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Lindley Winslow is an experimental nuclear and particle physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Garching, Germany. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.Credit: Christopher Michel (CC BY-SA 4.0) I vividly remember the first time I read one of…
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Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World. She has more than 10 years of experience in science writing and editing in condensed-matter physics relating to technology/nanotechnology/biotechnology, astronomy and astrophysics, energy and the environment, biology and medicine. She…
Francis Halzen was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work pioneering neutrino astronomy Francis Halzen used to dread October. October is the month when the Nobel committees announce the winners of each year’s Nobel Prizes, and the theoretical physicist and…
Scientists searching for clues of extraterrestrial life may soon have a new way to examine one of biology’s most revealing chemical characteristics: living organisms’ preference for certain molecules over their nearly identical mirror images. An international research team has developed…
Halzen, 82, receives the full prize of 12 million Swedish kronor, about $1.2 million, and will accept it in Stockholm on Dec. 10, according to Physics World. The award honors a detector unlike any other on Earth. IceCube is not a dish or a…
UA.NEWS Study reveals abrupt climate changes at White Sands more than 20,000 years ago — Live Science A new study suggests that ancient people in the area of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, United States, may have witnessed rapid…
NORTH LOGAN, Utah — The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has selected Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory Director of Advanced Concepts Pat Patterson as a member of the Class of 2027 AIAA Associate Fellows, recognizing a nearly four-decade career advancing…
Above: Zoltan SternovskyHeader Image: Rendering of the New Horizons probe in space. Zoltan Sternovsky is the new principal investigator of the Student Dust Counter (SDC), an instrument aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Sternovsky is a professor in the Ann and…
Scientists have discovered a mysterious rock in eastern Papua New Guinea that traveled to the underworld roughly 4.4 million years ago. The story it has to tell is strange indeed. As the rock journeyed deeper into our planet's interior, pushed by…