Misc.
Magnetic Levitation: Including movies of diamagnetically levitated frogs and suchlike.
My official page at the Naval Research Laboratory
Kid tries to make breeder reactor
Heavens-Above: This page helps you to track artificial sattelites.
Quantum theorem shakes foundations
“‘I don’t like to sound hyperbolic, but I think the word “seismic” is likely to apply to this paper,’ says Antony Valentini, a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum foundations at Clemson University in South Carolina.” Or, maybe, not?
Gallery of Fluid Phenomena
Some nice pictures and movies collected by Wired illustrating some of my favorite scientific phenomena.
Cooling Computers by Erasing Data
A new theoretical result shows that in a quantum computer deleting data actually cools the device under the right circumstances.
Moving data at the speed of light
UC Berkeley engineers have recently developed a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface.
Controlling Light by Light with an Optical Event Horizon
Two German scientists have developed the theory for an all-optical transistor.
Renewable Energy Might Not Be
Physicist Axel Kleidon of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany has shown that it is a mistake to consider the wind and waves to be truly renewable energy sources.
Optical Lift
Radiation pressure has been used to generate aerodynamic-like lift for the first time.
Tools for Physics
If you grew up on some form of classic fortran and need to be jolted into the 21st century, here is a good place to start.
"Graphics tools for scientists and engineers" by a scientist who seems to have settled on much of the same toolset that I have lately found useful.
On the Macintosh running MacOS X, the output of Gnuplot and some other graphics programs can be displayed with Aquaterm, an alternative that doesn't require starting up X Windows.
Gnuplot on Mac OSX
Installing and using Gnuplot on the Macintosh. ☞ more