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X-rays emitted from ordinary Scotch tape

October 22, 2008
Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape.
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Arthur Kantrowitz dies at 95; physicist pioneered rocket nose cones, intra-aorta pumps

Though his expertise was in fluid mechanics, his interests were wide-ranging, including early experiments in nuclear fusion and fighting for the creation of a science court. Arthur R. Kantrowitz, a physicist and inventor whose research pioneered the development of nose cones for rockets as well as pumps to help failing hearts move blood more effectively, died of heart failure Nov. 29 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He was 95.
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Sidelined CERN collider gets a new, formal sendoff

The world's largest scientific machine may have malfunctioned soon after its spectacular start and still be out of action. But that didn't stop dignitaries, donors and diplomats from inaugurating the broken atom smasher Tuesday with pomp and pageantry.
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Forbes Star Struck

The endless race for fusion energy pits a giant reactor in France against two upstarts in North America.
11/07/08
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WRAL.com 3 win Nobel for subatomic physics...

Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
10/07/08
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WRAL.com Cornell astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter...

Edwin E. Salpeter, an astrophysicist whose work in the "Salpeter-Bethe equation" showed how helium changes to carbon, has died. He was 83.
11/28/08
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msnbc Physicist: Bolt could have run 9.55...

A physicist has done the math, and says Usain Bolt could have run the 100-meter Olympic final in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to showboat.
09/12/08
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Times Online James Atkinson: experimental physicist

06/30/08
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Times Online Top physicist to quit ‘amateur’...

One of the leading theoretical physicists in Britain is to leave for Canada, having failed to receive funding for his plan to set up an institute in honour of Stephen Hawking,...
05/25/08
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Weird science

Explosions. Bunsen burners. Adoring crowds in evening dress - or school uniform - eyes wide with wonderment. Can we recapture the excitement of science, asks historian Lisa Jardine.
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Future planes, cars may be made of `buckypaper'

It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionize the way everything from airplanes to TVs are made.
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Los Angeles Times Environmental groups, scientists...

With a Nobel physicist and a former EPA chief on board, some expect Obama's White House to break from what they see as the Bush administration's record of overlooking science in...
12/16/08
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WRAL.com Obama names 4 top members of science...

President-elect Barack Obama's selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign he plans a more aggressive response to global warming...
12/20/08
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Los Angeles Times Obama names Holdren, Lubchenco to...

President-elect Barack Obama today named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that...
12/20/08
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WRAL.com Tape measure: X-rays detected from...

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of...
10/22/08
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Yahoo! News Beyond Cold: How the World Works at...

LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
07/18/08
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Yahoo! News Nobel-winning physicist Willis Lamb...

AP - Willis E. Lamb Jr., a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose work on the electron structure of the hydrogen atom revolutionized the quantum theory of matter, has died. He was 94.
05/21/08
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'Buckypaper' may build the future

It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionize the way everything from airplanes to TVs are made.
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Of budgets and black holes

More fancy toys, fewer physicists to play with themFROM outside, the huge silver doughnut looks like a flight of vain architectural fancy, or perhaps a racetrack for very superior greyhounds. Racetrack turns out to be nearer the truth?but it is electrons, not animals, that are doing laps. Energised by huge magnets, they accelerate to close to the speed of light, before a final series of wiggles persuades them to emit beams of tightly focused, fiercely energetic X-rays. These are then used by researchers to probe the fundamental structure of anything from Dead Sea scrolls too fragile to open, to samples of avian-flu virus, aircraft wings or ancient bones. This is Diamond Light Source, the newest addition to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in rural Oxfordshire, and the country's most expensive government-funded physics facility of the past four decades. By the time it opened in 2007 it had already cost GBP260m, with another GBP120m committed for expansion, and running costs will be steep (its electricity bill alone equals that of a small town). It is just one of the visible signs of a recent splurge on science. Since 2004 total spending on science has risen by 5.8% yearly in real terms, its share of GDP is rising, and further increases are planned until 2011. ISIS, another ?super-microscope? at RAL that uses neutrons rather than electrons, is also getting a GBP120m upgrade. ...
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Times Online A flood of fossils

John Martin portrayed the collapse of civilizations, or the onslaught of the Deluge, as vast panoramas with a slightly hysterical veracity bordering on kitsch. In his early...
10/15/08
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msnbc Pope, physicist Hawking at evolution...

Pope Benedict told a gathering of scientists including the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Friday that there was no contradiction between believing in God and empirical...
11/03/08
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Forbes Beauty Is Truth

Physicists searching for creation's symmetry nab the Nobel.
10/07/08
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Times Online Our biggest black hole was in the budget

In 1987, as Minister for Higher Education and Science, I was despatched by Margaret Thatcher to CERN in Geneva on a delicate mission. It was the era of “the...
09/11/08
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Los Angeles Times Particle smasher begins Big Bang...

Scientists around the world celebrate the tests at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. 'We will be unlocking the secrets of the universe,' one physicist says. ...
09/11/08
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Times Online Leading scientist urges teaching of...

Creationism should be taught in schools as a legitimate point of view to stop religious children losing interest in science lessons, a leading Royal Society scientist has urged.
09/11/08
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