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The extraordinary 2,000-year-old computer that you've never heard of
The Antikythera mechanism was designed to predict movements of the sun, moon and planets. Why isn't it better known?Right, that's enough of the Queen for now. Have you ever heard of the Antikythera mechanism? You have? Well done. If not, I suspect you're in good company and the fact that I learned about it from a fascinating BBC4 programme – the high point of my jubilee weekend – on Sunday night is unlikely to broaden public knowledge as much as we might hope.What was explained in The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer – you'll still catch it here on iPlayer – strikes me as staggering for two quite different reasons wh...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 6, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Michael White Tags: Archaeology Greece Science Astronomy Space Europe World news Queen's diamond jubilee Monarchy The Queen UK news guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

Modeling the demise of migrating brain tumor cells
(Springer) An Israeli physicist has developed a theoretical model to simulate the evolution of highly proliferating brain tumor core cells subjected to treatment by alternating radio frequency electric field. The research, by Alexander Iomin from the Israel Institute of Technology Technion in Haifa, is about to be published in EPJ E. In another model, the author examines the possibility of enhancing the level of treatment by targeting the outer area of the tumor.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - June 6, 2012 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

World set for the 2012 transit of Venus
Ultra-rare astronomical event begins at 2200 h UTC on 5 June and will not be seen again until 2117
Source: PhysicsWeb News - June 5, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

TV review: The Transit of Venus: a Horizon Special and All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry
The Queen can keep her jubilee, my week is all about the transit of VenusMy parents got me up for the moon landing. Plonked me in front of the telly, just so I could bore my grandchildren about it one day. (My grandchildren who'll probably be living on the moon.) I don't remember anything about it. But I'm glad they got me up.I thought I'd give my own son something momentous not to remember. Took him down to the Thames on Sunday, so he could tell his grandchildren (who'll probably live on Venus) that he saw the diamond jubilee of Elizabeth II, back in the day when there was a monarchy, before the revolution ...Pah! What a ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 5, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Sam Wollaston Tags: Television & radio Culture Astronomy Documentary Grayson Perry The Guardian Reviews amp; radio Source Type: news

Real Authority
In my last post (#10 The Shadow) I described the expressive power you unleash when you form a bond with your Shadow. The next step is to learn how to form that bond and how that act forms the basis of a tool that will bring you confidence when you most need it.read more
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - June 5, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Phil Stutz and Barry Michels Tags: Anxiety Self-Help Spirituality Therapy charter members drop dead gorgeous expressive power few days goddesses good reason hillbilly humiliation insecurity ivy league education nuclear physics outcast paper chase Range Rov Source Type: news

NRC Report Identifies Opportunities for Improving Undergraduate Education
According to a new report from the National Research Council, solid evidence exists for what needs to be done to improve undergraduate science education, but these findings have not yet widely implemented. Results from discipline-based education research in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering have yielded insights into ways to improve undergraduate instruction. One example is that traditional lectures are not as successful at imparting information as are student-centered learning strategies, such as interactive learning activities, students working in groups, and incorporation of authentic problems ...
Source: Public Policy Reports - June 5, 2012 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news

The relationship between cluster-analysis derived walkability and local recreational and transportation walking among Canadian adults. - McCormack GR, Friedenreich C, Sandalack BA, Giles-Corti B, Doyle-Baker PK, Shiell A.
We investigated the association between objectively-assessed neighborhood walkability and local walking among adults. Two independent random cross-sectional samples of Calgary (Canada) residents were recruited. Neighborhood-based walking, attitude towards ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 5, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

During Radiation Treatment For Prostate Cancer The Antioxidant Beta-Carotene Found To Be Safe
Despite past safety concerns, the antioxidant supplement beta-carotene, is safe to use during radiation therapy treatments for prostate cancer and does not increase the risk of prostate cancer death or metastases, according to a study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). The use of vitamin supplements and antioxidants is common, but the safety of using antioxidant supplements during radiation treatments for prostate cancer is controversial...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 5, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Prostate / Prostate Cancer Source Type: news

Mathematicians model heat flow in human tears
(American Institute of Physics) Mathematicians from the University of Delaware have created a new model of the fluid dynamics and heat flow in human tears.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 5, 2012 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Stephen Quake honored with $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
(Lemelson-MIT Program) Dr. Stephen Quake, one of the world's most prolific inventors, was announced as recipient of the 2012 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 5, 2012 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Evaluation of personal and built environment attributes to physical activity: a multilevel analysis on multiple population-based data sources. - Yang W, Spears K, Zhang F, Lee W, Himler HL.
This study explored the relationship between multiple built environment factors and individual characteristics on LTPA. ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 4, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Characterization of the protective capacity of flooring systems using force-deflection profiling. - Glinka MN, Karakolis T, Callaghan JP, Laing AC.
In this study we used a materials testing system to charact...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 4, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
The sight of damp Royals being cheered should remind us that one of the national characteristics embodied in our head of state is a deep respect for evidenceKing Canute is the most famous, and dampest, early example of the Royal respect for evidence-based policy making. Impatient with his non-evidence-based advisers loudly proclaiming his divine right to rule even the tides, he performed a famous high-risk experiment, demonstrating the opposite. Less well-known is that several peasants drowned in control trials, but this only goes to show the robust tradition of rigour inherent in the Royal genes.Our current Queen too is w...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 4, 2012 Category: Science Tags: Science guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

Editorial | Philosophy: Back to big
There is a new more expansive mood taking shape in British philosophy as born out at Hay-on-WyeStephen Hawking may have insisted that "philosophy is dead" in his latest book, but the numbers queuing up for the HowTheLightGetsIn festival currently on at Hay-on-Wye, suggest this isn't a statement based on the observable evidence. Indeed, what is billed as the world's largest philosophy festival is as much frequented by physicists and scientists as by philosophers. And while there are some – like the embryologist Louis Wolpert – who maintain that philosophy is a non-subject from which science has nothing to learn, the ver...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 4, 2012 Category: Science Tags: Science Philosophy Hay festival Festivals Books Stephen Hawking Physics World news The Guardian Editorials Comment is free Source Type: news

Obama Administration Comments on FY 2013 DOE Funding Bill
Source: Science Policy News - FYI - The American Institute of Physics - June 4, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

The climate change deniers: influence out of all proportion to science | Bill McKibben
The Heartland Institute's recent shaming has put the denialist camp on the defensive. But they've already done massive harmIt's been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate change denial.First came the giant billboard with Unabomber Ted Kacynzki's face plastered across it: "I Still Believe in Global Warming. Do You?" Sponsored by the Heartland Institute, the nerve center of climate change denial, it was supposed to draw attention to the fact that "the most prominent advocates of global warming aren't scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen." Instead, it drew attention to the fact that these guys had over-re...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 4, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Bill McKibben Tags: Climate change scepticism Republicans Barack Obama Nancy Pelosi Newt Gingrich Media Environment Keystone XL pipeline Oil sands Thinktanks Science Science and scepticism US politics United States Obama administration Al Gore Source Type: news

Physicists close in on a rare particle-decay process: Underground experiment may unlock mysteries of the neutrino
In the biggest result of its kind in more than ten years, physicists have made the most sensitive measurements yet in a decades-long hunt for a hypothetical and rare process involving the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. If discovered, the researchers say, this process could have profound implications for how scientists understand the fundamental laws of physics and help solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 4, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news

'Schrödinger's hat' could spy on quantum particles
Modified invisibility cloak could find use in quantum computers
Source: PhysicsWeb News - June 4, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

4 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow
Last Sunday’s New York Times featured an article called 32 Innovations that Will Change Your Tomorrow. As I read through the mind-boggling new features coming our way, I couldn’t help but imagine how they might make it easier to fulfill the American Red Cross mission. If you have more innovation ideas for the Red Cross mission, share them in the comments. For example: Electric clothes are 2 years away! “Physicists at Wake Forest University have developed a fabric that doubles as a spare outlet.” One of the biggest challenges after a disaster is access to electricity. Imagine all the benefits to wea...
Source: Red Cross Chat - June 4, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Wendy Harman Tags: Blood Disaster Response Health & Safety Preparedness Volunteers Source Type: news

Science Weekly podcast: unmasking the unconscious mind
In this week's show Alok Jha meets author and physicist Leonard Mlodinow to explore his book Subliminal: The Revolution of the New Unconscious and What It Teaches Us About Ourselves. Mlodinow discusses the profound ways in which many of our everyday actions are dictated by the unconscious mind, and why the intriguing question is not why we are unconscious of so much of what goes on in our brains – but rather why we have any consciousness at all.Alok is also joined by Observer science editor Robin McKie to celebrate the huge success of SpaceX and a big step towards the commercialisation of space; and Guardian science blog...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 3, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Alok Jha, Robin McKie, Martin Robbins, Jason Phipps Tags: Psychology Neuroscience International Space Station Agriculture Genetics GM Environment guardian.co.uk Editorial Source Type: news

Birdbooker Report 224 | @GrrlScientist
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes a book about multiple universes and an atlas of Yellowstone that have been newly published in North America and the UKBooks to the ceiling, Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] author of many popular children's books. Compiled by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, the Birdbooker Report is a weekly report that has been published online for years, listing the wide variety of nature, natural history, ecology, animal behaviour, science and history books th...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 3, 2012 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: Science guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

How to Transform Physics
Today I received an e-mail containing the following question: What is the apropriate [sic] way to spread my revoloutionary [sic] message on how to transform modern physics? When you're at all in the public eye for physics, you get these sorts of requests on a fairly regular basis. I spoke a while back about a rather deft way cosmologist Sean Carroll discussed dealing with physics cranks. Still, this particular individual was polite, so I decided to respond at length, offering some of the insights taken from Carroll's earlier comments on this topic:...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Physics - June 3, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Robotic testing of radio frequency devices designed for industrial safety - Ruz ML, Vázquez F, Salas-Morera L, Cubero-Atienza A.
An experimental setup is proposed to test the performance of safety devices based on radio frequency technology. The setup specifically tests devices designed for improving safety in dangerous areas of small size, such as those surrounding power press brak...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 2, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Risk-optimal highway design: Methodology and case studies - Ismail K, Sayed T.
Highway geometric design in mountainous areas has been a typical challenge. The combination of short horizontal curves and restricted right-of-way is a common ground for contemplating design exception in British Columbia, Canada. In practice, collision mod...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 2, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Metro railway safety: An analysis of accident precursors - Kyriakidis M, Hirsch R, Majumdar A.
Fatalities due to railway accidents occur rarely and some railways identify risks from potential accident precursors. By lowering precursor frequency, the probability of more serious incidents and accidents may be reduced, following the idea of a reverse p...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 2, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Introducing roadside hazard severity indicator based on evidential reasoning approach - Ayati E, Pirayesh Neghab M, Sadeghi A, Mohammadzadeh Moghaddam A.
Safety experts have, in recent years, been attentive to roadside accident severity and occurrence. Hitherto, to prioritize road segment hazardousness, there have been little efforts to quantify a well defined indicator. In this regard, the existing indicat...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 2, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Identifying crucial safety assessment criteria for passenger ferry services - Lu CS, Tseng PH.
This study empirically identified crucial safety assessment criteria for enhancing ferry safety and compare difference between ferry passengers', ferry operators', academics' and ferry governors' perceptions of their level of importance in Taiwan. Explorat...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 2, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Factors influencing survival in case of shipwreck and other maritime disasters in the Danish merchant fleet since 1970 - Hansen HL, Jepsen JR, Hermansen K.
During the last 40 years, merchant ships have become safer and a number of new safety measures have been introduced. The purpose of the first part of this study was to investigate the trend of fatalities due to maritime disasters in the Danish merchant fl...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 2, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Challenges in performing technical safety reviews of modifications - A case study - Falk T, Rollenhagen C, Wahlström B.
The aim of the present study, is to identify strengths and weaknesses of the technical safety review process at a Swedish Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). In this context, the function of safety reviews are understood as expert judgements on proposals for design...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 2, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Investigation of models for relating roundabout safety to predicted speed. - Chen Y, Persaud B, Sacchi E, Bassani M.
Despite widespread recognition of operating speed as a key safety-related variable for roundabouts, there is no consensus on the best models for capturing the relationship between crashes and speed, or, for that matter, on how speed can be estimated in sit...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 1, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Quantum computers will be able to simulate particle collisions
Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theoretical physicists can already make the claim "there's an app for that." The theorists have developed a mathematical algorithm that will be used by a future quantum computer to study the inner workings of the universe in ways that are far beyond the reach of even the most powerful conventional supercomputers.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 1, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news

Whatever happened to the 'coldest May in 100 years'? | Leo Hickman
Alarming headlines forecasting extreme weather are not helpful - especially if they prove to be incorrectOn 19 April, the Daily Express splashed with a dramatic headline on its front cover: "COLDEST MAY FOR 100 YEARS". It continued:Britain is facing the coldest May for a century with winter poised to return, bringing snow and bitter winds.Inevitably, such an alarmist forecast, given extra prominence on the front page of a national newspaper, attracted lots of attention. But, now that May has passed, how did that prediction turn out?Well, first, we have to move beyond the arresting headline and return to the original foreca...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 1, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Leo Hickman Tags: Environment Weather Media Newspapers Daily Express Climate change Climate change scepticism guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

Isolated traumatic shoulder disarticulation after a motor vehicle collision. - Dowden JE, Maxwell RA.
[Abstract unavailable] Language: Eng...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 1, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Bayesian Data Analysis of Severe Fatal Accident Risk in the Oil Chain. - Eckle P, Burgherr P.
We analyze the risk of severe fatal accidents causing five or more fatalities and for nine different activities covering the entire oil chain. Included are exploration and extraction, transport by different modes, refining and final end use in power plants...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 1, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Making an impact: when science and politics collide | Adam Smith | Talking science to power
The 'impact agenda' is spreading from research councils to the higher education funding council, with increasing demands for strategic goals and public engagementBy the time Professor Alec Jeffreys worked out how to create a unique DNA fingerprint in 1984, he had been prising apart DNA for years to see how it varies from person to person.Scientific breakthroughs like Jeffreys's exemplify what is known in modern science as "impact". This contentious concept tiptoes along the intersection between science and society because it implies that scientific endeavours ought to reap benefits for society.This is where the politics co...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 1, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Adam Smith Tags: Science policy Research funding Higher education Research and development Politics guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

Making an impact: when science and politics collide
The 'impact agenda' is spreading from research councils to the higher education funding council, with increasing demands for strategic goals and public engagementBy the time Professor Alec Jeffreys worked out how to create a unique DNA fingerprint in 1984, he had been prising apart DNA for years to see how it varies from person to person.Scientific breakthroughs like Jeffreys's exemplify what is known in modern science as "impact". This contentious concept tiptoes along the intersection between science and society because it implies that scientific endeavours ought to reap benefits for society.This is where the politics co...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 1, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Adam Smith Tags: Science policy Research funding Higher education Research and development Politics guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

Attolight CL system
The first quantitative cathodoluminescence system offering a spatial resolution below 10nm, a field of view of 300 μm, and an optional 10 ps time resolution mode.
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

DNA tiles pave the way
Fabricating shapes out of single-stranded DNA
Source: PhysicsWeb News - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Statistical mechanics of two-dimensional and geophysical flows
Physics Reports, Volume 515, Issue 5, pages 227-296 (June 2012) Edited by
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Electronic Crystals (ECRYS-2011)
Physica B: Condensed Matter, Volume 407, Issue 11, pages 1683-1972 (June 2012) Edited by Serguei Brazovskii, Natasha Kirova, Pierre Monceau
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Physical approach to complex systems
Physics Reports, Volume 515, Issues 3-4, pages 115-226 (June 2012) Edited by
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

PECS IX
Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications, Volume 10, Issue 3, pages 243-336 (June 2012) Edited by Cefe Lopez, Francisco J Garcia Vidal
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

House Defense Authorization Bill Recommends Reduced Funding for S&T Programs
Source: Science Policy News - FYI - The American Institute of Physics - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Sir Andrew Huxley obituary
He shared the Nobel prize for unravelling the mechanism of the nerve impulseSir Andrew Huxley, who has died aged 94, was one of the great scientists and university administrators of our time – a Nobel laureate, a master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and an exceptionally perceptive and balanced president of the Royal Society.As a scientist, he possessed unusual breadth which, allied to practical gifts, enabled him to design and make essential and highly specialised experimental equipment. These skills underpinned his pioneering research into nerve function and muscle structure. Huxley was a colla...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 31, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Anthony Tucker Tags: Neuroscience Medical research Biology Royal Society People in science The Guardian Obituaries Source Type: news

Sir Andrew Huxley
He shared the Nobel prize for unravelling the mechanism of the nerve impulseSir Andrew Huxley, who has died aged 94, was one of the great scientists and university administrators of our time – a Nobel laureate, a master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and an exceptionally perceptive and balanced president of the Royal Society.As a scientist, he possessed unusual breadth which, allied to practical gifts, enabled him to design and make essential and highly specialised experimental equipment. These skills underpinned his pioneering research into nerve function and muscle structure. Huxley was a colla...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 31, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Anthony Tucker Tags: Medical research Science The Guardian Obituaries Source Type: news

Attolight CL system
The Attolight CL system is the first quantitative cathodoluminescence system offering a spatial resolution below 10nm, a field of view of 300 μm, and an optional 10 ps time resolution mode.
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Attolight Analytical Services
Attolight has laboratories facilities and testing capabilities available for contract services.
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NT-MDT participates in EU project for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Frequency combs to join the hunt for exoplanets
Method could help find Earth-sized bodies
Source: PhysicsWeb News - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

LC Multimode OM3 10Gb 50/125µm 6 Pack & 12 Pack Fiber Pigtails 1 & 3 Meters Long
We offer multimode fiber optic pigtails in 6 and 12 packs. MM OM3 10Gb 50/125µm 6 Pack & 12 pack fiber optic pigtails. Available with SC/UPC, LC/UPC, ST/UPC, and FC/UPC connectors and in any length.
Source: PhysicsWeb Products and Press - May 31, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news