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FLASH Imaging Redux: Nano-Cinema is Born

Flash imaging of nanoscale objects undergoing ultrafast changes is now a technical possibility, according to a recent paper published in the June 22 edition of Nature Photonics. The results are a direct precursor to research that will be conducted using SLAC`s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).

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Do cosmic rays get bogged down in the cosmos?

Pierre Auger and HiRes observatories confirm rapid drop-off in number of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays reaching Earth

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25th International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors

Conference: 20 Jul 2009 - 24 Jul 2009, St Petersburg, Russian Federation. Organized by Ioffe Institute.

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New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation

European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach heralds the next era of faster, smaller and more efficient electronics.

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This Week in Physics History: July 7 - 13

July 11, 1811 - Italian physicist and chemist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoirs, in which he defines his theories about the molecular nature of gases. It would be nearly a...

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Hunt for Black Holes Online

Cardiff University has created a new Black Hole Hunter game. In this game, you listen to audio files which are simulations of waveforms that might result from collisions of massive...

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World of Warcraft Offers Radical New Venue for Scientific Conference

Over at Science, John Bohannon recounts (form the June 20 issue) his experience in organizing a conference that, ultimately, lead to the tragic death of University of Maryland computer scientist...

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Alexander von Humboldt UK Association Annual Meeting

Conference: 19 Sep 2008, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom. Organized by UK Alexander von Humboldt Association.

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4th International Sakharov Conference on Physics

Conference: 18 May 2009 - 23 May 2009, Moscow, Russian Federation. Organized by Tamm Theory Department, Lebedev Physical Institute.

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ISF Research Workshop on Random Matrices and Integrability

Workshop: 25 Mar 2009 - 30 Mar 2009, Yad Hashmona, Judean Hills, Israel.

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Nuclear fallout used to spot fake art

New technique identifies unnatural isotopes in post-war forgeries

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Nanotubes get sorted

Surface grabs hold of semiconducting tubes

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Voyager 2 reports from the edge of the solar system

NASA mission confirms that the solar system is “squashed” by interstellar space

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A Random Walk Through Polymer Science

Lecture/Talk: 19 Nov 2008 - 19 Dec 2008, Durham, United Kingdom. Organized by the Polymer Physics group of the Institute of Physics.

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33 years later, NASA finds Mercury to be even more active

Messenger's first flyby answers some questions raised by Mariner 10

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US presidential candidates receive questions on science

ScienceDebate organizers hope questions will prompt a national science debate

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UK physics funding plans are approved

Input from physics community benefits LHCb

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Seeking an African Einstein

New centre for maths and computer science opens in Nigeria as part of plan to find the "next Einstein" in Africa

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Survey of distant galaxies sets limit on cosmic strings

Gravitational lensing measurement suggets that cosmic strings make up no more than 2% of mass of universe

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A gathering for Gardner

Robert P Crease examines why mathematics popularizer Martin Gardner inspires so many different kinds of people

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A quantum renaissance

Markus Aspelmeyer and Anton Zeilinger on how technological advances let us readdress fundamental quantum puzzles

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Dreaming in plastic

Conducting polymers are triggering a whole host of new applications from ultrathin flexible laptops to watch-sized TVs

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Symmetry's physical dimension

Symmetry plays a vital role in physics, but could a bizarre 248D symmetry group called E8 really guide us to a theory of everything?

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A cosmic conundrum

Lincoln Wolfenstein explores the enduring mystery of matter–antimatter asymmetry

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Blog life: Chris Lintott's Universe

Chris Lintott on life co-presenting TV's The Sky at Night

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Building for the future

The surprising pleasures of life as a "building physicist"

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Once a physicist: Frank Reed

The creator of innovative desktop map software on making history come to life

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Breaking through

Those outside the mainstream can find it hard to make worthwhile scientific contributions

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Lay-offs at Fermilab set to be reversed

Bush signs spending bill that includes emergency support for physics

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Eighth Annual LOT and JA Woollam Seminar on Ellipsometry

Workshop: 28 Oct 2008, Nottingham, United Kingdom. Organized by LOT - Oriel Ltd.

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Nano Training Summer School

School: 30 Jun 2008 - 3 Jul 2008, London, United Kingdom. Organized by ASME and IMechE.

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10th International Conference on Web Handling: Call for Papers

Conference: 7 Jun 2009 - 10 Jun 2009, Stillwater, OK, United States. Organized by Web Handling Research Center.

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International Conference on Semiconductor Materials and Optics

Conference: 9 Oct 2008 - 10 Oct 2008, Warsaw, Poland.

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Nanotechnology in Medicine and Biotechnology

Conference: 30 Sep 2008, London, United Kingdom. Organized by Amy Hurlstone.

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This Week in Physics History: June 30 - July 6

July 5, 1687 - Sir Isaac Newton publishes the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Known to posterity as the Principia, this three-volume work is where Newton laid out his three laws...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at the 2005 NASA Advisory Council in Washington, DC. It's been a busy couple of weeks for astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. First, on June 25, Dr....

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Einstein's God

A little over a month ago, a 1954 letter from Albert Einstein to philosopher Eric Gutkind sold at auction for quite a lot of money - 170,000 pounds ($404,000 US...

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This Week in Physics History: June 23 - 29

June 26, 1824 - British mathematician, engineer, and physicist William Thomas, 1st Baron Kelvin ("Lord Kelvin"), was born. He did much work in electricity and thermodynamics, devising a scale of...

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Relativity 4 Engineers

I get a lot of notices and one that recently came my way was the announcement that the website Engineering.com has begun allowing their members to have blogs through their...

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New CERN Safety Report - Still No Doomsday Scenario

Critics of CERN's new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project have very serious concerns - basically, they are worried that the attempt to re-create energies near those of the big bang...

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This Week in Physics History: June 16 - 22

June 21, 1781 - French mathematician and physicist Simeon-Denis Poisson is born. Poissons mathematical achievements were instrumental in the development of the mathematics related to electromagnetic field equations by Gauss,...

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Hard up

The UK's science-funding crisis could not have come at a worse time for the physics community

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