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Sensing the Energy: Calibrating the LCLS

October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 1

The Linac Coherent Light Source will generate X-rays 10 billion times brighter than any source before it. Being the first of its kind, the LCLS has presented engineers with a number of unique technical hurdles. ...


Dark matter, new planets could bring physics Nobel

October 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- Scientists who have pursued dark matter, hunted for undiscovered planets and advanced nanotechnology were being touted Monday as candidates for the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics.


Japan ready to host new 'Big-Bang' project

October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Boosted by its win of the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize, Japan said Wednesday it hoped to play host to a major international scientific organisation's new machine exposing the secrets of the cosmos.


Italian should have shared Nobel physics prize: colleagues

October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Top Italian physicists say their colleague Nicola Cabibbo should have shared the Nobel Physics Prize with the American and two Japanese scientists who won the 2008 honour, Italian media said Wednesday.


New invention that could change design of future memory storage devices

October 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 22 vote(s) | User comments: 1

A research team at Singapore A*STAR's Data Storage Institute (DSI) has invented a new phase change material that has the potential to change the design of future memory storage devices.


Researchers team up to probe iron-arsenic superconductors with new instrument

October 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that's used a brand new instrument at the DOE's Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the "hottest" new find ...


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