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Math theories may hold clues to origin, future of life in universe
Jun 09, 2009 |
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How did we get here and where are we headed? These are some of life's biggest questions. To get the answers, one Kansas State University professor is doing the math.
Star crust 10 billion times stronger than steel, physicists find
May 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys.
In Memoriam: Martin J. Klein, Historian of Modern Physics, Edited Einstein Papers
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(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.
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Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of Manchester has paved the way for better research into how honey bees choose where to live.
A Newtonian system that mimics the baldness of rotating black holes
Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The rotating black hole has been described as one of nature's most perfect objects. As described by the Kerr solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations, its spacetime geometry is ...
Hawking files for divorce
Oct 20, 2006 |
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Stephen Hawking, best-selling author of "A Brief History of Time," and his wife have filed for divorce in England.
'Supersymmetry' physicist Wess dead at 72
Aug 27, 2007 |
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Julius Wess, one of the world's most prominent theoretical physicists, has died in Germany at age 72.
Top Canadian superstring theorist inducted into Royal Society
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Rob Myers, Faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has been named a Royal Society of Canada Fellow. Prof. Myers is only 1 of 10 distinguished scientists accepted into the ...
How to Spot an Influential Paper Based on its Citations
Jul 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At first it may seem that the number of citations received by a published scientific paper is directly related to that paper's quality of content. The higher the quality, the more people read ...
Physicist develops battery using new source of energy
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have been able to prove the existence of a "spin battery," a battery that is "charged" by applying a large magnetic ...
Article examines rare quantum physics effect
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Staying out of jams
Jul 23, 2007 |
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What do sand, coal, cereal, ice cubes, marbles, gravel, sugar, pills, and powders have in common" They are all granular materials, members of an unruly family of substances that refuse to completely conform to the laws of ...
Physicists to study attractive and repulsive forces crucial in designing nano-machines
Aug 06, 2009 |
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The Casimir force, also known as the Casimir effect, is typified by the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates. Today, this force has become an interdisciplinary ...
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