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British scientist Hawking leaves top Cambridge post
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Acclaimed wheelchair-bound British scientist Stephen Hawking is to hand over his top Cambridge University job this week, the prestigious seat of learning said on Wednesday.
Stephen Hawking expected to recover from infection
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The family of physicist Stephen Hawking expects him to recover fully from a chest infection that has left him hospitalized, Cambridge University said Tuesday.
'Brief History' scientist Stephen Hawking 'very ill': university
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Stephen Hawking, the wheelchair-bound British physicist whose book "A Brief History Of Time" became an international best-seller, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University said Monday.
Being Isaac Newton: Computer derives natural laws from raw data
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Apr 02, 2009 |
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If Isaac Newton had access to a supercomputer, he'd have had it watch apples fall - and let it figure out the physical matters. But the computer would have needed to run an algorithm, just developed by Cornell ...
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Einstein, Newton displayed autistic traits
Feb 24, 2008 |
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Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton displayed symptoms of psychiatric disorders that may have been a key to their genius, a Dublin psychiatrist said.
Applying Newton's Laws of Motion to Baseball Pitching
Apr 07, 2009 |
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The April 2009 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine profiles Mike Marshall, the former major league baseball hurler who teaches a pitching methodology based on Sir Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion.
XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular ...
New transcription reveals Newton's rare 'theory of everything'
Dec 14, 2006 |
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A new transcription of Isaac Newton's "theory of everything," providing rare insight into the scientist's views on nearly all known natural phenomena, is now available online to scholars around the world, thanks to an Indiana ...
First XMM-Newton images of impact
Jul 04, 2005 |
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Images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 taken by the Optical Monitor on ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, from two minutes before impact and until seven minutes after impact. The first two images were taken just before imp ...
Sense and sensibility in short-term memory
Feb 20, 2007 |
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More than three centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton reflected on the similarities between the sense of hearing and the sense of sight. Newton’s speculations were impossible to test scientifically, until now. A novel Brandeis ...
Modeling How Electric Charges Move
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Learning how to control the movement of electrons on the molecular and nanometer scales could help scientists devise small-scale circuits for many applications, including more efficient ways of storing and using solar energy. ...
XMM-Newton measures speedy spin of rare celestial object
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time. The new information confirms this particular object as one of an extremely ...
Packages of care for epilepsy in low- and middle-income countries
Oct 13, 2009 |
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In the second in a six part series on treating mental health problems in resource-poor settings, Caroline Mbuba and Charles Newton (Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya) ...
Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years
Aug 13, 2007 |
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A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.
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