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A special feature keeping us up to date with issues of science and religion TEMPLETON WINNER, MIND AND MATHEMATICS In mid-March it was announced that this year's winner of the Templeton Prize — an extremely valuable prize awarded annually in recognition of, and promotion of, work for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professor.

TEMPLETON WINNER In mid-March it was announced that this year's winner of the Templeton Prize — an extremely valuable prize awarded annually in recognition of, and promotion of, work for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professor.

Democratic senators expressed alarm about reports that the incoming administration intends to propose deep spending cuts at DOE that would curtail research in nuclear physics, advanced scientific computing, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

«This is the kind of research that people will immediately start teaching in physics classes when talking about quantum mechanics,» says Mikhail Lukin, a physicist at Harvard University who specializes in quantum optics.

Connes seems oblivious to the commotion — even afterward, while crossing the rue Saint - Jacques past blue police vans and officers in riot gear, he keeps talking about how his research has led him to new insights into physics.

Last December at the TEDxBrussels conference, Science Careers asked Leonhardt, a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, to share his thoughts about his research and career.

Readers will have at their fingertips key articles in the history of science from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries, including research about the human genome, breast and colon cancer genes, and the Bose - Einstein condensate in physics.

Jake S. Yeston Deputy Editor, Research Education: A.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Areas of responsibility: General inquiries about editorial procedures and policies (physical sciences); chemistry, applied physics E-Mail: [email protected]

Our Career Doctor answers a final - year biochemistry undergraduate's query on how to find a lab abroad to work as a research assistant and tackles a physics Ph.D. student's concerns about the need to go abroad.

The belts» makeup and properties have affected both spaceflight and physics research for the past 50 years, and the Van Allen Probes were designed to answer a number of fundamental questions about these harsh regions of space.

The force coefficients generated by the wing are «about two to three times greater than a static airfoil wing used for large airplanes,» said Kamal Viswanath, a co-author who was a graduate research assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dresearch assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dresearch engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid DResearch Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.

In order to learn more about this stage of the universe, Prof. Stefan Antusch and his team from the Department of Physics at the University of Basel are conducting research into what is known as the stochastic background of gravitational waves.

Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Joel Shurkin discusses his new book about controversial physics Nobel laureate William Shockley, and geneticist Steven Salzberg tells us about why he thinks we need a lot more openness in flu research.

The physics Nobelist who recently stepped down as point person for the Obama Administration's efforts to improve U.S. science education told Congress yesterday that many federally funded programs don't draw upon current research about how people learn and, therefore, haven't managed to boost student achievement.

Although researchers have known for years about bismuth ferrite's piezoelectric properties, it could not be made to produce enough voltage to be considered as a replacement for lead, says Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a professor of physics and of materials science and engineering at U.C. Berkeley who contributed to the research led by Robert Zeches, one of Ramesh's graduate researchers at Berkeley's Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

So I came across this report and I did quite a bit of research on it where in March 1933 Churchill chaired a discussion about the modern discoveries in nuclear physics.

The Pentagon funds about one - half of basic electrical engineering research, for instance, and one - fifth of math and physics studies.

Given the high projected cost of creating a burning physics experiment and given that the U.S. now funds only about one sixth of the world research effort, a strategy based on international collaboration on fusion energy research and development can be highly cost effective.

In this episode, Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek talks about his new book, Fantastic Realities, as well as his research and the current and future state of physics.

Overall, DOD provides about one - half of the research funding in many engineering fields, one - third in computer science, and one - fifth in math and physics.

Because of my physics and cosmology research — along with the recent Italian translation of my book, Warped Passages, about the physics of extra dimensions of space — I had the good fortune last fall to visit Italy twice: September in Venice for the Second World Conference on the Future of Science and November for the Genoa Science Festival.

«It's Earth - like in the sense that it's about the same size and mass, but of course it's extremely unlike the Earth in that it's at least 2,000 degrees hotter,» says team member Josh Winn, an associate professor of physics at MIT and a member of the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.

The department has about 35 faculty who teach and carry out research in the fields of: astrophysics, condensed matter physics, high energy nuclear physics, high energy particle physics, and atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

So when they go back to the classrooms they talk about their own research, their high - tech research of isolating cancer cells to space technology — we've sent students to NASA or they do nanotechnology or, you know physics or chemistry or, you know, you name it, agriculture — and when they go back to their classrooms and talk this over among their peers, more peers get interested.

If the newest research from the Hubble Space Telescope is correct, then the answer may change everything we know about physics.

If you want to know more about our research, please take a look at this review paper: Goddi et al., International Journal of Modern Physics D, Volume 26, Issue 2, id.

Raymond Pierrehumbert, an Oxford University atmospheric physics professor who believes cutting carbon dioxide emissions is more urgent than cutting methane emissions, said Howarth's research offers little new information about the role of natural gas production in global warming.

«CERN: Pushing the Frontiers of Knowledge» (14:52) is about the actual CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that specializes in particle physics.

Here's the reaction from Burton Richter, who is an emeritus professor of physics at Stanford University and author of a valuable book on energy, to my query about how society can best balance its research investments and hedge its bets in trying to move beyond fossil fuels:

The piece spends quite a bit of time, appropriately on the fascinating work of Dan Kahan, the Yale law professor who is a leader of the ongoing «Cultural Cognition» research project and was the focus of my piece on how one can choose a Nobel Prize winner in physics to suit just about any view on human - driven climate change.

Dr David Krofcheck, of the university's department of physics, said the research was «very much about taking a precautionary approach» as there was no evidence to indicate that the birds had been vectors of radioactivity.

The controversy over the Institute of Physics biased submission to the U.K. Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee's investigation of the stolen emails from East Anglia's Climate Research Unit is about to get a whole lot hotter.

Guys; don't get me wrong about laser physics cause its not what I'm on about other than seems it's a big area of instrument and measurement systems research these days and you should too should wonder why.

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