DISCOVERIES News, Feb 08, 2012

Solar Telescope Instrument Gets Recycled for New Mission Space.com A powerful solar instrument that scientists once used to create a colorful reconstruction of the sun's light is now taking a cross country trek to a new observatory for its new mission: dissecting the chemistry of comets and stars. See all stories on this topic »

Column Spotlight: Success in Sales - Feb. 2012 Daily Business Buzz - New Brunswick Consider Albert Einstein, the father of modern physics. He discovered relativity, quantum physics, and particle theory. He was a success. In order to make ground-breaking discoveriesEinstein had to make changes to his approach when what he was doing ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Business Buzz - New Brunswick

Health Discovery Corporation Debuts MelApp 2.0 for iPhone 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 »

New Kavli Institute announced at the University Of Tokyo PhysOrg.com (press release) "By bringing together disciplines ranging from mathematics to theoretical and experimental physics, the Institute is certain to inspire creative collaborations that will lead to exciting discoveries about the universe. I also hope that our support of ... See all stories on this topic »

Colorado State University Professor Jorge Rocca Receives Willis E. Lamb Award ... Colorado State University News (press release) FORT COLLINS - University Distinguished Professor Jorge Rocca has been honored with the 2012 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics by Physics of Quantum Electronics. Rocca received the prestigious award for seminal contributions and ... See all stories on this topic » Colorado State University News (press release)

The Large Hadron Collider takes us one big step closer to finding the Higgs boson Gizmodo Back in December, CERN physicists announced that they had probably spotted the long-awaited Higgs boson - at least, there was a 99.7% chance that they had. Now they've examined the data again, and it's looking even better for the Higgs. See all stories on this topic »

Warp Drive Bio Charts Course for Natural Product Drugs Bio-IT World “Saying natural product discovery is exhausted is like saying in 1904, all physics had been discovered. Take bacteria: most bacteria can't be cultured. So pharma strain collections only have 10% [all strains]. We know that only a small proportion of... See all stories on this topic » Bio-IT World

Showcasing Ancient Muslim Scientists and Thinkers, an Exhibit Invites Debate ... Knowledge@Wharton The academics translated works of Persian, Indian and Greek into Arabic to help them build on previousdiscoveries. For example, early Muslim physicistsinherited two conflicting theories of vision from the Greeks. One suggested that eyes produce light ... See all stories on this topic » Knowledge@Wharton

Heat-based recording speeds hard drives TG Daily "Instead of using a magnetic field to record information on a magnetic medium, we harnessed much stronger internal forces and recorded information using only heat," says University of York physicist Thomas Ostler. "This revolutionary method allows the ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

ESA's space station cargo craft 30 days from launch Spaceflight Now ATV is nicknamed Edoardo Amaldi after the Italian physicistwho make groundbreaking discoveries in nuclear and particlephysics and later helped foster the precursor to ESA. The ATV will refuel the space station with maneuvering propellant, ... See all stories on this topic » Spaceflight Now

The periodic table: a very short introduction [Book Review] Nature.com (blog) In this book, we are introduced to an interesting cast of international characters, including physicists, chemists, geologists, teachers, tradesmen and nobleman, all who played a role in the discovery and evolution of the periodic table. See all stories on this topic »

Biostatistics: Revealing analysis Nature.com “Scientifically, there are much richer questions to ask, and there are still a lot of deep discoveries to be made; it's an interesting time,” he says. His career track reveals just how much opportunities in the field have changed. See all stories on this topic »

Theater review: Humble Boy at Champlain Theatre Seven Days On the page, Jones' 2001 tragicomedy is a play of too many labored literary conceits and too few spontaneousdiscoveries. But in this production, with its strong cast under Joanne Farrell's nimble direction, the symbolically laden setting frames a ... See all stories on this topic » Seven Days

Turing's Enduring Importance Technology Review If one were able to apply a repeatable procedure to find out whether a mathematical statement was true or false, then fundamental truths aboutphysics, chemistry, biology—even human society—would be discoverable not through experiments in the lab but ... See all stories on this topic »

Why I think leftwingers aren't just wrong but usually stupid Daily Mail (blog) For example, William Stockley, who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics, had a modest IQ of 110. Carol Vorderman would run rings around him in any TV quiz show, but even those who design IQ tests probably wouldn't put her up for a Nobel Prize. See all stories on this topic »

Sheppard Mullin Elects Twelve Attorneys to Partnership MarketWatch (press release) He has a physics degree and works with companies and individuals involved in diverse industries and technologies, including aerospace, computers, entertainment, gaming, lighting, medical devices, office products, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, ... See all stories on this topic »

  

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