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Recent Physics-Related News Articles
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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)
- Bluebeat to battle EMI over Beatles songs (Sat Nov 7 10:10 am)
US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs. - Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island (Sat Nov 7 9:40 am)
Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations. - Decision day for health care in the House (Sat Nov 7 9:40 am)
(AP) -- President Barack Obama is trying to close the deal in the House on his health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote that's certain to be seen as a test of his presidency. - Prized mushroom collection returns to China (Sat Nov 7 9:10 am)
(AP) -- A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later. - Island village hit by suspected swine flu (Sat Nov 7 9:00 am)
(AP) -- Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help. - Microsoft websites top spots in September: comScore (Sat Nov 7 9:00 am)
Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties. - Brazil blackouts result of cyber hacking: report (Sat Nov 7 8:59 am)
Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS said Sunday. - Russian rocket to launch from French Guiana in 2010 (Sat Nov 7 8:56 am)
A Russian rocket will next year for the first time blast off from a European launch pad in South America, officials said Saturday, as the first rockets headed for the site on board a ship. - Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises (Sat Nov 7 8:51 am)
(AP) -- Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River. - Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games (Sat Nov 7 8:45 am)
(AP) -- A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space - an idea spurred by science fiction novels.
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)