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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar ESO's Very Large Telescope becomes fully functional News Picks home Researchers pressured by editors to make superfluous citations Malaysian rare-earth plant granted operating license By Physics Today on February 3, 2012 3:46 PM No Comments No TrackBacks New York Times Rare-earth elements are not that uncommon in Earth's crust , but they're typically dispersed . Economically exploitable forms are rare , however . China currently mines and processes more than 90 of rare earths on the market , and it has placed restrictions on their export over the past several years . On 1 February , Malaysian regulators granted Lynas , an Australian
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BBC: Yesterday an international team of astronomers and engineers succeeded in linking all four of the large telescopes that make up the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, located on Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert. Each of the four has been up and running since at least 2000. However, when linked together via interferometry, they form the biggest ground-based optical telescope on Earth, which offers very high spatial resolution and zooming capabilities. "From now on we'll be able to observe things we were not able to observe before," said Frederic Gonte, head of instrumentation.
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Mega volcanoes could have detectable precursors News Picks home Mars too dry to sustain life By Physics Today on February 3, 2012 11:00 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Telegraph Researchers at Imperial College London have determined that life could not exist on the surface of Mars because of a super drought that lasted hundreds of millions of years , writes Nick Collins for the Telegraph Experts spent three years studying individual soil particles collected in 2008 by NASA's Phoenix spacecraft . Despite a warmer and wetter period in Mars's distant past , the 5000 years or so that it lasted was simply too brief for life to have established
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Japan to consolidate research organizations News Picks home Mega volcanoes could have detectable precursors By Physics Today on February 2, 2012 2:08 PM No Comments No TrackBacks BBC Earth's largest volcanoes may signal impending eruptions earlier than previously thought , according to a new study in Nature Tim Druitt of Blaise Pascal University in France and colleagues analyzed crystals in pumice rock from the Greek island of Santorini , site of the Minoan eruption in the late 1600s BC , and found that magma built up under the surface over a period of a few decades before the event . Given the 18 000year period between the caldera's
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Brazil opens new center for theoretical physics News Picks home Mega volcanoes could have detectable precursors Japan to consolidate research organizations By Physics Today on February 2, 2012 2:05 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Nature The Japanese government is preparing to merge five of its science organizations : the RIKEN network of basic research laboratories , the National Institute for Materials Science , the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology , the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention , and the Japan Science and Technology Agency . The change is intended to increase efficiency
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Research could also help better determine pulsar age
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Researchers boycott Elsevier News Picks home Japan to consolidate research organizations Brazil opens new center for theoretical physics By Physics Today on February 2, 2012 11:55 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Science The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research ICTP-SAIFR which will open on 6 February , is a new regional center for theoretical physics located in São Paulo , Brazil . It is a joint project of the State University of São Paulo the São Paulo Research Foundation and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP in Trieste , Italy . According to its website , the ICTP-SAIFR's goals are to
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Computers may one day be able to read minds News Picks home Brazil opens new center for theoretical physics Researchers boycott Elsevier By Physics Today on February 2, 2012 11:32 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Chronicle of Higher Education The latest development in the controversy concerning open access to scholarly research is the boycott of Elsevier , the world's largest scientific journal publisher . By Tuesday evening about 2400 scientists had signed an online pledge not to publish or do any editorial work for the company's journals , writes Josh Fischman for the Chronicle of Higher Education It began with an irate blog post on 21
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Conference: 10 Apr 2013 - 12 Apr 2013, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom. Organized by the IOP Dielectrics Group.
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar NASA finds simple solution for effect of vehicle shake News Picks home Computers may one day be able to read minds By Physics Today on February 1, 2012 11:28 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Daily Mail Neuroscientists at the University of California , Berkeley , have been developing a computer program that can decode brain activity and put it into words , writes Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail To monitor information from the temporal lobe , where sounds are processed , the scientists inserted electrodes into the brains of 15 patients whose skulls had been cut open for an epilepsy treatment . As the patients listened to a person speaking ,
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar New cell-development technique may obviate need for stem-cell research News Picks home NASA finds simple solution for vehicle shake By Physics Today on February 1, 2012 9:58 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Gizmodo Although NASA canceled its Constellation program , key research from the project could be put to use on future spacecraft . While developing the Ares 1 rocket , engineers discovered that it had a crucial flaw : During the final stages of a launch , the burning down of the solid rocket caused the entire vehicle to oscillate so rapidly that the crew couldn't read the digital display . Rather than involving a costly fix , however ,
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Margaret Harris learns about Fermilab's plans for the post-Tevatron era
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Little Ice Age may have been triggered by volcanic eruptions News Picks home New cell-development technique may obviate need for stem-cell research By Physics Today on January 31, 2012 2:00 PM No Comments No TrackBacks BBC Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have succeeded in converting mouse skin cells into neural precursor cells , which can develop into three types of brain cell . The group's findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may be important for certain medical therapies , such as bone marrow transplants . Until now such transplants have relied on stem cells , which can
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Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar Via synthetic shield , artist explores human desire for invulnerability News Picks home Quantum physics may lead to secure cloud computing By Physics Today on January 30, 2012 2:14 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Gizmag With the rising popularity of cloud computing the sharing of resources , software , and information over the internet security is a growing concern . To preserve privacy while users interact with remote computing centers , researchers in Austria have combined quantum computing with quantum cryptography in a process called blind quantum computation . According to Stefanie Barz and colleagues , whose paper was published
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Superconductor Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the development and production of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and associated technologies. The company is leveraging its extensive intellectual property portfolio of over 100 patents and manufacturing expertise to develop second-generation HTS wire for large emerging power generation device and electricity distribution markets. Earlier this week, [...]
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The Belle Experiment at KEK laboratory in Japan has discovered two unexpected new types of hadrons.
