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DISCOVERIES News, Jun 13, 2012


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Big bang particle discovery closer: scientists
Sydney Morning Herald
* Physicists said to be closer to major discovery * Researchers kept in dark on colleagues' findings * Fresh information could emerge at Melbourne meeting Physicists investigating the make-up of the universe are closing in on the Higgs boson, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Quantum physics: Majorana modes materialize
Nature.com
The condensed-matter physics community has been galvanized by the apparent experimental discovery of Majorana modes, reported by Mourik et al. 1 in a paper published in Science. These entities, whose existence had been predicted 2 theoretically, ...
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Harold Urey's Lunar Landing Sites (1961)
Wired News
After a stint at a chemical plant in Philadelphia, he earned a Ph.D. inChemistry at the University of California at Berkeley in 1923. Following a fellowship in theoretical physics at the Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, he joined the Chemistry faculty at ...
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Psychiatrist Romps, Lion Talks, Salome Sings: UK Stage
BusinessWeek
Two of them believe they are Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, and the third is the renowned physicist Johann Wilhelm Mobius. He believes that his amazing discoveries have the potential to be abused by humanity, so he feigns madness in order to ...
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Explainer: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
The Conversation
His research group is also funded by the ARC through Discovery Projects, by the Templeton Foundation, and by the Perimeter Institute for TheoreticalPhysics (Canada). He has no other relevant affiliations, funding sources, or financial interests.
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Morgan Freeman takes science buffs 'Through the Wormhole'
Los Angeles Times
But Freeman has been involved for the last several years in "Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman," a series onDiscovery's Science Channel that reflects the Oscar-winner's longstanding interest in large questions surrounding the universe and ...
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Los Angeles Times
Nanoparticles can solve mystery of Moon's topsoil
The Hindu
A stunning discovery of nanoparticles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the Moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties, according to a scientist. Marek Zbik, from Australia's Queensland University of ...
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The Hindu
UFO sightings featured in Morgan Freeman's return to Through the Wormhole
HULIQ
By Dave Masko on 2012-06-13 Must see watching for UFO sighting experts at Bray's Point – here on the far western shores of the Oregon coast - is Morgan Freeman's “Through the Wormhole” series that returns to Discovery'sScience Channel June 13 for a ...
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Asia's First Graphene Nano-Tech Facility Opens In Singapore
Bernama
... world leaders in graphene research, the Centre is set up under scientific advising by Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, from Manchester University in the UK and winners of the 2010 Nobel Prize inPhysics for the discovery of graphene.
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'Extremely Little' Telescope Discovers Pair of Odd Planets
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (June 13, 2012) — Even small telescopes can make bigdiscoveries. Though the KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, it's just revealed the existence of two very unusual ...
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What is Science? The Scientific Method
LiveScience.com
The understanding of chemistry also evolves during this century as Antoine Lavoisier, dubbed the father of modern chemistry, develops the law of conservation of mass. Milestones in the 1800s include Alessandro Volta'sdiscoveries regarding ...
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Glass bubble find may explain weird lunar soil
TG Daily
The discovery of nanoparticles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could explain why the moon's surface topsoil has such unusual properties. It actually floats above the lunar surface, is very chemically active, and is both sticky and highly abrasive ...
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TG Daily
Greater observatories: A midlife crisis for X-ray astronomy
Nature.com
The result of this brief flight by physicist Riccardo Giacconi and his colleagues revolutionized astronomers' view of what the Universe contains. For 50 years, X-ray astronomy has burgeoned. The field has grown a billion times more sensitive — a feat ...
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Nanoparticles Found in Moon Glass Bubbles Explain Weird Lunar Soil Behavior
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (June 13, 2012) — A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. Dr Zbik, from ...
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India-US science body seeks removal of visa problems
Newstrack India
The joint commission also recommended several new directions of cooperation including research in the areas of high energy particle physicsand gravitational wave detection under the 'Discovery Science Agreement' between Department of Atomic Energy and ...
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Rolex recognizes 5 'visionaries'
Washington Post (blog)
And Block, who has frequently been featured in The Post for her discoveriesand observations, continues to work on increasingly sophisticated tracking technology to monitor marine predators off the North American Pacific coast. I caught up with Block, ...
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Small Planets Don't Need Stars With Heavy Metal Content To Form
MarketWatch (press release)
Astronomers refer to all chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium as metals. They define metallicity is the metal content of heavier elements in a star. Stars with a higher fraction of heavy elements than the sun are considered metal-rich.
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Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy
Science Codex
"It is remarkable to watch electrons moving in a crystal evolve into more massive particles as we cool them down," said Ali Yazdani, a professor of physics at Princeton and head of the team that conducted the study.
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Science Codex
180-Degree Video Player: The Ultimate Mobile Experience?
Mashable
It includes Mercedes, Discovery Communications, XL Recordings, The Guardian and Popular Science, which recently used the player to give a virtual tour of a particle physics experiment. But the illusion of immersion adds a layer of understanding to ...
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The Mathematical Puzzle That Is the Complexity of the City
The Atlantic Cities
We can begin by examining a city's population, its economic output, and itsphysical expanse (many of which have been explored by Luis Bettencourt, Geoffrey West, and their colleagues at the Santa Fe Institute). But where do you go next?
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Fukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon
Center for Research on Globalization
Recall that the legendary physicist, Einstein, helped to set in motion the Manhattan Project whose personnel designed and built the first atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In his letter to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in...
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Center for Research on Globalization
Get ready the world's largest optical telescope
io9
It will also look for possible variations in the fundamental physical constants with time — a discovery that would have far-reaching consequences for our comprehension of the Universe and the general laws of physics.
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Letters for the week of June 13
Mukilteo Beacon
Two of my sons went onto four-year universities to graduate with a master's degree (in finance) and a bachelor's degree (in physics). Mariner has always received negative vibes, yet has some of the most outstanding students.
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