DISCOVERIES News, Jan 11, 2012

Physicist writes how universe evolved from nothing San Francisco Chronicle By ANN LEVIN, For AP "A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing" (Free Press), by Lawrence M. Krauss: In fall 2009, the theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss gave a talk about recent discoveries in cosmology that he ... See all stories on this topic »

Stephen Hawking talks about what mystifies him — and it's not physics Washington Post Most of it is well over the average reader's head: The most exciting physics development in his time, he said, was the “discovery of tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background . . . in excellent agreement with the predictions ... See all stories on this topic »

Health Discovery Corporation Enters into Worldwide Licensing Agreement with ... MarketWatch (press release) Actual results may differ materially due to a variety of factors, including, among other things, the acceptance of our approach to applying mathematics, computer science and physics into the disciplines of biology, organic chemistry and medicine and ... See all stories on this topic »

Eyeless shrimp top astounding discoveries at deep sea vents msnbc.com "The physics of the system behaves quite strangely," Connelly said. It appears that supercritical water can act as a conduit for elements and valuable metals, preferentially stripping them from rocks and ferrying them from inside the Earth, ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Hawking on the future of mankind BBC News ... he says, would be the greatest scientific discovery ever, but he is not optimistic about the likely outcome. 1. Was there a "time" when there was "nothing"? - Roland, Lagos The origin of the universe can be explained by the laws of physics, ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Romanian Education Ministry partners Discovery Channel in scientific show for ... Romania-Insider.com Discovery Channel will start broadcasting on January 16 daily educational programs on Math, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and other sciences, suitable for students from the 5th to the 12th grade. The content of the show will be adapted for Romanian ... See all stories on this topic » Romania-Insider.com

Keeper of the Flame Wall Street Journal In time, Faraday succeeded Davy as a professor at the Royal Institution in London, making many crucial discoveries in physics and chemistry. By Michael Faraday Faraday was not only a wizard of experimental skill but a deep thinker and theorist. ... See all stories on this topic »

The Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's ... MarketWatch (press release) Zoghbi, a renowned neurogeneticist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, noted that the NRI's 19 investigators and over 130 researchers represent varied disciplines such as genetics, neurobiology, physics, mathematics, bioinformatics and ... See all stories on this topic »

Higgs Boson, The So-Called 'God Particle': What's Really At Stake? Huffington Post The discovery of the Higgs and the completion of the Standard Model of physics will almost certainly lead to new technology we can not even imagine. Who in 1900 would have predicted Smart Phones and the Internet? The odds are great that the rewards ... See all stories on this topic »

First Hint Of Higgs Boson Particle Eurasia Review It is the last missing piece in the puzzle of the Standard Model of particle physics to explain the structure of matter. A discovery would be sensational news. “We indeed may have observed the first evidence of the Higgs particle, but it is still too ... See all stories on this topic »

Potential for groundbreaking new discoveries in space in 2012 Keremeos Review If it is correct, physics will get a kick in the pants similar to the one it got at the beginning of the 20th Century, when Einstein and others turned physics upside down. This should be an exciting year. Here's to 2012! Jupiter dominates the southern ... See all stories on this topic »

Life, Design and the Multiverse PhysicsCentral.com (blog) Despite the small amount of support for these design arguments in physics and philosophy academic circles, political organizations supporting intelligent design, such as the Discovery Institute, have yet to use them. “These groups really only focus on ... See all stories on this topic »

CCNY's Robert Alfano wins first biomedical optics award PhysOrg.com (press release) The discovery enabled research resulting in two Nobel Prizes. The winner of the Chemistry Nobel in 1999 used the supercontinuum to monitor chemical reactions. Winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize inPhysics tapped it to create the most accurate clock in ... See all stories on this topic »

Inexpensive sensor gives advance warning of lithium-ion battery failure Eureka Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have developed an inexpensive sensor that can warn of impending catastrophic failure in lithium-ion batteries. The novel sensor device is based on the researchers' discovery of an ... See all stories on this topic » Eureka

Earliest-yet observation of August supernova nails it: Destroyed star was ... EurekAlert (press release) That discovery earned three astrophysicists, including UC Berkeley and LBNL's Saul Perlmutter, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Bloom will present his results on Wednesday, Jan. 11, during an 11:30 am CST media briefing at the national meeting of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Quantum Leap ArabianBusiness.com The American theoretical physicist, author and futurist is as renowned for his theories on mathematics, physics and the string theory as he is his thoughts on time travel and UFOs. Luckily, the veteran host of the Discovery Science channel has a rare ... See all stories on this topic » ArabianBusiness.com

Scientists call for repeal of 'deluded' EPSRC measures Times Higher Education By Paul Jump More than 100 senior chemists, physicists and mathematicians have written to David Willetts, the universities and science minister, to demand the repeal of a raft of recent policy initiatives by the Engineering and Physical Sciences ... See all stories on this topic » Times Higher Education

Physics professor traces origins of unique crystal to outer space The Daily Princetonian At the time, his idea was so new that it earned him a Nobel Prize in chemistry. But this phase of matter is, in reality, very old. People once thought that crystals had to be orderly and have specific symmetries, fitting together like tiles of the same ... See all stories on this topic »

The Einstein Expansion Paradox Science 2.0 Does not only mere emptiness come for free? Reconfirmed with the discovery of the Higgs ether recently, we know that space is not just emptiness. In fact, there has always been the big inconsistency of the orthodox view with particle physics. ... See all stories on this topic »

On Neutrinos and Angels The Express Tribune Using a holy text as a physics book makes little sense. But, sadly, it is all too common. By Pervez Hoodbhoy The writer currently teaches physics and political science at LUMS (Lahore). He taught at Quaid-i-Azam University for 36 years and was head of ... See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune

What Do You Say About Science When Speaking to the King and Queen of Sweden? Huffington Post (blog) I shared the Physics prize "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae." It is a great honor and a pleasure for Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and me -- together with our teams -- to be here ... See all stories on this topic »

Leaping lizards and the power of interdisciplinary collaboration Washington Post (blog) By Emi Kolawole Lizard (Agama agama) with Cal Tailbot Robot and Model Velociraptor (DiscoveryChannel 4D Anatomy Model, 2008 Fame Master Ent. Ltd.) (Thomas Libby, Evan Chang-Siu and Pauline Jennings. ) What happens when a lizard slips just before ... See all stories on this topic »

Belle Discovers New Heavy 'Exotic Hadrons' Interactions.org (press release) Moreover, data obtained from electron--positron collisions with the world's highest luminosity achieved at the KEKB accelerator have resulted in a series of unexpected discoveries of exotic hadrons, opening a new research frontier in particle physics. ... See all stories on this topic »

From solar energy to security, NRC spins out ideas Ottawa Citizen By Bert Hill, Ottawa Citizen January 11, 2012 7:21 AM The Ottawa-based research establishment is spinning off discoveries that could lead to new product ideas, new companies and new jobs. These potential breakthroughs ride on science that is ... See all stories on this topic »

Four People's Principles The Hindu We must spread science — not physics, chemistry and biology alone: it is the entire scientific outlook. We must spread rational and logical thinking among our masses and make them give up backwardness and superstition. The mindset steeped in casteism,... See all stories on this topic »

  

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