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Mar 14, 2012

EARTHQUAKE News, Mar 14, 2012

Strong quakes shake Japan, but no apparent damage
Fox News
TOKYO – A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. A magnitude-6.8 earthquake first struck the southern coast of ...
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6.1 magnitude quake comes shortly after island nation rattled by 6.8earthquake
New York Daily News
There was no immediate report of damage or injury from the second quake. A strong, 6.8 earthquake shook northern Japan earlier in the evening on Wednesday, causing small tidal changes on its Pacific coastline but no damage or injury was reported.
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New York Daily News
Strong Quakes Rattle Japan, but Cause No Damage
ABC News
(ABCNEWS.com) A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The strongest was a magnitude 6.8 that struck off ...
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ABC News
Strong quake shakes Tokyo region
Atlanta Journal Constitution
There was no immediate report of damage or injury from the second quake. The tremor earlier Wednesday evening caused small swelling of water on the northern coast, including part of the region hit by last year's massiveearthquake and tsunami THIS IS A ...
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Japan rattled by 6.8 earthquake
Christian Science Monitor
Across Japan, people paused at 2:46 pm - the moment the magnitude-9.0 quake struck a year ago - for moments of silence, prayer and reflection. A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening but caused no apparent...
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Christian Science Monitor
Magnitude 6.1 quake jolts eastern Japan, no tsunami warning
Reuters
The earthquake, which caused substantial shaking in Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures east of Tokyo, followed just a few hours after a magnitude 6.8quake jolted northern Japan. A tsunami warning was issued but later lifted after that earthquake.
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Washington Monument may be sinking, official says
CNN
The monument, the tallest structure in the nation's capital, has been closed since the magnitude 5.8 quake struck the mid-Atlantic region near Richmond, Virginia. The earthquake may be responsible for the monument to have sunk 1 millimeter, ...
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Quakes Shake Japan, No Apparent Damage
TIME
14, 2012 (TOKYO) — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening, but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The first tremor off Hokkaido island was 6.8 ...
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Strong quake shakes northern Japan; no damage seen
Atlanta Journal Constitution
No damage or injury was reported from the quake so far, he said. Iwate was heavily damaged by last year's earthquake and tsunami. Thousands of aftershocks have shaken the region since then, nearly all of them of minor or moderate strength.
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Earthquake shakes Tokyo after 1 causes small tsunami in northern Japan, but no ...
Washington Post
About 9 pm local time, a magnitude-6.1 quake shook buildings in the capital. It was centered just off the coast of Chiba, east of Tokyo, at a rather shallow 15 kilometers (9 miles) deep. Narita International Airport briefly closed runways for...
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Two Quakes Strike Off Japan's Coast
Wall Street Journal
By PHRED DVORAK TOKYO—An earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Japan, shaking buildings in Tokyo but not causing any reported damage. It was the second large tremor to hit Japan on Wednesday, following a quake that struck off the northern island ...
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Did Washington Monument sink or tilt from quake?
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By BEN NUCKOLS AP WASHINGTON — The Washington Monument cracked and crumbled when a 5.8-magnitudeearthquake shook the nation's capital last year. But did it sink or tilt? Ned Wallace of the National Park Service stands over a manhole at the base of ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Japan Earthquake 2012: Tokyo Airport, Bullet Trains Close After 6.8Quake ...
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter: Subscribe to IBTimes's RSS feed A year after the worst post-war natural disaster in Japan, anearthquake and several other quakes followed by a tsunami struck Japan's northern coastline on Wednesday according to officials, ...
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International Business Times
Quakes Rattle Tokyo, Northeastern Japan
Voice of America (blog)
A series of earthquakes sent jitters through Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday, but caused no apparent damage or injury. Seismologists say the first quake, a 6.8 magnitude temblor off Hokkaido island, struck some 700 kilometers northeast of ...
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Strong earthquake hits northeastern Japan, causes small tsunami
National Post
By Shingo Ito TOKYO — A tsunami hit Japan's northeastern coastline on Wednesday, officials said, after a strong earthquakerocked the region almost exactly a year on from the country's worst post-war natural disaster. A 6.9-magtinude quake struck 26.6 ...
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National Post
Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Japanese coast, tsunami wave hits coast
Herald Sun
... Japan's northeastern coastline 6.8 magnitude quake struck around 210km off the coast Agency confirmed an earlier 10cm wave had hit land A small tsunami wave has hit Japan's northeastern coastline, officials say, after a strong earthquake rocked the ...
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Earthquake, small tsunami rattle Japan
Mother Nature Network
Little apparent damage is caused by series of quakes that rattle northeastern Japan, which just marked the year anniversary of last year's devastating tsunami. By By Agence France-PresseWed, Mar 14 2012 at 8:39 AM EST A YEAR LATER: Almost to the year ...
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Mother Nature Network
Strong quake shakes northern Japan
Detroit Free Press
TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake has shaken northern Japan, and regional tsunami advisories have been issued. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Wednesday evening's earthquake was 6.8 preliminary magnitude off the coast.
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Japan Earthquake 2012: 6.8 Quake Results in Small Tsunami on Northern Coast
International Business Times
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook northern Japan Wednesday east of Tokyo, causing a small tsunami on the northern coastline. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the first quake was magnitude 6.8 and the second was 6.1 off the coast of Chiba ...
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Strong quakes shake Japan
Sydney Morning Herald
AP A series of earthquakes have rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan, but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The first tremor off Hokkaido island on Wednesday evening was 6.8 magnitude and ...
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No damage reported after quake in Japan
Reuters
| TOKYO (Reuters) - There were no immediate reports of damage after northern Japan was hit by an earthquake which the Japan Meteorological Agency said had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8. A tsunami warning was issued but later lifted, ...
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Earthquake Today: Large Quakes Hit Japan, Causing Small Tsunami
Christian Post
The quakes have hit just days after Japan marked the first anniversary of the huge magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that left about 19000 people dead or missing. That tsunami sparked the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
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No damage reported after quake in north Japan; 50 cm tsunami warning issued
Reuters
| TOKYO (Reuters) - There were no immediate reports of damage after northern Japan was hit by an earthquake which the Japan Meteorological Agency said had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8. The epicenter of the quakewas in the Pacific Ocean off the coast ...
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6.8-magnitude Quake Rocks Northeastern Japan
RTT News
(RTTNews) - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the Pacific side of Hokkaido and north-east Japan regions on Wednesday, reports quoting the US Geological Survey and Japanese Meteorological agency said. The quakeregistered 4 on the Japanese seismic ...
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No more Fukushimas: US plants still face risks
Kansas City Star
In August, a 5.8 earthquake 11 miles from Virginia's North Anna nuclear power plant, which is 70 miles from Washington DC, rattled nerves in Baltimore and far beyond. The quake caused twice the amount of ground movement for which North Anna was ...
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Japan Earthquake 2012: Tokyo Region Hit By Strong Quake
By The Huffington Post News Editors
TOKYO — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The strongest was a magnitude 6.8 that struck off ...
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Japan Earthquake 2012: Strong Quake Shakes North, No Damages
By The Huffington Post News Editors
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press TOKYO -- A series of earthquakesrattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami.
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World News - Earthquakes jolt Japan's tsunami-hit region, Tokyo
By Reuters
Updated at 9:41 a.m. ET: TOKYO -- A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The strongest tremor ...
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Japan tsunami warning lifted as 6.8 quake hits northeastern coast
The national meteorological agency issued a tsunami advisory that was later lifted after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan. A quake measuring 6.1 later hit eastern Japan.
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Japan 6.9 Earthquake, Foreshock to Larger, Massive Quake ...
By LBG1
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, Japan was rocked by a series of powerfulearthquakes between 7 and 9 PM, Japan time, off the east coast of Honshu. The stron...
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2012 March 14 09:08:37 UTC - U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake ...
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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
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Strong quake rocks Tokyo region hours after 6.8 off-shore tremor — RT
By RT
Quake enigma: The more it shakes, the less it shows. The 9.0 magnitudeearthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan's east coast exactly one year ago were not supposed to happen. At least if seismic hazard maps are not ...
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Japan Earthquake Today 2012 Doesn't Prompt Honshu Tsunami Alert
By lalate
A series of strong Japanese earthquakes today have struck the region. The most recent Japan quakes today 2012 have progressively decreased in magnitude. USGS reports to news that four quake have struck the region in recent hours, ...
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Strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake shakes northern Japan | Earth ...
By Deborah Byrd
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook northern Japan today, in much the same region heavily damaged by the March 11, 2011 quake and tsunami of a year ago.
EarthSky
Demolish earthquake death traps - widower | Stuff.co.nz
By David Williams
Local Government New Zealand president Lawrence Yule said councils were reviewing quake policies but to get all commercial buildings to a "safe" level could take more than a decade. "We live in an earthquake-prone area of the world.
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Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Salinas - latimes.com
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Thursday morning near Salinas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:31 a.m. ...
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Radio New Zealand : News : Christchurch Earthquake : Quake ...
Quake inquiry to focus on new building technologies. Updated 6 minutes ago. New building technologies that could change the way central Christchurch is ...
www.radionz.co.nz/.../quake-inquiry-to-focus-on-new-buildin...
Japan Earthquake 2012: Tokyo Region Hit By Strong Quake
TOKYO — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../japan-earthquake-2012-tokyo_n_...
6.1 magnitude quake comes shortly after island nation rattled by ...
There was no immediate report of damage or injury from the second quake. A strong, 6.8 earthquake shook northern Japan earlier in the evening on Wednesday, ...
www.nydailynews.com/.../japan-rocked-6-8-earthquake-small-...
Japan – 366 days after the Quake… - Earthquake Report
From historical quakes and looking at business interruption, for a $280 billion direct economic loss from this earthquake, around $110 billion (2-yr) to $220...
earthquake-report.com/.../japan-366-days-after-the-quake-190...
Quake Anniversary: Japan Alpine Region Wants Foreign Visitors to ...
March 10, 2012 Quake Anniversary: Japan Alpine Region Wants Foreign Visitors to Return Ivan Broadhead | Nagano, Japan A year after the 2011earthquake, ...
www.voanews.com/.../Quake-Anniversary-Japan-Alpine-Regi...
Quake catastrophe like Japan's could hit Pacific Northwest, new ...
The last mega-quake was in 1906 near San Francisco, but large earthquakesof magnitude 6.0 or above are relatively common in historical terms, ...
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Japan Earthquake 2012: 6.8 Quake Results in Small Tsunami on ...
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook northern Japan Wednesday east of Tokyo, causing a small ...
tv.ibtimes.com/japan-earthquake-2012-6-8.../4128.html
Second strong earthquake rattles Tokyo after 6.9 quake strikes ...
TOKYO — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit ...
www.nypost.com/.../quake_shakes_japan_causes_small_mGR...
Quake enigma: The more it shakes, the less it shows — RT
The 9. 0 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan's east coast exactly one year ago were not supposed to happen.
rt.com/news/earthquake-maps-tsunami-japan-279/
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DISCOVERIES News, Mar 14, 2012


Dr. Michio KakuTheoretical Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku Speaks At Chattanooga State April 5
The Chattanoogan
Invited to participate in a variety of interactions with students, Dr. Kaku will conclude his Chattanooga State visit by presenting a lecture entitled “Physics of the Future.” This event begins at 6 pm in the Health Fitness Center on Chattanooga ...
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A Random Walk through Oddly Named Physics Things
Scientific American (blog)
It's no easier for scientists, who must constantly find names for the things they discover and the theories they come up with to explain those discoveries. In spite (or perhaps because) of the overwhelming boringness of much technical jargon, ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Nobel laureate Adam Riess to give Gamow Memorial Lecture at CU-Boulder March 22
CU Boulder News & Events
Free and open to the public, the talk is titled “Supernovae and the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe.” The talk will be held at 7:30 pm in Macky Auditorium and is intended for a general audience. Riess, a professor of physics and astronomy at ...
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How Red Solo Cups Are Made: Neutrino Oscillations And Mixing Angles
Science 2.0
Owing to their physical – quantum mechanical – nature, neutrinos can mix or oscillate between flavors and the rate of oscillation is controlled by parameters known as mixing angles. The discovery measures a critical linchpin in the study of the tiny ...
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Element of discovery in Science missing
New Straits Times
Science would be interesting if students are made to see Physics,Chemistry, and Biology as something that can be used to explain the mysteries of the world we live in. And that Mathematics is more than a bunch of formulas but is something that can ...
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New Straits Times
Vestal Hall of Fame Committee Announces Inductees for 2012
WBGH
... in physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he succeeded in cooling a fermionic gas of atoms to ultra-cold temperatures, which opened up a field of study heralded by “Science” magazine as one of the top ten scientificdiscoveries of ...
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Nobel laureate, White House advisor to speak about science education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
by Chris Barncard Carl Wieman, associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and a Nobel laureate in physics, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, March 20 to talk about teaching and learning in...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alan Lightman Helps Launch Pi Day Activities With Talk About the Pleasures of ...
Town Topics
IN LOVE WITH SCIENCE AND ART: Physicist/novelist Alan Lightman spoke about his dual passions at the Princeton Public Library on Friday. “Ever since I was a boy my passions were equally divided between science and art,” said author Alan Lightman, ...
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Town Topics
UC Merced Connect: Physicist finds answers in small places
Sacramento Bee
When Andrea Rodarte began studying physics, she first wanted to look to the stars for answers. Instead, she's finding them in nanoparticles. "The people I know who went into astrophysics only get to do an experiment once or twice a year," Rodarte said.
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Barrier to Faster Graphene Devices Identified and Suppressed
Product Design & Development
13 issue of the journal Nature Communications, a team of Vanderbiltphysicists reports that they have nailed down the source of the interference inhibiting the rapid flow of electrons through graphene-based devices and found a way to suppress it.
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Today is Albert Einstein's birthday and Pi Day
Siliconrepublic.com
And in 1921 Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physicsbased on his contribution to theoretical physics, especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. This paved the way for the field of quantum theory.
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Siliconrepublic.com
Grapevine: Stephen Hawking has 'Big Bang' cameo
The Detroit News
Renowned British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will make a cameo appearance on CBS' "The Big Bang Theory," reports TV Guide.com. Sheldon (played by Jim Parsons ) will meet Hawking in an episode that will air April 5.
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Researchers discover galaxy cluster
Bryan College Station Eagle
Kim-Vy Tran and Casey Papovich, both assistant professors in A&M's physicsand astronomy department, are among 15 scientists that participated in the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey. The group announced recently that it found the concentration of 30 ...
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Nano spiral staircases modify light
Science Codex
There was a lot of excitement a few years ago following thediscovery of the DNA origami technique. The approach could be used to build nanoparticles of a given shape and size. However, real applications, such as nano-tweezers, remained out of reach.
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Science Codex
Celebrate Green Skin Care and St. Patrick's Day with Marie Veronique Organics
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
After a career as a chemistry teacher, Nadeau began developing products with her daughter, physicist Dr. Jay Nadeau, experimenting until she found the perfect combination of oils, extracts and vitamins. Fueled by a desire to age gracefully, ...
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Christie Partners Honored With DSE 2012 Apex and Content Awards
SBWire (press release)
Christie and partners walked away with gold, silver and bronze awards in four categories, with the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery installation, featuring Christie® MicroTiles® and content by Zebradog, selected as DSE's first Apex of the Year award ...
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'MythBusters' stars bring science/busting shtick to the Fox for 2 shows
The Detroit News
The two plan to bring a scaled-down, blast-less (but still exciting) version of their Emmy-nominated Discovery series to the stage in two shows at the Fox Theatre on Friday. The shows include video and behind-the-scenes stories, on-stage experiments ...
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A New Paradigm: Veda, Consciousness, the Ramayana, and the Self
San Jose Mercury News
Join us for an evening with two leading Scientists Dr. Tony Nader PHD and Dr. John Hagelin a renowned quantum physicist, Ramani Ayer, the first Indo American CEO of a fortune 500 company, will speak on Enlightened Leadership and world peace.
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UAB College of Arts and Sciences seeks drug delivery ideas
al.com (blog)
It named physicist Yogesh Vohra as associate dean for interdisciplinary and creative innovation, and one major effort this year is a series of interdisciplinary forums. The second forum, on innovations in drug delivery, met Tuesday.
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al.com (blog)
CU and NIST scientists reveal inner workings of magnets, a finding that could ...
CU Boulder News & Events
Many technology experts believe that next-generation computer disk drives will use optically-assisted magnetic recording to achieve much higher drive capacities, according to NIST scientist Tom Silva, who worked with CU-Boulderphysics professors ...
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Barrier to faster graphene devices identified and suppressed
Nanowerk LLC
13 issue of the journal Nature Communications ("Probing charge scattering mechanisms in suspended graphene by varying its dielectric environment"), a team of Vanderbilt physicists reports that they have nailed down the source of the interference ...
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Nanowerk LLC
Clarence Dally — The Man Who Gave Thomas Edison X-Ray Vision
Smithsonian (blog)
Its machinery could produce anything from a locomotive engine to a lady's wristwatch, and when the machines weren't running, Edison's “muckers” —the researchers, chemists and technologically curious who came from as far away as Europe—might watch a ...
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Smithsonian (blog)
How Did Comet Lovejoy Survive Its Trip Around The Sun?
Universe Today
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physicsand the Braunschweig University of Technology have hypothesized that Comet Lovejoy managed to hold itself together through the very process that, to most people, defines a comet: the ...
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Universe Today
Listen to solar storm activity in new sonification video
PhysOrg.com
"This approach is changing the timescale for us," said Jim Raines, a lead mission operations engineer in UM's Space PhysicsResearch Lab. "It's really interesting to hear it." Sonification is the process of translating information into sound.
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PhysOrg.com
Graphite Goes Critical: A Look At Noteworthy Canadian Juniors
MarketWatch (press release)
This important discovery resulted in Professors Konstantin Novoselov and Andrew Geim the pair to first isolate graphene winning the 2010 Nobel Prize inphysics. Potential future uses of the material are numerous, from playing a major role in the ...
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National Science Day at JMA Pilani Rajasthan
openPR (press release)
To popularize the benefits of scientific knowledge, 28th February is celebrated all over India as National Science Day – NSD to mark the discovery of Nobel Prize winning Raman Effect by the great Indian Physicist Sir CV Raman in 1928 on same day.
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openPR (press release)
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site --Now Seen in Unprecedented Detail
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
Old documents were discovered revealed that, unbeknownst to Lebar and Nafzger, the lunar camera's signals had also been recorded on a couple of 2-inch tapes by an experimental program run by the Applied Physics Laboratory near Baltimore.
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