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Ask An Astrophysicist
The universe is being pushed apart at a faster and faster rate. And the culprit? Dark energy. Astrophysicist Adam Riess shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for that discovery, and now's your chance to ask him about it--or anything else you've been wondering about the cosmos.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Particles collide at Secret Garden Party
Guerilla Science staged a safari featuring quarks, electrons and bosons to help demystify particle physicsIn a soggy field in Cambridgeshire, an unsuspecting crowd was summoned from the tent where they were sheltering from the incessant rain to observe an exotic species of wildlife."Over there you can see the green quark – that's an up quark," explained the silver-clad tour guide to the onlookers as they watched the twirling figure in a green boiler suit. Dancing nearby were two more, in blue and red. "Quarks have three genders: red, green and blue. They're only really happy when the three are together in a loving bond."...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 27, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Zoe Cormier Tags: Blogposts Particle physics guardian.co.uk Festivals Science Source Type: news

Turbulences at a standstill
Energy flowing from large-scale to small-scale places may be prevented from flowing freely in specific conditions. For one theoretical physicists, devising models of chaos and turbulence is his bread and butter. He has found an exception in a model of turbulence, indicating that there are energy flows from large to small scale in confined space.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - July 27, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news

New Books Party: books received this week | @GrrlScientist
This week I tell you about Ignorance, bullshit, the wildlife of South Gerorgia Island and Why millions survive cancerBelow the jump, I mention the books that I received recently in the mail. These are the books that I may review in more depth later, either here or in print somewhere in the world. When I get new books, I like to share them with people. Unfortunately, you are all so far away, so I cannot host a book party in my crib where you can look over these books, so I'll do the next best thing. I'll host a book party on my blog each Friday of the week when books arrive by giving you my quick "first impression" of them ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 27, 2012 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: Blogposts guardian.co.uk Science Source Type: news

Splitter Distribution Box
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - July 27, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

FTTH Terminal Box
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - July 27, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

High Performance Uncooled Thermal Imaging Cameras
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Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - July 27, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Piezo Positioner Catalog
A new catalog on piezo positioners and actuators is now available from PI Ceramic. It contains a piezo physics tutorial, equations for dynamics and electrical requirements for piezo operation etc.
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - July 27, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

FC-FC Multi mode duplex optic fiber adapters
High quality with competitive price
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - July 27, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

High Strength, One Component Epoxy Meets NASA Low Outgassing Specifications
Master Bond Supreme 10HT is a versatile system that combines high shear and peel strengths with convenient handling. This one part system eliminates mixing and cures in just 60-75 minutes at 250°F.
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - July 27, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

This Day in Science History - July 27 - John Dalton
On July 27, 1844 John Dalton died. Dalton was an English chemist and physicist who proposed what has become known as Dalton's atomic theory. This theory puts forth the idea ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Chemistry - July 26, 2012 Category: Chemistry Source Type: news

World's smallest semiconductor laser created
Physicists have developed the world's smallest semiconductor laser, a breakthrough for emerging photonic technology with applications from computing to medicine.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - July 26, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news

Mirada to upgrade RTx software
At the American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting next week (more)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - July 26, 2012 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Intel invests in extreme-ultraviolet lithography
US company takes a 15% stake in Dutch firm ASML
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 26, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Why maths should be compulsory for all A-level students
Studying maths until the end of sixth form would benefit both scientists and non-scientists, says Alice Udale-SmithWhen a House of Lords report suggested earlier this week that maths A-level should be compulsory for all sixth-formers, students were aghast.While some thanked the heavens they had escaped the proposals, others labeled the report ridiculous, pointing out that had they been forced to take a maths A-level, they may not have made it to university.Those who voted on Guardian Students' Facebook poll were also overwhelmingly opposed to the idea.It's not hard to see why. Maths is seen as difficult and intimidating by...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 26, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Alice Udale-Smith Tags: Education Source Type: news

Standard radiation therapy dose provides pain relief for painful heel spurs
(American Society for Radiation Oncology) Patients with plantar fasciitis (painful bone heel spur) experience significantly less pain and improved quality of life following a standard dose of external beam radiation therapy, a common cancer treatment similar to receiving an X-ray, according to a randomized, cooperative group study that was published online July 25, 2012, in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 26, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Researchers unveil molecular details of how bacteria propagate antibiotic resistance
(American Institute of Physics) A research team may have found a new way to prevent "superbugs" from genetically propagating drug resistance.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 26, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Prototype ‘Mott transistor’ developed
Phase transition found to occur through bulk of material
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 25, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Beowulf, Shakespeare and the plausibility of fiction | John Sutherland
A study by mathematicians says Beowulf is more plausible than Richard III. Could it be because life is more epic than tragic?There's an article called Universal Properties of Mythological Networks by Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna which has caused something of a silly season flutter in the newspapers. The article, available for free here, is e-published by Europhysics Letters. The journal proclaims itself as dedicated to "exploring the frontiers of physics" and its normal offerings are things entitled "Impact of Anisotropy on Vortex Clusters and their Dynamics" (by J Stockhofe, S Middelkamp, PG Kevrekidis, and P Schme...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 25, 2012 Category: Science Authors: John Sutherland Tags: Comment Classics Culture Fiction guardian.co.uk Mathematics Books William Shakespeare Science Comment is free Source Type: news

Physicists solve Casimir conundrum
Drude model is right choice for calculating force.
Source: Nanotechweb.org News - July 25, 2012 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: news

Researchers Develop Laser Technology To Fight Cancer
Researchers at the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed a technology that goes on a "seek and destroy" mission for cancerous tumors. They have harnessed the power of lasers to find, map and non-invasively destruct cancerous tumors. Christian Parigger, associate professor of physics, and Jacqueline Johnson, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering, along with Robert Splinter of Splinter Consultants, have developed the invention...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 25, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news

Artificial jellyfish engineered from rat heart cells
Study could provide first steps towards reverse-engineering the human heart
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 24, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Should Oscar Pistorius's Prosthetic Legs Disqualify Him from the Olympics?
Runners who've faced off against Oscar Pistorius say they know when the South African is closing in on them from behind. They hear a distinctive clicking noise growing louder, like a pair of scissors slicing through the air--the sound of Pistorius's Flex-Foot Cheetah prosthetic legs. [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - July 24, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Biotechnology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biology,Physics Source Type: news

ODF Unit Series
Fiber Optic Distribution Frames - ODF Unit Series
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - July 24, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Optic Cross-connection Cabinet
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - July 24, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Physicists study the classics for hidden truths
(Institute of Physics) The truth behind some of the world's most famous historical myths, including Homer's epic, the Iliad, has been bolstered by two researchers who have analyzed the relationships between the myths' characters and compared them to real-life social networks.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 24, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

X-rays probe the origins of hotspot volcanoes
Experiment may provide evidence for "mantle plume" hypothesis
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 23, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

The Elsevier Foundation, TWAS, and OWSD Launch Awards Recognizing Women Scientists in Developing Countries
The Elsevier Foundation, the academy of sciences for the developing world (TWAS) and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) has launched an awards program recognizing talented early career women scientists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Each winner will receive a cash prize of US$5,000 at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in February 2013. In addition, winners will be reimbursed the full cost of attending the conference (including travel, accommodation and registration). The 2013 awards focus on life scientis...
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - July 23, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Beyond the Higgs: Supersymmetry
As more evidence comes out showing that the Large Hadron Collider has located the Higgs boson (or some general Higgs-like particle), the next few years will focus largely on sifting through this evidence and refining the Standard Model of Particle Physics. They will conduct measurements from millions of particle collisions in the effort to more precisely define the physical properties of these Higgs-like particles (and the related Higgs field, which is the real object of interest)....Read Full Post
Source: About.com Physics - July 22, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Quantum Levitation on TED
One of the most visually impressive recent discoveries in physics is the phenomenon of quantum levitation, in which a superconductor becomes suspended within a magnetic field. Quantum locking goes even a step beyond this. This isn't the same as just magnetic repulsion, though, because the superconductor itself doesn't have any electrical charge. Instead, it repulses the magnetic field around it, but if the superconductor is thin enough, then some of the field pops through the material due to the quantum Meissner effect. The result is that the magnetic field actually "locks" the superconductor in place relative to the sourc...
Source: About.com Physics - July 21, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Brian Greene on the Higgs Field: Mass Molasses of the Universe
The Higgs boson is getting a lot of press since the July 4 CERN announcement that it may have been detected by the Large Hadron Collider, but the boson is only part of the story. See, the real work isn't done by the boson itself, but by the Higgs field, which theoretical physicist Peter Higgs proposed in 1964 as a means of explaining how the Standard Model of quantum physics could explain the mass shown by fundamental particles. The Higgs boson is just a physical manifestation of that field, created when you shove enough energy into it. (In quantum physics, fields and particles are viewed as different ways of representing ...
Source: About.com Physics - July 20, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Getting High: Physics Of The Fosbury Flop
The world record for high jump — the event in which a person hurdles himself over a horizontal bar — is just over 8 feet. That's like leaping over a stop sign, and clearing it by a foot. Jesus Dapena, of Indiana University, has studied the high jump for 30 years, filming athletes to understand exactly how they produce the force required to clear the bar.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 20, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New chemical bonds possible in extreme magnetic fields
Helium molecules could form near neutron stars
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 20, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Do dolphins think nonlinearly?
Complex sonar processing sees through bubbles
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 19, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Graphene defects tracked as they creep and climb
Electron microscope maps dislocations with unprecedented resolution
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 19, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

New targeting technology improves outcomes for patients with atrial fibrillation
In a landmark study of atrial fibrillation, researchers from UCLA, UC San Diego and Indiana University report having found for the first time that these irregular heart rhythms are caused by small electrical sources within the heart, in the form of electrical spinning tops ("rotors") or focal beats. Importantly, they found a way of detecting these key electrical sources and of shutting them down in minutes using a precisely targeted therapy with long-lasting results. The team, which included cardiologists, physicists and bioengineers, reports the findings in the July 19 issue of the Journal o...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 18, 2012 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Physicists solve Casimir conundrum
Drude model is right choice for calculating force
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 18, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

UK to support open access
Government accepts conclusion from report into open-access publishing
Source: PhysicsWeb News - July 17, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Just Launched: Ethics in Research & Publication
A program to help you make sure your work gets off to the best start.
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - July 15, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Beyond the Higgs: The Other Bosons
With all the excitement about the Higgs boson, it seems like a good time to think about the other bosons that we know about. The Standard Model of particle physics contains a total of four bosons (not counting the theoretical Higgs). These bosons are considered force carriers, because they communicate the three fundamental forces of physics that are explained by quantum physics. The bosons associated with these three forces are:...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Physics - July 15, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Fantasy Baseball For Physicists: Very, Very Fast Fastballs
Here's a question: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light? The answer is: Don't.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 13, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Controlling your computer with your eyes
(Institute of Physics) Millions of people suffering from multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries or amputees could soon interact with their computers and surroundings using just their eyes, thanks to a new device that costs less than £40.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 12, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Fetal Genome Sequenced From Mother's Blood Sample
A new study published in Nature last week reveals how researchers have for the first time developed a way to sequence the genome of an unborn baby using only a sample of blood from the mother. The researchers believe this brings fetal genetic testing one step closer to routine clinical use. Senior author Dr Stephen Quake is the Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and professor of bioengineering and of applied physics at Stanford University in the US...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 11, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Source Type: news

Physics on Twitter
Last week, I was honored to be listed among the top "must-follow" physicists on Twitter, as named by The Huffington Post's Science section. While this was quite an honor, it did strike me that I should be keeping such a list myself ... and so here it is now: our Top Physics Feeds on Twitter. I'm sure that this list will grow over time, but if you want to keep up on the list, then it's simple enough... just go to the @AboutPhysics list page and subscribe directly to the Twitter lists that I maintain there! As I add new physics resources on Twitter, you'll instantly have access to them....Read Full Post
Source: About.com Physics - July 9, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

National training scheme for the use of radioiodine in benign thyroid disease
The next RCP national training scheme for the use of radioiodine in benign thyroid disease will take place on Tuesday 30 October 2012 at Birmingham Research Park, Birmingham, B15 2SQ. This one day course represents an essential component of the new national training scheme aiming to allow application for ARSAC certification for iodine-131 administration for the treatment of benign thyroid disease. The other components of training, upon which guidance will be given and log books provided, will be locally arranged and mentored experience of clinical cases, as well as medical physics experience. This training programme will b...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - July 9, 2012 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news

How It Feels To Win A Bet Against Stephen Hawking
In a recent interview, world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking revealed that the apparent discovery of the Higgs boson particle cost him $100 in a bet to a fellow physics professor. Guest host David Greene speaks with professor Gordon Kane of the University of Michigan about what it feels like to outsmart arguably the world's smartest man.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 8, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Higgs? Done. So what's the next Big Bang?
This week's announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson – the so-called God particle – was hailed as one of the great breakthroughs of the 21st century, explaining some of the fundamental physics of the universe. Yet in many ways the achievement has only highlighted how much we still do not know. The coming years will see humankind embark on new missions that will seek to advance our understanding: both into the limitless depths of space and the subatomic world within. Here are four questions that still vex science.
Source: The Independent - Science - July 6, 2012 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news

Plastic Electronics Cease Stretching Credulity
In electronics there's an understanding that silicon and other elements are responsible for bringing our gadgets to life while plastic serves as the supporting structure. But what if that plastic could be both the brains and the brawn? Better yet, what if plastic was pliable enough to form all sorts of wearable electronics and even implantable medical devices? [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - July 6, 2012 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Technology,Technology,Consumer Electronics,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Physics,More Science Source Type: news

At Long Last, The Higgs Particle... Maybe
This week physicists announced the discovery of the long-sought-after Higgs boson--or at least something that looks a lot like it. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explains why the tiny particle is so fundamental to our understanding of the universe, and why it took 50 years to find it.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 6, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Elsevier´s Scopus Connects with Brazil´s National Database of Research and Science Resumes
Elsevier announced that Scopus is interoperable with the Lattes Platform, Brazil´s national database for research and science activity, through a newly developed application, providing easier access to the extensive research author data contained in Curriculo Lattes, which contains the resumes of Brazilian researchers, students and technical professionals. Developed using the Elsevier Application Framework, the app will be featured on each Scopus Author Details page.
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - July 5, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news