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How the Proton Get its Spin? |
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Written by MIT
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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At a meeting this week of the American Physical Society in Washington, MIT Associate Professor of Physics Bernd Surrow reported on new results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) that provide a better understanding of the internal structure of the proton, the basic building block of all nuclei.
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Multiracial Adoption Study Suggests Ways to Build the Multicultural Family |
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Written by University of Chicago
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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While many people who are adopted by members of another race still identify as black or mixed race, many lack the community and cultural connections with others who share those same identities. New research in the journal Family Process suggests that adopted children of mixed–race parents need early and ongoing experiences within the cultural communities of their origin, and with other multiracial adopted persons, to help them to build healthy cultural identities. |
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County Health Rankings Expanded from Wisconsin to all 50 States |
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Written by University of Wisconsin
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Madison, Wisconsin, and Princeton, N.J. - Where we live matters to our health. A first-of-its-kind report by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation highlights this fact. The County Health Rankings, a collection of 50 reports - one per state - ranks all counties within each state on their overall health. |
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Ability to Navigate May Be Linked to Genes |
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Written by John Hopkins University
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Imagine that you are emerging from the subway and heading for your destination when you realize that you are going in the wrong direction. For a moment, you feel disoriented, but a scan of landmarks and the layout of the surrounding streets quickly helps you pinpoint your location, and you make it to your appointment with time to spare. |
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Quantum Logic Clock Now World’s Most Precise Clock |
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Written by NIST
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world’s most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous pacesetter based on a mercury atom. The new aluminum clock would neither gain nor lose a second in about 3.7 billion years, according to measurements to be reported in a forthcoming issue of Physical Review Letters.* |
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Written by NIST
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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If hydrogen is ever to play a significant role as a clean, everyday energy source, it will need a safe and reliable distribution system. To pave the way for a hydrogen fuel infrastructure, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder Labs recently launched the largest hydrogen test facility in the United States... |
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What Your Car Is Telling You When It Whines, Creaks, or Squeals |
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Written by Consumer Reports
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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When your car thumps, pings, and hisses it’s hard to tell if you should take your car to the mechanic or not, so Consumer Reports has identified what noises drivers should turn down the radio for. |
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Scientists Map Genetic Regulatory Elements for the Heart |
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Written by NIH
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Scientists have devised a new computational model that can be used to reveal genetic regulatory elements responsible for development of the human heart and maintenance of its function. |
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Nobel Laureate Marshall Nirenberg Dies at 82 |
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Written by NLM
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 |
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg, an internationally recognized scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for deciphering the genetic code, died of cancer at his home in New York City on January 15. He was 82 years old. |
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Valentine Advice by Jackie Papandrew |
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Written by Jackie Papandrew
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Sunday, 14 February 2010 |
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 If you are one of those carbon-based life forms burdened by the Y chromosome (also known as men), you are probably still mourning the end of football season. Well, snap out of it, man! Something far more important is coming up. Yes, it’s almost Valentine’s Day! You had no idea, right? For some reason, they decided to hold it on February 14th this year, so you can certainly be excused for not remembering.
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