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Sunday, October 29, 2006
Space Elevator Games
With $400,000 in NASA-provided prize money at stake, 16 teams have gathered this week in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for the second annual Space Elevator Games as part of the X Prize Cup.

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Scientists discover exotic relatives of protons and neutrons
Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today the discovery of two rare types of particles, exotic relatives of the much more common proton and neutron. "These particles are like rare jewels that we mined out of our data,"

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Researchers closer unraveling mysteries of fusion energy
Unraveling one of most grandiose and heady problems in physics -- the creation of controlled fusion energy -- is still decades away. But thanks to research done recently on a smaller, less grandiose scale at the Nevada Terawatt Facility at the University of Nevada, Reno and in the University's College of Science, an important step has been made...

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Discovery points to nanoscale ferroelectric memories
An team of scientists has measured, for the first time, the precise conditions at which certain ultrathin materials spontaneously become electrically polarised, a discovery that could lead to ultra-high density ferroelectric memories.

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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Einstein's magnetic effect is measured on microscale
A gyromagnetic effect discovered by Albert Einstein and Dutch physicist Wander Johannes de Haas--the rotation of an object caused by a change in magnetization--has been measured at micrometer-scale dimensions for the first time at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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Prof. Hawking Talks About The Origin of The Universe
At The end of September 2006, Prof. Hawking visited CERN and delivered two lectures including this one. This is the non-specialist lecture. The link is at the bottom of the page and you'll want to forward the footage 21 mins until the Prof. starts speaking.

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Make a Ruben's Tube and teach kids about sine waves, the fun way
Although I mentioned kids in the title, but I must warn you, this involves sound, fire and propane ...definitely NSFW and NSFH. Demonstration video over here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpovwbPGEoo

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The Amateur's Revenge
Harry Collins, a man with no formal training, submitted answers to 7 questions answered by himself and an specialist to a panel of gravitational-wave researchers. With a score of 1-7-1 the panel misjudged the amateur to be the expert. Since Collins has over 30 years of self study maybe they shouldn't have been startled by it.

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Written at 12:03 AM by Timewarrior
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Astronomers see inside a quasar for the first time
For the first time, astronomers have looked inside quasars -- the brightest objects in the universe -- and have seen evidence of black holes.

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String theory: Is it science's ultimate dead end?
The most ambitious idea ever outlined by scientists has suffered a remarkable setback. It has been dismissed as a theoretical cul-de-sac that has wasted the academic lives of hundreds of the world's cleverest men and women.

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Introduction to Lambda Calculus
Lambda Calculus is the theoretical basis for such functional programming language such as Lisp, Haskell, ML, O'Caml and many others

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David Deutsch- Lectures on Quantum Computation
This is a series of lectures designed as an introduction to the quantum theory of computation.David Deutsch is a physicist at Oxford University.He pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Edge of black hole
NASA scientists and their international partners using the new Japanese Suzaku satellite have collected a startling new set of black hole observations, revealing details of twisted space and warped time never before seen with such precision.

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Scientists make atomic clock breakthrough
University of Nevada, Reno researchers Andrei Derevianko, Kyle Beloy, and Ulyana Safronova sat down six months ago and began work on a calculation that will help the world keep better time.

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St. Louis Youth Plays Videogame With Brain Signals
A team of ECoG (ElectroCorticography) researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have successfully wired a young man's brain up to a computer and began reading the neurological firings in his brain. After reading and analyzing these signals, he was successfully able to play videogames using only his thoughts.

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How It's Made - CDs
Cool video of how CDs are made. Much more complicated than you would think.

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Canadian University Students Try to Build an Elevator to Outer Space
The University of British Columbia undergrads have spent more than 10,000 hours working on a robot that climbs a cable into the atmosphere.
One end is attached to the earth, the other to a dead weight several hundred kilometres up.
The team that comes up with a lift to carry the biggest payload in the fastest time wins the top prize of $150,000.

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Elements 116 and 118 Are Discovered
At the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, physicists (including collaborators from Lawrence Livermore National Lab in the United States) have sent a beam of calcium-48 ions into a target of californium-249 atoms to create temporarily a handful of atoms representing element 118.

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Panama Canal Cruise Ship
A timelapse video of a cruise ship transiting the Panama Canal.

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Math Haters Better at Math
Kids who are turned off by math often say they don't enjoy it, they aren't good at it and they see little point in it. Who knew that could be a formula for success? The nations with the best scores have the least happy, least confident math students, says a study by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy.

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Physics demo using the Verlet algorithm
Amazing java applet that that demonstrates the Verlet algorithm.

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
First Teleportation Between Light and Matter
At long last researchers have teleported the information stored in a beam of light into a cloud of atoms, which is about as close to getting beamed up by Scotty as we're likely to come in the foreseeable future.

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