Cook's Corner The power of the atom Nov 18, 2009
Math, chemistry, metallurgy and, of course, some nuclear physics. Here is the Readers Digest version of how a nuclear reactor works: uranium is a metal that will split or fission when the atom is hit by the atomic particle called a neutron; when the atom splits, it releases more neutrons that cause other uranium atoms to split, that release more neutrons, and so on and so on; the uranium rods are submersed in water inside the reactor container, and when these atoms split,... (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
Voting is like cereal: keep changing till it suits you Oct 26, 2009
Quitting the ANC is no more an option for them than nuclear physics is for young Julius. They remain confident the ANC can be won back and until then, they steer the ship of state as best they can. (Business Report, South Africa)
Scientists Try to Debunk Shroud of Turin Oct 7, 2009
Group Funded by Italian Atheists, Agnostics Claims Experiment "Clearly Indicates" Shroud Was Man Made. In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
Just A Yoctosecond: Shortest Flashes From Ultra-hot Matter Oct 7, 2009
Calculations at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Theoretical Physics) have now shown that high-energy heavy ion collisions at large particle accelerators are suitable as light sources for the desired single and double pulses ... (Credit: MPI for Nuclear Physics). (Science Daily)
Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays Oct 3, 2009
The H.E.S.S. collaboration under the overall lead management of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics involves more than 150 researchers from Germany, France, Great Britain, Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Armenia, South Africa and Namibia ... The H.E.S.S. Homepage at the MPI for Nuclear Physics. (EurekAlert!)
Prototype Developed To Detect Dark Matter Sep 26, 2009
"One of the biggest challenges in physics today is to discover the true nature of dark matter, which cannot be directly observed even though it seems to make up one-quarter of the matter of the Universe. So we have to attempt to detect it using prototypes such as the one we have developed", Eduardo Garc;a Abanc;ns, a researcher from the UNIZAR's Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Astroparticles, tells SINC.. Garc;a Abanc;ns is one of the scientists working on the ROSEBUD project (an acronym for... (Science Daily)
Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes Sep 19, 2009
The Council has a broad science portfolio including Astronomy, Particle Physics, Particle Astrophysics, Nuclear Physics, Space Science, Synchrotron Radiation, Neutron Sources and High Power Lasers. In addition the Council manages and operates three internationally renowned laboratories. (EurekAlert!)
Louis Rosen, at 91; physicist worked on first nuclear bombs Sep 7, 2009
In an article in Physics Today in 1966, Dr. Rosen called his machine a badly needed bridge between nuclear and subnuclear physics ... He said he never took a course in nuclear physics. (Boston Globe)
Ahmadinejad Appoints New Iran Nuclear Chief Jul 17, 2009
Salehi holds a doctorate in nuclear physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. He was also associate professor and chancellor of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. (Fox News)
Three Great Physics Theories Jul 16, 2009
Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932 for his work in nuclear physics and quantum mechanics, states David Cassidy from the American Institute of Physics. The paper he authored on the uncertainty principle is his most important physics contribution. (Suite101.com)
News Scan Briefs: Do Rain Forests Make Rain? Jul 15, 2009
This theory could explain why continental interiors with huge rain forests remain so moist, says Conservation Society researcher Douglas Sheil, who in an April Bioscience paper revived the biotic pump model, originally proposed in 2006 by Anastassia Makarieva and Victor Gorshkov, both at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia. It could also underline the dangers of widespread deforestation. (Scientific American)
Gamma-ray Galaxy Surprises Jul 15, 2009
"But, unlike ninety percent of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, PMN J0948 also produces strong and variable radio emission," said Gino Tosti, who leads the Fermi LAT science group studying active galaxies at the University and National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Perugia, Italy. "This suggested the galaxy was indeed producing such a jet.". (Science Daily)
Applied science BSc may be axed Jul 10, 2009
While Delhi University has several colleges that currently offer specialized programmes at the undergraduate level, Pental added, ``We are now working on making all the undergraduate science courses plain BSc ones, and then, if a student wants to specialize, s/he can continue in the fourth year where a narrow discipline, like forensic science, nanotechnology or nuclear physics, can be taken up ... BSc (forensic science), BSc (bioinformatics), BSc (polymer science), BSc (nuclear physics), BSc... (India Times, India)
NuTeV Anomaly Helps Shed Light On Physics Of The Nucleus Jul 10, 2009
The calculation began with the EMC Effect, a famous result in the world of nuclear physics that showed that the structures of protons and neutrons in a nucleus are different from protons and neutrons found outside a nucleus ... This research was funded by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the Department of Energy's Office of Science. (Science Daily)
UK space science innovation brings inward investment Jul 9, 2009
" ### Notes to editors MDA Space - Orbital Optics Ltd's optical payload products include the proven and cost-effective 2.5m resolution RALCam1, which has been successfully flown on the UK government funded TopSat mission. In addition, the company offers the 10m resolution RALCam3 instrument for wide area surveillance, and RALCam4, a sub-meter resolution camera. These cameras are compatible with existing small satellite platforms and launchers, and provide customers with high capability optical... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Salt Finding From NASA's Cassini Hints At Ocean Within Saturn Moon Jun 25, 2009
"We believe that the salty minerals deep inside Enceladus washed out from rock at the bottom of a liquid layer," said Frank Postberg, Cassini scientist for the cosmic dust analyzer at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany ... "Finding salt in the plume gives evidence for liquid water below the surface," said Sascha Kempf, also a Cassini scientist for the cosmic dust analyzer from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. (Science Daily)
Ocean hidden inside Saturn's moon Jun 25, 2009
In addition, the water and other key life ingredients such as organic material found in the plumes, could provide a suitable environment for , said lead researcher Frank Postberg of the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. Four years ago, an analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn revealed the that spurt from four fractures called tiger stripes, each extending some 75 miles (120 km) across Enceladus's south polar region. (MSNBC -- Technology)
'Misty caverns' on Enceladus moon Jun 25, 2009
"Water droplets are probably lifted by gas bubbles in the water (like the spray you see above sparkling water)," said Nature author Frank Postberg, a CDA scientist with the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany. "These aerosol-droplets shock freeze and conserve the liquid composition. Then they are accelerated upwards through the cracks in the ice crust by the up-streaming vapour.". (BBC News -- Science)
A "Briny Deep" Inside Enceladus? Jun 25, 2009
Frank Postberg (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics) and others reveal that about 6% of the tiny particles in Saturn's E ring are quite salty, containing up to 1;% sodium chloride (NaCl). This makes sense if the ocean inside Enceladus has been in contact with deep-seated rocks for millions of years, long enough for sodium and other elements to leach into the water. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
The Amazing Colossal Presidency Jun 21, 2009
Playing on the idea that Carter had a background in engineering and nuclear physics, Akroyd insisted on visiting a place called cryptically, Two Mile Island, and his character was exposed to contaminated water. Rosalyn Carter: Where is Jimmy. (Townhall.com)
'Tall and dashing' Jun 17, 2009
An Iran specialist and scientist, his press briefings on the status of Iran's nuclear programme have been known to resemble seminars on nuclear physics. SIR JOHN SAWERS' CV Permanent Representative to the UN since 2007 Political director at the Foreign Office An envoy in Baghdad Foreign affairs adviser to former prime minister Tony Blair from 1999 to 2001 Ambassador to Cairo at the British Embassy in Washington Worked in South Africa from 1988 to 1991 as apartheid began to crumble. (BBC News)
* A scientists view of the world in 2050 May 30, 2009
Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s. But there are some trends that we can predict with confidence. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Particle physics is not just black holes and antimatter May 29, 2009
" The new report lays out how particle physics benefits the UK's economy and its society through healthcare and communication spin-offs and how it provides British industry with world-leading technology, while also helping us address global challenges. The report includes results from an exclusive survey which asked more than 800 physics undergraduates from eight of the UK's leading university physics departments what it was that inspired them to study physics. An independent report compiled for... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Nimbus Rises In World Of Cloud Computing May 26, 2009
Nimbus has already been deployed successfully to support the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider ... 15, 2009) The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment. (Science Daily)
Cosmology's Best Standard Candles Get Even Better May 23, 2009
The telescope is equipped with the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS), an instrument designed and integrated by a French consortium of researchers based at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris and the University of Lyon, affiliated with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (IN2P3) and the National Institute for Universe Science (INSU), both of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) ... SNfactory member Yannick Copin of the... (Science Daily)
Could Taliban get keys to Pakistan's A-bomb? May 16, 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy's nuclear physics students will go on to oversee Pakistan's atomic bombs. That gives him pause. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing May 9, 2009
Nimbus has already been deployed successfully to support the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. When researchers there needed to turn the massive amounts of data they had generated into viable simulations for an international conference, they used Nimbus to create virtual machines that were run through commercial cloud computing providers. (EurekAlert!)
New signs of hidden sea on Saturn moon May 1, 2009
At a meeting of European geoscientists in Vienna last week, Frank Postberg with Germany's Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and colleagues explained that the sodium is, in fact, there it was simply bound in a form (sodium chloride) not detectable by Earth-bound telescopes. "This is only possible if the plume source is liquid water that is or has been in contact with the rocky material of Enceladus' core," the scientists wrote in the EGU General Assembly's 2009 Geophysical Research... (MSNBC -- Technology)
Forest dreams Apr 29, 2009
"Victor Gorshkov and Anastassia Makarieva of the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics, have published a revolutionary theory that turns modern meteorology on its head, positing that forests-and their capacity for condensation-are actually the main driver of winds rather than temperature. While this model has widespread implications for numerous sciences, none of them are larger than the importance of conserving forests, which are shown to be crucial to 'pumping' precipitation from one place to... (BBC News -- Americas)
Nigeria: Obama and the Muslim World [I] Apr 18, 2009
This is no diatribe against knowledge: nuclear physics is a legitimate field of inquiry and nuclear power a thing to be exploited; but the manufacture of nuclear bombs should be recognized and treated for what it is-a crime against humanity. And Roosevelt and all those scientists of the Manhattan Project should be remembered, not as statesmen and Nobel Prize winners, but as people who committed the most horrendous crime against humanity in the twentieth century. (allAfrica.com)
Nimbus And Cloud Computing Meet STAR Production Demands Apr 15, 2009
15, 2009) The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. New simulation results were needed for presentation at the Quark Matter physics conference; but all the computational resources were either committed to other tasks or did not support the environment needed for STAR computations. (Science Daily)
Cloud Computing Brings Cost Of Protein Research Down To Earth Apr 14, 2009
6, 2009) The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment. Nimbus is an open source cloud computing infrastructure that provides. (Science Daily)
Row over Italian quake 'forecast' Apr 7, 2009
After Monday's disaster, Mr Giuliani, a researcher attached to Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics, was quoted as saying that he was owed an apology. "We have been able to predict these kind of events for 10 years," he told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. (BBC News -- Europe)
Cloud Computing Helps Scientists Run High Energy Physics Experiments Mar 26, 2009
The work was presented at the 17th annual conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, held in Prague, Czech Republic, March 21-27. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Astrophysicists Explore Blazars Mar 19, 2009
"The launch of Fermi gives us the opportunity to measure this powerful galaxy across as many wavelengths as possible for the first time," says Werner Hofmann, spokesperson for the H.E.S.S. team at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. With the gamma-ray regime fully covered, the team turned to NASA's Swift and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellites to provide data on the galaxy's X-ray emissions. (Science Daily)
Laser-like hope Mar 18, 2009
I am talking about systems that could give us abundant, clean, reliable electrons and drive massive innovation in big lasers, materials science, nuclear physics and chemistry that would benefit, energize and renew many U.S. industries. This article appeared on page A - 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Atomic Nucleus With Halo: Scientists Measure Size Of One-Neutron Halo With Lasers For First Time Mar 5, 2009
By studying neutron halos, scientists hope to gain further understanding of the forces within the atomic nucleus that bind atoms together, taking into account the fact that the degree of displacement of halo neutrons from the atomic nuclear core is incompatible with the concepts of classical nuclear physics. "We intuitively imagine the atomic nucleus as a compact sphere consisting of positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons," explains Dr Wilfried N. (Science Daily)
Chinese expert warns of nuclear talents vacuum Mar 4, 2009
Even now, few of the students enrolled in nuclear physics departments of Chinese universities or research institutes chose the field as their top choice, Zhu said, adding that he himself chose the subject inspired by Nobel Laureate Lee Tsung-Dao and Yang Chen-ning back in the 1970s along with many youths of his age. He said the country's development of nuclear power and the civil or medical use of nuclear technologies are both indispensable from the cultivation of nuclear talents. (Xinhuanet, China)
EDITOR’S MAILBAG (Feb. 28) Mar 1, 2009
It s difficult to realize him as a graduate of the Naval Academy in nuclear physics. He should go back to Plains and the peanut industry and straighten it out. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Hello, world! Meet my blog and Lindsay Lohan Feb 19, 2009
it s not like you are writing about smashing atoms for nuclear physics weekly. people need to chill out - i used to be a republican until they lost the election and became a bunch of whiny, crybaby b****es. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Stimulus expectations run high Feb 13, 2009
6 billion for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, which funds a wide range of energy projects from biofuels to nuclear physics; and $1 billion for NASA (including $400 million earmarked for climate change research). At least part of that money is expected to go to scientists at local universities, and might eventually lead to technology that could be used by local tech companies or to launch start-ups. (Boston Globe)
Highlights of compromise economic stimulus plan Feb 12, 2009
6 billion research in areas such as climate science, biofuels, high-energy physics and nuclear physics. HOMELAND SECURITY. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
