DISCOVERIES News, May 02, 2012

Discoveries Physicist says Moore's Law is 'collapsing' Computerworld By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - A well-known theoretical physicist has taken direct aim at a key theory in the computer industry, saying Moore's Law is collapsing. Physicist Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at City University of New ... See all stories on this topic »

My Sister Rosalind Franklin by Jenifer Glynn - review The Guardian DNA is a special molecule and required insights from numerous disciplines – biological, chemical and physical. The biochemist Erwin Chargaff's discovery that the amounts of adenine and thymine bases in DNA were roughly the same, as were those of ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Researcher at Ohio Supercomputer Center Named Campus Champion HPCwire COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 1 -- A senior researcher in computer science at the Ohio Supercomputer Center has been designated a Campus Champion – charged with empowering researchers and educators to advance scientificdiscovery by serving as their local source ... See all stories on this topic »

Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new particle at CERN Space Daily by Staff Writers Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first time at the LHC. See all stories on this topic »

Scripps Oceanography Physical Oceanographer Elected to National Academy of Science 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

Insights from the classical atom PhysicsToday.org It explains the considerable success of QM's predecessors—Max Planck's quantum physics and Bohr's old quantum theory. And one can only guess to what extent the discovery of the nucleus might have been delayed had it not been for the co-incidence of ... See all stories on this topic »

Viral Video: Why Moore's Law will collapse in the next decade Digitaltrends.com He's one of the more famous theoretical physicists in the United States and a co-founder of String theory, which is the leading theory on how our universe works. He's quite active in PBS, Discovery, and blogs all across the Web. See all stories on this topic » Digitaltrends.com

Radiation Belt Storm Probes arrive at Florida launch site Spaceflight Now Despite their discovery in the 1950s, the radiation belts are not well understood by scientists. Physicists learned in the 1990s the belts are not as stable as once thought. Instead, they expand, heat up, and contract when charged particles from solar ... See all stories on this topic » Spaceflight Now

Graphene-based terahertz devices: The wave of the future Nanowerk LLC "Graphene has been touted as an ideal platform to discover new, as well as prove/dispute existing, physical phenomena since 2004," Xing said. "That is what two physicists in the United Kingdom, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, were awarded the ... See all stories on this topic »

Measuring the value of scientific research Philippine Star While it is tempting to imagine scientific revolutions emerging from dramaticdiscoveries motivated by the need to solve existing problems, history tells us that, in many cases, the so-called “solutions” came before the “problems. See all stories on this topic »

QND astronomy course taking students to new academic heights Quincy Herald Whig Up until then, she said, QND offered courses in the physical sciences (physics and chemistry) and the life sciences (biology and physiology). But it didn't offer anything in earth or space sciences. "This was kind of our foot in the door," she said. See all stories on this topic »

12 new ventures commence UCD's entrepreneurship programme Businessandleadership.com The promoters are Dr Christian Grave and Dr Andrew Phillips, UCD School ofChemistry and Chemical Biology. InCUs is developing technology for eDiscovery experts and IT security managers, which employs digital forensic techniques to provide additional ... See all stories on this topic »

Torch bearers of tomorrow grab flame of inspiratio... Business Weekly Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge, Richard has over 20 years of experience pioneering developments in plastic electronics. His research group has demonstrated that these materials can be used in a wide range of semiconductor ... See all stories on this topic »

Europe approves billion euro mission to explore icy worlds of Jupiter Imperial College London Professor Michele Dougherty from Imperial's Department of Physics and lead scientist for the JUICE proposal, said: 'Ever since Galileo's discovery of the four largest moons of Jupiter, we've wondered what it must be like on their icy surfaces, ... See all stories on this topic »

Gagosian Reveals Major Lucio Fontana Exhibition ArtLyst In Buenos Aires, with his students at the newly founded Academia of Altamira, Fontana conceived of an art that could reflect the excitement of contemporaneous discoveries in science andphysics and thus continue evolving its very means. See all stories on this topic » ArtLyst

World's leading magnetic resonance specialists to convene in Melbourne ITCM “The 2012 ISMRM meeting in Melbourne will see highlights of the most important interactions between physicists, engineers, and physicians that have translated scientific discoveries to patient care,” said Roberta A. Kravitz, ISMRM Executive Director. See all stories on this topic »

Syracuse Area Teachers to Receive Clarkson University Inspirational High ... ReadMedia (press release) Carpenter, a Regents and AP Physics teacher at Chittenango Central Schools in Chittenango, NY, was nominated by former student Thomas Wilkowski of Bridgeport, NY, a senior electrical engineering student at Clarkson. DeVivo-Beers, a mathematics teacher ... See all stories on this topic »

STUDENTS GO ON A SCIENCE TRIP Daily Pioneer The trip was enriching for the students as they were exposed to discoveries and latest findings in the field of science, astronomy, medicine and history. They also took a trip down history as they witnessed models of ancient civilisations and walked ... See all stories on this topic »

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