Feb

28

Tabletop Fusion: NYT on Bubble Fusion (Sonofusion)

February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Practical Fusion, or Just a Bubble?. ‘Brian Kappus, a physics graduate student at U.C.L.A., tipped the clear cylinder to trap some air bubbles in the clear liquid inside. He clamped the cylinder, upright, on a small turntable and set it spinning. With the flip of another switch, powerful up-and-down vibrations, 50 a second, started shaking [...]

Feb

28

European Research Council (ERC)

February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

European Research Council (ERC). ‘The European Research Council (ERC) is the first pan-European funding body set up to support investigator-driven frontier research. The main aim of the newly-established body is to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, engineers and scholars to be adventurous and take risks in their [...]

Feb

28

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)

February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Milestone for giant physics lab. ‘Construction on a giant underground laboratory that will help take physics into a new era is reaching a major milestone. At 0500 GMT, a crane began to lower 2,000 tonnes of machinery into a man-made cavern 100m below ground. The machinery is part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one [...]

Feb

26

The Move is Complete

February 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

The move is now complete! After this I will be changing only “minor” details. Please let me know if you detect any errors or inconsistencies. Thanks. I will restart posting very soon.

Feb

23

Moving from TypePad to WordPress

February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In the last few days, I’ve been preparing the move of this blog from TypePad to WordPress. I hope everything will be OK soon, but expect some turbulence around here in the next few days. I will post again after setting everything up.

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