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Ginzburg helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the late 1940s and early 1950s

Russian bomb physicist Ginzburg dead at 93

Physics / General Physics

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Nobel Physics prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died at the age of 93, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday.


NASA and X Prize Announce Winners of Lunar Lander Challenge

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will award $1.65 million in prize money Thursday to a pair of innovative aerospace companies that successfully simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon and lifting off again.


Scientists build first 'frequency comb' to display visible 'teeth'

Scientists Build First 'Frequency Comb' To Display Visible 'Teeth'

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. ...


The Nobel Prize and Pond Scum as a 'Model' Organism

The Nobel Prize and Pond Scum as a 'Model' Organism

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A man is a man and a mouse is a mouse, but if you talk to a few biomedical scientists about their research, at least one is likely to spring the term “mouse model” on you.


Scientists visualize assembly line gears in ribosomes, cell's protein factory

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Even as research on the ribosome, one of the cell's most basic machines, is recognized with a Nobel Prize, scientists continue to achieve new insights on the way ribosomes work.


Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function

Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

A research team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has provided a surprisingly simple explanation for the mechanism and features of the "Golgi apparatus" - a structure that has baffled ...


US Nobel sweep points to brain drain

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Cash-rich US researchers have again dominated this year's Nobel awards, but it seems identifying the nationality of laureates is not an exact science, and change may be on the way.


Berkeley's Oliver Williamson shares Nobel Prize in economics

Berkeley's Oliver Williamson shares Nobel Prize in economics

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Berkeley's Oliver Williamson, a professor emeritus of business, economics, and law, has been named a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, cited along with Indiana University's ...


US President Barack Obama speaks at the White House in Washington, DC after he won the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations, criticism on Web over Obama Nobel

Technology / Internet

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 12

The surprise awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama triggered a deluge of congratulations and criticism on Twitter and across the Web on Friday.


Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.


3 win Nobel for mapping atoms in cell's factories (AP)

2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells - a feat that has spurred the development ...


Israeli woman potential Nobel chemistry winner

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- If Nobel judges are looking to improve the balance of women winning the chemistry prize, Israeli scientist Ada Yonath could be a strong candidate when the award is announced Wednesday.


Water scarcity will create global security concerns

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Water scarcity as a result of climate change will create far-reaching global security concerns, says Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace ...


3 Americans share 2009 Nobel Prize in physics (AP)

'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering "masters of light" work on fibre optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.


First direct information about the prion's molecular structure reported

First direct information about the prion's molecular structure reported

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. ...