May

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Telegraph: Top Ten Greatest Experiments

May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Top Ten Greatest Experiments. ‘George Johnson celebrates the great thinkers whose home-brewed experiments transformed our world: A few years ago, while reading stories about superstrings vibrating in 10 dimensions or quantum computers solving problems in parallel universes, I began to feel nostalgic. I love these grand speculative theories and admire their creators, but sometimes the [...]

Jan

22

TEAM 0.5: The World’s Most Powerful Microscope

January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World’s Best Microscope. ‘TEAM 0.5, the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope — capable of producing images with half‑angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom — has been installed at the Department of Energy’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) [...]

Jan

16

Scientific American on Science 2.0: An Experiment

January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Wikis, blogs and other collaborative web technologies could usher in a new era of science. Or not.
‘Welcome to a Scientific American experiment in “networked journalism,” in which readers—you—get to collaborate with the author to give a story its final form.
The article is a particularly apt candidate [...]

Jan

16

Touch the Invisible Sky: NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille

January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers. ‘At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.
Touch the Invisible Sky is a 60-page book with color images of nebulae, stars, galaxies [...]

Jan

11

Journal Citation Impact Forum

January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

Thomson Scientific Launches Journal Citation Forum Dedicated to Discussion About Citation-Based Research Evaluation: From H-index to Impact Factor, Citation Impact Forum Hosts Expert Commentary and Scholarly Discussion About Citation-based Research Evaluation.
‘Thomson Scientific announced on January 8 the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about all facets of citation-based research [...]

Jan

7

International Year of Planet Earth

January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

International Year of Planet Earth. ‘The International Year of Planet Earth aims to ensure greater and more effective use by society of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000 Earth scientists. The Year’s ultimate goal of helping to build safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe is expressed in the Year’s subtitle ‘Earth science [...]

Jan

2

Scientific American: Top 25 Science Stories of 2007

January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Top 25 Science Stories of 2007. ‘A year of discoveries, close calls, tragedies and triumphs in review.’

Jan

2

Online Seminar: Five Ages of the Universe

January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Five Ages of the Universe at Fathom (University of Michigan). ‘Travel through time from the moment of the “Big Bang,” before time and space separated, to a dark, starless universe over 10100 years from now when individual atoms can be larger than our galaxy.
University of Michigan physicist Fred Adams and NASA astronomer Greg Laughlin offer [...]

Nov

4

HarvardScience: Science and Engineering News from Harvard University

November 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

HarvardScience. ‘HarvardScience is a publication of the Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs devoted to all matters related to science at the various schools, departments, institutes, and hospitals of Harvard University. The items on HarvardScience are written specifically for the site or are selected from recent publications, press releases, newsletters, newspapers, and Web sites [...]

Oct

10

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007: Studies of Chemical Processes on Solid Surfaces

October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 - “for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces”: Gerhard Ertl. ‘The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 is awarded for groundbreaking studies in surface chemistry. This science is important for the chemical industry and can help us to understand such varied processes as why iron rusts, how fuel [...]

Oct

9

Nobel Prize in Physics 2007: Discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR)

October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 - “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance“: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. ‘This year’s physics prize is awarded for the technology that is used to read data on hard disks. It is thanks to this technology that it has been possible to miniaturize hard disks so radically in recent years. [...]

Oct

9

h-Index for Non-Prominent Scientists: A Case Study by Michael Schreiber

October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A case study of the Hirsch index for 26 non-prominent physicists, Michael Schreiber, 10.1002/andp.200710252. Abstract: ‘The h index was introduced by Hirsch to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. It has been widely used in different fields to show the relevance of the research work of prominent scientists. I have worked out 26 practical cases [...]

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