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The Wisconsin Supreme Court this month overturned a 2002 murder conviction that also relied heavily on Shaibani's testimony.

Mt. San Antonio College is offering College for Kids, which is running this summer.

Isle of Palms novelist Mary Alice Monroe: "Aside from my own book, you mean? I will take Patti Callahan Henry's book, 'The Art of Keeping Secrets.' I love her work.

In this Feb. 29, 2008 file photo, the last element, weighing 100 tons, of the ATLAS experiment is lowered into the cave at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN in Meyrin, near Geneva, ...

Washington, June 28: Microscopic black holes that might possibly be produced by the Large Hadron Collider , which is the world's largest particle collider, will not pose any danger to the planet, as they would ...

An international team has identified a new hybrid atom that could be used to develop quantum computers.

The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet discoverers throughout history put together.

Saami Shaibani often testified for the prosecution in big murder cases, taking the stand as an expert in what he called "injury mechanism analysis" - a combination of physics, trauma medicine and engineering ...

By Christian Lowe

SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) - Behind a thicket of weeds and broken window panes, one of the former Soviet Union's dark secrets is the laboratory where captured German scientists worked to build an atomic bomb for Josef Stalin.

The Sukhumi Institute still exists, in a state of limbo. Limping along under semi-siege in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia whose existence the rest of the world does not recognize, its Cold War past has been all but forgotten.

Once, around 250 German specialists lived here with their families and built centrifuges to separate uranium isotopes. Now a money-making sideline for the few scientists who keep the institute's research going is designing household heaters.

The ability to see is based on molecules in the eye that flip from one conformation to another when exposed to visible light.

Dependent on the "spin" of electrons, a property electrons possess that makes them behave like tiny magnets, the discovery could help in the development of spin-based semiconductor technology such as ...

A report has concluded that the world's most powerful particle physics experiment is not putting our planet at risk.

A team of University of British Columbia researchers has developed a technique that controls the number of electrons on the surface of high-temperature superconductors, a procedure considered impossible for the ...

Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San Diego have demonstrated.

London, June 21: A new analysis has found that variation in one of the fundamental constants of physics is not correct, and it is constant after all.

Stephen Hawking, a leading British scientist, has criticized the government for reduced research funding that could undercut England's standing.

Although we haven't figured out everything in the universe by a long shot, we're getting a pretty good a handle on how things work in our world, and how the laws of nature operate here at home.

Washington, June 17: A physicist of Indian origin has claimed to have found the mechanism behind the single molecular switch, which is considered as the Holy Grail of computing.

Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San Diego have demonstrated.

Theoretical work by Penn State professor of physics Mark Strikman predicted that fast-moving protons would have a surprisingly high tendency to form pairs with fast-moving neutrons.

Application of modulated radiotherapy in the treatment of bowel cancer can enhance the results obtained by means of other conventional therapies.

Spike Lee did Clockers . In keeping with the theme, his next project: Time Traveler .

Maswood Alam Khan The most punishing episode in one's life is 'to wait' uncertainly for something pleasant to happen: to wait for the postman to deliver the letter from your sweet heart or for the traffic ...

Michigan Technological University physicist Ranjit Pati and his team have developed a model to explain the mechanism behind computing's elusive Holy Grail, the single molecular switch.

European researchers have made significant progress unravelling how genes are governed and why this sometimes goes wrong in disease.

Being woken in the dead of night by noisy neighbours blasting out music could soon be a thing of the past.

In this photo montage of actual quantum images, two laser beams coming from the bright glare in the distance transmit images of a cat-like face at two slightly different frequencies .

Quantum computing has been hailed as the next leap forward for computers, promising to catapult memory capacity and processing speeds well beyond current limits.

A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.

Adding radiation therapy to surgery significantly improves overall survival in patients diagnosed with node-positive head and neck cancer when compared to treating with surgery alone, according to a study in ...

Often hailed as both the first modern scientist and the last of the ancient magicians, Newton reduced nature's chaos to a single set of mathematical laws.

Because it is an optically transparent conductor of electricity, graphene could be used to replace current liquid crystal displays that employ thin metal-oxide films based on indium, a rare metal that is ...

A flake of exfoliated graphene 50 micrometers square was placed on layers of silicon dioxide insulator and a silicon gate.

The University of Waterloo is breaking ground on a $160-million investment designed to propel the university and the country to the forefront of the science of the very small.

All truths are simple. Seems simple, but seems true :) The corollary is that anything which is too complicated is not true, or perhaps is not fully true.

Convera Corporation www.convera.com , , a leading provider of vertical search services and technologies for publishers, today announced it has signed an agreement with IOP Publishing to develop a customized ...

To see the latest science of type-I superconductors, look no further than the froth on a morning cup of cappuccino.

The exciting progress was made in the important field of quantum optics and discussed recently at a high level conference organised by the European Science Foundation in collaboration with the Fonds zur ...

Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO of Research in Motion, has donated $150 million to the University of Waterloo's Perimeter Institute since its founding in 2000.

In an article published today in the journal Nature, the team, led by Chia-Ling Chien, the Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics and director of the Material Research Science and Engineering Center at The Johns ...

Researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration, or LIGO -- an international collaboration headed by University of Florida physics Professor David Reitze -- ...

Developing techniques to image the complex biological systems found at the sub-cellular level has traditionally been hampered by divisions between the academic fields of biology and physics.

CHIPSat satellite The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite , funded by NASA in 1998, was designed to look for extreme ultraviolet emissions from the bubble of hot gas that envelops our solar ...

Weizmann Institute physicists have demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of 'quasiparticles' with one quarter the charge of an electron.

Thermodynamics tell us that the interaction between a large heat source and an ensemble of much smaller systems must bring them at least on average progressively closer to thermal equilibrium.

Like a celestial top, the spinning neutron star known as the Crab Pulsar is slowing, a phenomenon that astronomers have yet to fully understand.

The laureates were selected for their groundbreaking research that has significantly advanced our understanding of the unusual properties of matter on an ultra-small scale, the basic circuitry of the human ...