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Read More »One clock with two times: When quantum mechanics meets general relativity
The unification of quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity is one of the most exciting and still open questions in modern physics. General relativity, the joint theory of gravity, space and time gives predictions that become clearly evident on a cosmic scale of stars and galaxies.
Read More »Safety First, Fracking Second
A decade ago layers of shale lying deep underground supplied only 1 percent of America’s natural gas. Today they provide 30 percent
Read More »Two Words Matter — Make Them Count!
As the boss, you don't get much applause on a day-to-day basis.
Read More »Declining Energy Quality and Economic Recession
According to many, downturns in the U.S. and European markets are primarily the result of unsustainable behaviors in the financial industry.
Read More »The NSF I-Corps Is Turning Scientists Into Savvy Entrepreneurs
From faster vaccines to automated traffic reporting, scientists are taking ideas developed in the lab and applying lessons from the startup world about how to turn innovation into business. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds approximately 18,000 scientists and researchers with nearly $7 billion each year, but much of the research never makes it out of the lab. A big part of the problem is that scientists don't always make the best businesspeople and, as a result, many brilliant ideas that could be spun off into commercial businesses stay buried in prototypes and research papers
Read More »Through the looking glass: physicists solve age-old problem
(PhysOrg.com) -- A problem plaguing physicists across the globe for centuries has finally made a leap towards resolution.
Read More »The Trouble with Armor
On August 13, 1415, the 27-year-old English king Henry V led his army into France. Within two months dysentery had killed perhaps a quarter of his men, while a French army four times its size blocked escape to Calais and across the English Channel. Winter approached; food grew scarce
Read More »Songbirds Decline as Wyoming Oil and Gas Soars
By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Key populations of songbirds are in decline in the sagebrush plains of southwestern Wyoming as oil and gas development there increases, a University of Wyoming scientist said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Sysco’s Produce Division Makes Room For Local Farmers
America's largest food distributor was too big for local farmers. Not anymore
Read More »A new scheme for photonic quantum computing
The concepts of quantum technology promise to achieve more powerful information processing than is possible with even the best possible classical computers.
Read More »Hungry for Knowledge, with Oliver Smithies
Geneticist Oliver Smithies is a toolmaker. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for discoveries that led to the development of knockout mice
Read More »Borrowing from brightly-colored birds: Physicists develop lasers inspired by nature
Researchers at Yale University are studying how two types of nanoscale structures on the feathers of birds produce brilliant and distinctive colors. The researchers are hoping that by borrowing these nanoscale tricks from nature they will be able to produce new types of lasersones that can assemble themselves by natural processes.
Read More »Chivalrous Crickets Benefit from Protecting Mates
Jiminy Cricket may not actually hold the door open for his lady friends, but he can still be chivalrous: researchers from the University of Exeter discovered that when threatened by predators, a male field cricket will protect his mate by letting her enter their burrow first.
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