DISCOVERIES News, Apr 18, 2012

Discoveries

Majorana Fermion Particle Evidence Found By Physicists Huffington Post And their discovery could hold the key to finally creating workable quantum computers . Prior to Majorana's work, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that describes how quantum particles behave and interact. See all stories on this topic »

Baby crystal discovery big step for nanoscience Nanowerk LLC (Nanowerk News) How small can a chemical compound be and still retain the properties of that same compound in bulk? With computer models and laboratory experiments, researchers at Johns Hopkins University, collaborating with those at McNeese State ... See all stories on this topic » Nanowerk LLC

Coe professor to discuss physics discoveries in 'Cosmic Café' community ... The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog) Coe Assistant Professor of Physics Ugur Akgun will be giving the first informal “Cosmic Café” talk entitled “The Dawn of New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider at the Cern Lab – on the Swiss-French border.” The presentation will be held at the ... See all stories on this topic »

Physics Engineer Daniel Friedmann's Formula Provides Key to Biblical Clock MarketWatch (press release) "Next time you hear on the radio of a fossil discovery from 500 million years ago, enter that scientific time in the Bible Clock to find the corresponding biblical time and explore what other events were going on around the same time," he says. See all stories on this topic »

Discovery's Last Flight PhysicsCentral.com (blog) Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), makes its way past Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on April 17 in Arlington, Va. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls. Yesterday the shuttle 'Discovery' flew from ... See all stories on this topic »

UWM Discovery Advances Graphene-Based Electronics Newswise (press release) So the pair turned to physics professor Carol Hirschmugl, who recently pioneered a method of infrared imaging (IR) that not only offers high-definition images of samples, but also renders a chemical “signature” that identifies which atoms are ... See all stories on this topic »

'Pluto killer' visits campus, talks about demise of 9th planet Minnesota Daily Mike Brown gave a public lecture on Pluto, the solar system and the discovery that changed everything. Astronomer Mike Brown talks about his 2005 discovery of Eris, a planet slightly larger than Pluto, Wednesday afternoon at Tate Hall. See all stories on this topic »

Molecule reveals clues to formation of the first stars msnbc.com "Most of the universe consists of hydrogen in various forms," University of Arizona chemist Ludwik Adamowicz said in a statement, "but the H3+ ion is the most prevalent molecular ion in interstellar space. It's also one of the most important molecules ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Retinalyze, LLC Enters into an Exclusive Agreement with NATIONAL EYEPA COALITION MarketWatch (press release) SAVANNAH, Ga., Apr 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Health Discovery Corporation (OBB:HDVY) , a molecular diagnostics leader in the use of patent protected advanced mathematical techniques for personalized medicine, and Doctors Optimal Formula LLC,... See all stories on this topic »

Is humanity quietly abandoning a future in space? Reuters After flying its last mission into space last year, the shuttle Discovery arrived Tuesday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC, atop a NASA 747 to enter the National Air and Space Museum at its giant Udvar-Hazy facility in suburban ... See all stories on this topic »

COURTESY OF DMITRI KRIOUKOV Toronto Star Physics researcher Dmitri Krioukov said "the paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California." Space ShuttleDiscovery's f... The oldest and most traveled vehicle in NASA's space shuttle program,... See all stories on this topic »

Rollercoasters and Life's Lessons Huffington Post (blog) Instead it was a lesson about roller coaster physics that captured the attention of a group of fourth graders from Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary in southeast Washington, DC last week. As one of their teachers, I -- along with my fellow teacher Ms. See all stories on this topic »

The Two-Way : NPR NPR If the winner elects to take the jackpot in a lump sum, it will amount to about about $110 million after taxes. by Mark Memmott Discovery is sitting atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, which will fly the shuttle from Florida to Virginia. See all stories on this topic »

Elusive particle may be found after decades of searching msnbc.com Until now, the only suggestion of the particle's existence was a theory posed by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937, who predicted the Majorana fermion. [ Infographic: Nature's Tiniest Particles Dissected ] While the evidence is strong, ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Molecular "Wankel Engine" Driven By Photons Technology Review (blog) One of the great discoveries of biology is that the engines of life are molecular motors--tiny machines that create, transport and assemble all living things. That's triggered more than a little green-eyed jealousy from physicists and engineers who ... See all stories on this topic »

3D printing process developed at the University of Glasgow could enable DIY ... Next Big Future Taken together, this approach constitutes a relatively cheap, automated and reconfigurable chemical discovery platform that makes techniques fromchemical engineering accessible to typical synthetic laboratories. The 3D-printed reactionware used for in ... See all stories on this topic » Next Big Future

Dry ice was the seed of a wet discovery San Luis Obispo Tribune Working with Schaefer, physicist Bernard Vonnegut discovered that silver iodide got even better results in nucleating clouds than did dry ice. Over the decades, no other molecule has been found that rivals it for creating rain. See all stories on this topic »

Physics student Justin a finalist in Metro's race to go into space Metro.us In the animated mini-film, he used more than 3000 photos of hand-drawn chalk murals in time lapse to animate Albert Einstein's discoveries. Dowd admitted the prospect of going to space was exciting, but he was equally enthused about the training that ... See all stories on this topic »

John McLaughlin Named Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Clarkson ... Clarkson University News (press release) McLaughlin received his SB in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, his MA in physics from Harvard University in 1971, and his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1974. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Harvard ... See all stories on this topic » Clarkson University News (press release)

Shuttles become museum pieces Ottawa Citizen By Peter Apps, Reuters April 18, 2012 The space shuttle Discovery takes off for its final voyage Tuesday on a jet bound for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex. As astronaut Leroy Chiao watches the space shuttles he served ... See all stories on this topic »

Simple nests of apes are complex feats of engineering msnbc.com That shows the apes have intelligence and have a feel for the physics of their environment." These nests are about 4 to 5 feet long and about 3 feet wide (1.2 to 1.5 meters long, and slightly less that 1 meter wide). The apes make them in the forest ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Atomic rockets, space colonies, and x-ray binaries PhysicsToday.org (blog) Most physicists do not devise future technologies, fictional or not. However, many of the most successful physicists have been led by their imaginations, ambitions, or both to new discoveries. In 1928 Paul Dirac incorporated special relativity into the ... See all stories on this topic »

Port Discovery's 'NanoFabulous' Exhibit To Give Kids Jump Start On STEM Education CBS Local Our younger generation needs to learn math, science, physics, and hopefully these young children who were here today will be influenced by having fun and learning technology,” Ruppersberger said. “They are truly very excited about science, ... See all stories on this topic » CBS Local

Recent Results Of The CMS Experiment Science 2.0 The 1-TeV increase in total collision energy with respect to 2011 may not sound like a large improvement; yet several of the most interesting final states which might producediscoveries of new physics, such as eg a new heavy Z' gauge boson, ... See all stories on this topic »

Science Expeditions Isthmus The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St., will serve as a hub, providing tours and hosting up-close encounters ranging from live reptiles to the science of chocolate. A series of Science Spectaculars will showcase physics, chemistry, ... See all stories on this topic »

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