DISCOVERIES News, Apr 25, 2012

Black Holes: Facts, Formation & Discovery Space.com Yet scientists don't truly understand the workings of black holes because our best physics theories break down when trying to describe them. Black holes involve such large masses, yet tiny spaces, that they invoke two incompatible theories: general ... See all stories on this topic »

FIZ Karlsruhe's Inorganic Crystal Structure Database expands offer of ... Knowledgespeak For more than 30 years, ICSD has been assisting materials scientists,chemists, physicists, crystallographers, mineralogists and geologists in solving manifold problems in applied and basic research and in visualising basic topics for teaching purposes ... See all stories on this topic »

Bioseparations Expert at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Recognized by Elite ... Newswise (press release) ... an independent nonprofit research organization funded by the German government and named for the physicist who discovered quantum physics. “Dr. Belfort's career has been punctuated by world-changing discoveries and intrepid leadership in chemical ... See all stories on this topic »

The Crisis of Big Science The New York Review of Books Last year physicists commemorated the centennial of the discovery of the atomic nucleus. In experiments carried out in Ernest Rutherford's laboratory at Manchester in 1911, a beam of electrically charged particles from the radioactive decay of radium ... See all stories on this topic »

Albert Einstein: World's greatest Physicist and world's worst husband Firstpost He is after all, the scientist whose discovery of theory of relativity revolutionized the field of physics and branded the E = mc 2 equation into every students brain. But ever wondered what Einstein was like at home, as a husband? See all stories on this topic » Firstpost

Celebrate Astronomy Day at Discovery Center April 28 The Rock River Times The event is sponsored locally by Astro-Physics, Inc. Discovery Center activities will include make a star map, investigate telescopes, take a close-up look at the sun with the Rockford Amateur Astronomy Club, create glittery star crafts, ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists uncover strong support for once-marginalized theory on Parkinson's ... Science Codex ... modeling discoveries have spawned an intense hunt at UC San Diego for drug candidates that block ring formation in neuron membranes. The sophisticated modeling required involves a complex realm of science at the intersection of chemistry, physics, ... See all stories on this topic »

Top Astrophysicist Visits Shropshire College PR.com (press release) Doctor Charles Cunningham, from the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada, took time out from his recent visit to the Integration Centre in the Rutherford Lab in Oxfordshire, to talk to physics students at Walford and North Shropshire College. See all stories on this topic »

George Cowan, Nuclear Scientist, Dies at 92 New York Times George Cowan, a chemist who helped build the first atomic bomb, detect the first Soviet nuclear explosion and test the first hydrogen bomb, died on Friday at his home in Los Alamos, NM He was 92. The Santa Fe Institute, a scientific research center ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Molecule movements that make us think: Ion channel's voltage sensor can change ... Science Daily (press release) In collaboration with Professor Erik Lindahl's group at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and associate professor Björn Wallner at the Department ofPhysics, Chemistry and Biology at LiU, the group has built five different molecular models of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Three Aussies elected to Royal Society The Australian The 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, cosmologist Brian Schmidt from the Australian National University, was elected for his discovery of the accelerating expansion of our universe. Hugh O'Neill, also from Australian National University, ... See all stories on this topic »

Increased Antarctic Ice Loss by Warm Ocean Currents Scripps Oceanography News Now in its second century of discovery, the scientific scope of the institution has grown to include biological, physical, chemical, geological, geophysical and atmospheric studies of the earth as a system. Hundreds of research programs covering a wide ... See all stories on this topic » Scripps Oceanography News

World's largest digital camera one step closer to reality ZDNet (blog) The images are expected to help unlock the secrets of dark energy and dark matter and aid studies of near-Earth asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, the structure of our galaxy, and many other areas of astronomy and fundamental physics. See all stories on this topic » ZDNet (blog)

NEWS ANALYSIS: US losing its vision if it is no longer walking in space Business Day The space shuttle Discovery, piggybacking a ride atop a Boeing 747, on the way to the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Centre at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, where it would be retired. There was a ripple of boyish, unvarnished excitement. See all stories on this topic »

6 senior OSU faculty members awarded $20K grant for substantial research OSU - The Lantern This year's Distinguished Scholars will be able to use the $3000 honorarium and $20000 research grant throughout the next three years toward their research in American politics, the inequalities in the American society, atomicphysics and molecular ... See all stories on this topic »

Higher education leaders announce disruptive technologies to advance US ... Clemson University Further, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently announced the “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” to accelerate the pace of discovery in research and transform teaching and learning. The National Science Foundation ... See all stories on this topic »

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