DISCOVERIES News, Jan 04, 2012 (2)

Fruit Flies Levitated to Help Astronauts Discovery News Hill, a senior research fellow in the University of Nottingham's School of Physics and Astronomy, and his team used a very powerful superconducting magnet to levitate common fruit flies, so named because they're often seen buzzing around rotting fruit. ... See all stories on this topic »

Stephen Hawking at 70: Exclusive interview New Scientist What has been the most exciting development in physics during the course of your career? COBE's discovery of tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background and the subsequent confirmation by WMAP that these are in excellent ... See all stories on this topic »

Leaping lizards and the power of interdisciplinary collaboration Washington Post (blog) It turns out that in the 1993 blockbuster “Jurassic Park,” the scene towards the end of the film where a Velociraptor leaps onto a Tyranosaurus Rex skeleton got the physicsjust right. The action presciently illustrates the Berkeley team's findings ... See all stories on this topic »

New Particle Discovered at Large Hadron Collider NTDTV ... the discovery after analyzing data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The ATLAS experiment is a particle physics experiment involving smashing protons together with extremely high energies, according to the ATLAS website. ... See all stories on this topic »

Trolling about the God particle Sacramento Bee RoadWarrior, "God particle" was coined by Leon Lederman, a Nobel Prize-winningphysicists, because its discovery would help explain creation. This is the kind of story the online commentariat would go crazy over. It deals with science and conventional ... See all stories on this topic »

Sunergy Announces Further Analytical Results for Its Pampana River Heavy ... MarketWatch (press release) Beckmann also has undergraduate degrees in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. Please visit the Sunergy website www.sunergygold.com and review further information such as Company Reports under Projects, Previous Press Releases and SEC filing ... See all stories on this topic »

Through hardship to the stars EurekAlert (press release) "Humanity's adventurous, stubborn, mad and glorious aspiration to reach the stars" is the subject of Physics World's lead feature in January. Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, Atlanta, US, reports from the 100 ... See all stories on this topic »

Frontier experiments: Tough science Nature.com Indeed, it took him a full three years to assemble the consortium of experimental physicists, quantum theoreticians and chemists he needed. They now need to crack two problems. First, they need to build extremely high-resolution spectrometers to ... See all stories on this topic » Nature.com

A Mentoring Program Brings Out the Best In High School Students and Their Guides Town Topics They include people like Karen Reeds, a published medical historian and museum curator; physicist Phil Duran, who has been helping students with projects in envirophysics for over ten years; neurobiologist Jon Hayashi, a 12 year veteran; andchemical ... See all stories on this topic »

Future History Scenarios Next Big Future By 2040 Meanwhile, small and innocuous physics discoveries mark the beginning of breakthrough spaceflight. All this starts with sensor experiments that can detect the motion of the Earth through the universe – not by the Cosmic Microwave dipole effects ... See all stories on this topic »

Chile aims to better exploit role as telescope host PhysicsToday.org “The main discoveries in astronomy in the next decade will come from Chile.” The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array in northern Chile is more than one-third complete. When finished in 2013, it will consist of 66 radio telescopes spread over ... See all stories on this topic »

Science and faith CAN be in harmony - 2 News24 There are some very viable theories about how one can map the Bible creation story to the way God used the laws of physics and chemistry to allow the earth to develop from space dust after the Big Bang to eventually be able to sustain life – and how ... See all stories on this topic »

Slow slip: A new kind of earthquake PhysicsToday.org 10 But what is still lacking is a clear connection between the empirical laws and the actual physics and chemistry—for example, the phase transitions in the source region, which can't be easily studied due to rock heterogeneity and the inaccessible ... See all stories on this topic »

Welcome to Social Dimension Wired News I've had the chance to publish in lots of different areas—biology, physics, applied mathematics, social sciences, and even history—so getting to write for Wired.com about how to quantitatively understand society is an amazing opportunity. ... See all stories on this topic »

A look at the history of X-rays Scope (blog) The entry examines the history of X-rays from November 1895 onwards, when German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen snapped the first X-ray of his wife's hand to present day. William Birnie writes: If Roentgen's semi-accidental discovery had not taken place, ... See all stories on this topic » Scope (blog)

To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data The Atlantic The Library of Congress has tens of millions of items in storage becausephysics makes it hard to display and preserve, much less to share,physical objects. The Internet makes it far easier to share what's in our digital basements. ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Ekiti 'remains Nigeria's intellectual light' The Nation Newspaper "The closest I got to him was when he was again the Deputy Registrar of the prestigious University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) from 1969 to 1976 and I was a young lecturer in Physics. Again, I know how much fear and respect his personality ... See all stories on this topic »

New horizons Tahlequah Daily Press More discoveries are expected in 2012 the ibtimes.com site indicates. The illusive Higgs boson, or “the God particle,” that would explain how matter has mass may be closer to discovery by scientists in Switzerland at the CERN atom-smasher, ... See all stories on this topic »

  

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