LHC’s Lack of Black Holes Rules Out Some Versions of String Theory
the LHC doesn’t seem to be making black holes at all—their decay signature is markedly absent from the data collected so far.
[This is] helping physicists make up their minds about how many dimensions there are in our universe. The lack of black holes at the LHC nullifies some of the wackier versions of string theory which depend on multiple dimensions.
I have been expecting something like this since the original story came out. I don’t think it will get nearly as much coverage in the media.
Lost Rover Found on Moon With Retroreflector Still Intact.
The rediscovery of the reflector could have an important impact in several areas of science that depend on accurately measuring the position and orbit of the Moon. Laser rangefinding currently provides the most precise tests of many aspects of gravity, including the strong equivalence principle, the constancy of Newton’s constant, geodetic precession, gravitomagnetism and the inverse square law.
Technical details at Laser Ranging to the Lost Lunokhod~1 Reflector.
Physicists Convert Information Into Energy linking to Information heat engine: converting information to energy by feedback control
This does not violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 