Kids can turn your kitchen into an applied
physics lab from the moment they purposely toss that first bit of food from their high chair trays.
Buffalo Grove High School will receive about $ 1.8 million for repairs, including completion of athletic and physical education locker room renovations and creation of a chemistry -
physics lab from two classrooms.
Not exact matches
From 1987 until he launched his 1998 congressional campaign, Holt was assistant director of the Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a Department of Energy national
lab, which is the largest research facility of Princeton University and one of the largest alternative energy research facilities in the country.
After finishing a postdoc in Barabási's
lab this year, González, a statistical physicist, got four job offers, only one of which came
from a
physics department.
«The results
from BOSS provide a solid foundation for even more precise future BAO measurements, such as those we expect
from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI),» says Natalie Roe,
Physics Division director at Berkeley
Lab.
To study how Amazonian trees responded to drought, Santiago's team plucked branches
from the tops of trees in French Guiana's Paracou Research Station and studied them in a
lab to determine how readily they develop hydraulic failure, which is a function of their
physics, including the dimensions of their plumbing and the pressure their vessels can withstand.
Another theory by James Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Lab in Laurel, Md., suggests a large impact could have shut down the dynamo by heating the outermost core, which would have kept it
from sinking.
An interdisciplinary team with researchers
from fields of psychology, biological statistics and computational biology, medicine, and
physics included the study's co-first authors, Paul Shamble, a former graduate student in Hoy's
lab who specializes in spiders and is a distinguished science fellow at Harvard University, and Gil Menda, a postdoctoral researcher in Hoy's
lab.
«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated fields, and required contributions
from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Science at Brookhaven
Lab and a professor of
physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.
Ticking off his professional journey
from physics professor, to national
lab administrator, to member of Congress, to AAAS, Holt said his career repeatedly confirmed: «Evidence should not be optional.
«My doctor told me I had to walk away
from physics because the commute and
lab work were aggravating the injury,» she recalls.
The research,
from scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab), is presented as the cover story in the May special issue of
Physics of Plasmas.
The gondola reaches level 27 — the very bottom — and opens onto a state - of - the - art particle
physics lab carved
from two high - ceilinged caves.
The researchers, working on an experiment called OPERA, beamed neutrinos through the earth's crust,
from CERN, the laboratory for particle
physics near Geneva, to Gran Sasso National Laboratory in L'Aquila, Italy, an underground
physics lab.
«To understand all the processes on the sun we look at as many different particles coming
from the sun as we can — photons, electrons, protons, neutrons, gamma rays - to gather different kinds of information,» said David Lawrence, first author of the paper at The Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland.
Noting that his
physics Ph.D. students were arriving
from college woefully unprepared but went on to thrive in the
lab - oriented atmosphere of grad school, Wieman suspected the problem might have its roots in that core teaching tool of the college experience, the undergraduate lecture.
Astronomy writer Christopher Crockett wrote several updates
from mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Lab in Laurel, Md.,
from July 12 - 15, and reviewed some of the mission's major milestones
from the last several months.
Appointment of Chi - Chang Kao marks transition
from dedicated particle
physics center to multipurpose
lab
In the
lab: Dr. René Reimann, Tobias Macha and Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede
from the Institute of Applied
Physics of the University Bonn.
In this month's issue of
Physics World, James Dacey explores the ways in which physicists are bridging the «valley of death» to take their innovations
from the
lab into the commercial market.
The same year, he started college at Harvard University with a scholarship, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and
physics, followed by a PhD in physiology
from the University of Cambridge — and a productive career in the
lab discovering and applying fluorescent dyes.
Raised on the knee of science — her father taught her and her two brothers
from a young age about geology,
physics, and natural history — Alice Ting now stands firmly on her own two feet among the faculty at MIT's Chemistry Department, where her objective is to «simultaneously harness the power of genetics and the power of chemistry» using new technologies developed in her
lab for imaging protein trafficking, protein - protein interactions, and enzymatic activity.
We know
from laws of
physics and
lab measurements that the CO2 levels have been increasing and that CO2 absorb infra red radiation.
«A recent calculation of the spectrum based on compiled measurements of thousands of isotopes involved in the fission process showed a much better agreement with observations,» said Dan Dwyer, a staff scientist in the Berkeley
Lab Physics Division, «and suggested the excess of antineutrinos comes
from eight specific short - lived nuclei.»
Mark your calendar and prepare to have some fun at The Princeton Plasma
Physics Lab's Open House on June 1
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when the Laboratory will open its doors for the public to see the National Spherical Torus Experiment and other research experiments.
He received his BA in
Physics from Cornell University in 1991 and joined Jefferson
Lab's Science Education group in 1992.
Techniques
from comparative anatomy, molecular genetics, cell and tissue
physics, and experimental embryology are used in our
lab, and we collaborate with mathematical modelers and functional morphologists.
Some 360 young women
from seventh to tenth grade spent the day immersed in science and technology at the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma
Physics Lab's Young Women's Conference on March 22 at Princeton University.
Being of broad interests he pursued the study of
physics wanting to unite his devotion to art with the fascination of science that was ignited during his visits,
from the early age of five, to the
lab, where his aunt was assistant to the leading nuclear physicist in the country.
These were the participants of the Climate Model Evaluation Project workshop (CMEP) and came here
from most (if not all) the major, most prestigious climate research laboratories of the world, including; The US
labs National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the British Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction, the German Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, the French Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques and the IPSL / LMD / LSCE, the Australian CSIRO Atmospheric Research, the Chinese Institute of Atmospheric
Physics, the Russian Institute for Numerical Mathematics and the Japanese Meteorological Research Institute.
Much like a higher - resolution digital camera transforms a blur into a flock of birds, higher resolution in a computer model often helps to capture details of the
physics involved which may be crucial to the broad picture,» says co-author Daniel Martin
from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab).
Jean Poitou is a physicist and climatologist, graduated
from Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie (
Physics and Chemistry engineering college) and is climatologist at the Laboratory of the climate and environment sciences at IPSL, a joint research
lab from CEA, CNRS, and UVSQ (*).
My qualifications are that I have a BA (
Physics)
from Cavendish
Labs Cambridge, which I earned nearly 70 years ago, plus a lifetime spent in scientific research.
Co-instructor Ron Dolin received his B.A. in math and
physics from U.C. Berkeley before heading to Geneva to work at CERN, the high - energy
physics lab.