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Argonne cloud computing helps scientists run high energy physics experiments

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds." The ...


Ultracold gas mimics ultrahot plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 13

Several years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behavior of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed strikingly similar properties in a very hot ...





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Bacterial protein mimics its host to disable a key enzyme (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria use all sorts of cunning to trick hosts into doing their bidding. One con in their bag of tricks: the molecular mimic. In this ruse, bacteria or their agents look for all purposes like some native ...


City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

Physics / General Physics

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New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...


Biofunctionalized magnetic-vortex microdiscs

Highlight: Biofunctionalized magnetic-vortex microdiscs

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Users from Argonne's Materials Science Division and University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, working collaboratively on a user science project with CNM's Nanobio Interfaces Group, have discovered ...


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Atom smasher catches 1st high-energy collisions

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 24

(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.


New molecule identified in DNA damage response

New molecule identified in DNA damage response

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution places the highest premium on reproduction, natural selection’s only standard for biological success. In the case of replicating cells, life spares no expense to ensure that the ...


Gallium Nitride (GaN) Inverter IC

Panasonic Develops A Gallium Nitride (GaN) Inverter IC for Motor Drive with High Efficiency

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based monolithic inverter integrated circuit (IC) for motor drive. The integrated six GaN-based transistors can be independently driven ...


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...


Gadgets: Gift ideas for your holiday shopping

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Black Friday has come and gone and if you're like me, you barely made a dent in your holiday shopping list.


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Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (19) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...


Sony CEO Howard Stringer speaks to reporters

Sony to enter car battery market: Stringer

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sony Corp. will tap the rechargeable car battery market amid a growing focus on electric cars and green auto technology, chief executive Howard Stringer said Thursday.



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