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The Woodstock of Physics: the 20th Anniversary PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007
The Woodstock of PhysicsThe 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 PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 27 October 2006
ThermoML logoAfter 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 data-entry process catches and corrects data errors in roughly 10 percent of journal articles entered in the system.
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Location, Location, Location and Physics PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 28 September 2006
Lyon map of storesChoosing 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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Complete Archive of the Royal Society Journals PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006
Philosophical Transactions 1665For the first time, the Royal Society is making the complete archive of its journals freely available online. For a two month period, the public will be able to access scientific papers going back to 1665, when Henry Oldenburg published Philosophical Transactions, the first-ever peer-reviewed journal in the English language.
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Textbook Free for All: Wiki-like Project PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006
ImageA new wiki-project has been started at the University of Georgia, which aims to pool knowledge in free online texts. It's an effort to pool the knowledge of university professors and students around the globe and produce 1,000 university textbooks using wiki technology. The books will span undergraduate subjects from biology to literature to computer science.
There are millions of university teachers around the world and tens of millions of students, whose knowledge could be put to greater use, says project instigator Rick Watson at the University of Georgia in Athens. Countless essays and assignments are currently consigned to the waste bin. "It's an untapped intellectual resource."
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