DISCOVERIES News, Mar 14, 2012

Theoretical Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku Speaks At Chattanooga State April 5 The Chattanoogan Invited to participate in a variety of interactions with students, Dr. Kaku will conclude his Chattanooga State visit by presenting a lecture entitled “Physics of the Future.” This event begins at 6 pm in the Health Fitness Center on Chattanooga ... See all stories on this topic »

A Random Walk through Oddly Named Physics Things Scientific American (blog) It's no easier for scientists, who must constantly find names for the things they discover and the theories they come up with to explain those discoveries. In spite (or perhaps because) of the overwhelming boringness of much technical jargon, ... See all stories on this topic » Scientific American (blog)

Nobel laureate Adam Riess to give Gamow Memorial Lecture at CU-Boulder March 22 CU Boulder News & Events Free and open to the public, the talk is titled “Supernovae and the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe.” The talk will be held at 7:30 pm in Macky Auditorium and is intended for a general audience. Riess, a professor of physics and astronomy at ... See all stories on this topic »

How Red Solo Cups Are Made: Neutrino Oscillations And Mixing Angles Science 2.0 Owing to their physical – quantum mechanical – nature, neutrinos can mix or oscillate between flavors and the rate of oscillation is controlled by parameters known as mixing angles. The discovery measures a critical linchpin in the study of the tiny ... See all stories on this topic »

Element of discovery in Science missing New Straits Times Science would be interesting if students are made to see Physics,Chemistry, and Biology as something that can be used to explain the mysteries of the world we live in. And that Mathematics is more than a bunch of formulas but is something that can ... See all stories on this topic » New Straits Times

Vestal Hall of Fame Committee Announces Inductees for 2012 WBGH ... in physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he succeeded in cooling a fermionic gas of atoms to ultra-cold temperatures, which opened up a field of study heralded by “Science” magazine as one of the top ten scientificdiscoveries of ... See all stories on this topic »

Nobel laureate, White House advisor to speak about science education University of Wisconsin-Madison by Chris Barncard Carl Wieman, associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and a Nobel laureate in physics, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, March 20 to talk about teaching and learning in... See all stories on this topic » University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alan Lightman Helps Launch Pi Day Activities With Talk About the Pleasures of ... Town Topics IN LOVE WITH SCIENCE AND ART: Physicist/novelist Alan Lightman spoke about his dual passions at the Princeton Public Library on Friday. “Ever since I was a boy my passions were equally divided between science and art,” said author Alan Lightman, ... See all stories on this topic » Town Topics

UC Merced Connect: Physicist finds answers in small places Sacramento Bee When Andrea Rodarte began studying physics, she first wanted to look to the stars for answers. Instead, she's finding them in nanoparticles. "The people I know who went into astrophysics only get to do an experiment once or twice a year," Rodarte said. See all stories on this topic »

Barrier to Faster Graphene Devices Identified and Suppressed Product Design & Development 13 issue of the journal Nature Communications, a team of Vanderbiltphysicists reports that they have nailed down the source of the interference inhibiting the rapid flow of electrons through graphene-based devices and found a way to suppress it. See all stories on this topic »

Today is Albert Einstein's birthday and Pi Day Siliconrepublic.com And in 1921 Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physicsbased on his contribution to theoretical physics, especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. This paved the way for the field of quantum theory. See all stories on this topic » Siliconrepublic.com

Grapevine: Stephen Hawking has 'Big Bang' cameo The Detroit News Renowned British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will make a cameo appearance on CBS' "The Big Bang Theory," reports TV Guide.com. Sheldon (played by Jim Parsons ) will meet Hawking in an episode that will air April 5. See all stories on this topic »

Researchers discover galaxy cluster Bryan College Station Eagle Kim-Vy Tran and Casey Papovich, both assistant professors in A&M's physicsand astronomy department, are among 15 scientists that participated in the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey. The group announced recently that it found the concentration of 30 ... See all stories on this topic »

Nano spiral staircases modify light Science Codex There was a lot of excitement a few years ago following thediscovery of the DNA origami technique. The approach could be used to build nanoparticles of a given shape and size. However, real applications, such as nano-tweezers, remained out of reach. See all stories on this topic » Science Codex

Celebrate Green Skin Care and St. Patrick's Day with Marie Veronique Organics San Francisco Chronicle (press release) After a career as a chemistry teacher, Nadeau began developing products with her daughter, physicist Dr. Jay Nadeau, experimenting until she found the perfect combination of oils, extracts and vitamins. Fueled by a desire to age gracefully, ... See all stories on this topic »

Christie Partners Honored With DSE 2012 Apex and Content Awards SBWire (press release) Christie and partners walked away with gold, silver and bronze awards in four categories, with the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery installation, featuring Christie® MicroTiles® and content by Zebradog, selected as DSE's first Apex of the Year award ... See all stories on this topic »

'MythBusters' stars bring science/busting shtick to the Fox for 2 shows The Detroit News The two plan to bring a scaled-down, blast-less (but still exciting) version of their Emmy-nominated Discovery series to the stage in two shows at the Fox Theatre on Friday. The shows include video and behind-the-scenes stories, on-stage experiments ... See all stories on this topic »

A New Paradigm: Veda, Consciousness, the Ramayana, and the Self San Jose Mercury News Join us for an evening with two leading Scientists Dr. Tony Nader PHD and Dr. John Hagelin a renowned quantum physicist, Ramani Ayer, the first Indo American CEO of a fortune 500 company, will speak on Enlightened Leadership and world peace. See all stories on this topic »

UAB College of Arts and Sciences seeks drug delivery ideas al.com (blog) It named physicist Yogesh Vohra as associate dean for interdisciplinary and creative innovation, and one major effort this year is a series of interdisciplinary forums. The second forum, on innovations in drug delivery, met Tuesday. See all stories on this topic » al.com (blog)

CU and NIST scientists reveal inner workings of magnets, a finding that could ... CU Boulder News & Events Many technology experts believe that next-generation computer disk drives will use optically-assisted magnetic recording to achieve much higher drive capacities, according to NIST scientist Tom Silva, who worked with CU-Boulderphysics professors ... See all stories on this topic »

Barrier to faster graphene devices identified and suppressed Nanowerk LLC 13 issue of the journal Nature Communications ("Probing charge scattering mechanisms in suspended graphene by varying its dielectric environment"), a team of Vanderbilt physicists reports that they have nailed down the source of the interference ... See all stories on this topic » Nanowerk LLC

Clarence Dally — The Man Who Gave Thomas Edison X-Ray Vision Smithsonian (blog) Its machinery could produce anything from a locomotive engine to a lady's wristwatch, and when the machines weren't running, Edison's “muckers” —the researchers, chemists and technologically curious who came from as far away as Europe—might watch a ... See all stories on this topic » Smithsonian (blog)

How Did Comet Lovejoy Survive Its Trip Around The Sun? Universe Today Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physicsand the Braunschweig University of Technology have hypothesized that Comet Lovejoy managed to hold itself together through the very process that, to most people, defines a comet: the ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

Listen to solar storm activity in new sonification video PhysOrg.com "This approach is changing the timescale for us," said Jim Raines, a lead mission operations engineer in UM's Space PhysicsResearch Lab. "It's really interesting to hear it." Sonification is the process of translating information into sound. See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com

Graphite Goes Critical: A Look At Noteworthy Canadian Juniors MarketWatch (press release) This important discovery resulted in Professors Konstantin Novoselov and Andrew Geim the pair to first isolate graphene winning the 2010 Nobel Prize inphysics. Potential future uses of the material are numerous, from playing a major role in the ... See all stories on this topic »

National Science Day at JMA Pilani Rajasthan openPR (press release) To popularize the benefits of scientific knowledge, 28th February is celebrated all over India as National Science Day – NSD to mark the discovery of Nobel Prize winning Raman Effect by the great Indian Physicist Sir CV Raman in 1928 on same day. See all stories on this topic » openPR (press release)

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site --Now Seen in Unprecedented Detail The Daily Galaxy (blog) Old documents were discovered revealed that, unbeknownst to Lebar and Nafzger, the lunar camera's signals had also been recorded on a couple of 2-inch tapes by an experimental program run by the Applied Physics Laboratory near Baltimore. See all stories on this topic »

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