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Invisibility Cloaks: Fact or Fiction?

Monday, November 7th, 2011

The idea of invisibility has been around in mythology and fiction for thousands of years but the Harry Potter books and movies brought the idea of an Invisibility Cloak into the public eye.  Everyone has thought at some point about what possibilities being able to make themselves invisible would present.   But invisibility is only the stuff of fiction.. right?  Well, […]

Promising Leads in the Hunt for an AIDS Cure

Monday, October 17th, 2011

30 years after the first reported cases of AIDS we still do not have a cure for a disease that has killed 25 million people.  The World Health Organization currently estimates at least 33 million people are currently infected worldwide and approximately 2 million deaths are attributed to the disease each year.  While in most western […]

Neutrinos: Breaking the Speed Limit?

Monday, September 26th, 2011

  On the 23rd of September 160 scientists from the OPERA experiment published a paper online suggesting they have found evidence of neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light.  This announcement has thrown neutrinos and the potential implications of the finding with relation to Einsteins Theory of Relativity into the scientific spotlight.    First of […]

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