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Science News
October 12, 2002 |
From the October 8, 1932, issue Autumn Brings Nobility Even to Cornfield Weeds... Cosmic Rays May be Emitted When Magnetic Poles Combine... Milk Pasteurized by Conducting Electricity...   |
Science News
January 11, 2003 |
TimeLine: January 7, 1933 Atom building keeps stars shining, says A.A.A.S. Head... Millikan and Compton debate cosmic-ray facts and theories... Growth of plants stimulated by proper x-ray treatment |
Science News
March 9, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 5, 1932 Weird leather costumes protect electric workers... Neutron, atomic brick, may solve mystery of cosmic rays... Solid matter composed of numerous atoms in blocks... |
Science News
June 22, 2002 |
TimeLine: June 18, 1932 Muddy mississippi yields pearls that rival orient's... Carbon dioxide discovered in atmosphere of Venus... Cosmic rays caused by solar activity, says French physicist... |
Science News
June 30, 2007 |
Timeline: From the June 26, 1937, issue Guereza monkeys source of fashionable fur... New theory on cosmic-ray origin offered by physicists... Oxygen face tent for pilots advocated as safety measure... |
Science News
June 30, 2001 |
TimeLine: June 27, 1931 Larger mercury vapor electric generating unit being built... Electron waves will reveal struture of crystals... Alpha particle tetrahedrons build up atom nucleus... |
Science News
December 11, 2004 |
From the December 8, 1934, Issue Goose Barnacles Exist, Though Not Hatching Geese... Elements in Earth's Crust Caused by Cosmic Rays... Cosmic Rays Deflected in Strong Electric Fields... |
Science News
September 28, 2002 |
TimeLine: September 24, 1932 Prehistoric rock forts found on barren arctic island... Five digits are too many for auto license tags... Another step taken toward absolute zero... New atomic particle suggested by experiments... |
Science News
June 14, 2003 |
TimeLine: June 10, 1933 Brainlike stalagmites found in Maryland cave... Matter created experimentally from light and cosmic rays... Contents of "empty space" revealed by colors of nebulae |
Science News
March 1, 2003 |
TimeLine: February 25, 1933 Adam and Eve in the oldest city... 'Positron' confirmed as new particle of matter... Two new kinds of mercury discovered by Briton |
Science News
May 10, 2003 |
TimeLine: May 6, 1933 America's falcon poses against perfect background... Earth, like sun, has corona, study of aurora demonstrates... Drs. Compton and Millikan agree on experiements |
Science News
December 6, 2003 |
TimeLine: December 2, 1933 Scientists unleash largest atom-attacking machine... 10,000 observations yield new cosmic ray theories |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
Saswato R. Das |
Killer Electrons From Outer Space Accurate space-weather forecasts could come from knowing the cause of super-fast electrons in the Van Allen belts. |
Science News
December 15, 2001 |
TimeLine: December 12, 1931 Science at the world's crossroads... Filterable germ forms seen with new super-microscope... Speedy particles released as cosmic rays smash atoms... |
Science News
July 22, 2006 |
Timeline: From the July 18, 1936, Issue Model Indicates Cosmic Ray Path About the Earth... Blue Light Causes Plants to Bend Toward Each Other... Danger of Being Struck by Lightning is Very Slight... |
Science News
May 13, 2006 |
From the May 9, 1936, Issue Scientists Describe Design of Fortress for Atom Study... New Weapon Against Cancer Possible in Neutron Ray... Scientist Predicts Nature of Communication of Future... |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Weaker Solar Wind Won't Slow Global Warming, May Threaten Astronauts If a spacecraft keeps chugging along for long enough, eventually it may find something startling. |
Science News
November 24, 2001 |
TimeLine: November 21, 1931 Turkeys... Artificial gamma radiation approximates cosmic rays... Sex difference in oxygen need for tissues discovered... |
Science News
July 14, 2007 |
Timeline: From the July 10, 1937, issue Eggs of opossum photographed to show earliest life stages... Odd-sized subatomic unit suggests universe not uniform... Apes taught to use gestures to enlist aid in joint task... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
Barry E. DiGregorio |
New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope to Launch Set to launch on 3 June, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope will explore the universe's most powerful phenomena |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Erin Biba |
Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly Scientists discovered a signal that solar windstorms are on the way and some are predicting that at its peak (in about four years) things are gonna get nasty. |
Science News
April 29, 2006 |
From the April 25, 1936, Issue War Tower in Bible Was "Old-Fashioned" Even Then... Chemists Debate Value of Alcohol Blend for Car Fuel... Atoms and Cosmic Rays Yield New Science Knowledge... |
Science News
July 3, 2004 |
From the June 30, 1934, Issue Sight is Wealth Even to Humblest... Cosmic Rays Are Declared Principally Particles... Smoke and Soot Reveal Air Currents on Airplane... |
Science News
October 16, 2004 |
From the October 13, 1934, Issue Scientists Study a Wingless Rooster... Artificial Radioelements for Medicine... Annihilation of Matter Seen as Cause of Cosmic Rays... |
Industrial Physicist
Dec 2003/Jan 2004
Dawn Lenz |
Understanding and predicting space weather When streams of charged particles from the sun interact with the Earth's magnetic field, there can be serious consequences for electrical power grids, communications networks (radio, television, and telephone), and satellite operations. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Spencer Klein |
IceCube: The Polar Particle Hunter Searching Antarctica for the frozen paths of cosmic-ray neutrinos |
Science News
November 24, 2007 |
Timeline: From the November 20, 1937, Issue Nobel Prizes Are Awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine... Petroleum Chemists Told of Need for Basic Research... Can Now Send Pictures by Dots and Dashes... |
Science News
May 31, 2003 |
TimeLine: May 27, 1933 Crystal wonderland... First chemical evidence of artificial transmutation... Positive and negative electrons apparently produced in pairs |
Science News
February 22, 1930 |
TimeLine: Feb. 22, 1930 Science from 1930: electricity, climate, sun spots |
Science News
September 1, 2001 |
From the August 29, 1931, issue Huge Generators Yield Beauty to Photographer... Sky's Blue Believed Caused by Electron Streams From Sun... Intensely Sweet Substance Insipid After Splitting... |
Science News
January 29, 2005 |
From the January 26, 1935, Issue Rolling Supplants Casting in Making Giant Flywheel... Long-Distance Plane Flights Will go to High Altitudes... 600-Billion-Volt Cosmic Rays Predicted... |
Science News
August 3, 2002 |
TimeLine: July 30, 1932 Layman takes great interest in viewing total eclipse |
Science News
December 21, 2002 |
TimeLine: December 17 & 24, 1932 Beauty frozen in glass serves cause of science... Cosmic rays are photons, Dr. Millikan declares... Intoxicating drink cannot be scientifically defined now... Twig's growth shown by huge automatic model... Achievements in 1932... etc. |
Science News
April 13, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 9, 1932 issue Spiders' eggs form pattern like mosaic of pebbles... Super-sensitivity of new research tool is confirmed... Light velocity is key to other numerical constants... European scientists study neutron, latest atomic part... |
Science News
June 24, 2006 |
From the June 20, 1936, issue Lightning portrait repays patience of photographer... Stars and comets affected by cosmic radiation... Helium suggested as new preventive of "the bends"... |
Science News
December 1, 2007 |
Timeline: From the November 27, 1937, issue Atom smasher... First estimate of size of new subatomic particle... Past climatic changes shown by pollen in bogs... |
Science News
August 26, 2006 |
Timeline: From the August 22, 1936, Issue Camera Stops the Wings of Hummingbird in Flight... New Cosmic-Ray Device Nears Completion at u. Of Chicago... Meteorites Contain Large Amounts of Rare Metals... |
Science News
July 5, 2003 |
From the July 1, 1933, issue Seven mummies from Texas cave brought to Smithsonian... Successes in atom smashing evaluated by Dr. Millikan... Atomic bombardment breaks up more elements |
Technology Research News
January 26, 2005 |
The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter. |
Science News
September 2, 2006 |
Timeline: From the August 29, 1936, issue Modern science helps to combat forest fire menace... Milky Way still in infancy judging by mass radiated... New kind of atom destruction found in Pike's Peak tests... |
Technology Research News
August 11, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Chips measure electron spin Practical quantum computers are at least a decade away, and some researchers are betting that they will never be built. But a pair of recent experiments may prove them wrong. |
Chemistry World
May 25, 2011
James Urquhart |
Electron remains stubbornly spherical UK scientists have made the most accurate measurements to date of the shape of the electron and found - contrary to predictions that it would be aspherical - that it remains round. |
Science News
August 24, 2002 |
TimeLine: August 20, 1932 Hydrogen remakes petroleum into more useful products... Children do not prefer parent of the opposite sex... Cosmic ray study is first in importance for Piccard... |
Science News
September 1, 2007 |
Timeline: From the August 28, 1937, issue Foresters strive to save notable giant cycad tree... Strange light emitted by over-speed electrons... New vitamin B factor discovered at Wisconsin... |
Science News
July 8, 2006 |
Timeline: From the July 4, 1936, Issue Tiny Transparent Balloons Probe Stratosphere Secrets... Hope Neutron Rays May Prove More Efficient Than x-Rays... Chemistry Makes Dry Bones Reveal Ancients' Blood Types... |
Technology Research News
December 19, 2005 |
Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits. |
Science News
March 18, 2006 |
From the March 14, 1936, Issue Moving Giant Telescope Disk Provides a Problem... Neutrons, Tool of Physics, Deadly Biological Menace... |
Science News
September 21, 2002 |
TimeLine: September 17, 1932 Another great wall... Chimpanzee excels baby in several mental tests... Discovery of new energy form predicted |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
Lieven Vandersypen |
Dot-to-Dot Design Researchers are connecting tiny puddles of electrons in a chip and making them compute -- the quantum way. |
Science News
October 9, 2004 |
From the October 6, 1934, Issue Glass Model Shows How Rotifer Feeds... Anthrax, Gasoline Poisoning Seen as Health Hazards... Cosmic Rays and Ozone Layer Studied in New Flights... |
