The Woodstock of Physics: the 20th Anniversary | The famous session at the March 1987
meeting of the American Physical Society, earned its nickname
because of the rock-concert fervor inspired by the convergence of
dozens of reports all bearing on copper-oxide superconductors. The
20th anniversary of this singular event was celebrated this week at
the APS meeting in Denver.
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Web-based System Leads To Better, More Timely Data | After two years of work, an innovative project using Web-based
technologies to speed researcher access to a large body of new
scientific data has demonstrated that not only access to but also the
quality of the data has improved markedly. A new paper* on the
Web-enabled ThermoML thermodynamics global data exchange standard notes
that the...
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Location, Location, Location and Physics | Choosing the right location is one of the most important and
difficult decisions a business owner must make. You could rely on
pavement-pounding research, intuition, and a good real estate agent, or
you could turn to a new model that analyzes businesses in much the same
way that physicists model interactions between spinning atoms.
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