News tagged with prize
Warner: Climate change a national security issue
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice on climate change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and pass legislation to curb greenhouse gases.
To save lives, an Indian doctor rethinks the toilet
Aug 23, 2009 |
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By rethinking the humble toilet, Indian sanitation expert Bindeshwar Pathak has found a way that can save water -- and lives -- in developing countries.
Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function
Oct 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
Sir Richard Branson All Fired Up With Latest Rocket Motor Test
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 31, 2009 |
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Virgin Galactic owned by Sir Richard Branson completed a successful test on May 28, 2009 of its hybrid nitrous oxide motor designed by Scaled Composites and a subcontractor Sierra Nevada Corporation. The ...
Scientists Build First 'Frequency Comb' To Display Visible 'Teeth'
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(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. ...
Solving the phase problem in x-ray diffraction
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly 100 years ago, in 1912, a paper by Max von Laue made it possible to use x-rays to study the structure of different crystalline substances. He won a Nobel Prize in 1914 for his work, but, even so, the ...
The 2009 Ig Nobel prizewinners
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Ig Nobels are a highlight of the scientific calendar and award research that makes people laugh as well as think. The awards were presented last week at Harvard University in the U.S, ...
Engineers ride 'rogue' laser waves to build better light sources
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A freak wave at sea is a terrifying sight. Seven stories tall, wildly unpredictable, and incredibly destructive, such waves have been known to emerge from calm waters and swallow ships whole. But rogue waves ...
'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize
Oct 06, 2009 |
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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.
Newly explored bacteria reveal some huge RNA surprises
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells ...
US trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for research into ageing (Update 3)
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Australian-American researcher Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key switch in cellular ageing.
Russian bomb physicist Ginzburg dead at 93
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Nobel Physics prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died at age 93, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday.
Ig Nobel: Researchers named the cream of the crop
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newcastle scientists Dr Catherine Douglas and Dr Peter Rowlinson have won the Ig Nobel Prize for Veterinary Medicine for their work looking at reducing stress levels in dairy cattle. In a paper published earlier this year, they described how giving a cow ...
Water scarcity will create global security concerns
Oct 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
French-Russian mathematician Gromov wins Abel prize
Mar 26, 2009 |
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French-Russian mathematician Mikhail Gromov on Thursday won one of the world's top mathematics award, Norway's Abel Prize, for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry," the prize committee said.
