Reuters: – NASA on Friday launched two research satellites to help scientists refine computer models that forecast the weather and chart global climate change
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Nuclear power plan getting a boost
Miami Herald: A plan to usher in more nuclear power in Florida has been put on the fast track in a sweeping energy bill moving through the Legislature.
University Clears Chinese Biophysicist of Misconduct
ScienceNow: The leader of a team hailed for the discovery of an antibiotic peptide has been absolved of wrongdoing by his employer. At a press conference last week, Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, announced that allegations of “scientific fabrication” against Qiu Xiao-Qing are unfounded, according to an investigation by a university expert group.
Berkeley scientist wins Fermi Award for energy work
Inside Bay Area: On Thursday, President Bush named the Berkeley resident, who turns 80 today, as the sole 2005 recipient of the coveted Enrico Fermi Award for ferreting out the kind of huge energy savings since the 1970s that have other scientists calling him the “grandfather of energy efficiency.”
Teachers Honor Einstein’s Work Aboard NASA’s ‘Weightless Wonder’
Yahoo!News: Six teams of high-school physics teachers will test experiments developed by their students aboard NASA’s C-9 aircraft, the “Weightless Wonder,” early next month. The experiments will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s discoveries.
Crunch time for Bell labs
Nature: A global merger will put the long-suffering Bell Labs through the wringer yet again. But could joint ownership benefit the world-famous facility in the long run? Kurt Kleiner investigates.
Physics in America at Crossroads and in Crisis, Panel Says
The New York Times: Physics in America is at a crossroads and in crisis, just as humanity stands on the verge of great discoveries about the nature of matter and the universe, a panel from the National Academy of Sciences said yesterday.
Yuval Ne’eman Dies at 80
ScienceNow: Yuval Ne’eman, one of the most colorful figures of modern science, died today at the age of 80. He was best known for the Eightfold Way classification of elementary particles, developed simultaneously with Murray Gell-Mann in the early 1960s, which helped bring order to the confused world of subatomic physics.
Experts debate hurricane warnings
Reuters: Weather forecasters need to do a better job of translating their scientific data about threatening hurricanes into better-understood warnings, several experts said at a conference on Tuesday.
NASA Chief Says Future Flights Will Force Cutbacks in Science
The New York Times: The ability to send humans into space after retiring the space shuttle is such a high priority for NASA that some space science must be sacrificed to help pay for it, the agency’s administrator, Michael D. Griffin, said Tuesday.