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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 Croatia's new science ministry seeks to reform funding system News Picks home T . rex bite strongest of all land animals By Physics Today on February 29, 2012 3:53 PM No Comments No TrackBacks BBC Contrary to previous estimates , which suggested that the bite of a Tyrannosaurus rex was comparable to that of modern predators , the dinosaur's bite exerted 3 6 tons of force , or 10 times the force of an alligator bite . Karl Bates of the University of Liverpool and Peter Falkingham of the University of Manchester created three-dimensional scans of an adult and a juvenile T . Rex then mapped the muscles onto the scanned images . By
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Using exotic man-made materials, scientists from Duke University and Boston College believe they can greatly enhance the forces of electromagnetism (EM), one of the four fundamental forces of nature, without harming living beings or damaging electrical equipment.
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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 ITER solves problem with superconducting cables News Picks home Croatia's new science ministry seeks to reform funding system Studying the migratory habits of sea turtles By Physics Today on February 29, 2012 10:22 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Science Because leatherback sea turtles are endangered , a group of researchers at Stanford University has started looking at their migratory patterns to try to determine ways to protect the aquatic reptiles . The group's results have been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Adult sea turtles lay their eggs on Costa Rican beaches along the eastern Pacific Ocean . Once hatched , the
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An in-depth interview with Donald Turcotte
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Course: 20 Aug 2012 - 24 Aug 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Organized by Harvard School of Public Health Center for Continuing Professional Education.
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Conference/exhibition: 9 Jul 2012 - 11 Jul 2012, Bristol, United Kingdom. Organized by Bruker.
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Conference: 9 Jul 2012 - 21 Jul 2012, Science Village, Nigeria. Organized by International Committee of the ISOTPAND Series.
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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 Netherlands group may have detected elusive quantum particle News Picks home ITER solves problem with superconducting cables By Physics Today on February 28, 2012 2:27 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Science A potential construction delay for ITER , the international fusion reactor , has been resolved . Tests run last year had determined that the superconducting cables , which generate the magnetic fields holding the superheated plasma in place at the heart of the machine , were lasting only one-tenth as long as needed . Three individual strands less than a millimeter across are wound together to form a triplet , and 288 triplets are
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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 Imaging charge distribution within a single molecule News Picks home ITER solves problem with superconducting cables Netherlands group may have detected elusive quantum particle By Physics Today on February 28, 2012 9:51 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Nature Researchers at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands may be the first to have detected the long-sought Majorana fermion which acts as its own antiparticle . Majorana fermions are not necessarily individual particles like electrons or protons . Quasiparticles collective excitations of groups of particles can also qualify as Majorana fermions . Leo Kouwenhoven presented
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An in-depth interview with David Schwartz of the US Geological Survey
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Workshop: 10 Sep 2012 - 14 Sep 2012, Jurata (near Gdansk), Poland. Organized by Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Gdańsk and the Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics of Gdańsk University of Technology.
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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 Company develops cheaper , more powerful electric-car battery News Picks home Imaging charge distribution within a single molecule By Physics Today on February 27, 2012 4:02 PM No Comments No TrackBacks BBC A group of researchers at IBM Research Zurich used Kelvin probe force microcopy , a variant of atomic force microscopy , to capture the intricate dance of electrons in a complex molecule . They scanned a tiny bar with a charged tip across the surface of a much larger , X-shaped molecule , naphthalocyanine . When the charged tip reacted to charges within the naphthalocyanine , the researchers were able to determine the locations of
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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 Mild winter in US worries horticulturists News Picks home Imaging charge distribution within a single molecule Company develops cheaper , more powerful electric-car battery By Physics Today on February 27, 2012 11:27 AM No Comments No TrackBacks New York Times Envia Systems in California announced today that it had made a major advance regarding electric vehicles a more powerful and less expensive lithium-ion battery . At half the current cost , the new cells will have an energy density almost three times greater than conventional automotive cells . To develop such a battery , Envia was awarded 4 million in late 2009 by the US
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Hybrid nanostructures could make better LEDs
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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 Space travel can affect astronauts' sense of taste and smell News Picks home US Republican presidential candidates maintain climate change skepticism By Physics Today on February 24, 2012 1:04 PM No Comments No TrackBacks InsideClimate News Despite the fact that 98 of climate scientists , some of them members of the US Republican Party , are convinced of human-induced global warming , none of the current Republican presidential candidates appears to support the scientific consensus . In fact , such support has been actively discouraged , most notably by the oil industry and powerful conservative advocacy groups . In an article for
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Conference: 21 May 2012 - 25 May 2012, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Organized by Dra. Claudia Moreno.
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Conference: 23 Jun 2012, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Organized by James Stirling, John Clarke, and Judith Driscoll.
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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 CERN issues statement about OPERA neutrino result News Picks home Ocean current spurred faster rotation of Earth By Physics Today on February 23, 2012 3:41 PM No Comments No TrackBacks National Geographic For about two weeks in November 2009, Earth took 0.1 millisecond less to make one complete rotation on its axis . A study by Steven Marcus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California indicates that a slowdown in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current was strong enough to make the Earth slow its rotation to conserve angular momentum . Toward the end of 2009, the Southern Ocean also had record high surface temperatures and record high
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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 Bad wiring could be behind superluminal neutrino result News Picks home CERN issues statement about OPERA neutrino result By Physics Today on February 23, 2012 7:42 AM No Comments No TrackBacks CERN The press office of CERN issued the following statement today about last year's finding by the OPERA collaboration that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of : light The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an influence on its neutrino timing measurement . These both require further tests with a short pulsed beam . If confirmed , one would
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Course: 7 Apr 2012 - 7 Aug 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Organized by Harvard School of Public Health Center for Continuing Professional Education.
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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 Nuclear power entrepreneurs advocate using thorium as a fuel News Picks home Bad wiring could be behind superluminal neutrino result By Physics Today on February 22, 2012 5:01 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Science A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer could be behind the OPERA collaboration's determination last year that neutrinos travel faster than light . Sources familiar with the experiment told Science s Edwin Cartlidge that they had discovered a loose connection between a computer and a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' journey . The original timing
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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 Squids use less energy for faster speed when flying News Picks home Bad wiring could be behind superluminal neutrino result Nuclear power entrepreneurs advocate using thorium as a fuel By Physics Today on February 22, 2012 4:40 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Washington Post Thorium , which exists in the ground as thorium oxide and is three to four times more plentiful worldwide as uranium , is getting another look as a potential nuclear fuel . It was used at an Oak Ridge Laboratory reactor from 1965 to 1969, but that program fell by the wayside when fears of proliferation cast a pall over experimental nuclear programs in the US .
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Our February issue runs the gamut from the proud 30-year-legacy of the Tevatron Collider to the latest popular physics sensation: faster-than-light neutrinos.
