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Physicist Michio Kaku had a nice editorial in Forbes , " Beauty Is Truth ," where he discusses the symmetry relationships recognized in the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics in near-poetic language.

Iran brushes aside the parallel drawn by the NATO chief between its conventional missile program and Israel's 'supposed nuclear arsenal'. Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer had said on Monday that because ...

Abstract In recent years topology has firmly established itself as an important part of the physicist's mathematical arsenal.

The Feynman Lectures are the bible of physics. Because it's the definitive and authoritative sacred text? Nope.

While most of the instruments at the Spallation Neutron Source are dedicated to materials and condensed-matter studies, the Fundamental Neutron Physics Beam Line will explore questions in nuclear physics.

Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.

Covering topics such as Feynman diagrams and path integrals, the author emphasizes the path integral approach, the Wilsonian approach to renormalization, and the physics of non- abelian gauge theory.

"I'm really glad to be here-I'd like to talk to you about some very, very cold things today," Nobel Prize winner Eric Cornell said to an audience of about 150 physics junkies, professors, community members and ...

Up to 40 people suffered broken bones and other injuries when a Qantas plane carrying more than 300 passengers was involved in a 'mid-air incident' and was forced to make an emergency landing in Western ...

Two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American researcher have won this year's Nobel Prize for physics.

Submitted by News Staff on 10 October 2008 - 12:20am. Mathematics In a seminar co-organized by Stanford University and the American Institute of Mathematics, Kannam Soundararajan, Professor of Mathematics, ...

The CERN Computer Center is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe.

Washington is often-criticized for its inside baseball. But Congressional leadership contests are more insular than that.

The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture.

BANGALORE: The American Physical Society has awarded the prestigious Lars Onsager prize for 2009 to physicist Sriram Shastry of India, who is currently a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz ...

French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.

Official Comment Count: 1,025,557 Profile "Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college.

From medicine cabinets to the fermented beer in the fridge, Americans are surrounded by science all the time. The St. Louis Science Center is launching a festival this week to help people better understand, and enjoy, the ways that science plays a role in everyday lives.

St. Louis was chosen from about 20 American cities to host SciFest, which is based on a popular English gathering called the Cheltenham Science Festival.

'There's this potpourri for the intellectually stimulated,' said Doug King, president and chief executive of the St. Louis Science Center. Most presentations are an hour long, and scientists will tackle topics from the latest developments in stem cell science to the physics of rock guitar _ using riffs from Vivaldi to Queen to illustrate points.

This year's Nobel Prize in physics honors three particle theorist of Japanese origin, one for pioneering the use of a key conceptual tool and the other two for making, in essence, an inspired educated guess ...

One major goal on the path toward making useful superconducting devices has been engineering materials that act as superconductors at the nanoscale -- the realm of billionths of a meter.