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New Scientist (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
From coal, soot and pencils to electronics, nanoribbons and atom-thick semiconductors – carbon is turning out to be even more talented than we thought
New Scientist (Free subscription) | yesterday
An ingeniously simple device, made with just a magnifying lens and a plate of glass, has been used to trap a rainbow of visible light
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers have developed a technique for fabricating 3-D, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions.
New Scientist (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
We could reach the stars if we built a black hole starship or a dark matter rocket – we've got the physics to do it
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Navy scientists are conducting research to insure that sailors and their ships can be protected from the deadly effects of fire.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming.
Institute of Physics - Electronic Journal (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
We are delighted to announce that Professor Gaetana Laricchia, head of the Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics group in the Physics and Astronomy Department at University College London, and a member of the International Advisory Board on Journal of Physics B (J. Phys. B) has been awarded the 2009 Occhialini medal and prize.
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Practically everyone, both left and right, considers awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize to be a joke. The late John Updike wrote that the Nobel Prize in Literature was a “prank.” But practically everyone still considers the Nobel Prizes in the hard sciences to be serious prizes, awarded to scientists with genuine accomplishments. Is this [...]
New Scientist (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The particle accelerator is now officially a collider – it will attempt to break the world record for collision energies before the end of the year
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
It's the question I've been asking myself since the University of East Anglia CRU emails surfaced last week. I don't have an answer despite having read about a third of the emails. For guidance I sought out a bongo player-slash-raconteur. Here's the musician riffing on science: "...It is interesting, therefore, to bring it out now and speak of it explicitly. It's a kind of scientific integrity,...
Funcoder Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Corrinne Yu is Principal Engine Architect at Halo Team Microsoft. She is a 1st Party Halo Lead. She is the first and only female Technical Lead of the whole Microsoft Game Studios. With almost 20 years of programming experience in large companies, she has programmed games and engines since the beginning of the 3D game industry and was an early pioneer of game engine development. She has worked as...
Not Even Wrong (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Things evidently went extremely well over the weekend at the LHC, with simultaneous circulating beams achieved this morning. Speculation is that first collisions (at the injection energy of 450 GeV/beam) are imminent. Places for up to the minute information include here, here and here. Update: It looks like first collisions have been seen at [...]
New Scientist (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A ring of bright stars surrounds us, giving us some of our most familiar constellations. But where did it come from?
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Children exposed prenatally to tobacco smoke and during childhood to lead face a particularly high risk for ADHD, according to new research. The study estimates that up to 35 percent of ADHD cases in children between the ages of 8 and 15 could be reduced by eliminating both of these environmental exposures.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on average than those in center-based daycares.
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