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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 NIH halts research on human embryonic stem cells News Picks home Researchers at Rice University and HP report advances in solid-state memory Support for a manned asteroid mission increases By Physics Today on August 31, 2010 7:59 AM No Comments No TrackBacks SPACE.com The first manned spaceflight to a near-Earth asteroid could be as early as 2025, per President Obama’s April announcement To discuss the possibilities , NASA held the Exploration of Near Earth Objects Objectives Workshop 1011 August , in Washington , DC . The workshop’s goals were to increase the collective understanding of NEOs , communicate NASA's plans for a human
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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 Support for a manned asteroid mission increases News Picks home NASA sends team to Chile to help trapped miners Researchers at Rice University and HP report advances in solid-state memory By Physics Today on August 31, 2010 8:07 AM No Comments No TrackBacks New York Times Certain materials change their resistance in response to a change in voltage . That simple switching behavior , which arises from the material itself , could form the basis of new , compact computer memory provided the material is cheap , robust , and convenient to use . In the New York Times John Markoff reports a recent development toward that goal . Jun Yao of Rice
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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 Advice on writing a job-winning teaching philosophy News Picks home NIH halts research on human embryonic stem cells Lasers crack commercial quantum encryption By Physics Today on August 30, 2010 9:43 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Nature A team of engineers and physicists has used lasers to crack the encryption keys of two commercial quantum cryptographic systems—and left no trace . Nature s Zeeya Merali explains the technology involved in this latest hack . Although quantum cryptography had been touted as a secure method to send information , hackers have been busy proving that it is not so . Several months ago the University of
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Chronicle of Higher Education: James Lang, an English professor and veteran of more than half a dozen faculty searches, offers aspiring university professors advice on an important component of an academic job application: the statement of teaching philosophy. Although a teaching philosophy is an abstract concept, Lang urges applicants to be personal, detailed, and specific when they describe their philosophies.
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BBC: A poll conducted by ICM for Britain's Royal Society found that two-thirds of the British public were unable to name a single female scientist from Britain. Despite that ignorance, 20% of respondents to the poll picked "Nobel prize-winning scientist" as a roll model for girls. Earlier this year, a panel of female fellows of the Royal Society created a list of the 10 most influential British women in the history of science.
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Physicists explain scanning-tunnelling microscope mystery
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Economist: Will more-efficient lighting actually increase energy use—rather than save energy? That idea has been proposed by Jeff Tsao of Sandia National Laboratories and his colleagues in a study published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. The team has found that improvements in the supply of light stimulate the desire for more light—just as building more roads stimulates traffic growth. With better and cheaper lighting, the researchers note, interior lighting at home and work, which is currently only one-tenth the brightness of outdoors, could be made brighter, and the outdoors at night could be made as light as day.
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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 University of California and Nature Publishing Group reconcile News Picks home Head of Iranian science institute fired Can muggy air hold electric charge By Physics Today on August 27, 2010 9:59 AM No Comments No TrackBacks New Scientist At the American Chemical Society’s national meeting this week , Fernando Galembeck from the University of Campinas in São Paulo , Brazil , presented his controversial research on the ability of hot , saturated air to hold a net electric charge . First reported in 1840 by factory workers , the phenomenon of steam electricity may be due to charge build-up between chrome-plated brass tubes and water in
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Chronicle: Last June researchers and librarians at the University of California threatened to boycott Nature and the other journals published by Nature Publishing Group in response to a 400% jump in subscription fees. NPG countered with a press release that argued that the subscription increase was high only because the University of California had been benefiting from a previous, unusually generous deal. Now, reports the Chronicle's Jennifer Howard, the two sides are working together to strike a new, mutually agreeable deal.
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In a fun Q&A piece, the HHMI Bulletin asked four researchers "What 'For Dummies' book are you most qualified to write?"
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Particle-physics lab insists cuts will not affect Large Hadron Collider
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Science: Despite worldwide financial problems, representatives from the 20 nations involved in CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, decided yesterday not to cancel any projects nor lay off any staff members; they will, however, seek to trim the budget by 6%. Three ways to cut costs were proposed by the CERN leadership: delay upgrades to current machines, shut down all eight accelerators in 2012 for repairs, and spend less on research and development for the proposed Compact Linear Collider, CLIC.
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Because they are portable and easy to operate at ambient temperatures, cold atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) should find innovative applications in biomedicine, materials science and fabrication industries. Research published in the Journal of Applied Physics investigates an APPJ that extends from the ground electrode of a circuit........
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Conference: 26 Sep 2010 - 30 Sep 2010, Cracow, Poland. Organized by Jagiellonian University.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PhysicsWorld/~4/2FoGMEJKc1A" height="1" width="1"/