News tagged with standards
Researchers seeking the fourth property of electrons
Do electrons have a fourth property in addition to mass, charge and spin, as popular physics theories such as supersymmetry predict? Researchers from Germany, the Czech Republic and the USA want to find the ...
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Physicist's blog post rumors Higgs discovery at Fermilab
(PhysOrg.com) -- A rumor that Fermilab’s Tevatron may have discovered evidence of a light Higgs boson wouldn't be the first unsupported speculation from Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University of Padua ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Michigan Tech Professor Helps Draft Road Map to Fuel-Efficient Trucks, Cars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Manufacturers can take advantage of multiple strategies to build fuel-saving cars and trucks, says two congressionally mandated reports by the National Academies, but they won't come without ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Experiment tests underpinnings of quantum field theory, Bose-Einstein statistics of photons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the assumptions underlying quantum mechanics and the theory that describes how particles interact at the most elementary level, perhaps the most basic is that particles are either ...
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Study finds there may be multiple 'God particles'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research in the US suggests there may be five versions of the theorized Higgs boson.
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Durham astronomers' doubts about the 'dark side'
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by astronomers in the Physics Department at Durham University suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the Universe may be wrong. Graduate student Utane Sawangwit ...
Jun 14, 2010 |
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'Neutrino oscillation': Particle chameleon caught in the act of changing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers on the OPERA experiment at the INFN's Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy today announced the first direct observation of a tau particle in a muon neutrino beam sent through the Earth ...
May 31, 2010 |
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Time is money: SIM time network has far-reaching benefits
Clocks in the Americas and the Caribbean Islands are now ticking in unison thanks to the work of the Sistema Interamericano de Metrologia (SIM), a regional metrology organization that works to promote accurate ...
May 28, 2010 |
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Scientists find evidence for significant matter-antimatter asymmetry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday, May 14, that they have found evidence for significant violation ...
May 18, 2010 |
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Small investors could be big losers under federal climate change legislation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Small investors could be big losers if a greenhouse gas reduction plan known as cap and trade becomes law and accounting standards for carbon credits have not been established, according to a new study released ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 07, 2010 |
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US finalizes new auto fuel economy standards
The US government Thursday finalized new automobile fuel economy standards starting with 2012 models, a move officials said would save billions of barrels of oil and reduce greenhouse emissions.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 01, 2010 |
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'Cash for refrigerators' kick-starts appliance sales
Americans are lining up to snap up rebates for "cash for refrigerators" and "dollars for dishwashers," as part of a government program aimed at both economic stimulus and reduced emissions.
Mar 26, 2010 |
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Urban CO2 domes increase deaths, poke hole in cap-and-trade proposal
Everyone knows that carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is a global problem. Now a Stanford study has shown it is also a local problem, hurting city dwellers' health much more than rural residents', ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Japan auto, power giants target global electric car standard
Four Japanese auto giants and the country's largest power company joined forces Monday to set up a common system to recharge electric cars, with the aim of creating a global standard.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones
First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening underfoot. It's not.
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Mar 09, 2010 |
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