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American Institute of Physics News Update (Top 10 items)
- GREAT RED SPOT NOT AS GREAT (Fri Feb 27 12:02 pm)
GREAT RED SPOT NOT AS GREAT The hurricanes that visit the Gulf and Caribbean in September and even the huge jetstream that dominates winter weath. . .
PhysOrg.com Latest News Feed (Top 10 items)
- Parent training complements medication for treating behavioral problems in children with PDD (Fri Nov 20 5:10 pm)
Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).... - Ultrasound enhances noninvasive Down syndrome tests (Fri Nov 20 5:00 pm)
The addition of a "genetic sonogram" maximizes the accuracy of non-invasive testing for Down syndrome, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher who was lead author of a landmark study in the current issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. - High blood pressure easy to miss in children with kidney disease (Fri Nov 20 4:30 pm)
Spot blood pressure readings in children with chronic kidney disease often fail to detect hypertension - even during doctor's office visits - increasing a child's risk for serious heart problems, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's... - Funeral industry workers exposed to formaldehyde face higher risk of leukemia (Fri Nov 20 4:10 pm)
Long durations of exposure to formaldehyde used for embalming in the funeral industry were associated with an increased risk of death from myeloid leukemia, according to a new study published online November 20 in the Journal of the National... - Reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable breast lesions with benign imaging features identified (Fri Nov 20 4:00 pm)
Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma (non-cancerous tumors that... - NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy (Fri Nov 20 3:30 pm)
NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following investigators under the American... - GE Scientists Developing Wearable RFID Sensors to Detect Airborne Chemical Agents (Fri Nov 20 3:30 pm)
GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors to alert people to the presence of... - Termite creates sustainable monoculture fungus-farming (Fri Nov 20 3:20 pm)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ten thousand years of (mainly cultural)... - B&N Nook sells out, too late for holiday orders (Fri Nov 20 3:10 pm)
(AP) -- Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas. - Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5 (Fri Nov 20 3:00 pm)
Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory, today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed of 6Gbps.
Physics Today (Top 10 items)
- Materials in extreme environments (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
The study of materials under harsh conditions is essential to meet a range of energy challenges—from creating better turbines, reactors, and batteries to developing future energy systems in dense plasmas. - Human-generated sound and marine mammals (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
Loud anthropogenic noises can alter the behavior of whales and other marine mammals, sometimes with fatal consequences - Paul Dirac: Engineer, mathematician, philosopher, physicist (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
Dirac practiced theoretical physics for almost 60 years with a unique style: a sometimes baffling combination of intuition, imagination, rectilinear logic, and steam-hammer mathematical power. - Survevy of Andromeda's environs reveals relics of galactic cannibalism (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
The Milky Way's nearest full-grown neighbor?almost its twin?offers a unique opportunity for studying how galaxies grow. - Optical spectroscopy gains a third dimension (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
An extension of a difficult optical technique provides unprecedented information about a semiconductor system. - Nanoscale phase competition accompanies colossal magnetoresistance (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
Doped manganites manifest competing phases of different electronic and magnetic order. Thanks to a new technique, the phases? nanoscale battleground can now be mapped. - Physics update (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
- International research university opens in Saudi Arabia (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
The well-funded, strategically executed yet isolated experiment could fly or flop. - LLNL touts gamma-ray source for nuclear detection (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)
Lab also sees applications in monitoring isotopic content of reactor fuel and assaying nuclear waste. - Congress rejects most of Chu's energy 'Bell Lab-lets' (Sun Nov 1 7:00 am)