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Actinide research published in Reviews of Modern Physics

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Livermore researcher who teamed with a United Kingdom collaborator has published an article in Reviews of Modern Physics that refines decades of actinide science and may just become the preeminent research ...





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Research finds koalas are no dwarves

Research finds koalas are no dwarves

Biology /

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has found one of Australia's iconic animals is not a shadow of its former self.


Modern lifestyle prevents tooth decay

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New research has found that modern lifestyle habits may play a bigger role than food alone, when it comes to tooth decay.


Researcher Investigates the Basis of Einstein's First Approximation in the Theory of Relativity

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 41

(PhysOrg.com) -- In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of The Meaning of Relativity, Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further. Einstein apparently never ...


In Memoriam: Martin J. Klein, Historian of Modern Physics, Edited Einstein Papers

In Memoriam: Martin J. Klein, Historian of Modern Physics, Edited Einstein Papers

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein," passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old.


More Robust Models of the Big Picture

Modern physics is critical to global warming research

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Science has come a long way with predicting climate. Increasingly sophisticated models and instruments can zero in on a specific storm formation or make detailed weather forecasts – all useful to our daily ...


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NASA Approves X-ray Space Mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NASA recently confirmed that the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission will launch in August 2011.


quantum physics

Article examines rare quantum physics effect

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's nothing University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicist Herman Batelaan likes more than a challenge. And there are few areas of science more challenging than working at the sub-atomic, or ...


How do we support today’s Einsteins?

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Is today's academic and corporate culture stifling science’s risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore? In April’s Physics World the science writer Mark Buchanan looks at those who ...


Rewriting general relativity?

Rewriting general relativity? Putting a new model of quantum gravity under the microscope

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 9

Does an exciting but controversial new model of quantum gravity reproduce Einstein's theory of general relativity? Scientists at Texas A&M University in the US explore this question in a paper appearing in ...


K-State's fast laser research and theory building on Einsten's work by timing electrons emissions

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Ultrafast laser research at Kansas State University has allowed physicists to build on Nobel Prize-winning work in photo-electronics by none other than Albert Einstein.



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