Physics News Feeds for Saturday November 07, 2009
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Ring Nebula Deep Field
November 6, 2009
Ring Nebula Deep Field A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. The central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably...
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- Beyond North and South: Evidence for Magnetic Monopoles (Fri Nov 6 7:00 am)
Editor's note: The original online version of this story was previously posted. Magnets are remarkable exemplars of fairness--every north pole is invariably accompanied by a counterbalancing south pole. Split a magnet in two, and the... - Tweak Gravity: What If There Is No Dark Matter? (Thu Nov 5 1:01 pm)
Theorists and observational astronomers are hot on the trail of dark matter , the invisible material thought to account for puzzling mass disparities in large-scale astronomical structures. For instance, galaxies and galactic clusters behave... - Stellar deal: NASA awards $2 million to X PRIZE winners for helping develop a lunar lander (Tue Nov 3 1:13 pm)
Less than one month after NASA crashed its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into the moon's surface in order to analyze the resulting plume of debris for signs of water , the U.S. space agency is handing out... - Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way's Center? (Tue Nov 3 9:00 am)
A haze of radiation at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy that appears in sky maps taken by two spacecraft at two different wavelengths likely results from a population of high-energy electrons, according to a new analysis of gamma rays in the... - How Noise Can Help Quantum Entanglement (Tue Nov 3 7:00 am)
Wouldn’t it be nice to be an electron? Then you, too, could take advantage of the marvels of quantum mechanics, such as being in two places at once--very handy for juggling the competing demands of modern life. Alas, physicists have long...
PhysicsWorld Headline News (Top 5 items)
- Why blood cells move in slippers (Thu Nov 5 10:24 am)
Study might show why cells take on lopsided shape - 'Universal' equation describes how materials behave at nanoscale (Thu Nov 5 9:46 am)
'No supercomputers involved', says physicist - Fundamental physics enters war on cancer (Thu Nov 5 8:01 am)
A dozen new US research centres receive cash to apply physics to oncology - Carbon swaddles baby neutron star (Wed Nov 4 12:00 pm)
Nascent surface too hot for hydrogen - Lotus leaves shake off water (Tue Nov 3 10:30 am)
Vibrations maintain water-repellency in nature
EurekaAlert Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Sciences News (Top 5 items)
- Society of Interventional Radiology hosts oncology therapies Webinar, offers resources (Thu Nov 5 11:00 pm)
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Registration is now open for the Society of Interventional Radiology's "Image-guided Interventional Oncology Therapies" Webinar, which will provide the latest updates on percutaneous and transcatheter treatment... - Monell Center joins with CAS to host Beijing meeting on taste and smell research (Thu Nov 5 11:00 pm)
(Monell Chemical Senses Center) The Monell Center and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) are co-hosts of the Beijing International Meeting on Taste and Smell Research. Organized by Monell in collaboration with the CAS, the meeting will be... - Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease (Thu Nov 5 11:00 pm)
(University of Michigan Health System) A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms -- and improved vision -- following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their... - Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease (Thu Nov 5 11:00 pm)
(University of Oregon) A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease. A five-member team of researchers from University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine... - Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with ‘chemical precision’ (Thu Nov 5 11:00 pm)
(Leiden University) An international team of scientists from the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Argentina and the United States has shown in a paper to be published in Science shortly how the chemistry of surface reactions underpinning catalysis...
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- 'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies (Thu Nov 5 11:00 pm)
(Carnegie Institution) Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature at 787... - AGU journal highlights -- Nov. 5, 2009 (Wed Nov 4 11:00 pm)
(American Geophysical Union) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Antarctica warming a regional, not local, trend"; "New model factors storms into shoreline loss"; "Study agrees reservoir contributed to Wenchuan... - DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory names 6 scientists as 2009 Fellows (Wed Nov 4 11:00 pm)
(DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory) Antoinette "Toni" Taylor, Stephen Becker, Joachim Birn, Lowell Brown, Patrick Colestock and Samuel "Tom" Picraux have been designated 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows in recognition of sustained,... - Tackling new Arctic challenges from space (Wed Nov 4 11:00 pm)
(European Space Agency) International scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the Space and the Arctic workshop to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and to explore how space-based... - German high-school students involved in an astronomical research project (Wed Nov 4 11:00 pm)
(Astronomy & Astrophysics) Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes the results of an unusual research project, by a team involving German high-school students. They present an accurate, long-term ephemeris of the cataclysmic variable EK Ursae Majoris,...
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