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DISCOVERIES News, Feb 01, 2012


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Scientist Recounts Superconductivity Discovery
Newswise (press release)
That discovery sparked renewed interest in laboratories around the world, including Dr. MK Wu's physics lab at UAHuntsville. Wu, Ashburn and graduate student CJ Torng were working on a NASA research project, studying possible metal alloys to be ...
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George and John's Excellent Adventures in Quantum Entanglement [Video]
Scientific American (blog)
One of the most important discoveries ever made, entanglement is fairly straightforward to describe, but has yet to be understood in any serious way. Physicists have barely even gotten over their amazement that the phenomenon even exists.
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Scientific American (blog)
Life after Tevatron: Fermilab Still Kicking Even Though It Is No Longer Top Gun
Scientific American (blog)
The collider's physics breakthroughs, including the 1995 discovery of the top quark, were so eminent that it was easy to think of the Tevatron and its host institution as one and the same. But even though protons and antiprotons no longer course ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Graphene creator in new discovery
The Press Association
In 2010, University of Manchester professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the physics Nobel prize for work that involved producing flakes of graphene using sticky tape. Both received knighthoods in the New Year Honours List.
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Eleventh Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Michael ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The transport of this intracellular cargo is achieved by molecular motor proteins, such as myosin and kinesin, which provide force and movement through the conversionchemical energy (ATP) into mechanical energy. Molecular motor proteins move along...
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Marker to be placed Sunday at UAH to commemorate historical discovery
al.com (blog)
By Paul Gattis, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- As the University of Alabama in Huntsville celebrates the 25th anniversary of a world-class discovery on campus, a marker will be erected to commemorate the event. UAH announced today it had ...
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HemoShear Expands Scientific Leadership Team
Sacramento Bee
31 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- HemoShear LLC, a biotechnology research company and leading developer of human and animal cell-based surrogate systems for discoveryand assessment of new drug compounds, announced today the appointment of Robert A. Figler, ...
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Michio Kaku: String Theory Is The Only Game In Town
Big Think
http://bigthink.com/ideas/42125 Dr. Kaku addresses the question of whether the so-called Higgs-Boson, or God particle has been overhyped, and what its discovery would mean for physics.
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Scientists create first atomic x-ray laser, opening door to new range of ...
InMenlo
by Mike Ross on January 27, 2012 Scientists working at Menlo Park-based SLAC have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and opening the door to a new range of scientific discovery.
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InMenlo
Rendezvous with our origins
Nation on Sunday
The Nation was able to rendezvous with the origin of the universe through her expertise in the 'chemical tagging' of stars. Q: Where did you have your primary and secondary education? I was born in Sri Lanka in 1981 and went to Agamathi Balika ...
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Nation on Sunday
Electron Activity During Solar Storm Explained In New Research
Huffington Post
UCLA researchers have published a paper in Nature Physics that uses data from a 2011 storm to answer a long-disputed question about the dangerous high-energy particles that surround our planet. The Van Allen radiation belt, where the observations were ...
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Oliver resident shows his smarts on Discovery Channel
Pentiction Western News
The carpenter will be making his television debut in the Discovery Channel's ultimate battle of brains and brawn in Canada's Greatest Know-It-All competition tonight. He will be testing himself against 10 of Canada's self-proclaimed smarties.
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The neuroscience of happiness
Salon
New discoveries are shedding light on the activities that make us happy. An expert explains By Lucy McKeon They say money can't buy happiness. But can a better understanding of your brain? As recent breakthroughs in cognitive science break new ground ...
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Salon
Seeing Stellar Explosions with Shallow Water
Physics
In a novel attempt to understand the dynamics of the stalled accretion shock, Thierry Foglizzo at CEA-Saclay, France, and colleagues [1] report in Physical Review Letters their experimental analog based on the behavior of shallow water.
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Cell's mechanical changes nudge cancer
Futurity: Research News
(Credit: Sebastian Kaulitzki / Shutterstock) U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — Mechanical property changes in cells may be responsible for the progression of cancer—adiscovery that could pave the way for new ways to predict, treat, and prevent the disease.
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A New CMS Result On Quarkonium Suppression
Science 2.0
I am an experimental particle physicist working with the CMS experiment at CERN and the CDF experiment at Fermilab. In my spare time I play chess... The CMS Collaboration has just released the results of a deep study of their sample of lead-lead ...
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NASA's Kepler Announces 11 New Planetary Systems
Clarksville Online
These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known to have more than one planet that transits, or passes in front of, the star. Such systems will help astronomers better understand how planets ...
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Protein's arm controls iron-sulfur cluster
Futurity: Research News
“We scrutinize proteins with an unconventional approach,” says José Onuchic, professor of physics and astronomy and co-director of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University. “We use biophysics to probe biology rather than the ...
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The Care And Feeding Of Black Holes And 10 Billion Year Old Galaxies
SatNews Publishers
The team is composed of Ryan C. Hickox (Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA; Department of Physics, Durham University (DU); STFC Postdoctoral Fellow, UK), JL Wardlow (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California at Irvine, USA; Department of ...
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Derivatives: The Anti-Money
CFA Institute Enterprising Investor (blog)
For physicists, its discovery is a big deal as it promises to complete the Standard Model theory of physics creating a vital link between matter and anti-matter. For researchers at CFA Institute, the Higgs boson discovery is interesting because it ...
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor (blog)
Fox Davies Capital Update featuring Discovery Metals, Archipelago Resources ...
Stockopedia
Discovery Metals (LON:DME) Limited (HOLD, 106p) (DME LN, 103.5p, ▼ 4.17%) announced that it has applied to the London Stock Exchange for the cancellation of trading in the Company's securities on AIM. It is anticipated that the last day of dealings on ...
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Stockopedia
Highly inventive behaviour patterns
CPA Global
Physics and mathematics at Austria's fabled Graz Polytechnic; philosophy at the University of Prague; a string of electrical engineering posts in Budapest, Hungary, France and Germany; a US move in 1884 to work for no less a figure than Thomas Edison ...
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CPA Global
Compact X-Ray Technology Holds Promise for Medical Imaging
Diagnostic Imaging
By Mike Bassett | January 25, 2012 A little more than three years ago, a group ofphysicists at the University of California Los Angeles made a rather startlingdiscovery: Peeling sticky tape in a vacuum will result in the generation of X-rays.
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Missing Martian Atmosphere: Clues In Earth's Cold Plasma?
National Geographic
First, a little bit more on the discovery. Two space scientists poring over data from the European Space Agency's Cluster II satellites—four spacecraft which zip around Earth in an elliptical orbit—found evidence of positively charged, slow-moving ...
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World's first magnetic soap could clean sticky messes
Fox News
"Any systems which act only when responding to an outside stimulus … is a major breakthrough, as you can create products which only work when they are needed to," Peter Dowding, an industrial chemist not involved in the study, said in a statement.
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