Story archive
2009 |
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Breaking
Stories and Features |
News
Briefs |
May |
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| Jumbo Squid Attack the West Coast |
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| Is Climate Warming or Cooling? |
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| The World's Best Illusion: The Secret of the Curve Ball |
Science News Briefs-- May 21 |
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Seeing a Salad Makes Us Crave Fries |
Science News Briefs-- May 13 |
| Angels & Demons -- An Explosive Mix of Science Fact And Fiction |
Science News Briefs-- May 7 |
| The Mathematics of Hitting Streaks |
Science News Briefs-- May 1 |
| The Year's Best Illusion: More Than Meets The Eyes |
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As nanotechnology hits the marketplace, safety is a growing issue
(First published in MinnPost) |
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April |
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| Wind power: Tunnel vision at U (Appeared in Minneapolis Star Tribune) |
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| Ultrasound can detect melamine in milk |
Science News Briefs-- April 20 |
| Could Counting Sheep Help Explain The Need For Sleep? |
Science News Briefs-- April 13 |
| New Technique May Shed Light on Sleep Disorders |
Science News Briefs-- April 7 |
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March |
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| Geological Forces Stacked against Minnesota's Red River Valley (in MinnPost) |
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| The Science of Swinging a Bat |
Science News Briefs -- March 30 |
| Baseball Bat Science |
Science News Briefs-- March 23 |
| Birds and Planes |
Science News Briefs-- March 16 |
| Bubbles and beer bottles: an explosive combination |
Science News Briefs-- March 9 |
| Bracketology: The Madness of March |
Science News Briefs-- March 2 |
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February |
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| The Secret Behind the Visual Effects Oscar -- 02/24 |
Science News Briefs-- February 24 |
| Twitchy Eyes Solve "Where's Waldo?"-- 02/25 |
Science News Briefs-- February 18 |
| Darwin at 200: Fight against Evolution Continues-- 02/12 |
Science News Briefs-- February 9 |
| Mapping Jupiter's Red Spot-- 02/04 |
Science News Briefs-- February 2 |
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January |
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| Harnessing
Plant Power-- 01/29 |
Science
News Briefs-- January 27 |
| Obama's
Science Agenda: Aggressive, Daunting-- 01/28 |
Science
News Briefs--January 12 |
| Silicon
Fiber Made Practical -- 01/07 |
Science
News Briefs--January 5 |
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2008 |
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December |
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| December 22--Top
Ten Physics News Stories |
December 22--Science
News Briefs |
| December 19--Science
Fact, Hollywood Fiction |
December 15--Science
News Briefs |
| December 18--Keeping
Santa's Christmas Snacks Safe |
December 8--Science
News Briefs |
| December 17--Report
Urges Nuclear Weapons Leadership |
December 1--Science
News Briefs |
| December 12--Gymnastics
Injuries |
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| December 10--One
Test for Two Diseases |
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| December 9-- Breast Cancer Therapy Offers Better Cosmetic Outcomes
for Women with Implants |
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| December 5-- Faster
Stroke Diagnosis Helps Doctors Help Patients |
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| December 2--Scientists
Develop the Perfect Wrap |
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November |
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| November 26--Physics
and the Leader of the Pack |
November 24--Science
News Briefs |
| November 22--As
Demand for Organic Poultry Rises, Food Scientists Begin
Safety Study |
November 10-- Science
News Briefs |
| November 14--What
Obama Needs to Know about Physics |
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| November 12--High
Living Standards But with Less Energy |
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| November 7-- Telescope
Dreams-- PBS' Journey to Palomar |
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October |
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| October 31-- There's
No Queue in E-L-E-C-T-I-O-N: The Logistics of an Election |
October 27-- Science
News Briefs |
| October 25-- Scientists
Express Increasing Concern Over Rapid Global Warming |
October 20-- Science News Briefs |
| October 17-- Women and Minority Students Now More Likely to Take
Physics |
October 13-- Science News Briefs |
| October 17-- Science and Math Education Challenges Face Next President,
Congress |
October 6-- Science News Briefs |
| October 10-- Scientists Create Ultracold Molecules |
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| October 8 -- Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
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| October 7-- Understanding Asymmetrical Universe Garners Nobel Physics
Prize for Three Scientists |
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| October 6 -- Next President, Congress Face Hard Decisions on Global
Warming |
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| October 1-- Death By Cooperation |
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| October 1-- Using Sunlight More Efficiently |
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September |
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| September 18 -- California Trees Not Keeping Up with CO2 |
September 26--Science
News Briefs |
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September 17--Science
News Briefs |
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September 5 -- Science News Briefs |
August |
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| August 28-- More Than Just a Game: The Science of Fantasy Football |
August 28-- Science News Briefs |
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August 22-- Science News Briefs |
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August 14-- Science News Briefs |
| August 14-- Olympic Bronze Reveals Golden Secret |
August 7-- Science News Briefs |
July |
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| July 31-- Federal Report Supports Climate Change Models |
July 31-- Science News Briefs |
| July 30-- Science Allows In-Depth Look at Old Masters |
July 17-- Science News Briefs |
| July 29-- Scientists Study Polar Bear Hearing as Arctic Acoustic
Environment Faces Change |
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| July 28-- World’s Strongest Material |
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| July 3-- Supplemental Appropriations Money Helps Science Programs,
Jobs |
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| July 1-- Fireworks Shapes: How Do Pyrotechnicians Do That? |
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June |
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| June 16-- Lack of Women in Computing Has Educators Worried |
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| June 12 -- The Intertwined Passions of Alan Lightman |
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May |
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| May 21 -- Exploding Star, Caught on Tape |
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| May 9 -- On Very Thin Ice |
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| May 4 -- Forever Young, Fat Cells Complicate Weight Loss |
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| May 2 -- Experiment that Survived Space Shuttle Disaster Sheds
Light on Ketchup Phenomenon |
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April |
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| April 22 -- Stephen Hawking Renews Call to Colonize Space |
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| April 21 -- Scientists Fear Space Debris Problem Worsening |
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| April 21 -- Scientists Study Beijing's "Olympic" Air Pollution |
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March |
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| March 12 -- Improvised Jazz Puts Brain in Unique Groove |
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| March 10 -- Putting iron in the ocean to fight global warming |
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| March 8 -- Tsunami Early Warning |
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| March 5 -- Teleportation in the Real World |
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| February 6 -- Oscars for Scientific and Technical Achievement |
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| January 25 -- Student Project Stops Heat and Money from Disappearing
Down the Drain |
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| January 12 -- Gecko Inspired Adhesive Sticks, But Isn't Sticky |
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| January 5 -- The Real Science Hidden in Fairy Tales |
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| January 3 -- Background Paper: Federal Funding Cuts, Part 1 |
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2007 |
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| December 19 -- As Commercial Nuclear Power Turns 50, Its Future Is
Brighter |
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| December 17 -- Animation Uses Old Physics to New Effect |
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| December 14 -- A Scientific Approach to Snowflakes Reveals Nature’s
Beauty |
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| November 30 -- Physicist Makes Science the Star in Hollywood Science |
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| October 30 -- Dracula's Most Recent Prey |
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| October 9 -- Physicists win Nobel prize for hard work on hard drives |
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| May 1 -- Proposed European Missile Shield’s Politics Overshadow
Feasibility |
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| April 25 -- Spiderman 3 Moves Inspired By Spider Web Facts |
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| April 16 -- U.S. Residents’ Exposure to Medical Radiation 6 Times
Higher than in 1980 |
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| April 13 -- More Accurate Breast Cancer Diagnosis May Come from
Combined MRI-Optics Method |
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| March 21 -- Shedding Light on Food Inspection |
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| February 13 -- Car Airbags Will Cause Permanent Hearing Loss in 17
percent, Study Predicts |
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| February 9 -- The Physics of a Valentine Treat: Slower Is Better |
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| February 7 -- Scientists and Engineers Get the Oscar for Improving
Film Production and Preservation |
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| January 23 -- New Web Exhibit Explores the History of Cosmology |
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| January 10 -- High School Physics Enrollment Hits Record High |
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| January 9 -- National Educators, Policymakers, Business Leaders Address
Future of U.S. Competitiveness |
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| January 5 -- Science Writer Awarded AIP Cultural Prize |
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2006 |
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| Science's Breakthrough of the Year 2006, a First for
Math, but with Physics Connections |
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| Fish Stories |
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| December 1 -- Physics Does Have That Swing |
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| November 30 -- New Study Suggests Speakers of Different Languages Perceive
Rhythm Differently |
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| November 27 -- Noise-Immune Stethoscope Helps Medics Hear Vital Signs
in Loud Environments |
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| October 13 -- Physicist's Snowflake Images Get Stuck |
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| October 3 -- 2003 U.S. Physics Olympiad Team Heard Lecture by 2006's
Physics Nobelist |
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| July 25 -- New Camera Crane Brings Oscar-Winning Engineering to
"Miami Vice" |
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| July 12 -- New Surreal Film Reveals its Dual Personality of Science
and Artistry |
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| July 11 -- Radon Testing as a Campus Community Service |
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| June 20 -- Surgery a Noisy Business, Say Acoustics Experts |
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| June 12 -- Non-Hispanic Blacks Have Best Hearing in U.S., New Study
Shows |
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| May 20 -- Saint-Sulpice Chapel - The Da Vinci Code's Best
Kept Secret |
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| Worlds Beyond Physics: A Conversation with a U.S. Physics
Olympiad Team Member |
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| May 3 -- Physics: Thinking Back and Forward |
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| April 10 -- Health Physicists Provide Plan for Response to Small
Radiological Attack |
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| April 4 -- One-Two-Three, Four-Five-Six: Time Pattern from Math's
Tricks? |
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| March 21 -- Looking at Cells with a Computer Developer's Eye |
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| March 20 -- Can
Bacteria Compute? |
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| February 17 -- Can't
Wait Till the Oscars? Engineers and Scientists Show
the Future of Movie Making is Now |
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| January 26 -- Lighter Cars Not Necessarily Riskier, Physicists Say |
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2005 |
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| Scientists, Teachers, Clergy Hail Court Ruling |
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| Science
Visualizations Go Hollywood |
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| Talking
Turkey and Tryptophan |
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| 2005
Cy Young Winners Correctly Predicted by Mathematical
Model |
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| Carpenter,
Rivera To Take 2005 Cy Young Awards, Mathematicians
Predict |
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| New
Family of Violins Hosts "Coming Out" Party |
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| Proofs,
Women and Youth: a New Movie and Some Old Clichés |
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| Good
Chemistry is Formula for Recent Stop-Action Movies |
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| Reality
Show for the Moon |
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| Proposed
Rating Scale Forecasts Hurricane Damage |
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| Inside
the Science of Hurricanes |
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| Hurricanes
Can Spawn Tornadoes |
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| Cloning
Movie is More Fiction than Science |
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| Science
and Engineering are Hidden Stars in Stealth |
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| Why
Is the Sky Blue and Not Violet? |
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| Dresselhaus
to Receive Heinz Award |
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| La
Página Web de Albert Einstein - Ahora en Español |
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| Astrophysics
and Mathematical Physics Prizes Given |
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| Female
Percentages on Physics Faculties Meet Expectations |
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| 3-D
Reality Without the Real |
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| National
Toxicology Report Raises Concern Among Medical Physicists |
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| World
Year of Physics 2005 Begins with Paris Conference |
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| Two
to Receive Honors at National Physics Teachers Meeting |
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2004 |
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| Scientists
Debate the Theory that Renaissance Masters Used Optical
Projections to Complete Their Works |
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| Suit
Against Treasury Department Aims to Protect First Amendment |
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| Physics
Executive Named One of 2004's Top Black Scientists |
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| US
Students Win Medals at International Physics Olympiad |
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| Holy
Sonar Technology, Batman! |
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| Sounds
of the Subway |
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| Does
it Matter Where I go to College? |
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| Landmarks:
Forgotten Black Hole Birth |
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| Physics
is Imagination, Top Student Says |
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| How
to Listen to Old Records in the 21st Century |
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| Shaking
Like an Atomic Jelly |
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| European
Physicist Receives U.S. Medal in Physics |
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| Streamlining
the "Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball" |
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| Why
American League Batters Get Beaned More Often |
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| March
Mathness: Fun Facts on College Basketball From the World
of Numbers |
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| Virtual
Study Lounge: Physics Students Study, Meet in the Nucleus |
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| The
Mystery of the Mayan Monarch's Movements |
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| What's
Down There? |
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| Scientist
Takes Writing Beyond Black |
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2003 |
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| Mixing
Alcohol and Water: Harder than you Think? |
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| Humans
Influence Climate Change |
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| The
Physics of Santa and the Chimney: Playful Insights into
a Christmas "Mystery" |
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| A Fractal Christmas |
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| Whether
It's Technology or It's Not |
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| Computing
the Difference Between Speech and Song |
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| Treating
Voice-Recognizer Software Like a Baby |
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| Could
the Sound of Rams' Horns Knock Down Jericho's Walls? |
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| Physics
Nobelist Takes Stand on Evolution |
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| In
World Series, Game 7 Occurs Much More Often than Simple
Probability Would Suggest |
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| Seeing
a New Path: Pioneer of Laser Surgery Honored for Application |
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| Scanning
the Stars |
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| 2003
Nobel Prize in Physics Winners |
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| Physicist
Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine |
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| Environmental
Scientists Help Improve Air-Quality Measuring |
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| Nano-Neurosurgery |
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| Fall
Foliage Depends on the Weather, Say Plant Physiologists |
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| The
Reasons the Lights Go Out - Physics of Power Grids |
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| U.S.
Tops International Physics Olympiad |
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| Playing
With Sand at the Beach Helps Engineers and Geologists
Study Earthquakes |
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| The
Science of Summer Haircuts: Hair Researchers Back Up
Time-Honored Parental Advice |
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| Declined
Visa Applications Hinder Foreign Physics Students |
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| Gammasphere's
Starring Role in The Hulk |
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| Scientist,
Student Visa Delays Bar Talent |
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| How
to "Bend it Like Beckham": The Physics Behind the Season's
Hit Movie |
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| U.S.
Physics Olympiad Team: High School Whiz Kids Prepare
to Take on the World |
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| First
Woman to Chair Physics Group |
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2002 |
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| Physics
in Films |
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| Science
Helps Salesmen -- and Maybe Santa -- Plan the Most Efficient
Route |
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| Pyrotechnicians
Write Numbers in the Sky this New Year's Eve |
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| The
Twelve Days of Christmas: Music Meets Math in a Popular
Christmas Song |
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| Tricks
to Get Treats: Physicist Reveals the Tricks Behind "Bobbing
for Apples" |
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| From
Death Ray to Household Appliance |
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| Laser
Lights New Path for Homeland Security |
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| Closing
In on Strokes with High-Resolution Imaging |
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| Listen
Up! Kids Can't Hear to Learn because of Poor Classroom
Acoustics |
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| Whole-Body
Scans More Marketing than Science, Say Medical Physicists |
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| Gene
Therapy May Increase Cancer Cure Rates, New Study Shows |
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| Medical
Physicist Treats Spinal Tumors Faster with New Procedure |
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| Scientists
Say Air Quality Measurements Need Improvement |
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| Computer
Scientists Help Create Fireworks of Your Dreams |
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| Laser
Beams Help Take the Twinkle Out of Starlight |
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| Princeton
Students Reveal U.S.'s Natural Hazard Risk |
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| Five
Students from Boston, Connecticut, Ohio and Minnesota
Win United States Physics Olympiad |
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| U.S.
Physics Olympiad Team Will Meet Hubble Astronaut at
NASA Tribute in Washington, D.C. |
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| 2002
Physics Olympiad Team Announced |
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| 'Father'
of America's National Labs Subject of New Web Exhibit |
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| Safe,
Secure and Inexpensive Power from Latest Generation
of Nuclear Reactors |
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| Getting
Power from the Moon |
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| Under
Construction: Information Super-Highway Getting Wider |
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| "Dirty
Bombs" Much More Likely to Create Fear than Cause
Cancer |
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| Scientists
"Toy" with Origami as a Solution |
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| Spiral
Waves Break Hearts: New Research Stresses the Importance
of Communication between cardiac cells |
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| Earth
Scientists Use Fractals to Measure and Predict Natural
Disasters |
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| Teaching
Physics First: Teachers Discuss New Order of Science
at Philadelphia Meeting |
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2001 |
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| The
Con-Artist Physics of Ocean's Eleven: Hit Movie Plays
Fast and Loose with Nature's Laws |
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| Science
Gets Fruitcake off the Shelf This Holiday Season |
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| Researchers
Stop Internal Bleeding without Surgery |
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| The
Acoustics of Laughter: New Insights into This Mysterious
Form of Expression |
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| NSF
Funds New Physics Teacher Preparation Program: Nationwide
Pilot Aimed at "Revolutionizing" Science Teaching
to Begin at Six Institutions |
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| Navigation
Science May Help "Lost" Contestants |
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| Balls
Stick, Shoes Slide: Serving Up the Physics of Tennis
Courts |
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| The
Physics of Fuel Efficiency: More MPG's Can Be Just as
Safe -- Even in a Lighter Car, Scientists Say |
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| Compressed
Air Energy Storage: Gaining Popularity as an Alternative
Energy Source |
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| Providing
a Bigger View: Large-Bore Medical Imaging Device Offers
Better Conditions for Cancer-Treatment Planning |
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| Naples
Yellow: an Old Pigment Adds a New Shade to Science of
Authenticating Art |
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| From
Dairy Farm to Ecological Mecca: Costa Rican Family Balances
Choices for Sustainable Future |
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| Students
Bring Home 3 Gold, 2 Silver Medals from International
Physics Competition |
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| Panama
Radiation Therapy Accident Unlikely In United States |
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| Swinging
at Golf Balls and Science Lessons |
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| Five
U.S. High School Students to Compete in International
Physics Olympiad In Turkey |
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| New
Research Shows that World's Mountain Glaciers Are Shrinking |
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| Race
Car Drivers Dizzy over Physics |
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| Science
Education Focus of Capitol Hill Breakfast Honoring Top
United States Physics Students |
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| Students
Selected for 2001 Physics Olympiad |
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| New
Imaging Technique Could Improve Outcome of Popular Heart
Procedure |
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| On
Baseball's Opening Day, Physicists Tell Batting Coaches
to Get a Grip on Grip Advice |
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| Physicists
Find Salt Water May Not Be Major Threat to Aging Aircraft |
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| Understanding
Plastic "Sharkskin": Results May Pave Way
for Eliminating Problems in Low-Cost Plastics |
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| Mysterious
Ways of the Heart: New Understanding May Lead to Earlier
Diagnoses |
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| Acoustically
Speaking: The Superbowl Experience |
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| Medical
Physicists Make a Popular Surgical Procedure Safer |
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| Report
Names Universities Best at Preparing Hi-Tech Workforce |
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| Snowflake
Science |
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| Secrets
Hidden in a Tiger's Paralyzing Roar |
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| Physicists
Help Batting Coaches Get a Grip |
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| Science
on the Green |
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