Scientists calculate how high heels can go
...e finally wanders off the UK's television screens, physicists at the Institute of Physics (London, UK) have devised a formula that high-heel fans can use to work out just how high they can go. Based on your shoe size, the formula tells you the maximum height of heel you can wear without toppling over or sufferi...Scientists seek cause for what makes good cell go bad
...nderstand individual variability. Like biologists, physicists also encounter widely fluctuating data in some of their experiments. This "noise" actually helps physicists determine the basic characteristics of conducting materials as electric signals travel through them....The physicists of antiquity called it one of nature's fundamental elements; third-graders know its chemical formula; and all known forms of life need it to exist. Yet what water really is at least in its liquid form is still, to a large extent, a mystery. A team ...Can you tell the difference between Quarks and DNA?
...s every day. Next week (Monday 5th April) nuclear physicists will gather in Edinburgh to discuss the latest advances in our understanding of these fundamental particles. The IoP Nuclear Physics Conference will examine the latest research into the nuclei of atoms what they are made up of, how they hold togeth...Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
...the field of molecular biology. Graduates included physicists Max Delbrueck and Leo Szilard and Stanford Nobel laureates Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg. ...DFG establishes first German-Sino Research Training Group
...experimental particle and nuclear physics, whereby physicists will be brought together with information specialists to explore particle physics, working with the most progressive design, simulation and analysis tools. In "Medial Historiographies", one of the newly established Research Training Groups in Germany...Teachers turn to Tolkein to explain physics
...n? Physics World columnist Robert Crease is asking physicists to vote for their greatest equations of all time. As the German physicist Heinrich Hertz once said, great equations are "wiser even than their discoverers [for] we get more out of them than was originally put into them". Crease's own view is that the......isciplines are emerging, and biologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians are forging interdisciplinary collaborations. Scientists trained to be outstanding researchers need to learn to be outstanding teachers. More minorities must be encouraged to pursue scientific careers. To help colleges meet thes...Tiny tango: Device sorts microscopic particles with speed and precision
In a remarkable collaboration between engineers, physicists and biologists, Princeton scientists have invented a device that rapidly sorts microscopic particles into extremely fine gradations of sizes, opening a range of potential uses. The researchers have used the device to sort particles ranging...Strengthening independent junior research groups in collaborative research centres
...re distributed is largely unknown. Meteorologists, physicists and chemists at the Universities of Frankfurt, Mainz and Darmstadt, as well as the Atmospheric Chemistry Department of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, will study the development and characteristics of ice particles, their effect on d...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2004
...inely used by Oak Ridge National Laboratory health physicists to do radiation measurements are helping University of Tennessee researchers determine the age of anthropological finds. A Dosimetry Applications Research Calibration Laboratory team is using radiation testing equipment to date finds such as a bovid ...Ecologist calls for creation of an international panel to assess human behavior
...me,''' he said, referring to the all-out effort by physicists during World War II to design and build a nuclear bomb. ''I am privileged to be at Stanford, one of the very best universities,'' he added, ''and yet more than three decades of effort by small groups of faculty and a few administrators have failed to...Virus known for its photo ops makes its movie screen debut
...ciplines, especially with biologists, chemists and physicists increasingly working side by side." As a step in that direction, Rossmann said he hopes that he and his colleagues will be able to obtain a better picture of the components within the tiny mechanism that is the baseplate. "Our knowledge of the orie...Discovery of new shrimp species adds to unique family
...mplosion creates light, a mechanism that intrigues physicists and biologists alike. Other varieties of alpheid shrimp live in colonies, much like termites; still others have symbiotic relationships with goby fish, which protect the shrimp while they build burrows underwater. They then share the burrow. But wh...Maine-based biophysics institute gets funding for first US-based 4Pi nanoscale microscope
...onfident that this fruitful collaboration with the physicists in the IMB will reveal many as yet unsuspected discoveries of value to the medical community." The National Science Foundation grant for the acquisition of the 4Pi also includes funding for a specialized microscopist, most likely a physicist, to anal...