Department of Physics and Astronomy

Physics News Feeds for Friday March 19, 2010

Scientific American Physics Feed (Top 5 items)

1. Where's My Fusion Reactor? (Wed Mar 17 4:39 pm)
   Scientific American staff editor Michael Moyer talks about his article "Fusion's False Dawn" in the March issue, and Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the rest of the issue. [More]
2. A look inside RHIC, Brookhaven's little big bang machine (Wed Mar 17 4:10 pm)
   In the high-energy physics community, all eyes have been on Europe for some time, as the Large Hadron Collider , or LHC, has proceeded in fits and starts to become, in 2009, the most powerful atom smasher the world has ever seen. But as...
3. A Warm Jupiter: A Newfound Exoplanet Bears a Resemblance to the Solar System's Own Worlds (Wed Mar 17 2:01 pm)
   A French spacecraft designed to discover new worlds beyond our solar system has made one of its most significant finds yet--a planet that looks like a cousin to those in our own celestial backyard. COROT 9 b, named by astronomical convention...
4. Finding the Top Bot: High School Students (and Their Robots) Take the Prize at Tech Challenge [Slide Show] (Wed Mar 17 10:45 am)
   NEW YORK--Despite the rain and cold this past weekend, dozens of robots took the field to compete in the New York City FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) regional championship at the Javitz Center in Manhattan. The tournament tested the skills...
5. Going with the Flow: Hydrokinetic Power Developers Face Technical and Regulatory Hurtles in Bid to Tap Tides (Tue Mar 16 10:25 am)
   The quest to turn the motion of the world's waterways into a significant source of energy may still be in its nascent stage, but several tidal power projects are making headway. Whether they operate in lakes, rivers or the oceans, projects...

PhysicsWorld Headline News (Top 5 items)

1. Quantum effect spotted in a visible object (Thu Mar 18 8:59 am)
   An important step towards testing Schrödinger's cat paradox
2. A radon detector for earthquake prediction (Thu Mar 18 6:34 am)
   Nobel laureate adapts his famous detector design for earthquake science
3. Top South African astronomer reinstated (Wed Mar 17 10:20 am)
   Phil Charles cleared of sharing astronomy plans with fellow scientists
4. Trapped ions go for a quantum walk (Tue Mar 16 11:34 am)
   Longest quantum walk to date could lead to computing applications
5. Mysterious 'dark flow' at the edge of the universe (Mon Mar 15 10:52 am)
   Could one of the universe's siblings be tugging at its sleeves?

EurekaAlert Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Sciences News (Top 5 items)

1. University of Arizona astronomers discover most primitive supermassive black holes known (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   (University of Arizona) Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better...
2. Researchers to test renewable-energy system at local treatment plant (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   (University of Nevada, Reno) A successful University of Nevada, Reno renewable energy research project is moving from the lab to the real world in a demonstration-scale system to turn wastewater sludge into electricity. The new patent-pending,...
3. Even oysters pay taxes (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   (University of Southern California) Study of oyster genes associated with growth suggests that fast-growing animals have better tuned ribosomal factories for making proteins, USC marine biologists say.
4. Broad application of bipolar diagnosis in children may do more harm than good (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   (The Hastings Center) Troubled children diagnosed with bipolar disorder may fare better with a different diagnosis, according to researchers at The Hastings Center.The researchers support an emerging approach, which gives many of those children...
5. Scripps Oceanography dispatches rapid response exploration of Chile earthquake site (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   (University of California - San Diego) Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will explore the earthquake rupture site of the Feb. 27 massive 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes in recorded...

EurekaAlert Space & Planetary Science News (Top 5 items)

1. University of Arizona astronomers discover most primitive supermassive black holes known (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   (University of Arizona) Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better...
2. Newly discovered planet could hold water (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   
3. Cassini shows Saturnian roller derby (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   (Queen Mary, University of London) The seemingly serene orb of Saturn is in fact a gas giant with extraordinary patterns of charged particles and rough and tumble roller derbies for rings. Such are the findings of NASA's Cassini spacecraft...
4. Physics press conferences at next week's American Physical Society March Meeting (Wed Mar 17 11:00 pm)
   (American Institute of Physics) The following press conferences will take place during the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), to be held March 15-19, 2010 in the Portland Convention Center.
5. International team of scientists reports discovery of a new planet (Tue Mar 16 11:00 pm)
   (University of California - Santa Barbara) An international team of scientists, including several who are affiliated with UC Santa Barbara, has discovered a new planet the size of Jupiter. The finding is published in the March 18 issue of the...

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