DISCOVERIES News, May 16, 2012

Timely Discovery: Physics Research Sheds New Light On Quantum Dynamics Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (May 15, 2012) — Kansas State University physicists and an international team of collaborators have made a breakthrough that improves understanding of matter-light interactions. Their research allows double ionization events to be ... See all stories on this topic »

Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram Wired News (blog) Scientist Stephen Hawking believes information that enters a black hole is lost forever, but this seems to violate fundamental laws of physics, which led researchers such as Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft to consider alternatives. See all stories on this topic » Wired News (blog)

Panasas Parallel Storage Accelerates Scientific Discovery At California ... MarketWatch (press release) ... facilities and provides support services for numerous campus research groups that require reliable I/O, including the aeronautics, applied mathematics, astronomy, biology, engineering, geophysics, materials science, and physics departments. See all stories on this topic »

Know Your Neurons: The Discovery and Naming of the Neuron Scientific American (blog) By the middle of the 19th century, scientists had discovered that the tissues of plants, animals and all living things were made of discrete units called “cells,” the same “small rooms” that 17th century English physicist Robert Hooke observed in a ... See all stories on this topic » Scientific American (blog)

Theoretical Physicist Lisa Randall Wins 2012 Gemant Award Newswise (press release) “The Gemant Award was envisioned to recognize those who can forge connections between art and science, and who can bring the excitement of discovery to the public,” said Catherine O'Riordan, AIP Vice President of Physics Resources. See all stories on this topic »

Science casts a new eye on dino history Victoria Times Colonist By Richard Watts, Times Colonist May 13, 2012 Beipaosaurus inexpectus, a feathered dinosaur, is a key part of the new exhibit Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveriesat the Royal BC.C. Museum, which runs until Sept. 16. Much of what we thought we ... See all stories on this topic »

Astrophysicists report new discoveries Armenian Reporter Yerevan - In April 2012 the head of Armenia's Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) and director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, was invited to the European Space Agency center in Italy. A conference there was devoted to the Italian ... See all stories on this topic » Armenian Reporter

Sean Lahman: Brighter is better, thanks to UR prof Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Last year, Tang won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, widely considered second in prestige to only the Nobel Prize. One out of every three scientists to win the Wolf Prize inphysics, chemistry and medicine has gone on to win the Nobel Prize. See all stories on this topic »

Nanotubes and silicon: unexpected ingredients in a new optical device Nanowerk LLC (Nanowerk News) "A lot of discoveries in the laboratory are purely accidental," said Swastik Kar, an assistant professor of physics in the College of Science. He and Yung Joon Jung, an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, ... See all stories on this topic » Nanowerk LLC

Journey to the Exoplanets (for iPad) PC Magazine At the bottom of each illustration in the Exoplanet Gallery is a dial, with the choices Info, Distance, and Discovery. Discovery gives the planet's discovery year and month, Distance gives the system's distance in light years, and spinning the dial to ... See all stories on this topic »

Science casts a new eye on dino history Vancouver Sun New discoveries of smaller dinosaurs from China have revealed many were covered in feathers. Paleontologists now believe many dinosaurs were warmblooded and some even lived in areas that saw snow. "What you used to think about dinosaurs, ... See all stories on this topic »

Physicist awarded prestigious John Bardeen Prize EurekAlert (press release) He is the only scientist to win the Nobel Prize in physics twice, one for the discoveryof the transistor and the other for the theory of superconductivity. The John Bardeen Prize is sponsored by the department of physics of the University of Illinois ... See all stories on this topic »

Perimeter Institute Scientists Recognized for Research Excellence Newswise (press release) He's made numerous key contributions in subfields – from foundational string theory to gravitational physics to string cosmology. Several of his discoveries have opened entirely new lines of inquiry, and are regarded as modern classics. See all stories on this topic »

Secret To Beating Roulette Wheel Revealed Discovery News Small and Tse used the physics of friciton to predict the half of the wheel a ball would land in 13 out of 22 times. That may not sound good, but it means that they were above the 50 percent mark -- enough to make a profit. Usually, a European roulette ... See all stories on this topic »

Fire tornado makes 'cool' TV Windsor Star Rehse and Doci have filmed a TV episode on the Discovery Channel show Daily Planet. His "fire tornado" is one of those "don't try this at home," Myth Busters-like experiments that earned University of Windsor physics professor Steven Rehse a spot on a ... See all stories on this topic »

From the Archives: Frost Flowers and Hot Capillary Action Scientific American (blog) Well, botanists and physicists, perhaps; the demarcations between scientific disciplines weren't nearly so rigid in Herschel's day. Many others were inspired by Herschel's letter to relate their own discoveries of frost flowers. See all stories on this topic » Scientific American (blog)

Antimatter Propulsion Engine Redesigned Using CERN's Particle Physics ... Technology Review (blog) But from time to time physicists put aside these concerns and have a little fun working out how good antimatter rocket engines can be. Today it's the turn of Ronan Keane at Western Reserve Academy and Wei-Ming Zhang at Kent State University, ... See all stories on this topic »

ORNL's Mook Wins Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Research Newswise (press release) The Onnes Prize, named after the winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in physics for thediscovery of superconductivity and related research, is awarded every three years for outstanding experiments in superconductivity, or the absence of electrical ... See all stories on this topic »

Sun Leaves No Shock Wave in its Wake Discovery News "This reduction of 7000 mph is a reduction of about 25 percent of the pressure pushing on the heliosphere that we thought was there is actually there," David McComas, lead scientist for NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, told Discovery ... See all stories on this topic »

Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Summer Semester 2012 Lifehacker Physics for humanists will walk you through the history of modern physics, major players in physical science over the past hundred years, what their discoveries mean in a big-picture sense, how far we have to go. The course is designed for people ... See all stories on this topic »

Modern alchemy The Economist ONE of the first inklings that chemistry has an underlying pattern was the discovery, early in the 19th century, of lithium, sodium and potassium—known collectively as the alkali metals. Though different from each other they have strangely similar ... See all stories on this topic »

Solar Power At West Virginia College A Student's Idea EarthTechling The project came about when Wesleyan senior engineering/physics major Scott Roberts and Research Assistant Professor of Physics Dr. Thomas Brennan discovered their mutual interest in renewable energy, and decided to put it to work. (A discoveryaided ... See all stories on this topic »

Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room ... Nanowerk LLC (Nanowerk News) Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence ... See all stories on this topic » Nanowerk LLC

Guest Post: Science is Reliable (Sorry, Skeptics: No Grand Conspiracy against God) Patheos (blog) Just some discoveries about how the physical world operates. Science has discovered much about the universe. The scientific enterprise provides amazing insights into the natural world, and I believe that those insights are reliable, steadily improving ... See all stories on this topic »

Oslo-experiment may explain massive star explosions Space Daily by Yngve Vogt for Apollon Magazine Ground-breaking research in nuclear physics at the University of Oslo may help astrophysicists understand how the heavier elements in our universe were made. The Big Bang only produced the lightest elements, ... See all stories on this topic »

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