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43 min ago | The Tennessean

Discoveries lead to grasp of food's complexity

In 1938, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins wrote in the journal Lancet: "It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Chemistry, Entomology

Wed Jun 19, 2013

Berkshire Eagle

Laws of physics unfold in the country

What does the First Law of Thermodynamics have to do with a conundrum of a road intersection in Manchester, Vt.? Or Newton's First Law of Motion with marital consensus? Physics questions have always intrigued me.

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Related Topix: Science, Manchester, VT

The Guardian

Gottingen to Geneva, an interlude | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics

Something has gone a bit wrong with the Deutsche Bahn . Of the last six trains I have tried to take, two were cancelled and three were delayed, including the one I am currently on.

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Related Topix: World News, Science, Germany, Banking, Deutsche Bank AG, Financial Services, Travel, Germany Travel, Europe Travel

Switched

Ask A Physicist: 5 Tips For Women In Science

Editor's Note: Lilyvania Mikulski, the Assistant Director of the Office of Media Relations at Florida International University , interviewed Idaykis Rodriguez, a Ph.D. candidate in Physics at the university about what it means to be a woman in science.

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Related Topix: Science, Florida International University

MSNBC

z-c-3900

News from the biggest beat in the cosmos, going out 13.7 billion light-years and taking in everything from astronomy to zoology.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Science

Scientific Computing/Instrument.

New Material State Reverses Laws of Physics

At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics and found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress/contract.

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Related Topix: Science, Department of Energy, Chemistry

Ars Technica

Two accelerators find signs of a particle that nobody can explain

Two different accelerators have found evidence for a particle that appears to contains four quarks, according to papers published in Physical Review Letters .

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Related Topix: Science

Ars Technica

The International Linear Collider will be a Higgs factory

The Large Hadron Collider is currently undergoing upgrades that will allow it to finally reach its intended top energy of 14TeV.

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Related Topix: Science

Tue Jun 18, 2013

CiteULike

Dyson-Schwinger Equations and the Application to Hadronic Physics

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.

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Related Topix: Science

WVNY

Kenneth Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says it appears the much-criticized national electronic surveillance program foiled "dozens" of terrorist plots.

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Related Topix: Science, Healthcare Law, Law, Privacy, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood

The Fresno Bee

Nobel Prize winner for physics dies in Maine

He was 77. Wilson, who died from complications of lymphoma, was in the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., when he won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for applying his research in quantum physics to phase transitions, the transformation that occurs when a substance goes from, say, liquid to gas.

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Related Topix: Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Chemistry

GigaOM

Investors lack quantum-computing startups to fund, so they're turning to these guys

Quantum computing is still far off, but investors at the QWave Fund aren't waiting.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science

WALA

Nobel Prize winner for physicsa

Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine.

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Related Topix: Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Chemistry

TheBostonChannel.com

Giant magnet going on 3,200-mile trip

A 50-foot-wide, 15-ton magnet is about to set out on a 3,200-mile barge-and-truck tour down the East Coast of the United States, around Florida and up from the Gulf to Chicago before going to work to measure one of the smallest particles known to science.

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Related Topix: Department of Energy, Science, Opinion

Universe Today

What Happens Around a Hungry Black Hole?

While what exactly goes on within the event horizon of a black hole is still well within the realm of theoretical physics researchers are learning more and more about what happens in the immediate vicinity around a black hole, within the flattened disk of superheated material falling inexorably in toward the center.

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Related Topix: Science, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Space, NASA, Rochester, NY

R & D

Working backward: Computer-aided design of zeolite templates

Taking a page from computer-aided drug designers, Rice Univ. researchers have developed a computational method that chemists can use to tailor the properties of zeolites, one of the world's most-used industrial minerals.

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Related Topix: Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing and Engineering, Computers, Chemistry, Science, High Performance Computing

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Townhall

Dennis Prager: Why Some Scientists Embrace the 'Multiverse'

Last week, in Nice, France, I was privileged to participate, along with 30 scholars, mostly scientists and mathematicians, in a conference on the question of whether the universe was designed, or at least fine-tuned, to make life, especially intelligent life.

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Related Topix: Science, University of Chicago, Opinion

Newswise

Wayne State Welcomes Undergraduates From Around the Country for Physics Research Experience

On June 6, professors in Wayne State University's Department of Physics kicked off WSU's only National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program.

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Related Topix: Science, Wayne State University, Batavia, IL

The Newtown Bee

The Hadron Big Bangers: When Physics and Music Collide

Musicians Martin Earley and Robert Rabinowitz have borrowed the physics theme for music.

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Related Topix: Science

Sun-Star

Learning Physics as tool for econ growth

IN AN increasingly knowledge and technology-based global community, science and innovative technology have become increasingly important as drivers of economic growth.

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Related Topix: Science, Southeast Asia, Philippines, World News