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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
 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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Friday, 27 October 2006 |
 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 data-entry process catches and corrects data errors in roughly
10 percent of journal articles entered in the system.
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Thursday, 28 September 2006 |
 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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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
 For 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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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
 A 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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