- Robert Arthur Helliwell30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
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- Quantum numbers, Chern classes, and a bodhisattva30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
A physics Nobel laureate reflects on how he came to understand the significance of a youthful lunchtime encounter with a famous mathematician
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- NSF invites “CREATIV” research proposals30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
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- Slow slip: A new kind of earthquake30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
Sandwiched between the shallow region of sudden, infrequent earthquakes and the deeper home to continuous viscous motion lies an intermediate realm of intermittent sliding and rumbling. Discovered in recent years, it still harbors many secrets
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- Monitoring surface diffusion, one molecule at a time30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
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- Tides, moonlight, machines, and D-Day30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
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- The Shaping of Life: The Generation of Biological Pattern30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
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- Tides, moonlight, machines, and D-Day30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
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- Recent developments in US patent law30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
Legislation making the US the last country to abandon the first-to-invent patent system should have a significant effect on the way scientists approach patenting
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- Tides, moonlight, machines, and D-Day30 December 2011, 1:00 pm
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- Common brain receptor in eyes may link epilepsy, cataracts and antidepressants28 January 2012, 12:15 pm
Researchers from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and Columbia University have discovered that the most common receptor for the major neurotransmitter in the brain is also present in the lens of the eye, a finding that may help explain links between cataracts, epilepsy and use of a number of widely prescribed antiepileptic and antidepressant drugs. The research appears online in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.... 
- 'We care about every worker': Apple CEO28 January 2012, 12:10 pm
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has responded to media reports alleging harsh working conditions in China for manufacturing employees of the popular gadget-maker....
- NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye'28 January 2012, 12:00 pm
Powerful Cyclone Funso's eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA's Aqua satellite noticed it had "closed" and become filled with high clouds on January 27....
- Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth28 January 2012, 12:00 pm
An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact....
- Renegade sperm donor triggers US probe28 January 2012, 11:58 am
A California man who donates his sperm for free to couples who want to have a baby is being investigated by US regulators but insists he will continue his efforts as a matter of goodwill....
- Space Weather Center to add world's first 'ensemble forecasting' capability28 January 2012, 11:50 am
Improved Forecasting to Coincide with Peak in Solar Activity...
- Romney sees starships fueled by private enterprise28 January 2012, 11:48 am
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney tried to boost support on Florida's "Space Coast" Friday ahead of next week's key primary, promising business would play a bigger role in future missions....
- Anonymous attack Mexico websites to protest copyright law28 January 2012, 11:46 am
The shadowy online hackers group Anonymous blocked access to the websites of the Mexican Senate and the Interior Ministry Friday to protest a proposed law to fine people who violate copyright online....
- Russian cargo vessel arrives at space station28 January 2012, 11:46 am
A Russian cargo vessel docked safely at the International Space Station on Saturday carrying mainly water and fuel, the mission control centre said....
- Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein leaves HP28 January 2012, 11:44 am
Former Palm chief executive Jon Rubinstein has left Hewlett-Packard, less than two years after Palm was acquired by the computer giant....
- Carbon membranes excel at separating liquids27 January 2012, 2:10 pm
Ultrathin films have highly selective permeability...
- Graphene could be a perfect absorber of light26 January 2012, 4:02 pm
Periodic patterning confines light, claim physicists...
- Parting the clouds26 January 2012, 11:00 am
Arnold Wolfendale reviews Earth: the Operator’s Manual by Richard Alley...
- Parting the clouds26 January 2012, 11:00 am
Arnold Wolfendale reviews Earth: the Operator’s Manual by Richard Alley...
- Between the lines26 January 2012, 10:00 am
A new biography of Stephen Hawking and a history of radioactivity, reviewed by Margaret Harris...
- Between the lines26 January 2012, 10:00 am
A new biography of Stephen Hawking and a history of radioactivity, reviewed by Margaret Harris...
- D-Compact Series KD*P Pockels Cells26 January 2012, 9:07 am
EKSMA OPTICS has announced new D-compact series Pockels cells with KD*P crystals....
- Henniker Scientific Ltd.26 January 2012, 9:06 am
Components, instruments & systems for UHV, thin film deposition, surface, plasma & gas analysis.
- Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers
- Ion/Electron/UV/X-Ray Sources
- E-Beam & Thermal Evaporators
- Plasma Diagnostic Instruments
- Custom Systems...
- Online tools are 'distraction' for science25 January 2012, 10:52 am
Report says journals remain "the gold standard" for disseminating results...
- ktp25 January 2012, 9:06 am
Applications:
Second harmonic generator of radiation 1.064 μm
Optical parametric oscilator in near IR region up to 4 μm
Different frequency generator in near IR region
E-O Modulators...
- Primitive Attraction: Magnetized Moon Rock Points to Lunar Core's Active Past26 January 2012, 7:01 pm
The moon of today is a static orb with little to no internal activity; for all intents and purposes it appears to be a dead, dusty pebble of a world. But billions of years ago the moon may have been a place of far more dynamism--literally. [More]
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- New Water-Repelling Surfaces Avoid the Deadly Perils of Icing [Video]26 January 2012, 1:44 pm
Joanna Aizenberg's muse is the whole of the natural world. The Harvard University materials scientist takes her inspiration from creatures that suggest engineering of substances in unexpected ways. Ocean creatures in particular have proved inspirational. The brittle star, a relative of the starfish and the sea urchin, has a shell coated with lenses, which may furnish ideas for new types of optical communication systems. There is also the deep-sea sponge with a crown composed of optical fiber...
- How to Make Science and Tech Jobs More Enticing to Undergrads25 January 2012, 12:59 pm
The number of U.S. undergraduate degrees being awarded in most STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) has risen steadily in recent years{link to G Sci page}. Yet some American employers say they are having trouble finding candidates to fill STEM jobs. The mismatch is not occurring because of an actual shortage of graduates; the numbers of job openings and new degree holders align fairly closely. And the shortfall is not because more foreign-born students are returning home ...
- Should the U.S. Collaborate with China in Space?23 January 2012, 12:00 pm
The next time humans set foot on the moon, they may well plant a five-starred red flag there. The Chinese space program is developing rapidly, and further progress should come this year when taikonauts, a colloquial term for Chinese astronauts, visit the Tiangong-1 space module. [More]
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- Recommended: Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions (preview)20 January 2012, 4:00 pm
Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions [More]
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- Catching a Gravity Wave: Canceled Laser Space Antenna May Still Fly20 January 2012, 12:00 pm
Ripples in the fabric of spacetime regularly zip across the universe from titanic cosmic events, such as the mergers of supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun. These so-called gravitational waves ought to be ubiquitous but faint, and no experiment has yet registered the disturbance caused by a passing wave. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna was supposed to do just that. The spaceborne observatory, also known as LISA, was to be a joint mission between NA...
- Solar Swan Song: NASA Satellite Witnesses a Comet's Plunge into the Sun19 January 2012, 7:45 pm
As dramatic exits go, it's on par with Major T. J. "King" Kong riding a falling nuclear bomb like a rodeo bull at the end of Dr. Strangelove . A NASA spacecraft has documented a comet's demise as it plunged toward the sun at 600 kilometers per second, broke apart and vaporized inside the solar atmosphere. [More]
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- Fight Slippage with Friction19 January 2012, 3:00 pm
Key concepts [More]
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- Is Space Digital? (preview)17 January 2012, 4:12 pm
Craig Hogan believes that the world is fuzzy. This is not a metaphor. Hogan, a physicist at the University of Chicago and director of the Fermilab Particle Astrophysics Center near Batavia, Ill., thinks that if we were to peer down at the tiniest subdivisions of space and time, we would find a universe filled with an intrinsic jitter, the busy hum of static. This hum comes not from particles bouncing in and out of being or other kinds of quantum froth that physicists have argued about in the pas...
- The Search for the Smallest Bits of Space [Video]17 January 2012, 4:11 pm
Craig Hogan, a physicist at the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is building an experiment to see if spacetime isn’t smooth like everyone thinks, but rather bit-like and chunky on the smallest scales. The experiment is the focus of the cover story " Is Space Digital? " in the February 2012 issue of Scientific American , as well as this short video. [More]
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- Prions more mobile than thought26 January 2012, 7:46 pm
Disease agents can jump from one species to another...
- More like Faux-malhaut b26 January 2012, 4:17 pm
Distant point of light may not have been a planet after all...
- Measuring what makes a medicine26 January 2012, 4:00 pm
Researchers' method to rank molecules may aid in search for new drugs....
- Molten blobs create moon flashes25 January 2012, 9:28 pm
Mysterious lunar lights are the superhot remains of meteorites pelting the surface...
- Intel Science Talent Search names top 40 finalists25 January 2012, 9:17 pm
Competition drew more than 1,800 entries from across the country...
- FOR KIDS: Fish eyes go green25 January 2012, 9:10 pm
Scientists find a surprise in the lens of a fish that lives in the dark...
- FOR KIDS: Climate coolers25 January 2012, 9:10 pm
Reducing methane, soot in the atmosphere could curb climate change...
- Archaeopteryx wore black24 January 2012, 10:10 pm
Analysis compares microscopic structures with modern birds’...
- 'Nonstick' pollutants may cut efficiency of vaccines in kids24 January 2012, 9:16 pm
Effects in children with the highest exposures suggest immunizations may fail to protect some from disease...
- Social friction tied to inflammation23 January 2012, 11:33 pm
Negative interactions with others or stressful competition for another’s attention may have biological effects...
- 01/25/12 PHD comic: 'By the way'27 January 2012, 4:15 am
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"By the way" - originally published
1/25/2012
For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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- 01/23/12 PHD comic: 'The Mountain Top'24 January 2012, 8:20 pm
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"The Mountain Top" - originally published
1/23/2012
For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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- 01/18/12 PHD comic: 'Clue'21 January 2012, 6:02 pm
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"Clue" - originally published
1/18/2012
For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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- 01/16/12 PHD comic: 'Go back'18 January 2012, 9:07 pm
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"Go back" - originally published
1/16/2012
For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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- 01/17/12 Cecilia's Blog: 'New Year'18 January 2012, 2:03 am
Now that it is two weeks into the year, and I've actually had a chance to test out my New Year's Resolutions, I can commit to them via the Internet. I'm not one to do this every year - because I really feel like you should always keep in mind what is important to you - but let's be honest: that doesn't always work out. This year I needed an extra reminder and so here they are:
1) Be healthier. This means eat less and exercise more. For me at least, and pretty much for everyone I think :-P ...
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