 Physicist and Entrepreneur Dr. Stephen Quake Honored with $500000 Lemelson-MIT ...MarketWatch (press release) Quake is being recognized for his revolutionary work in drug discovery, genome analysis and personalized medicine. He will accept the prestigious award and present his accomplishments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the Lemelson-MIT ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Stanford genome pioneer wins Lemelson-MIT prize Reuters By Toni Clarke | BOSTON (Reuters) - Stephen Quake, a prolific inventor whose creative application ofphysics to biology has lead to multiple developments in drug discovery and genome analysis, has won the prestigious $500000 Lemelson-MIT prize for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Livermorium and Flerovium take a seat at the Periodic Table Engadget Georgiy N. Flerov (1913 – 1990) – was a renowned physicist, author of the discovery of the spontaneous fission of uranium (1940, with Konstantin A. Petrzhak), pioneer in heavy-ion physics, and founder in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| It's Official — Livermorium, Flerovium on Periodic Table of Elements Patch.com By Patch Staff The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on Thursday officially approved new names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table. Scientists of the Lawrence Livermore National ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Stephen Hawking Biography Space.com In this brief biography, we look at Hawking's education and career — ranging from his discoveries to the popular books he's written — and the disease that's robbed him of mobility and speech. Professor Stephen Hawking speaks about "Why We Should Go ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Science: A Call for Humility Huffington Post (blog) He goes on: "Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge." According to him, scientists will in time be able to explain everything and there is no need for other kinds of thinking (which, it should be noted ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Livermorium' is new atomic element name San Jose Mercury News Georgiy N. Flerov (1913-1990) was a physicist who discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium. The two names were proposed by scientists at the laboratories who collaborated in the discoverywork. Livmore lab scientists have researched heavy elements ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Teaching general relativity to undergraduates PhysicsToday.org Perhaps the most compelling of the new results is the 1998 discovery that not only is the universe expanding, but the expansion is accelerating. The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for observations of high-redshift supernovae whose distance and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Stephen Hawking's Latest Discovery Mind-Blower Variety (blog) Instead, the theoretical physicist tackles two imponderable questions -- "The Meaning of Life" and "The Theory of Everything" -- as part of his latest Discovery Channel "Grand Design" specials, airing back to back on June 9. Produced by Darlow Smithson ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Existence Of 'God Particle' Will Be Determined Soon, Possibly This Summer TPM The half-century-long hunt for the ellusive Higgs boson — a yet-unobserved particle that physiciststheorize is responsible for giving all matter mass in the universe and has been nicknamed “the god particle” — could be quickly coming to an end, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Ex-Spy Telescope May Get New Identity as a Space Investigator New York Times So when John Grunsfeld, the physicist and former astronaut, walked into his office a year later to start his new job as NASA's associate administrator for space science, he discovered that his potential armada was a bit bigger than he knew. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Underground search for neutrino properties unveils first results R & D Magazine The results shed light on the mass and other properties of the neutrino and prove the effectiveness of a new instrument that will yield even greater discoveries in this area. The Enriched Xenon Observatory 200 (EXO-200), an international collaboration ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| From black holes to strange metals PhysicsToday.org String theory relates gravity to the physics of a novel phase of matter observed above the superconducting transition temperature. Ever since the end of the Stone Age, metals have fascinated humankind and have been vital in the development of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Chiral Asymmetry Can Emerge from Maximal Symmetry Science Daily (press release) An important property in many chemical and physical systems is something called chirality. Most larger molecules are chiral, which means they exist in two different versions that are mirror images of each other, like our left and right hands. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Science lab transforms former gold mine Rapid City Journal And, for most people the probability of a face-to-face visit with scientists engaged in the quest to understand the basic physical makeup of the universe by searching for imperceptibly small particles and unfathomably elusive substances about equals ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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