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4 hrs ago | Physics Org

Apple's booming App Store tops 100,000 programs

A man displays an iPhone. Apple on Wednesday announced that outside developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs for iPhones and iPod Touch devices.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Startups, Computers, Apple Computer, iPod, Science

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Gulf Times

QU joins hands with top N-research body

Qatar University's Physics Department, Qatar Foundation's Sidra Medical and Research Center, and CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research are embarking on a multi-faceted partnership that stands to benefit the healthcare segment and the world of science.

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Science News

Invisibility Uncloaked: In race to make things disappear, scientists gain ground on science fiction

Cloaking devices would steer light or other electromagnetic waves around them like water around a stone in a smooth stream, leaving nary a ripple of difference in the flow.

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Related Topix: Science, Arts, Literature, Popular Fiction, Harry Potter, Books, Science / Technology

John Dvorak

Baguette breaks Large Hadron Collider

GENEVA : THE $6.5 billion machine designed to recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time had to be switched off after a bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into it, causing it to overheat.

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Related Topix: Science, Baked Goods, Life, Bread, Food

Physics Blog

Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars

Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth.

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Related Topix: 9, NASA, Princeton, NJ

PhysOrg Weblog

Mobile phone inventor wants devices to go back to basics

The Motorola MOTO W233 Renew telephone, seen here in January 2009. The inventor of the mobile phone, Motorola researcher Martin Cooper, said Wednesday the devices have become too complex, with a range of features from cameras to music, since he made the first-ever wireless call over three decades ago.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Inventions, Science / Technology, Cameras, Science, iPhone

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Science Teacher

Amelia and the Physics of Flight

Amelia, the latest film by Mira Nair , is the story of arguably the world's most famous female pilot.

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Related Topix: Amelia, Science, Drama Movies, Mississippi Masala, Comedy Movies, Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI

Carman Valley Leader

Experiences with cancer spur Thiessen to write textbook

Thiessen was eager to write a physcis textbook that involves the many questions people have about cancer.

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Related Topix: Science

Edmonton Journal

U of A researcher makes stellar discovery

Craig Heinke from the University of Alberta Physics department, discovered a neutron star.

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Related Topix: Astronomy, Science / Technology, Space

Photonics Spectra

Atom Imaged in Ultracold Gas

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 5, 2009 -- A high-resolution microscope has been developed to image individual atoms in an ultracold quantum gas, marking the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of light, called a Bose Hubbard optical lattice.

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Science

Not Even Wrong

News From NSF Thy

A presentation at a recent SLAC Users Group meeting included some of the following data about NSF support for HEP theory: Theory funding for FY 2008: $11.68 million.

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Related Topix: Science, 9, University of Arizona, Rutgers University

Thu Nov 05, 2009

AIP Bulletin

Symposium on a oeAccelerators for Americaa s Futurea

There was a large turnout last week on the first day of a three-day symposium entitled "Accelerators for America's Future." The attendance, as well as the presentations from a diverse range of speakers, demonstrated the great interest there is in the potential of accelerators in areas such as medicine, industrial applications, and energy, as well ...

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PhysOrg Weblog

Toshiba Introduces 320GB 1.8-inch HDD

Toshiba Corporation today introduced a new line up of 1.8-inch HDDs with a maximum capacity of 320GB, the highest yet announced by the industry, targeted at thin and light mobile PCs and portable external hard disk drives.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Computers, Science, 9

PR-inside.com

Breast Cancer Patients Have Greater Chance Of Recurrence, Especially After Certain Treatments

Previous studies have shown that younger breast cancer patients consistently have poorer outcomes than patients who develop the disease later in life, which can translate into lower rates of overall survival.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer, Oncology, Energy, Oil & Gas, Science, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

CTV.ca

Alberta physicist solves 11,000-year-old supernova mystery

Home : Sci-Tech : Alberta physicist solves 11,000-year-old supernova mystery Alberta physicist solves 11,000-year-old supernova mystery Date: Thursday Nov.

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Related Topix: Astronomy, Science

RedOrbit

Quantum Gas Microscope Offers Glimpse Of Quirky Ultracold Atoms

Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways.

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Related Topix: Harvard University, Science

PhysOrg Weblog

University of Utah celebrates telescope's 'first light'

The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT, Science

Wed Nov 04, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

UCI robot to aid brain research

A robot powered by a computerized model of a rodent brain will help researchers from UC Irvine and UC San Diego understand how people recognize and adapt to change.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Science, iPhone

PhysOrg Weblog

Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Colorized simulation of what happens to 1100 carbon atoms in a "flat" sheet of graphene about 20 microseconds after the central atom is moved slightly upwards.

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Physics Org

Taking aim at mysterious DNA structures in the battle against cancer

Designers of anti-cancer drugs are aiming their arrows at mysterious chunks of the genetic material DNA that may play a key role in preventing the growth and spread of cancer cells, according to an article in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Science

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