UK physicists are among the recipients of two $3M special prizes awarded by the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation. One of the prizes has been awarded to Professor Stephen Hawking (University of Cambridge) for his discovery of Hawking ...
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Scientists may be preparing to announce Wednesday that they've found proof that the God particle,considered a key to understanding the great mysteries of the universe,exists. If that's the case,scientists will have taken a huge step in ...
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Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
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High-energy physicists working at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland are benefiting from a NoSQL database management system that gives them unified access to data from a slew ...
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Computerworld - Physicists trying to understand dark matter, anti-matter and the origin of the universe say the key to these great mysteries may lie with the discovery of a sub-atomic particle, whether it's the elusive Higgs boson or not. ...
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In a paper set to be published this week in the scientific journal Nature, IBM researchers are claiming a huge breakthrough in spintronics, a technology that could significantly boost capacity and lower power use of memory and storage ...
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2012 was the year of big data.2011 had been a good year for the hyped concept,too,and 2013 is more than likely to see a continued glut of big data discourse in the IT market. But there are other themes in this collection of top 10 ...
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Laser system scans and manipulates bacterium 10 Oct 2012 Optical trap grabs and analyses even smallest unicellular organisms Freiburg:home to new optical trap.Researchers at the Department of Microsystems Engineering(IMTEK)of the ...
By making constant but weak measurements of a quantum system,physicists have managed to probe a delicate quantum state without destroying it–the equivalent of taking a peek at Schrodinger's metaphorical cat without killing it.The ...
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The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
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V. Sealing the Deal: Federal Standards In January 2012, a federal standard became effective that requires all light bulbs sold in the United States to be 28 percent more efficient than a normal incandescent light bulb, and to continue to ...
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Winner:LANL's George Kyrala Six high-energy laser researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL)and a seventh from Los Alamos National Laboratory(LANL)have won the American Physical Society's 2012 John Dawson Award for ...
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Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin,in collaboration with colleagues at Taiwan's National Tsing-Hua University and National Chiao-Tung University and at the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute ...
Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for precise measurement and control, has launched the Model CRX-6.5K, a general-purpose cryogen-free probe station that is claimed to ...
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University of Utah physicists invented a new "spintronic" organic light-emitting diode or OLED that promises to be brighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs now used in television and computer displays, ...