• George Smoot on the current state of cosmology

    Updated: 2012-02-08 09:42:07
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  • Prehistoric katydids sang in single tone

    Updated: 2012-02-07 20:47:09
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar US may pull out of Mars collaboration with Europe News Picks home Prehistoric katydids sang in single tone By Physics Today on February 7, 2012 3:47 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Science Katydids , crickets , and other arthropods produce their characteristic chirps by stridulation , a process in which they scrape one rough body part against another , writes Sid Perkins for Science Until now , it was not known whether ancient insects chirped at a single frequency or across a variety of frequencies . A recent analysis of 165-million-year-old katydid wing fragments shows that katydids sang at a single frequency of about 6.4 kilohertz , or

  • NASA renews its interest in nuclear-powered propulsion

    Updated: 2012-02-07 18:14:00
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Isotopes may indicate 2010 North Korean nuclear test News Picks home US may pull out of Mars collaboration with Europe NASA renews its interest in nuclear-powered propulsion By Physics Today on February 7, 2012 1:14 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Nature Small fission reactors may be used to power future NASA manned space missions . With twice the efficiency of chemical rockets , the reactors could send astronauts farther into space and at a much higher rate of speed , writes Eric Hand for Nature Although researchers have been exploring the technology for years , funding has been problematic until now . In a National Research Council

  • R&D service

    Updated: 2012-02-07 09:16:10
    R&D service, information preparation, processing of results, selection of materials, search of research base.

  • Expert-Service

    Updated: 2012-02-07 09:15:14
    Commercialization of developments and scientific achievements.

  • Fire reported at Russian nuclear research center

    Updated: 2012-02-06 16:40:00
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Researchers pressured by editors to make superfluous citations News Picks home Physicist abandons lawsuit against NRC Canada Fire reported at Russian nuclear research center By Physics Today on February 6, 2012 11:40 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Reuters Early Sunday a fire broke out at the Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics , a nuclear research center in Moscow that houses a nonoperational 60-year-old atomic reactor . Although institute officials maintain that there was no risk of a radiation leak , Greenpeace Russia officials expressed concern . The fire , which broke out in a basement area of the facility ,

  • Vertical graphene transistor avoids leakage

    Updated: 2012-02-06 16:01:07
    New device can be switched on and off

  • Malaysian rare-earth plant granted operating license

    Updated: 2012-02-03 20:46:35
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar ESO's Very Large Telescope becomes fully functional News Picks home Researchers pressured by editors to make superfluous citations Malaysian rare-earth plant granted operating license By Physics Today on February 3, 2012 3:46 PM No Comments No TrackBacks New York Times Rare-earth elements are not that uncommon in Earth's crust , but they're typically dispersed . Economically exploitable forms are rare , however . China currently mines and processes more than 90 of rare earths on the market , and it has placed restrictions on their export over the past several years . On 1 February , Malaysian regulators granted Lynas , an Australian

  • ESO's Very Large Telescope becomes fully functional

    Updated: 2012-02-03 19:55:44
    BBC: Yesterday an international team of astronomers and engineers succeeded in linking all four of the large telescopes that make up the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, located on Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert. Each of the four has been up and running since at least 2000. However, when linked together via interferometry, they form the biggest ground-based optical telescope on Earth, which offers very high spatial resolution and zooming capabilities. "From now on we'll be able to observe things we were not able to observe before," said Frederic Gonte, head of instrumentation.

  • Mars too dry to sustain life

    Updated: 2012-02-03 16:00:44
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Mega volcanoes could have detectable precursors News Picks home Mars too dry to sustain life By Physics Today on February 3, 2012 11:00 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Telegraph Researchers at Imperial College London have determined that life could not exist on the surface of Mars because of a super drought that lasted hundreds of millions of years , writes Nick Collins for the Telegraph Experts spent three years studying individual soil particles collected in 2008 by NASA's Phoenix spacecraft . Despite a warmer and wetter period in Mars's distant past , the 5000 years or so that it lasted was simply too brief for life to have established

  • Mega volcanoes could have detectable precursors

    Updated: 2012-02-02 19:08:27
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Japan to consolidate research organizations News Picks home Mega volcanoes could have detectable precursors By Physics Today on February 2, 2012 2:08 PM No Comments No TrackBacks BBC Earth's largest volcanoes may signal impending eruptions earlier than previously thought , according to a new study in Nature Tim Druitt of Blaise Pascal University in France and colleagues analyzed crystals in pumice rock from the Greek island of Santorini , site of the Minoan eruption in the late 1600s BC , and found that magma built up under the surface over a period of a few decades before the event . Given the 18 000–year period between the caldera's

  • Japan to consolidate research organizations

    Updated: 2012-02-02 19:05:45
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Brazil opens new center for theoretical physics News Picks home Mega volcanoes could have detectable precursors Japan to consolidate research organizations By Physics Today on February 2, 2012 2:05 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Nature The Japanese government is preparing to merge five of its science organizations : the RIKEN network of basic research laboratories , the National Institute for Materials Science , the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology , the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention , and the Japan Science and Technology Agency . The change is intended to increase efficiency

  • Brazil opens new center for theoretical physics

    Updated: 2012-02-02 16:55:20
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Researchers boycott Elsevier News Picks home Japan to consolidate research organizations Brazil opens new center for theoretical physics By Physics Today on February 2, 2012 11:55 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Science The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research ICTP-SAIFR which will open on 6 February , is a new regional center for theoretical physics located in São Paulo , Brazil . It is a joint project of the State University of São Paulo the São Paulo Research Foundation and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP in Trieste , Italy . According to its website , the ICTP-SAIFR's goals are to

  • Signal processing for the physical sciences

    Updated: 2012-02-02 00:00:00
    Conference: 28 Mar 2012 - 29 Mar 2012, Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Organized by The Royal Society.

  • International Student Conference on Photonics (ISCP 2012)

    Updated: 2012-02-01 00:00:00
    Conference: 8 May 2012 - 11 May 2012, Sinaia, Prahova , Romania. Organized by Romanian Student SPIE Chapter.

  • THEORY OF QUANTUM GASES AND QUANTUM COHERENCE

    Updated: 2012-01-31 00:00:00
    Workshop: 5 Jun 2012 - 8 Jun 2012, Lyon, France. Organized by E. Orignac, T. Roscilde, A. Minguzzi, R. Citro, A. Recati, F. Chevy.

  • Cargese String School 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-31 00:00:00
    School: 4 Jun 2012 - 16 Jun 2012, Cargese, France.

  • Superconductor Technologies reports Q3 EPS (10c) vs. consensus (9c)

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:14:06
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  • Superconductor Technologies Inc. to Present at the 2011 EUCAS Superconductivity Centennial Conference on September 20th

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:14:01
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  • Superconductor Technologies reports Q2 EPS (10c) vs. consensus (9c)

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:13:58
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  • Rumor: Superconductor Technologies moves up on renewed takeover chatter

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:13:49
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  • Superconductor Technologies Inc. (SCON) Receives MICO Award for Its Intellectual Property

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:13:48
    Superconductor Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the development and production of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and associated technologies. The company is leveraging its extensive intellectual property portfolio of over 100 patents and manufacturing expertise to develop second-generation HTS wire for large emerging power generation device and electricity distribution markets. Earlier this week, [...]

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