News tagged with prizes
A second look at supernovae light: Universe's expansion may be understood without dark energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, awarded just a few weeks ago, went to research on the light from Type 1a supernovae, which shows that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. The ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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The world is running out of helium: Nobel prize winner
(PhysOrg.com) -- A renowned expert on helium says we are wasting our supplies of the inert gas helium and will run out within 25 to 30 years, which will have disastrous consequences for hospitals and industry.
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Russian mathematician rejects $1 million prize
(AP) -- He said nyet to $1 million. Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematics genius who made headlines earlier this year for not immediately embracing a lucrative math prize, has decided to decline ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Triple-mode transistors show potential: Researchers introduce graphene-based amplifiers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University research that capitalizes on the wide-ranging capabilities of graphene could lead to circuit applications that are far more compact and versatile than what is now feasible ...
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Caltech scientists film photons with electrons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Techniques recently invented by researchers at the California Institute of Technology -- which allow the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure of nanoscale ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Space mining startup set for launch in US
A startup evidently devoted to mining asteroids for metals is to make its public debut on Tuesday in the US northwest city of Seattle, seeking to redefine the term "natural resources."
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2012 |
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Flat universe
A remarkable finding of the early 21st century, that kind of sits alongside the Nobel prize winning discovery of the universe’s accelerating expansion, is the finding that the universe is geometrically ...
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Scientists Build First 'Frequency Comb' To Display Visible 'Teeth'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. ...
Oct 29, 2009 |
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How to make graphene with a pencil and sticky tape (w/ Videos)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a video that communicates science achievements to people of all backgrounds, physicist and TV presenter Jonathan Hare explains how to make graphene from a graphite pencil and a piece of ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 07, 2010 |
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Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function
A research team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has provided a surprisingly simple explanation for the mechanism and features of the "Golgi apparatus" - a structure that has baffled ...
Oct 15, 2009 |
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'Nyet' to $1 million? Math genius may reject award
(AP) -- Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia - and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Bilayer graphene is another step toward graphene electronics
The Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov have taken a huge step forward in studying the wonder material graphene and revealing its exciting electronic properties ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Predictions of upcoming winners for Nobel Prize in physics
The announcement of the winners of the next Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning will bring to an end the very private deliberations within the Swedish Academy, which selects the winner. It will also ...
Oct 01, 2010 |
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When dark energy turned on (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some six billion light years distant, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction ...
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Unread correspondence of Francis Crick: New twists in double helix discovery story are uncovered
The story of the double helix's discovery has a few new twists. A new primary source -- a never-before-read stack of letters to and from Francis Crick, and other historical materials dating from the years 1950-76 -- has ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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