Salisbury Journal | News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
A SUPERMARKET manager is swapping the grocery aisles for the lush countryside of Vietnam to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Brookhaven National Laboratory News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
A one-woman play titled “Manya: A Living History of Madame Marie Curie” will be presented at Brookhaven Lab on Saturday, December 6, at 7 p.m. in Berkner Hall.
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Happy birthday Marie Curie ... Marie Skłodowska–Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris. Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term coined...
Neath Guardian (icWales) (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
BLAENHONDDAN Community Council has agreed a £50 donation to Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
Marie Curie's Nobel Prize Photograph, 1911. Yesterday & Today: The Top Women Scientists (very informative assemblage of female scientists from ancient times to the present day): Marie Curie (1867-1934) Chemist and physicist, the only person to receive Nobel Prizes in two different sciences: Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911) . "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
AMES, IA (MARKET WIRE) BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: BFNH), a leader in systems integration at the micro- and nano-scales to create products for the life sciences, is pleased to announce that it has signed a scientific collaboration agreement with the University Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC) and CNRS (Centre National de Recheche Scientifique) in Paris, France. Under the terms...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
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Highly Allochthonous (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
It will come as quite a surprise to most of you to hear that this is my last day in South Africa. A couple of months ago, I was offered a Marie Curie post-doc at the University of Edinburgh, and tonight I'm boarding a plane back to the UK - this time to stay. Well, for a couple of years at least. To be honest, I don't think it's sunk in yet that I'm leaving. Once my head has got round...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
TOTS from Edinburgh Nursery School have been getting their hands dirty planting daffodil bulbs to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
TOTS from Edinburgh Nursery School have been getting their hands dirty planting daffodil bulbs to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
2Physics (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
(from Left to Right) Nicolas Treps, Brahim Lamine and Claude Fabre A team of researchers (B. Lamine, N. Treps and C. Fabre) from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB) at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris, France) have shown how to use squeezed light to perform distance measurement below the standard quantum limit imposed by the quantum nature of light [1]. Any distance measurement...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
A French team, headed by Dr. Alain Carpentier (the mitral valve wizard) of the Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris, claims to have developed the most advanced artificial human heart. Using some of the technology transferred from the aerospace industry, like high precision valves and switches, the device will now have to prove itself in clinical trials. The preliminary animal trials...
Sozai Designs (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Sotheby's is holding an auction on Nov 6, 2008. The ring shown above stood out among the various pieces. The proceeds of the sale of this yellow diamond, daffodil ring made by George Pragnell will go to the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity. Sotheby's provides a good description on colored diamonds: "Fancy coloured diamonds are graded based on two factors. The first is their basic hue,...
Biomedicine on Display (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
I wonder if this video will attract that many postgrads to “research training, career development and mobility schemes allowing researchers to be truly mobile both internationally and between commercial and non-commercial sectors”? (the European Union Marie Curie Actions programme). That said, the retro style is obviously inspired by the classic ‘Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
The combined IQ of this lot must be way over 6,000. It's the group photo of the Fifth Solvay International Conference in 1927. There was only one girl in the class, and she was French. She's Marie Curie, third from left on the front row. The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, located in Brussels, [...]
