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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The idea of a Nobel Prize for filth ' awarded for the advancement of disgust, rather than peace, literature or physics ' would alarm the Swedes. But India's minister for environment and forests lives and works in a less squeamish part of the world, where such things can be imagined with less effort. He has publicly declared that Indian cities would win the Nobel for filth hands down: "Our cities...
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
It's the question I've been asking myself since the University of East Anglia CRU emails surfaced last week. I don't have an answer despite having read about a third of the emails. For guidance I sought out a bongo player-slash-raconteur. Here's the musician riffing on science: "...It is interesting, therefore, to bring it out now and speak of it explicitly. It's a kind of scientific integrity,...
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Not Even Wrong (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Things evidently went extremely well over the weekend at the LHC, with simultaneous circulating beams achieved this morning. Speculation is that first collisions (at the injection energy of 450 GeV/beam) are imminent. Places for up to the minute information include here, here and here. Update: It looks like first collisions have been seen at [...]
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New Scientist (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
A ring of bright stars surrounds us, giving us some of our most familiar constellations. But where did it come from?
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Children exposed prenatally to tobacco smoke and during childhood to lead face a particularly high risk for ADHD, according to new research. The study estimates that up to 35 percent of ADHD cases in children between the ages of 8 and 15 could be reduced by eliminating both of these environmental exposures.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on average than those in center-based daycares.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
A protein known to stimulate blood vessel growth has now been found to be responsible for the cell overgrowth in the development of polyps that characterize one of the most severe forms of sinusitis, researchers suggests. The finding gives scientists a new target for developing novel therapies to treat this form of the disease, which typically resists all current treatments.
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The Register (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Dimensional portal invasion back on track There were emotional scenes last night at the headquarters of underground international atom-smasher science alliance CERN, as joyful boffins celebrated the successful restarting of the Large Hadron Collider. The colossal machine circulated its first beam around the entire 27-km supermagnet circuit at 22:01 Swiss time, and sent the opposing beam round the...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider -- located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. After more than one year of repairs, the LHC is now back on track to create high-energy particle collisions that may yield extraordinary insights into the nature of the physical universe.
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American Presidents Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I admit it – when I was looking up the information for my last series of posts, I got distracted looking at other winners in all the fields (I had to find my personal favorite....actually not a US President, so if you are really curious, you'll have to check out my personal blog ), but I found a fun little connection to share, so hey, I can call it productive time! Marie Curie shared the 1903...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Droid jump-choppers to be offered to military A flying-car company which has struggled for 15 years to win acceptance for its radical gyrocopter/aeroplane technology may have finally broken through into the mainstream. It was announced this week that Carter Aviation technologies - aspiring designer of the CarterCopter Personal Air Vehicle - has partnered with successful military robot maker AAI.…...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Aliens, gov planetbuster boffins, many others write in Well, this is it. In the early hours of tomorrow morning, scientists at the controls of titanic machines situated in mighty hollowed-out caverns and tunnels deep beneath Switzerland will begin to unleash forces so vast and complex as to tax the very limits of human comprehension. The mighty Large Hadron Collider, most powerful matter-rending machine...
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New Scientist (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Physicists are already plotting how the discoveries of the Large Hadron Collider will shape the next generation of particle smashers
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Not Even Wrong (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
This past winter a combined analysis of data from the two Tevatron experiments showed at 95% confidence level that the Higgs mass could not be in the range 160-170 GeV. This was a better result than expected: statistically the experiments should not have been able to exclude any of the mass range, but were [...]
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The Register (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Quantum dots: making electricity from waste heat Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way of of increasing the amount of energy that can harvested from a hot body*. If the discovery lives up to the hype then it could possibly pave the way to devices that can use waste heat as a power source.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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techzene | 10/09/2009
Charles K.Kao (Standard Telecommunication Laboratories) is awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres" For List of All winners.Visit @ Current Affairs
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/07/2009
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences conducted the Nobel Prize ceremony every year in different fields of chemistry. Nobel Prize is normally awarded for major contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, of the Netherlands was the first to get Noble Prize in 1901
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switbd | 10/07/2009
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”, and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories,