Story archive
2008
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| September 18 --
California Trees Not Keeping Up with CO2 |
| September 5 --
Science News Briefs |
| August 28--
More Than Just a Game: The Science of Fantasy Football |
| August 28--
Science News Briefs |
| August 22--
Science News Briefs |
| August 14--
Science News Briefs |
| August 14--
Olympic Bronze Reveals Golden Secret |
| August 7--
Science News Briefs |
| July 31--
Federal Report Supports Climate Change Models |
| July 31--
Science News Briefs |
| July 30--
Science Allows In-Depth Look at Old Masters |
| July 29--
Scientists Study Polar Bear Hearing as Arctic Acoustic Environment Faces Change |
| July 17--
Science News Briefs |
| July 3--
Supplemental Appropriations Money Helps Science Programs, Jobs |
| July 1--
Fireworks Shapes: How Do Pyrotechnicians Do That? |
| June 16--
Lack of Women in Computing Has Educators Worried |
| June 12 --
The Intertwined Passions of Alan Lightman |
| May 21 --
Exploding Star, Caught on Tape |
| May 9 --
On Very Thin Ice |
| May 4 --
Forever Young, Fat Cells Complicate Weight Loss |
| May 2 --
Experiment that Survived Space Shuttle Disaster Sheds Light on Ketchup Phenomenon |
| April 22 --
Stephen Hawking Renews Call to Colonize Space
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| April 21 --
Scientists Fear Space Debris Problem Worsening |
| April 21 --
Scientists Study Beijing's "Olympic" Air Pollution |
| March 12 --
Improvised Jazz Puts Brain in Unique Groove |
| March 10 --
Putting iron in the ocean to fight global warming |
| March 8 --
Tsunami Early Warning |
| March 5 --
Teleportation in the Real World
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| February 6 --
Oscars for Scientific and Technical Achievement |
| January 25 --
Student Project Stops Heat and Money from Disappearing Down the Drain |
| January 12 --
Gecko Inspired Adhesive Sticks, But Isn't Sticky |
| January 5 --
The Real Science Hidden in Fairy Tales |
| January 3 --
Background Paper: Federal Funding Cuts, Part 1
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2007
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| December 19 --
As Commercial Nuclear Power Turns 50, Its Future Is Brighter
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| December 17 --
Animation Uses Old Physics to New Effect
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| December 14 --
A Scientific Approach to Snowflakes Reveals Nature’s Beauty
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| November 30 --
Physicist Makes Science the Star in Hollywood Science
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| October 30 --
Dracula's Most Recent Prey
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| October 9 --
Physicists win Nobel prize for hard work on hard drives
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| May 1 --
Proposed European Missile Shield’s Politics Overshadow Feasibility |
| April 25 --
Spiderman 3 Moves Inspired By Spider Web Facts |
| April 16 --
U.S. Residents’ Exposure to Medical Radiation 6 Times Higher than in 1980 |
| April 13 --
More Accurate Breast Cancer Diagnosis May Come from Combined MRI-Optics Method
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| March 21 --
Shedding Light on Food Inspection
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| February 13 --
Car Airbags Will Cause Permanent Hearing Loss in 17 percent, Study Predicts
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| February 9 --
The Physics of a Valentine Treat: Slower Is Better
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| February 7 --
Scientists and Engineers Get the Oscar for Improving Film Production and Preservation
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| January 23 --
New Web Exhibit Explores the History of Cosmology
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| January 10 --
High School Physics Enrollment Hits Record High
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| January 9 --
National Educators, Policymakers, Business Leaders Address Future of U.S. Competitiveness
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| January 5 --
Science Writer Awarded AIP Cultural Prize
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2006 |
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Science's Breakthrough of the Year 2006, a First for Math, but with Physics Connections
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Fish Stories
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| December 1 --
Physics Does Have That Swing
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| November 30 --
New Study Suggests Speakers of Different Languages Perceive Rhythm Differently
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| November 27 --
Noise-Immune Stethoscope Helps Medics Hear Vital Signs in Loud Environments
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| October 13 --
Physicist's Snowflake Images Get Stuck
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| October 3 --
2003 U.S. Physics Olympiad Team Heard Lecture by 2006's Physics Nobelist
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| July 25 --
New Camera Crane Brings Oscar-Winning Engineering to "Miami Vice"
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| July 12 --
New Surreal Film Reveals its Dual Personality of Science and Artistry
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| July 11 --
Radon Testing as a Campus Community Service
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| June 20 --
Surgery a Noisy Business, Say Acoustics Experts
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| June 12 --
Non-Hispanic Blacks Have Best Hearing in U.S., New Study Shows
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| May 20 --
Saint-Sulpice Chapel - The Da Vinci Code's Best Kept Secret
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Worlds Beyond Physics: A Conversation with a U.S. Physics Olympiad Team Member
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| May 3 --
Physics: Thinking Back and Forward
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| April 10 --
Health Physicists Provide Plan for Response to Small Radiological Attack
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| April 4 --
One-Two-Three, Four-Five-Six: Time Pattern from Math's Tricks?
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| March 21 --
Looking at Cells with a Computer Developer's Eye
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| March 20 -- Can Bacteria Compute?
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| February 17 -- Can't Wait Till the Oscars?
Engineers and Scientists Show the Future of Movie Making is Now |
| January 26 --
Lighter Cars Not Necessarily Riskier, Physicists Say |
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2005 |
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Scientists, Teachers, Clergy Hail Court Ruling |
| Science Visualizations Go Hollywood |
| Talking Turkey and Tryptophan |
| 2005 Cy Young Winners Correctly Predicted by Mathematical Model |
| Carpenter, Rivera To Take 2005 Cy Young Awards, Mathematicians Predict |
| New Family of Violins Hosts "Coming Out" Party |
| Proofs, Women and Youth: a New Movie and Some Old Clichés |
| Good Chemistry
is Formula for Recent Stop-Action Movies |
| Reality
Show for the Moon |
| Proposed
Rating Scale Forecasts Hurricane Damage |
| Inside
the Science of Hurricanes |
| Hurricanes
Can Spawn Tornadoes |
| Cloning
Movie is More Fiction than Science |
| Science
and Engineering are Hidden Stars in Stealth |
| Why Is
the Sky Blue and Not Violet? |
| Dresselhaus to Receive Heinz
Award |
| La Página
Web de Albert Einstein - Ahora en Español |
| Astrophysics
and Mathematical Physics Prizes Given |
| Female Percentages on
Physics Faculties Meet Expectations |
| 3-D Reality
Without the Real |
| National
Toxicology Report Raises Concern Among Medical Physicists |
| World
Year of Physics 2005 Begins with Paris Conference |
| Two
to Receive Honors at National Physics Teachers Meeting |
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2004 |
| Scientists
Debate the Theory that Renaissance Masters Used Optical Projections to Complete
Their Works |
| Suit
Against Treasury Department Aims to Protect First Amendment |
| Physics
Executive Named One of 2004's Top Black Scientists |
| US
Students Win Medals at International Physics Olympiad |
| Holy Sonar Technology, Batman! |
| Sounds of the Subway |
| Does it Matter Where I go to College? |
| Landmarks:
Forgotten Black Hole Birth |
| Physics
is Imagination, Top Student Says |
| How
to Listen to Old Records in the 21st Century |
| Shaking
Like an Atomic Jelly |
| European
Physicist Receives U.S. Medal in Physics |
| Streamlining
the "Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball" |
| Why
American League Batters Get Beaned More Often |
| March
Mathness: Fun Facts on College Basketball From the World
of Numbers |
| Virtual
Study Lounge: Physics Students Study, Meet in the Nucleus |
| The
Mystery of the Mayan Monarch's Movements |
| What's
Down There? |
| Scientist
Takes Writing Beyond Black |
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2003 |
| Mixing
Alcohol and Water: Harder than you Think? |
| Humans
Influence Climate Change |
| The
Physics of Santa and the Chimney: Playful Insights into a
Christmas "Mystery" |
| A
Fractal Christmas |
| Whether It's Technology or It's
Not |
| Computing
the Difference Between Speech and Song |
| Treating
Voice-Recognizer Software Like a Baby |
| Could
the Sound of Rams' Horns Knock Down Jericho's Walls? |
| Physics
Nobelist Takes Stand on Evolution |
| In
World Series, Game 7 Occurs Much More Often than Simple Probability
Would Suggest |
| Seeing
a New Path: Pioneer of Laser Surgery Honored for Application |
| Scanning the Stars |
| 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics Winners |
| Physicist
Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| Environmental
Scientists Help Improve Air-Quality Measuring |
| Nano-Neurosurgery |
| Fall Foliage Depends on the Weather,
Say Plant Physiologists |
| The Reasons the Lights Go Out - Physics of Power
Grids |
| U.S.
Tops International Physics Olympiad |
| Playing
With Sand at the Beach Helps Engineers and Geologists Study
Earthquakes |
| The Science of Summer
Haircuts: Hair Researchers Back Up Time-Honored Parental Advice |
| Declined Visa Applications Hinder Foreign Physics
Students |
| Gammasphere's
Starring Role in The Hulk |
| Scientist, Student
Visa Delays Bar Talent |
| How
to "Bend it Like Beckham": The Physics Behind the
Season's Hit Movie |
| U.S. Physics Olympiad Team: High School Whiz Kids
Prepare to Take on the World |
| First Woman to
Chair Physics Group |
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2002 |
| Physics in Films |
| Science Helps
Salesmen -- and Maybe Santa -- Plan the Most Efficient Route |
| Pyrotechnicians
Write Numbers in the Sky this New Year's Eve |
| The Twelve Days
of Christmas: Music Meets Math in a Popular Christmas Song |
| Tricks to Get
Treats: Physicist Reveals the Tricks Behind "Bobbing for
Apples" |
| From Death Ray
to Household Appliance |
| Laser Lights
New Path for Homeland Security |
| Closing In on
Strokes with High-Resolution Imaging |
| Listen Up! Kids
Can't Hear to Learn because of Poor Classroom Acoustics |
| Whole-Body Scans
More Marketing than Science, Say Medical Physicists |
| Gene Therapy
May Increase Cancer Cure Rates, New Study Shows |
| Medical Physicist
Treats Spinal Tumors Faster with New Procedure |
| Scientists Say
Air Quality Measurements Need Improvement |
| Computer Scientists
Help Create Fireworks of Your Dreams |
| Laser Beams Help
Take the Twinkle Out of Starlight |
| Princeton Students
Reveal U.S.'s Natural Hazard Risk |
| Five Students
from Boston, Connecticut, Ohio and Minnesota Win United States
Physics Olympiad |
| U.S. Physics
Olympiad Team Will Meet Hubble Astronaut at NASA Tribute in
Washington, D.C. |
| 2002 Physics
Olympiad Team Announced |
| 'Father' of America's
National Labs Subject of New Web Exhibit |
| Safe, Secure
and Inexpensive Power from Latest Generation of Nuclear Reactors |
| Getting Power
from the Moon |
| Under Construction:
Information Super-Highway Getting Wider |
| "Dirty Bombs"
Much More Likely to Create Fear than Cause Cancer |
| Scientists "Toy"
with Origami as a Solution |
| Spiral Waves
Break Hearts: New Research Stresses the Importance of Communication
between cardiac cells |
| Earth Scientists
Use Fractals to Measure and Predict Natural Disasters |
| Teaching Physics
First: Teachers Discuss New Order of Science at Philadelphia
Meeting |
|
2001 |
| The Con-Artist
Physics of Ocean's Eleven: Hit Movie Plays Fast and Loose with
Nature's Laws |
| Science Gets
Fruitcake off the Shelf This Holiday Season |
| Researchers Stop
Internal Bleeding without Surgery |
| The Acoustics
of Laughter: New Insights into This Mysterious Form of Expression |
| NSF Funds New
Physics Teacher Preparation Program: Nationwide Pilot Aimed
at "Revolutionizing" Science Teaching to Begin at
Six Institutions |
| Navigation Science
May Help "Lost" Contestants |
| Balls Stick,
Shoes Slide: Serving Up the Physics of Tennis Courts |
| The Physics of
Fuel Efficiency: More MPG's Can Be Just as Safe -- Even in a Lighter
Car, Scientists Say |
| Compressed Air
Energy Storage: Gaining Popularity as an Alternative Energy
Source |
| Providing a Bigger
View: Large-Bore Medical Imaging Device Offers Better Conditions
for Cancer-Treatment Planning |
| Naples Yellow:
an Old Pigment Adds a New Shade to Science of Authenticating
Art |
| From Dairy Farm
to Ecological Mecca: Costa Rican Family Balances Choices for
Sustainable Future |
| Students Bring
Home 3 Gold, 2 Silver Medals from International Physics Competition |
| Panama Radiation
Therapy Accident Unlikely In United States |
| Swinging at Golf
Balls and Science Lessons |
| Five U.S. High
School Students to Compete in International Physics Olympiad
In Turkey |
| New Research
Shows that World's Mountain Glaciers Are Shrinking |
| Race Car Drivers
Dizzy over Physics |
| Science Education
Focus of Capitol Hill Breakfast Honoring Top United States Physics
Students |
| Students Selected
for 2001 Physics Olympiad |
| New Imaging Technique
Could Improve Outcome of Popular Heart Procedure |
| On Baseball's
Opening Day, Physicists Tell Batting Coaches to Get a Grip on
Grip Advice |
| Physicists Find
Salt Water May Not Be Major Threat to Aging Aircraft |
| Understanding
Plastic "Sharkskin": Results May Pave Way for Eliminating
Problems in Low-Cost Plastics |
| Mysterious Ways
of the Heart: New Understanding May Lead to Earlier Diagnoses
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| Acoustically
Speaking: The Superbowl Experience |
| Medical
Physicists Make a Popular Surgical Procedure Safer |
| Report Names
Universities Best at Preparing Hi-Tech Workforce |
| Snowflake Science |
| Secrets Hidden
in a Tiger's Paralyzing Roar |
| Physicists Help
Batting Coaches Get a Grip |
| Science on the
Green |
