• Even after moving to North America, he worked for several years in Northhampton, Massachusetts, as a teacher of the deaf and at Boston University as a professor of speech technology and physiology. (uni-wuppertal.de)
  • Higher amounts of visceral abdominal fat in midlife are linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease, according to research being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). (scitechdaily.com)
  • She has been conducting field research in South and North America, particularly among Span- ish-speaking communities. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • Particle physicists were running around excitedly at the time. (nextbigideaclub.com)
  • What no one ever tells you is that we particle physicists were also feeling a bit ashamed. (nextbigideaclub.com)
  • Indian-born theoretical physicist Abhay Vasant Ashtekar was awarded for "numerous and seminal contributions" to the field of gravitational physics. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Indian-born theoretical physicist Abhay Vasant Ashtekar on Tuesday received the prestigious Einstein prize conferred by the American Physical Society. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Antonio Padilla is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. (nextbigideaclub.com)
  • Still, studying the influence of temperature may offer clues as to why some subducting slabs stagnate about 1,000 kilometers down - such as those diving beneath the coasts of Indonesia and South America - while those at the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the Japan Trench, for example, keep sinking down into the lower mantle at a steady rate, Cordier says. (earthmagazine.org)
  • Another example was the Spanish Empire which obtained enormous wealth from its resource-rich colonies in South America in the sixteenth century. (gemstonestatue.com)
  • Three decades ago in March, scientists from Latin America came to do research at Fermilab, forming the ties of a lasting collaboration. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • In 1953, scientists at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm had produced fermium 250 by bombarding uranium with oxygen nuclei.This distance is sometimes called a fermi and was so named in honour of Italian naturalized to American physicist Enrico Fermi, as it is a typical length-scale of nuclear physics. (nails-beauty.de)
  • Another debate revolved around what now seems like an uncontroversial idea: that scientists should perform experiments. (theamericanscholar.org)
  • The first scientists to investigate nuclear magnetic resonance were physicists whose primary concern was to measure fundamental physical constants. (rsc.org)
  • Live ticks are passively attracted by the electric fields of their hosts," the scientists found through experiment and measurement. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Leave it to scientists to design clever experiments to test and measure this trick! (evolutionnews.org)
  • In 1983, Fermilab Director Leon Lederman put his money on the table at the second Pan American Symposium on Elementary Particles and Technology in Rio de Janeiro. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • From Sci-News.com, March 19, 2021: Physicists from the TOTEM (TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation Measurement) Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the DØ Collaboration at Fermilab have found strong new evidence for the odderon, an elusive three-gluon state predicted almost five decades ago. (nails-beauty.de)
  • The High-Luminosity LHC will increase the luminosity by a factor of 10, delivering 10 times more collisions than the LHC would do over the same period of time. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • The increase in luminosity will mean physicists will be able to study new phenomena discovered by the LHC, such as the Higgs boson, in more detail. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • The camera is called CONNIE, a friendly acronym for Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • I don't believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. (blogspot.com)
  • Electromagnetic induction was one of the major discoveries made by the devout scientist Michael Faraday in 1831 (published independently in America the following year by another devout scientist, Joseph Henry). (evolutionnews.org)
  • This was the Carlo Rubbia experiment conducted at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or CERN (later known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research). (wikisummaries.org)
  • Two large experiments were conducted at CERN, CERN called UA-l and UA-2 for Underground Area One and Underground Area Two. (wikisummaries.org)
  • The difference between the two experiments rests in the type of target used for the detection of the bosons, yet both employed the huge proton accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN. (wikisummaries.org)
  • To no avail, because the experiments at CERN have yet to see any evidence to explain the Higgs boson. (nextbigideaclub.com)
  • 6 Scientific American clearly reports the reason physicists have fallen in love with SUSY: "by far the biggest motivation for studying supersymmetry-it solves the conundrum of the Higgs hierarchy problem. (creation.com)
  • With this upgrade, the LHC will continue to push the limits of human knowledge, enabling physicists to explore beyond the Standard Model and Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • Seismologists are finding more and more indications that, in some regions of Earth's mantle, subducting slabs stagnate around 1,000 kilometers depth," says Hauke Marquardt , a mineral physicist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam and co-author of the new study in Nature Geoscience . (earthmagazine.org)
  • This approach to studying slab stagnation 1,000 kilometers down has not been tried before because of the technical difficulties involved, says Patrick Cordier , a mineral physicist at Lille University in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, who was not involved in the new study. (earthmagazine.org)
  • A space-based, virtually unhackable quantum Internet may be one step closer to reality due to satellite experiments that linked ground stations more than 1,000 kilometers apart, a new study finds. (ieee.org)
  • The filled regions and curves represent parts of this parameter space than can currently be explored via different experiments or observations. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Dodelson: So there a number of different experiments including John's that are sensitive to this. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Physicists are left to explain how the positive and negative factors for these quantum corrections, all dozens of digits long, have magically canceled out, leaving an extraordinarily tiny value behind. (creation.com)
  • Entanglement is an essential factor in the operations of quantum computers, the networks that would connect them, and the most sophisticated kinds of quantum cryptography, a theoretically unhackable means of securing information exchange. (ieee.org)
  • Although those experiments generated about 5.9 million entangled pairs of photons every second, the researchers were able to detect only one pair per second, an efficiency rate far too low for useful entanglement-based quantum cryptography. (ieee.org)
  • Each site had a newly built telescope 1.2 meters wide that was specifically designed for the quantum experiments. (ieee.org)
  • A remarkable feature of the entanglement-based quantum cryptography that we demonstrated here is that the security is ensured even if the satellite is controlled by an adversary," says study senior author Jian-Wei Pan, a quantum physicist at the University of Science and Technology of China at Hefei. (ieee.org)
  • The laboratory director was Roy Schwitters, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. (wikipedia.org)
  • A Central Design Group (CDG) was organized in California at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, which became the gathering place for physicists to come and support the SSC design effort. (wikipedia.org)
  • Around 2010, physicist Juan Estrada of the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory was working on an astrophysics instrument called the Dark Energy Camera. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • When the NOvA experiment begins sending a beam of neutrinos on a 500-mile journey this summer, Iowa State University physicists will be in the middle of the research action. (iastate.edu)
  • The idea to build his experiment at a reactor came from recognition that reactors produce a huge flux of low-energy (about 1 MeV) neutrinos. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • The interview begins with Dimopoulos reflecting on how the pandemic has affected his research, and he gives his initial impressions on the g-2 muon anomaly experiment at Fermilab. (aip.org)
  • Led by Stanford University physicist Stanley Wojcicki, and charged with making recommendations "for a forefront United States High Energy Physics Program in the next five to ten years. (wikipedia.org)
  • So what kind of new physics are physicists looking for, and why the fervent search? (creation.com)
  • This transcript is based on a tape-recorded interview deposited at the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • This is David Zierler, Oral Historian for the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • Indeed Bloch and fellow American physicist, Edward Mills Purcell, won the Nobel prize for physics in 1952 for demonstrating that substances such as water and paraffin could also be used to observe nuclear magnetic resonance. (rsc.org)
  • Since discoveries in particle physics rely on statistics, the greater the number of collisions, the more chances physicists have to see a particle or process that they have not seen before. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • Over 60 years ago, Kondo, an eminent US physicist, writing in the Scientific American 2 said that Faraday started the revolution which upset the long reign of Newton and rebuilt physics on new theoretical foundations. (rsc.org)
  • ATSDR staff health physicists appear to be relying on the advice of others within the Health Physics community who erroneously claim that there is no evidence for increased cancer risk below an effective whole body dose of 10 rem and who urge that risk not be quantified at effective whole body doses below 5 rem in one year or 10 rem lifetime. (cdc.gov)
  • In his seminal work Arms and Insecurity (1949), the British physicist and psychologist Lewis Fry Richardson proposed a model (which he applied to the dreadnought race) of an arms race between two countries where each country sets its military expenditure or arms acquisition level in each period based on its own and its rival's level in the previous period in an "action-reaction" pattern. (britannica.com)
  • Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society. (blogspot.com)
  • Dear Curt, When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). (blogspot.com)
  • Fifteen years ago, American Physical Society awarded its first Einstein prize jointly to Peter Bergmann and John Wheeler. (hindustantimes.com)
  • A brilliant physicist published a revolutionary paper citing 30 other scientific papers that reveal HAARP has incredible powers far beyond what most investigators of the high frequency energy technology suspect. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • It will therefore provide more accurate measurements of fundamental particles and enable physicists to observe rare processes that occur below the current sensitivity level of the LHC. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • I am grateful to Professors J. Ragai and H. Omar, American University of Cairo, for help with this illustration. (rsc.org)
  • American Society for Information Science. (gadwall.com)
  • Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers. (scientificamerican.com)
  • An article in Evolution News & Science Today states that physicists seem to be "expanding sets of hypotheses to avoid some embarrassing metaphysics. (creation.com)
  • Steve: Welcome back for part 2 of our podcast of the press conference with cosmologists Lawrence Krauss, Alan Guth, John Carlstrom and Scott Dodelson, which took place on February 16th in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (scientificamerican.com)
  • And as much as any other factor, Ball argues, that shift led to the rise of modern science. (theamericanscholar.org)
  • Biographers of Michael Faraday, as well as many dictionaries of science, often describe him as a physicist, which he certainly was. (rsc.org)
  • The key question will be what exactly the 'axes' are in this origins of life parameter space - one can imagine that temperature, inorganic/abiotic substrates, molecular populations, and other factors, are all candidates. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. (blogspot.com)
  • Experiments in the new study were conducted at room temperature. (earthmagazine.org)
  • These are very complicated experiments with dozens or more of people on each experiment. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Helmholtz, a German physicist and physiologist, had already published the work "Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik" in 1863. (uni-wuppertal.de)
  • Ten years later, after a great deal of work, Estrada and a team of over 30 physicists and engineers are getting close to realizing their goal. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • As part of this work, in 1824 he mapped out the many factors that influence Earth's temperature, including the way the planet absorbs and re-radiates heat. (sciencemuseum.org.uk)
  • The stars that produce supernovae are generally younger, further in the universe's past, which is problematic for physicists estimating the universe's expansion rate. (insidescience.org)
  • The sticking point was that experiments, almost by definition, explore nature under artificial conditions. (theamericanscholar.org)
  • Although physicists have had indirect evidence of it for some time, now we have direct proof that this hypothesis is correct. (creation.com)
  • Jacques Chirac has become the most disliked Frenchman of our time, called a worm, a weasel, a surrender monkey, a co-conspirator with Saddam Hussein, and the individual most responsible for preventing allegedly eager nations from supporting the American war. (bu.edu)
  • Soon after this, the American physicist, Felix Bloch succeeded in measuring the magnetic moment of the neutron, again using a beam of particles (this time, polarised neutrons, subatomic particles with the property of spin). (rsc.org)
  • We will explore three of the most useful factors for chemists - chemical shift, coupling and the nuclear Overhauser effect. (rsc.org)
  • The objects hiss and pop just like a record, but they also happen to contain the sacred songs and voices of Native Americans, recorded by field anthropologists over four decades, from 1900 to 1940. (berkeley.edu)
  • It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. (blogspot.com)
  • It is the great merit of the student movement of the 1960s to have helped shatter the complacency that had settled over much of American intellectual life, both with regard to American society and to the role of the universities within it. (chomsky.info)
  • If the W-S theory was correct, an experiment should have been possible that could detect the intermediate vector bosons. (wikisummaries.org)
  • The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us ). (scientificamerican.com)
  • Thanks for reading Scientific American. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The key point is that when physicists succeed in excluding the possibility of WIMPs with properties in these regions they narrow the options, helping to home in on the likeliest properties of the particles (if they actually exist). (scientificamerican.com)
  • According to the Alzheimer's Association, there are more than 6 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The successful Kenyan experiment quickly earned endorsements from the United Nations , The Hague and the International Reciprocal Trade Association . (governamerica.com)
  • The effect of attenuation is not considered in the dose calculation method released by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group No. 43 Report (TG-43). (bvsalud.org)
  • Factions of three of the largest governments in the world - the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the Peoples Republic of China - may be cutting orders to eliminate a man who they see as one of the most dangerous in the world. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • The most dangerous man in the world may be Brazilian physicist Dr. Fran De Aquino . (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Physicist Hellmuth Hertz and cardiologist Inge Edler were the first in the world to observe a heart beating. (lu.se)
  • American institutes participated in the project with the support of the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP), funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • [2] And as he became more important, he deepened friendships with Americans and kept in touch with American society. (bu.edu)
  • Why were these experiments important? (uni-wuppertal.de)
  • Even though the experiments were not very successful at first, they made an important contribution to the construction of a functioning telephone. (uni-wuppertal.de)
  • Among the possibilities Tyndall considered was variations in the composition of the atmosphere, and via a series of experiments at London's Royal Institution, he eventually made the discovery that water-vapour was an important heat-trapping agent. (skepticalscience.com)
  • In 1874, he conducted acoustic experiments to record sound waves and constructed a so-called phon automaton, a device that recorded the vibrations of sound on a sooted cylinder. (uni-wuppertal.de)
  • Several successful exploratory missions in gamma-ray astronomy led to the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO).Daily Data Products. (nails-beauty.de)
  • Experiments have shown this to be a highly successful strategy in IPD games. (britannica.com)
  • Freud held that the secondary process functions through the A. Bucks bury Knicks skinchanger 12th straight win Knicks coach David Fizdale knew his struggling team green trust factor a huge challenge Monday night against the streaking Milwaukee Bucks. (gemstonestatue.com)
  • Brazilian team members on the new CONNIE project connected with dos Anjos and, with his help, CONNIE moved in as a roommate with the existing experiment. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • By moving beyond body mass index in better characterizing the anatomical distribution of body fat on MRI, we now have a uniquely better understanding of why this factor may increase risk for Alzheimer's disease," he said. (scitechdaily.com)
  • These will strongly focus the beam to increase the probability of collisions occurring and will be installed at each side of the ATLAS and CMS experiments.There are also brand new superconducting radiofrequency cavities, called "crab cavities", which will be used to orientate the beam before the collision to increase the length of the area where the beams overlap. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • Now that we know that the slabs stagnate because the minerals in [the mantle] are getting stronger under pressure, we can consider what factors would overcome that strengthening in some zones," Cordier says. (earthmagazine.org)
  • In 1946, the process of cloud seeding made possible early weather modification experiments. (espionageinfo.com)
  • Norwegian physicist Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951) introduced a modern meteorological theory stating that weather patterns in the temperate middle latitudes are the results of the interaction between warm and cold air masses. (espionageinfo.com)
  • Coastal states are using environmental regulations to destroy American Indians' ability to produce coal, gas, and forms of energy required to lift communities up and out of poverty, according to one prominent American Indian tribe. (blogspot.com)
  • Using 2019 data, we compared patient demographic and lifestyle risk factors using 2 test for biologic prescriptions and corticosteroids with or without biologics prescriptions. (cdc.gov)
  • In his early twenties, after graduating from the Ecole Nationale d Administration, France s factory for producing technocrats, he washed dishes in Harvard Square, worked his way down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and fell in love with an American woman. (bu.edu)
  • Early in his career he helped make ends meet by teaching French politics to eager young Americans in the Sweetbriar junior year in France program. (bu.edu)
  • It may come as no surprise that a recent survey found a majority of Americans do not understand the impact of the now 3-year-old Affordable Care Act. (iastate.edu)