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GREAT RED SPOT NOT AS GREAT
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The hurricanes that visit the Gulf and Caribbean in September and even the huge jetstream that dominates winter weath. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 27, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: news
PLANT POWER PLANTSEmail this article to a colleague.
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Charles Darwin's 200th birthday arrives on February 12, 2009, and while his theory of evolution has stood the test of two centuries, scientists at th. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 4, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: news
TOP TEN PHYSICS STORIES OF THE YEAREmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Physics News Update - December 22, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
APS ENERGY EFFICIENCY STUDY.Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Physics News Update - November 24, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
USING SUNLIGHT MORE EFFICIENTLYEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo have developed a way for low-cost solar cells to more efficiently conv. . .
Source: Physics News Update - October 24, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
BUCKY BEAMSEmail this article to a colleague.
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Once nanochip manufacturers have made their multi-layered structures it is necessary also for them to verify precisely that the layers are composed i. . .
Source: Physics News Update - October 24, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
TRAPPING SINGLE MOLECULESEmail this article to a colleague.
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at room temperature, and studying their properties has been accomplished by Adam Cohen and his colleagues at Harvard. Pinning down one molecule at a . . .
Source: Physics News Update - October 24, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Ultracold MoleculesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Atoms have been combined for the first time into tightly bound molecules in large numbers at temperatures close to absolute zero. This is good news f. . .
Source: Physics News Update - October 15, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics Goes ToEmail this article to a colleague.
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Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago (US), Makoto Kobayashi of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (Japan), and Toshihide Maskaw. . .
Source: Physics News Update - October 7, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Furthest Seeable ThingEmail this article to a colleague.
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For the first time in history you could have looked half way back to the origin of the universe with your naked eye. On the night of March 19, 2008 a. . .
Source: Physics News Update - September 25, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Predicting The Presidential Election, Sort ofEmail this article to a colleague.
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Two mathematicians have devised what they say is a "surprisingly effective" means to predict the outcome of the U.S. presidential electio. . .
Source: Physics News Update - September 25, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Multi-Lingual AdsEmail this article to a colleague.
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In the increasingly competitive world of global marketing, how does a multinational company based in the United States, Belgium or Japan decide what . . .
Source: Physics News Update - September 25, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Mini Black Holes No DangerEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most expensive scientific instrument ever built in peacetime, begins operations on September 10 when a beam. . .
Source: Physics News Update - September 9, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Cloud CrystalsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The sharpest ever measurement of ice crystals in clouds will help to improve climate change predictions. Scientists have created an instrument designe. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 26, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Tree Rings in Algeria and TunisiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Climate scientists look for evidence of historical conditions wherever they can. Annual growth rings in conifer trees in Algeria and Tunisia, for ex. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 26, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Brown Carbon From ChinaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Modeling the climate we already have and the climate we might be getting is an important task that depends crucially on the atmospheric factors resea. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 26, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Olympic Bronze MetalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Antiquity's most sophisticated technology tracked the Olympic games along with celestial events. The four-year wait between each set of competit. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 15, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Maybe We Are Special, The Solar System SaysEmail this article to a colleague.
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Historically, humans have often felt the need to be special, and just as often have been disappointed. The Earth, as it turned out, wasn't at the ce. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 15, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Hubble's Odometer Nearing 3 Billion MilesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, viewed by many scientists as perhaps the most valuable scientific instrument ever developed, is about to complete its 100. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 15, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Mice MarathonEmail this article to a colleague.
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While bulking up with steroids is a well-known practice among some athletes, a new drug developed to treat a metabolic disease has also given exercisi. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 15, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Electric Wine TastingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Physics News Update - August 15, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
CorrectionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Physics News Update - August 15, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
DA VINCI DECODEDEmail this article to a colleague.
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The layers in old-master paintings can now be mapped non-invasively. The beauty of a painting-its design, subject matter, and color---is the firs. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 8, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
THE ACOUSTICS OF POLAR BEARSEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scientists study hearing in polar bears as the Arctic acoustic environment changes. As global warming melts Arctic ice and pressure mounts for oil ex. . .
Source: Physics News Update - August 8, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
To Our Readers: Physics News UpdateEmail this article to a colleague.
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has been prepared by the Media and Government Relations division of the American Institute of Physics. Since its founding almost 18 years ago, PNU has. . .
Source: Physics News Update - July 28, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
World's Strongest MaterialEmail this article to a colleague.
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Graphene, a two-dimensional sheet made of pure carbon, is 200 times stronger than steel. A new experiment at Columbia University in New York City has. . .
Source: Physics News Update - July 28, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
World on FireEmail this article to a colleague.
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Every summer, hundreds of wildfires burn millions of acres across the United States. The Santa Ana wind drives fire across Southern California, and . . .
Source: Physics News Update - July 28, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Lights Out For The BirdsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Birds, like moths, are attracted to light at night and if they become disoriented, will fly in circles around the lights in a tall building, often hit. . .
Source: Physics News Update - July 28, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
On Very Thin IceEmail this article to a colleague.
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For the first time, scientists have obtained pictures of ice only a few nanometers thick in the act of forming bulk ice at the coldest of temperatures. . .
Source: Physics News Update - June 4, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Superconductivity in Super Hard DiamondEmail this article to a colleague.
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T A Study calculates that boron-doped diamond (BC5) should be superconducting on up to temperatures of 45 K, which, if borne out in experiments, woul. . .
Source: Physics News Update - June 4, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Exploding Star Caught on TapeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Call it fantastic timing. Early this year, a group of astronomers led by Princeton University's Alicia Soderberg were using NASA's Swift satellite to . . .
Source: Physics News Update - May 29, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
New Form of Artificial RadioactivityEmail this article to a colleague.
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The basic structure of matter has been known for almost a century, and yet scientists keep learning new things by persistently poking and ripping apa. . .
Source: Physics News Update - May 29, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Xenon KetchupEmail this article to a colleague.
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Using data recovered from a damaged computer hard-drive that was aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, scientists have learned more abo. . .
Source: Physics News Update - May 19, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Greenhouse Warming is Classical.Email this article to a colleague.
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A new joint study by French and Russian scientists shows in detail how carbon dioxide molecules absorb and sometimes scatter light energy not only sin. . .
Source: Physics News Update - April 23, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Finding The Higgs Boson.Email this article to a colleague.
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Is the imperative of the two most powerful particle accelerators ever built---the Tevatron at Fermilab, now reaching the peak of its decades-long perf. . .
Source: Physics News Update - April 16, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Optical Clocks Get Better.Email this article to a colleague.
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Two separate experiments in Colorado compare the frequency of emissions from atoms or ions to an uncertainty of 10^-16 or better. Earlier atomic clock. . .
Source: Physics News Update - April 10, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
A Superinsulating State.Email this article to a colleague.
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Observed by an Argonne-Novovsibirsk-Regensburg-Bochum collaboration in titanium-nitride films, is the antithesis of the superconducting state. In co. . .
Source: Physics News Update - April 10, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
The World's Smallest Diamond RingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Measuring only 5 microns (millionths of a meter) in diameter and 300 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in thickness, has been made by scientists at t. . .
Source: Physics News Update - March 14, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Fractals Through TimeEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new theoretical study looks at what fractal things look like not just when you magnify them in space (they are scale invariant: they look the same e. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 28, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
More Spacecraft Velocity AnomaliesEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new look at the trajectories for various spacecraft as they fly past the Earth finds in each case a tiny amount of surplus velocity. For craft tha. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 28, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Superconducting ChaosEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new experiment at Colorado State University studies the chaotic dynamics of "flux drops"-microscopic swirling eddies of supercurrent-that flow alon. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 13, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Anti-Hydrogen Atoms Detected in a Penning-IOFFE TrapEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Antiproton Trap Collaboration (ATRAP) working at CERN has succeeded in detecting, for the first time, the presence of anti-hydrogen atoms (each ma. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 13, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
The American Institute of Physics Science Writing Awards have been namedEmail this article to a colleague.
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There are four categories of writing: journalist, scientist, broadcast, and books intended for children. Tim Folger wins the 2007 science writing awar. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 13, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
The Darkest Material Ever MadeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Consists of a carpet of vertically oriented carbon nanotubes. The darkness or lightness of any object depends on the fraction of light falling on the . . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 5, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Anti-Neutrinos and NonproliferationEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new compact detector may help international inspectors peer inside a working nuclear reactor in a non-intrusive way by directly measuring the flux o. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 5, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Physical Review LettersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year. Several special events are planned, such as sessions at the upcoming March and April APS meetings. Als. . .
Source: Physics News Update - February 5, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
A New Calculation Explains the Mechanish Behind Carbon DatingEmail this article to a colleague.
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In terms of the way the mass of mesons changes as they travel through an atomic nucleus. Mesons (particles such as pions, containing a quark and an an. . .
Source: Physics News Update - January 23, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Graphene Speed RecordEmail this article to a colleague.
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Andre Geim and his colleagues at the University of Manchester have observed the highest electron mobility for an electron in any electronic material.. . .
Source: Physics News Update - January 23, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
U.S. Presidential PoliticsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Preoccupied with issues like war, immigration, and the economy, also has a science-and-technology side. To have a look at what the candidates. . .
Source: Physics News Update - January 23, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
Unprecedented Spectroscopy Using the Best Ever Ruler for LightEmail this article to a colleague.
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Physicists at NIST-Boulder have carried out a powerful new spectroscopic study of a sample of gas using optical frequency combs. The NIST work, which . . .
Source: Physics News Update - January 11, 2008 Category: Physics Source Type: news
