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Child of Vietnam war wins top maths honour

Vietnamese-born mathematician Ngo Bao Chau on Thursday won the maths world's version of a Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, cementing a journey that has taken him from war-torn Hanoi to the pages of Time magazine.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

How do we support today’s Einsteins?

Is today's academic and corporate culture stifling science’s risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore? In April’s Physics World the science writer Mark Buchanan looks at those who ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4




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Einstein's archive now available online

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you ever wanted to glimpse into Albert Einstein's thoughts, now you can. Last week, the complete catalog of about 80,000 documents written by or addressed to Einstein—letters, postcards, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Scientists image the charge distribution within a single molecule for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists were able to measure for the first time how charge is distributed within a single molecule. This achievement will enable fundamental scientific insights into single-molecule ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

UD researchers first to attempt 3D carbon nanotube architectures

A team of three University of Delaware mechanical engineering professors, plus researchers from three other academic institutions, are collaborating to develop three-dimensional (3D) carbon nanotube structures.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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NuSTAR's mirrors baked in Zhang's glass kitchen

(PhysOrg.com) -- It pays to persevere. No one knows this better than Will Zhang.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Researchers measure and model inhomogeneous energy landscapes in graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- If graphene is to live up to its promise as a revolutionary component of future electronics, the interactions between graphene and the surrounding materials in a device must be understood and controlled. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A quantum leap in computing

When American physicist Richard Feynman in 1982 proposed creating a quantum computer that could solve complex problems, the idea was merely a theory scientists believed was far off in the future.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Mysterious red galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Perhaps the most astonishing and revolutionary discovery in cosmology was Edwin Hubble's observation that galaxies are moving away from us with velocities that are proportional to their distances. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Book explores discoveries in cosmology and how our universe could have come from nothing

The earliest philosophers argued that out of nothing, nothing comes (ex nihilo, nihil fit). This ignited intense philosophical and theological debates and invoked challenging questions over the coming centuries. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 96

New material's capability to increase weapons' explosive force demonstrated at Navy test range

Military, government and industry officials watched the demonstration of a revolutionary material that increases the explosive force and lethality on enemy targets during a test at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 84

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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