosmic speed limits after all. […]