IBM on Tuesday, 12th April, announced that they have made the world’s fastest graphene transistor and also hinted at the fact that they might go into commercial production very soon. This is major news to the hardware industry, as graphene might revolutionize the current semi-conductor industry scenario. Graphene may even be good enough to replace silicon, the standard material used in all of today’s semi-conductor devices.

It has been variously billed as ‘The Final Frontier’, ‘The Great Unknown’ and ‘The Heavens’. It has enthralled humans since the caveman days. It is mysterious; it is attractive. On 12th April, 1961, space was conquered by a man called Yuri Gagarin, aka “The Columbus of the Cosmos”. Today, 50 years ago, took place the first manned space-flight.

A bill that has the potential to shield teachers and education policy makers, who refrain from teaching evolution and global warming in classes, was passed by the state of Tennessee on Thursday. This has got to be good news for the people on the extreme right, predominantly Creationists, who have earlier wanted legal protection for their ideas. The bill was passed by the house by a vote of 70-23.

This is big, really big! This may be the biggest news to hit the particle physics world in the the last 50 years. Scientists, analyzing the data collected at the Tevatron, Fermilab, have detected an anomaly that could well spell a new dawn in theoretical physics and change the Standard Model as we know it now. The observation was a bump in the data, but in the ‘wrong’ place.

All major experiments in high energy physics being done today, like the one at LHC, bear their very existence to this one experiment. In 1911, Rutherford, along with his students Geiger and Marsden, practically established a phenomenon called scattering as the foremost method of probing the internal structure of a certain substance.

The troubled Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai’chi is dumping radioactive materials in the neighboring sea so as to dispose of it. This has raised a few alarms, but there is not much to worry about right at this moment.

Science is a model of reality, not reality itself. It tries to approximate reality as closely as possible. However, ‘If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong’.

The problem is that the eye is just too small. The opening of the eye – the pupil – is just too small, about one-eighths of an inch across. Very little light gets through and, thus, dim cosmic objects are invisible to the naked eye. For progress, we needed bigger apertures and that is how the telescope was born.

One of the coolest things in physics is used as a common tool to make things really cold. Lasers are used to cool a bunch of atoms to extremely low temperatures, temperatures in the micro-Kelvin range. Extremely successful, laser cooling is surely one of the hottest topics in Physics.

Many people have been scared stiff by the possibility of an explosion at the Japanese nuclear reactor. They believe that serious fallout will affect life as we know it. No, the situation is not that grim.

There is simple science behind the quake that shook Japan recently and those that have occurred throughout Earth’s history.

Here are a few Supermoon videos and images I found till now. Apart from that, I took a shot at capturing the Supermoon myself too and the results are what you see below.

A natural phenomenon, Total Lunar Eclipse will be occurring today and will be visible in North America. This is the last Lunar Eclipse of 2010 and you can watch the Lunar Eclipse happening online. Lunar Eclipse Videos Added.

NASA is leaving its Eucalyptus based cloud in favor of “real” open-source alternative. According to NASA, not only are Eucalyptus clouds unable to achieve the scale they require, they are also not entirely open-source.

The first Lunar Eclipse of the year will occur on June 26 at 5:55 PM Korean time. Earlier this year the century’s longest Solar Eclipse also occurred and passed through India.