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365 Days of Astronomy needs your help Discover Magazine Share    
365 Days of Astronomy is a user-driven podcast, where listeners themselves record the episodes with daily updates of personal stories of astronomy and science. The podcast is in desperate need of submissions and funding. 365 DoA is a great venue to not only educate people about astronomy, but to get them personally involved. More
Solar flare activity prompting NASA to convene a news briefing Aug. 18 in Washington SOTT.net Share
Increasing solar activity and the threat that coronal mass ejections pose to Earth has prompted NASA to convene a news briefing at its headquarter building in Washington at 2 p.m. EDT April 18. The briefing has been arranged in light of new information coming from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, spacecraft and other NASA probes. The briefing will be webcast live via NASA TV. More Darkest exoplanet spotted by astronomers BBC Science News Share
The Jupiter-sized planet is orbiting its star at a distance of just 5 million kilometers, and is likely to be at a temperature of some 1,200 C. The planet may be too hot to support reflective clouds like those we see in our own solar system, but even that would not explain why it is so dark. There may be an overabundance of gaseous sodium or titanium dioxide, or some other exotic chemistry that absorbs light on the planet. The finding will be reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. More
Argonne team develops novel X-ray lens PhysOrg.com Share
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has developed the new "multilayer Laue lens." This lens focuses high-energy X-rays so tightly they can detect objects as small as 15 nanometers in size and is in principle capable of focusing to well below 10 nanometers. More New STM experiments resolve the nodal structure of individual orbitals of single organic molecules American Physical Society Share
Leo Gross of IBM-Zürich and collaborators at the University of Liverpool have reported in Physical Review Letters a new scanning tunneling microscope experiment that directly visualizes the nodal structure of molecular electronic states. With the potential to reveal chemical identity, bonding and structure in molecules, the new technique allows STM to become as useful for imaging in chemistry as it is in physics. More
The Daya Bay Reactor neutrino experiment begins taking data Brookhaven National Lab Share
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has begun recording interactions of antineutrinos as they travel away from the powerful reactors of the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group in southern China. The startup of the Daya Bay experiment marks the first step in the international effort of the Daya Bay Collaboration to measure a crucial quantity related to tau neutrino oscillation, in which electron-flavored neutrinos morph into electron and muon neutrinos. More SPIE launches blog to gather comment on Harnessing Light update SPIE Share
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has launched a new blog, "Harnessing Minds," to provide the photonics community with an open online forum for comment to provide input to the U.S. National Academies update of its 1998 study, Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st century. The blog extends to everyone in the photonics community the opportunity to help design the future of photonics. The Harnessing Minds blog complements live town-hall style events being held at SPIE events including the upcoming Optics + Photonics symposium in San Diego. That session is scheduled for 5:30-7 p.m. PDT Aug. 22 in the San Diego Convention Center, and is open to the public. More
MeerKAT radio telescope a step closer Tech Central Share
An international panel of experts has declared that the South Africa's 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope has passed its "preliminary design review" with "distinction." The latest review was carried out in Cape Town, South Africa, by a panel consisting of radio astronomers from India, the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, Chile and Australia. The panel was convened to evaluate all aspects of the design of MeerKAT, the system engineering development process, risk potential and satisfaction of user requirements. More
Nokia joins partnership for Africa's SKA telescope bid Business Day Share
South Africa's Department of Science and Technology has signed a memorandum of understanding with another global corporation — this time with Nokia — in an effort to bolster Africa's Square Kilometer Array bid. The Nokia agreement includes nine initiatives that fall into four separate categories — with a strong focus on education and entrepreneurship. Nokia will support the Mobile Learning for Maths and Nokia Education Delivery, which aid the delivery of educational material via wireless networks as content on TV at schools. More
arXiv celebrates its 20th birthday Nature Share
Started in 1991 as a preprint sharing medium for high energy physicists, arXiv has evolved into a Web resource that now contains close to 700,000 full texts, receives 75,000 new texts each year and serves roughly 1 million full-text downloads to about 400,000 distinct users every week. Launched before any conventional journals were online, arXiv pioneered many of the tools now taken for granted. It may very well be one of the most important innovations ever for leveling the playing field in scientific research. More
Another anniversary in physics: The Rutherford Model of the Atom is 100 Years Old Wired Share
Physics professor and Wired blogger, Rhett Allain, gives a short history of models of the atom. More
Articles in Nature and Science foresee slightly deferred pain for federal science funding Physics Today Share
Though the presidential election could change everything, science policy analysts are predicting that science agencies could be devastated by automatic cuts in 2013. Nature sees a worst case of "shuttered laboratories and mass lay-offs at universities that would get even worse in 2014. More
Groups call for scientists to engage the body politic The New York Times Share
The National Academy of Sciences is starting a Science Ambassador Program in which researchers will be recruited and trained to speak out on their areas of expertise. Separately, a five-year-old nonprofit group called Scientists and Engineers for America offers guidance and encouragement to researchers considering a run for public office — from local school boards to the House and Senate. This year, former U.S. Congressmen Vern Ehlers and Bill Foster, two of the three physicists that served in the last Congress, formed a bipartisan political action committee they called Ben Franklin's List, whose goal was to offer engineers and scientists the credibility and money they need to win office. More
National Society of Black Physicists jobs board postings NSBP Share
NASSP Honors and Masters Programs (Closing date: Sept. 30) Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Auburn University Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Theoretical Space Physics Assoc. SRF Group Leader (Sr. Research Assoc) 4 Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Experimental and Computational Condensed Matter Physics Faculty Position in Experimental Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Program Manager Antartic Research Logistics Integration KICP Postdoctoral Research Fellow South African Research Chairs Project Officer: IAU Global Office of Astronomy for Development (3 Year Contract) Faculty Position in Theoretical Solid State Physics APS Scholarship Program for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors HBCU STEM Fellowship Program National Astrophysics and Space Science Program Visiting Professor Postdoctoral Research Associate Positions Advice for graduate students Inside Higher Education Steven Stearns offers some insight and advice for graduate students. Know thyself and know thy advisor. More More advice for graduate students Inside Higher Education So much comes down to good writing skills. Steven Stearns offers some tips on how to write well and write strategically. More Overcoming the imposter syndrome About.com At one time or another nearly every graduate student and new faculty member wonders about his or her competence. This is a common fear often referred to as the impostor syndrome. The impostor syndrome runs rampant in academia — and women are especially prone to it. How do you get over the impostor syndrome? Easier said than done. More Ready. Set. Go. Transitioning from college to graduate school GradSchools.com Compared to your undergraduate education, graduate school is faster paced. Professors expect a lot of work to be done, and there's a lot less hand-holding. More
Latest research from the Journal of Geophysical Research — Space Physics Journal of Geophysical Research — Space Physics Share
Effect of thermospheric contraction on remediation of the near-Earth space debris environment
Energetic storm particle events in coronal mass ejection–driven shocks Cassini dust stream particle measurements during the first three orbits at Saturn Optical signatures of lightning-induced electron precipitation More Latest research from the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter IOP Journal Share
  Charge transport in ultrathin iron-phthalocyanine thin films under high electric fields Temperature dependences of piezoelectric, elastic and dielectric constants of L-alanine crystal Surface defects and temperature on atomic friction Connectedness percolation in monodisperse rod systems: clustering effects The effect of prolonged irradiation on defect production and ordering in Fe–Cr and Fe–Ni alloys More |
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