Science news articles about 'james clerk maxwell'

... the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) in California, and both the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii. The new observations ...

... That's right, pre-telephone Morse Code stuff. Future tech like invisibility can learn a thing or two from James Clerk Maxwell even today, it seems. Read More...

... and theoretical — conundrum known as "Maxwell's Demon." Introduced by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1871, the concept theorizes that the energy flow from hot to cold could be disrupted ...

Astronomers using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii are making new discoveries about the origins of the planets, stars and galaxies with the start of a new survey to map the Universe. ...

... to account for the dust they see in the early universe. Using the SCUBA polarimeter on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, the scientists searched for a signal from dust grains spinning in ...

... solar sailing, which harnesses the "pressure" of the sun's radiation. First described by James Clerk Maxwell, solar pressure arises from the change in momentum of photons as they are reflected from a ...

... .org/NJP/11/093040. Inspired by James Clerk Maxwell's findings, first expounded in the 1850s, ... had tried to calculate the imaging of light waves in Maxwell's fish-eye. The new research proves that ...