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Physicists mix two lasers to create light at many frequencies
Nanowerk LLC
"This is a very remarkable phenomenon. I have never seen anything like this before," said Mark Sherwin, whose research group made the groundbreaking discovery. Sherwin is a professor of physics at UCSB and a co-author of the paper.
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Nanowerk LLC
Neutrons uncover new density waves in fermion liquids
Science Codex
The team believe their discovery, published in Nature, will interest researchers looking at electronic systems, since high temperature superconductivity could result from this type of density fluctuations. Fermi liquids are composed of strongly ...
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Research council sacrifices basic research on the altar of commerce
The Guardian (blog)
Serendipity is the norm not the exception in great discovery and sacrificing basic science on the altar of commerce is killing the goose that lays the golden egg. So we are all agreed, then? Er, actually, no. Britain's Engineering and Physical Sciences ...
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The Guardian (blog)
13 Awesome Moments In Science History (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
Science has been at the heart of twentieth-century history - from Einstein's newphysics to the Manhattan Project, from eugenics to the Human Genome Project, or from the wonders of penicillin to the promises of biotechnology. Science's claim to access ...
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WisBusiness: Collaboration helps make medical imaging a big business for Wisconsin
Wisbusiness.com
Tom Grist, chairman of the radiology department at the UW Medical School, ran through a long list of discoveries that had turned into either medical imaging equipment made by GE Healthcare or resulted in new companies, such as Madison's TomoTherapy.
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Space exploration and the culture of innovation: an interview with Neil ...
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
This began 110 years ago with the discovery of X-rays. So you look at X-rays and you look at nuclear magnetic resonance, which is the physical principle behind the magnetic resonance image. And you look at the physical principles behind ultrasounds and ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
DZERO Confirms New Chi_b(3P) State
Science 2.0
I am an experimental particle physicist working with the CMS experiment at CERN and the CDF experiment at Fermilab. In my spare time I play chess... While most High-Energy Physicists nowadays are kept busy with the idle search for non-existent new ...
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Details of Hot Quark Soup, New Liquid Neutrino Detector, and Ultra-Bright ...
lightsources.org (press release)
Scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and physicists closely following research there will present talks addressing these questions at the April 2012 meeting of the American PhysicalSociety, ...
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Happy Birthday Titan!
Space Daily
"Huygens would be pleased," says Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist and Titan authority from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. "He held the view that the universe was full of other planets and that many might ...
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'The Idea Factory': Innovation at Bell Labs
Kansas City Star
Even the labs' most storied achievements - the invention of the transistor and the discovery of the background radiation left over from the big bang, were tethered to its mandate to help improve AT&T's nationwide communications network of cable and ...
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Intelligent Design community demand ID Spoofs to be put in the Science and ...
The Spoof (satire)
"We will be bringing the full weight of the law down on the Spoof to force them to ridicule evolution alongside ridiculing Quantum Physics and homoeopathy." Mark Lowton, editor of the Spoof, was laid back about the DiscoveryInstitutes's accusations.
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Will Happer on global warming
Examiner.com
Will Happer, Professor of Physics at Princeton University and noted climate change skeptic, noted nature's lack of cooperation with the notion of a warming earth. Happer noted—and not for the first time—that the catastrophes predicted by IPCC ...
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NASA Selects 3 UCF Projects For Flight Opportunities Program
Space Ref (press release)
UCF Associate Professor of Physics Joshua Colwell submitted three proposals to NASA, which selected all three. Two experiments will fly on a suborbital rocket and one will fly on parabolic airplane flight, which provide brief periods of weightlessness.
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Jesuit philosopher to discuss creation of the universe at St. Thomas
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
... explore the close connection between reason and faith as revealed by new discoveries in astrophysics and philosophy,” according to a released statement from St. Thomas. “In his talk, Spitzer will discuss developments in physics and mathematics that ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Epigenetics: Marked for success
Nature.com
Despite his qualms, Goldsmith took the helm and, nearly three years later, epigenetics has become a hot topic in oncology drug discovery. In January, biotechnology giant Genentech in South San Francisco, California, added its own vote of confidence to ...
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Regional supercomputing centre set to revolutionise research
PressZoom (press release)
The significant contribution High Performance Computing (HPC) makes to the national growth agenda - through supporting new discoveries and driving innovation – has been recognised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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Harvard Researchers Discover Hypervelocity Planets
Harvard Crimson
By Kevin T. Wittenberg Although there was a brief scare last year when researchers thought that neutrinos had broken the speed of light, the laws ofphysics haven't thrown our conceptions of speed many curveballs in the past year. Until a few days ago, ...
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GOP candidates treat us to some amazing lessons
Carroll Daily Times Herald
Ye gods, that's what we need for the 21st century: young people who don't know anything their parents didn't know and are innocent of chemistry,physics, trigonometry, and biology. Still, it's been a fascinating and educational campaign.
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Why everything wants more power
Daily Caller
To take a truly global view of energy we must look past politics to physics — yes, physics. Widening our lens to include not only human activity but also the natural world, we make a startling discovery: everything around us is doing exactly what we ...
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Moving day for experiment examining whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles
Symmetry magazine
Majorana's ultimate goal is to detect a rare form of radioactive decay called “neutrinoless double-beta decay,” a discovery would help determine whether neutrinos are their own anti-particles. That discovery, in turn, could help scientists understand ...
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Oil Production in the 21st Century and Peak Oil
OilPrice.com
In this regard, the physical limitations on producing ever-increasing quantities of oil are highlighted, as well as the possibility of the peak of production occurring this decade. The economics of oil supply and demand are also briefly discussed, ...
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Captain Robert Scott centenary: The Manchester University alumni behind the ...
Mancunian Matters
... responsible for making Manchester University a centre for the study of physics, has also been highlighted for his role in the mission. Scott consulted Schuster when arranging his scientific plan of both the Discovery and Terra Nova missions.
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Mancunian Matters
From Russia With Love: The Strange Tale of Clara Rockmore and Léon Theremin
Huffington Post
In 1920 the young physicist, Lev Sergeyevich Termen (later to be known as Léon Theremin), demonstrated his invention to his amazed professor and fellow students. Trying to remember the notes on the cello from Camille Saint-Saëns' Le Cygne, ...
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WC Miller builds the best hovercraft in the province
Red River Valley Echo
The annual Discovery Program competition is organized by Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, and this year, a total of 21 teams from across the province competed in the semi-finals. “We were up against some huge city schools with a budget of $3000 ...
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MCA Delves Into Time, Nude Gallery Tours
Wall Street Journal (blog)
I hope people don't recognize every name, because it should be a discoveryprocess. For example, Katie Paterson, the Scottish artist, is 29. She's living now in Berlin. Her work is extraordinary. She's clearly going to be a person to watch over the ...
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