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“There are six orders of magnitude between the fundamental limit in frequency and where people are operating”

Categories: Health & Medicine , Science & Nature , Engineering & Innovation Tags: Radio , Scanning Tunneling Microscope , Advertising & Promotion , Network Technology , Telecom & Utilities , Marketing , ... via Emerging Technology Trends

“I found that 17 minutes had gone by.”

TIME, as we all know, is relative: good experiences seem to fly by, whereas bad ones seem to drag on forever. via The Straits Times

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has a smart and engaging radio show, Quirks & Quarks . via Cosmic Variance

“The age of cosmic-ray astronomy has arrived. In the next few years, our data will permit us to identify the exact sources of these cosmic rays and how they accelerate these particles.”

Breakthrough astrophysics research may have established the hitherto mysterious source of exceptionally high-energy cosmic ray emissions, according to recently published research that culminates a project ... via WebWire

“Discussions on the new scheme have been going for nearly two years, when it was realised that the existing academic system was not rigid enough. It is not linked to the recent acts of terrorism in Britain”

Britain has introduced a new security vetting scheme for all non-European Union students, including from India, who want to study in universities here in specialised areas such as mathematics, biochemistry, ... via Earth Times

We may well be on the right path, but the fine tuning could surprise us John A. Wass, Ph.D. In upcoming columns, I may expand upon each of the three topics above. via Scientific Computing/Instrument.

“We have seen no sign of contamination at all through our sampling program”

Radioactivity is all around us. That was the main message at a meeting Thursday night at CWM Chemical Services, the Town of Porter hazardous waste landfill currently surveying its property for radioactive ... via Union-Sun & Journal

“Half of chemistry is still undiscovered. We don't know what it looks like and that's the challenge”

Pekka Pyykko talks to Caroline Moore about relativistic effects and the thrill of theoretical chemistry Pekka Pyykko Pekka Pyykko is professor of chemistry at the University of Helsinki where he studies ... via Chemistry World

“Seeing the first hints of the astrophysical origins of these extraordinarily energetic particles is a welcome reward after the many years of effort it took to design and deploy this largest of observatories.”

Penn State scientists and other members of the 17-nation Pierre Auger Collaboration will announce Nov. via Penn State Live

“It's the wave nature of electrons that allows them to act in a correlated way in a hydrogen molecule”

To perform the experiment, a supersonic jet of hydrogen is ionized by a beam of x-rays from the Advanced Light Source . via PhysOrg Weblog

“Our results indicate that cataracts may form if this balance of attractions is disrupted, and this opens a new direction for research into cataract formation.”

Using the tools and techniques of soft condensed matter physics, a research team in Switzerland has demonstrated that a finely tuned balance of attractions between proteins keeps the lens of the eye ... via PhysOrg Weblog

“Penrose's motivation seemed to be to preserve the decorum of physics”

Quantum mechanics might be capable of stripping bare a black hole to reveal the mysterious and unseeable 'singularity' that exists at its heart, say George Matsas and Andre da Silva of the Sao Paulo State ... via Unexplained Mysteries

However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open question about how nuclei spontaneously eject various particles has continued to nag experimentalists, largely because of an inability to make precise ... via RxPG News

“We are able to study black holes whose existence we were able to imagine only thanks to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.”

An international team, including astronomers from Tel Aviv University, has uncovered the most massive stellar black hole found to date in a binary system. via Huliq.com

“This particle has enormous energy. It carries as much energy as the punch of a boxer”

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays -- particles that pack the punch of a rifle shot -- make their way to Earth from massive black holes in nearby galaxies, scientists said on Thursday, in a finding that may solve a ... via XtraMSN Real Estate

“There are six orders of magnitude between the fundamental limit in frequency and where people are operating”

The simple adaptation, based on a method of measurement currently used in nano-electronics, could also give STMs significant new capabilities -- including the ability to sense temperatures in spots as small as ... via Science Daily

“It's doing computation differently.”

Silicon electronics has been the staple of the computing industry for more than half a century, but increasingly researchers are looking at other methods of computing to deliver increased computational power or ... via BBC

“This fellowship is a step toward ensuring that this outstanding relationship will continue far into the future of this exciting, new, revolutionary specialty of molecular imaging”

SNM, the world's largest molecular imaging and nuclear medicine society, recently announced a new, two-year $24,000 fellowship program in the United States for Japanese physicians in the early stages of their ... via MediLexicon

Video and audio from the BBC News archive WWII and 1950-2005. This site is archived and no longer updated. via BBC

“Day-to-day interactions in a lab such as mine are closely monitored in an open and friendly way. Anything suspicious would be noticed immediately.”

The British government has launched a new program of security checks for foreign graduate students to prevent sensitive scientific information from being used in other countries to develop weapons of mass ... via Pravda