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Wesleyan To Host Innovation In Arts and Science Symposium
Hartford CourantWesleyan University presents the symposium “Innovations: Intersection of Art and Science” on Thursday, Feb. 28 and Friday, March 1 on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown. The event, which will focus on the themes of research, teaching and...Tags: Wesleyan University, Virginia Tech, Arts, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture
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James Webb Space Telescope squeezing budget, NASA official says
Astronomers may have to brace for a much humbler astrophysics mission following the planned launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018, a NASA official told a ballroom full of astronomers Tuesday. Under current budget constraints and with future...
Tags: NASA, Electronics, X-rays, Science and Technology, Budgets and Budgeting
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River Hill team hoping for repeat in international robotics competition
When students in River Hill High School's Advanced Computer Science classes entered a worldwide high school robotics competition last year that involved programming International Space Station satellites, they figured their chances of winning were...
Tags: Brevard County, Schools, Satellite Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DARPA
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Hopkins researchers readying for blast-off in study of early galaxy growth
Room 110 of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy bears a special name on the placard outside: Rocket Room.
Inside, tiny screws, metal clamps, screwdrivers, power drills and colored zip ties cover tables and shelves, the...Tags: U.S. Army, Financial Aid, Satellite Technology, Emergency Incidents, Technology
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Jones High alum wins National Medal of Science from the White House
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelJones High School alum Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr., an MIT-educated physicist and University of Maryland physics professor, has won the highest honor the United States government gives to scientists. Gates is one of 12 researchers awarded the National... -
Astronomer asks physicists what drives them to search universe
Hunting for dark matter and dark energy might seem like a losing game to the layperson. Why look for such strange, mysterious stuff, given the heavy costs to build instruments to find them and the seemingly slim chances of discovery? Turns out...
Tags: Science and Technology, Manufacturing and Engineering, Astronomy, Heavy Engineering
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OMBN fiber optic network now in works in Washington County
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comThe One Maryland Broadband Network (OMBN), a planned 1,294-mile high-speed fiber optic network that will link more than 1,000 government facilities and community “anchor institutions” across the state, is now in the works in Washington County....Tags: Science and Technology, Technology, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Marketing
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UCF plans to build optics lab on campus
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelThe University of Central Florida is planning to build an optics laboratory where faculty and students would research and manufacture materials for high-powered lasers and other equipment used in the high-tech fields of optics and photonics. A committee... -
Climate change won't wait
Societal change usually happens slowly, even once it's clear there's a problem. That's because, in a country as big as the United States, public opinion moves in leisurely currents. Change often requires going up against powerful, established interests,...
Tags: Global Warming, Gays and Lesbians, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Same-Sex Marriage, Middlebury
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Hopkins research offers Pa. woman new arm, 14 years after amputation
Over the 14 years since losing her right arm to a hollow-point bullet, Dana Burke was convinced she could feel herself pointing, pinching or waving as she motioned with the 5-inch-long limb the attack left behind.
Still, she had to relearn how to pull...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, CBS Corp., Injuries and Wounds, DARPA, Medical Research
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Howard H. Seliger, Hopkins biology professor
Howard H. Seliger, a retired Johns Hopkins University biology professor who fulfilled a childhood fascination with fireflies by later investigating the science behind their light-making properties, died of coronary artery disease Dec. 20 at his Mount...Tags: Chemistry, Standards, Washington, DC, University of Maryland, College Park, Purdue University
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'The Particle at the End of the Universe' gets real
-------------------- The Particle at the End of the Universe How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World Sean Carroll Dutton: 352 pp., $27.95 -------------------- On July 4, 2012, at the CERN laboratory in Geneva —...Tags: Philosophy, Large Hadron Collider Experiments, Paleontology, Science and Technology, Religion and Belief
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