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2 hrs ago | CiteULike

Dyson-Schwinger Equations and the Application to Hadronic Physics

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.

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Related Topix: Science

7 hrs ago | WVNY

Kenneth Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says it appears the much-criticized national electronic surveillance program foiled "dozens" of terrorist plots.

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Related Topix: Science, Healthcare Law, Law, Privacy, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood

11 hrs ago | The Fresno Bee

Nobel Prize winner for physics dies in Maine

He was 77. Wilson, who died from complications of lymphoma, was in the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., when he won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for applying his research in quantum physics to phase transitions, the transformation that occurs when a substance goes from, say, liquid to gas.

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Related Topix: Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Chemistry

11 hrs ago | GigaOM

Investors lack quantum-computing startups to fund, so they're turning to these guys

Quantum computing is still far off, but investors at the QWave Fund aren't waiting.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science

11 hrs ago | WALA

Nobel Prize winner for physicsa

Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine.

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Related Topix: Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Chemistry

13 hrs ago | TheBostonChannel.com

Giant magnet going on 3,200-mile trip

A 50-foot-wide, 15-ton magnet is about to set out on a 3,200-mile barge-and-truck tour down the East Coast of the United States, around Florida and up from the Gulf to Chicago before going to work to measure one of the smallest particles known to science.

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Related Topix: Department of Energy, Science, Opinion

16 hrs ago | Universe Today

What Happens Around a Hungry Black Hole?

While what exactly goes on within the event horizon of a black hole is still well within the realm of theoretical physics researchers are learning more and more about what happens in the immediate vicinity around a black hole, within the flattened disk of superheated material falling inexorably in toward the center.

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Related Topix: Science, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Space, NASA, Rochester, NY

20 hrs ago | R & D

Working backward: Computer-aided design of zeolite templates

Taking a page from computer-aided drug designers, Rice Univ. researchers have developed a computational method that chemists can use to tailor the properties of zeolites, one of the world's most-used industrial minerals.

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Related Topix: Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing and Engineering, Computers, Chemistry, Science, High Performance Computing

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Townhall

Dennis Prager: Why Some Scientists Embrace the 'Multiverse'

Last week, in Nice, France, I was privileged to participate, along with 30 scholars, mostly scientists and mathematicians, in a conference on the question of whether the universe was designed, or at least fine-tuned, to make life, especially intelligent life.

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Related Topix: Science, University of Chicago, Opinion

Newswise

Wayne State Welcomes Undergraduates From Around the Country for Physics Research Experience

On June 6, professors in Wayne State University's Department of Physics kicked off WSU's only National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program.

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Related Topix: Science, Wayne State University, Batavia, IL

The Newtown Bee

The Hadron Big Bangers: When Physics and Music Collide

Musicians Martin Earley and Robert Rabinowitz have borrowed the physics theme for music.

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Sun-Star

Learning Physics as tool for econ growth

IN AN increasingly knowledge and technology-based global community, science and innovative technology have become increasingly important as drivers of economic growth.

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Related Topix: Science, Southeast Asia, Philippines, World News

Switched

Super-Accurate Clocks To Become Even More So

This was the first atomic clock. When it was developed in 1955, it was the most accurate timepiece in the world.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, GPS, Science

Chronicle.com

Crusader for Better Science Teaching Finds Colleges Slow to Change

And if anyone could be expected to make a convincing case for the wider adoption of those methods, it's Carl E. Wieman.

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Balkans.com

EC has funded a second Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics facility in Romania

The European project ELI-NP will start with the construction of the compound will host the highest laser in the world.

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Related Topix: Science

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Art Daily

Thomas Del Mar Ltd to offer a rare pair of cased Napoleonic Duelling Pistols in London sale

A rare pair of cased Duelling Pistols by London maker John Twigg circa 1785 which belonged to Captain Coghlan of the Royal Navy are expected to fetch 10,000-14,000 when offered for sale in Thomas Del Mar Ltd 's auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria which will be held at 25 Blythe Road, London W14 on Wednesday, June 26, 2013.

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Related Topix: Mauritius, World News, Science

Scientific Computing/Instrument.

Einstein's Spooky Action

Entanglement is a property in quantum mechanics that seemed so unbelievable and so lacking in detail that, 66 years ago this spring, Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance."

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Related Topix: Case Western Reserve University, Computers, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Mathematics, Science

GameDev

Collision for tangential movement in unity

I'm trying to make a game with megadrive's sonic pinball physics, think about mario galaxy meet tony hawk with sonic's high speed.

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Seattle Times

Scientists moving 15-ton magnet from NY to Chicago

Scientists on Long Island are preparing to move a 50-foot-wide electromagnet 3,200 miles over land and sea to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.

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Related Topix: Department of Energy, Science

CiteULike

Tensor decomposition in electronic structure calculations on 3D Cartesian grids

Journal of Computational Physics , Vol. 228, No. 16. , pp. 5749-5762, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2009.04.043 In this paper, we investigate a novel approach based on the combination of Tucker-type and canonical tensor decomposition techniques for the efficient numerical approximation of functions and operators in electronic structure calculations.

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