Released: 22-Sep-2005 8:35 AM EDT
Optics Meeting: Fingerprints, Einstein, Explosives and More
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

1) Lifting fingerprints without touching the surface; 2) Detecting Alzheimer's early by looking in the eye; 3) Capturing natural lighting in computer-animated movies.

Released: 14-Oct-2005 12:10 PM EDT
Acoustics News -- Multimedia
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

How many people do airplanes wake up nightly? How different must two drug names sound to prevent doctors and patients from confusing them? What sound can bacteria generate to help workers monitor waste-management equipment? These questions and others will be answered at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

Released: 7-Nov-2005 2:40 PM EST
Mathematicians Predict 2005 Cy Young Winners
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Husband-and-wife team combine love of baseball, math to predict sportswriters' voting results.

Released: 11-Nov-2005 8:45 AM EST
2005 Cy Young Winners Correctly Predicted by Mathematical Model
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A mathematical model predicting the Cy Young award yielded both of the 2005 winners, Chris Carpenter and Bartolo Colon. But the inventors made a small human error they would later regret: before the awards, they overrode the model's AL prediction, choosing Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera rather than the model's choice, Colon"”the actual winner.

Released: 30-Nov-2005 4:10 PM EST
Optical Vortex - Trying to Look at Extrasolar Planets Directly
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. By "nulling" out the light of the parent star by exploiting the light's wave nature, remaining reflected light from the planet can be observed in space-based detectors.

Released: 20-Dec-2005 1:50 PM EST
Scientists, Teachers, Clergy Hail Court Ruling
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A decision in US federal court today ruled that the concept of "Intelligent Design" does not belong in public school science classrooms. the strong peer-reviewed science of evolution does not conflict with religious belief, many scientists assert, but science belongs in science classes, while religious concepts should be discussed elsewhere.

Released: 18-Jan-2006 7:45 PM EST
Call for Entries: Acoustics Writing Awards
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The Acoustical Society of America sponsors two annual awards for outstanding popular works on acoustics. One is for a popular piece on acoustics composed by a journalist and the other is for a popular piece on acoustics composed by an acoustics professional.

Released: 25-Jan-2006 2:05 PM EST
Senators Send Bills to Increase Science Funding, Competitiveness
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Three Senate bills would substantially increase federal investments in physical science research and education, increase tax incentives for industry to invest in research and development, and establish a new class of student visas for doctoral candidates studying math, engineering, technology and science.

Released: 13-Feb-2006 2:20 PM EST
Internet Television, E-science and Optical Monitoring of Structural Health
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Researchers will announce some of the latest breakthroughs and innovations in optics-based communications at OFC/NFOEC 2006--the largest and most comprehensive international event for optical communications.

Released: 9-Mar-2006 2:40 PM EST
Deadlines Extended for Two AIP Science Writing Awards
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Deadlines have been extended for two American Institute of Physics Science Writing Awards: those for journalist-written books and for broadcast media pieces in physics, astronomy and related fields.

Released: 9-May-2006 5:00 PM EDT
Animal, Phone, Privacy and Sports Acoustics News -- And More
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

1) How does the hearing health of today's adults compare to those of thirty years ago?; 2) How can echoes disrupt offensive chants at a sporting event?; 3) How does the bowing technique of expert violinists differ from that of amateurs? These and other questions will be addressed at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

Released: 24-May-2006 4:15 PM EDT
US Hearing Health, Better Telephone Speech
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Which US groups have the best and worst hearing? How have researchers improved cell-phone sound quality without changing the existing infrastructure? These questions and more will be answered in a web pressroom and a press luncheon for the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Providence, RI.

Released: 13-Jun-2006 5:10 PM EDT
Non-Hispanic Blacks Have Best Hearing in U.S.
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Non-Hispanic black adults in the US have on average the best hearing in the nation, a new study shows, with women hearing better than men in general. Overall, the nation's hearing health remains about the same as it was 35 years ago, despite massive changes in society and technology.

Released: 27-Jun-2006 12:00 AM EDT
Making Radioactive Scorpion Venom Therapy Safe
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Health physicists are establishing safe procedures for a promising experimental brain-cancer therapy which uses radioactive scorpion venom. The venom of the yellow Israeli scorpion preferentially attaches to the cells of a type of essentially incurable brain cancers known as gliomas. This preference can be exploited to killing brain cancer cells non-invasively. Information about the study will be presented this week at the Health Physics Society meeting in Providence, RI.

Released: 14-Jul-2006 4:45 PM EDT
Scanner Darkly Blurs Lines between Programming and Artistry
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A Scanner Darkly, opening in theaters nationwide today, uses old techniques in a new way to make other-worldly effects pop on the picture screen. Thanks to advances in digital technology and an old animation process called rotoscoping, moviemakers can make motion picture film or video of real, live actors appear as dreamlike as an animation classic.

Released: 17-Jul-2006 8:50 AM EDT
Physics Students Bring Home Gold
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Every U.S. student sent to the 2006 International Physics Olympiad held this year in Nanyang University in Singapore, will bring home a medal, and four of those are gold.

Released: 24-Jul-2006 3:55 PM EDT
Google-Like Process for Breast Images Speeds Up Computer's Second Opinions
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

To help computers provide faster "second opinions" on mammogram images showing suspicious-looking breast masses, medical physicists at Duke University are employing a Google-like approach that retrieves useful information from an existing mammogram database within three seconds.

Released: 24-Jul-2006 4:05 PM EDT
Radiation-Armed Robot Rapidly Destroys Human Lung Tumors
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Super-intense radiation delivered by a robotic arm eradicated lung tumors in some human patients just 3-4 months after treatment, medical physicist Cihat Ozhasoglu, Ph.D. of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will report in early August at the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Orlando.

Released: 15-Aug-2006 6:40 PM EDT
Atoms Looser than Expected
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

By studying how a single electron behaves inside an electronic bottle, Harvard physicists were able to calculate (six times more precisely than the previous measurements) a new value for a number called the fine structure constant, which specifies the strength of the electromagnetic force, which holds electrons inside atoms.

Released: 17-Aug-2006 3:40 PM EDT
Splitting Light with Artificial Muscles Could Bring New Generation of Color Displays
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Scientists have unveiled a new technology that could lead to video displays that faithfully reproduce a fuller range of colors than current models, giving a life-like viewing experience. The invention, based on fine-tuning light using microscopic artificial muscles, could turn into consumer products in eight years, the scientists say.

Released: 14-Sep-2006 3:55 PM EDT
Optical Society of America's 90th annual meeting, Frontiers in Optics 2006
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The Optical Society of America's 90th annual meeting, Frontiers in Optics 2006, will feature innovations and solutions based on optical sciences. It is a joint meeting with a laser sciences group which will also present timely research and discoveries in laser science.

Released: 18-Sep-2006 9:00 AM EDT
On Airplanes, Fiber Optics Poised to Reach New Heights
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

In an effort to provide safer and more reliable components for aircraft, researchers have invented an optical on-off switch that can replace electrical wiring on airplanes with fiber optics for controlling elevators, rudders, and other flight-critical elements. The technology also has potential applications on the nation's highways, as a "weigh-in-motion" sensor for measuring the weight of fast-moving commercial trucks without requiring them to stop on a scale.

Released: 11-Oct-2006 6:30 PM EDT
Physicists and Geophysicists Available to Speak on N. Korea Nuke Test
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Physicists with technologies to identify furtive nuclear tests and geophysicists who know about nuclear test detection via seismology are available for comment.

Released: 15-Oct-2006 12:45 PM EDT
Physicist's Snowflake Images Get Stuck
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Physicist Kenneth Libbrecht's snowflake images have gotten stuck--on a stamp. Last week the United States Postal Service issued four new 39-cent commemorative postage stamps based on Libbrecht's high-resolution microscope images of snowflakes.

Released: 27-Oct-2006 5:10 PM EDT
The Fastest Waves Ever Photographed
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Waves traveling at about 99.997% the speed of light seen for the first time ever and recorded on film.

Released: 3-Nov-2006 9:00 AM EST
Holiday Products Guide: All I Want Is... Physics?
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The science behind a few holiday gifts for the geek on your list.

6-Nov-2006 12:00 AM EST
Wireless Energy Transfer Can Potentially Charge Cell Phones Without Cords
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Recharging your laptop computer -- and also your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets -- might one day be doable in the same convenient way many people now surf the Web: wirelessly. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team will present research on the physics of electromagnetic fields, showing how wireless energy could power future gadgets.

Released: 28-Nov-2006 3:20 PM EST
Noise-Immune Stethoscope Helps Medics Hear Vital Signs in Loud Environments
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A new type of stethoscope enables doctors to hear the sounds of the body in extremely loud situations, such as during the transportation of wounded soldiers in Blackhawk helicopters.

Released: 4-Dec-2006 1:35 PM EST
Ray Charles Really Did Have That Swing, According to New Analysis
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Ray Charles was really good at snapping, says musical acoustician Kenneth Lindsay of Southern Oregon University in Ashland. According to a new computer analysis, Charles's snaps that open his famous song "Fever" with Natalie Cole are timed so well that he is never more than 5 milliseconds off the tight beat, a new study shows.

Released: 6-Dec-2006 3:50 PM EST
Top Physics Stories of 2006
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The discovery that atoms are held together by looser forces than expected is the top physics story of the year, according to the editors of Physics News Update, the weekly bulletin of research news published by the American Institute of Physics.

Released: 18-Dec-2006 5:30 PM EST
American Institute of Physics Names New Executive Director
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

H. Frederick Dylla has been selected to be the next Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a not-for-profit organization which publishes scientific journals and provides a wide range of services for individual scientists, students, the general public, and its ten Member Societies devoted to physics and related sciences.

Released: 10-Jan-2007 2:40 PM EST
High School Physics Enrollment Hits Record High
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

More U.S. high-school students are taking physics than ever before, and the number of physics bachelor's degree recipients in the nation has increased 31 percent since 2000, according to new data presented today by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). In addition, physics bachelor's degree recipients are eight times more likely to go on to earn any kind of PhD than those with non-physics bachelor's, the new data show.

Released: 16-Jan-2007 7:00 PM EST
Einstein's Tea Leaves Inspire New Blood Separation Technique
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Scientists at Monash University in Australia have developed a process for rapidly and efficiently separating blood plasma at the microscopic level without any moving parts, potentially allowing doctors to do blood tests without sending samples to a laboratory. The technique employs the same principle that Einstein explained when observing the separation of tea leaves in a stirred teacup.

Released: 1-Feb-2007 2:50 PM EST
Climate Report Marks New Era in Global Warming Battle, Science Historian Says
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Tomorrow will be an important day in the history of humankind's battle against global warming, says a science historian at the American Institute of Physics. "For the first time, society is taking scientific predictions like this seriously. We should congratulate ourselves for not only paying attention but taking serious action."

Released: 9-Feb-2007 6:15 PM EST
Scientists and Engineers Get Oscar For Improving Film Production, Preservation
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Each year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards its Scientific and Technical Achievement awards to the scientists and engineers that have designed and developed technologies that contribute to the progress of the film industry. Software for digital imaging that made the creepy images from 'Pirates of the Caribbean', a truly useful wireless movie-camera system, and film archiving techniques take home the statuette this Saturday.

Released: 27-Mar-2007 5:10 PM EDT
Science Writing Awards Call for Entries
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Acoustical Society of America (ASA) sponsors two annual awards for outstanding science writing one by a professional scientist and one by a journalist. This year's deadline is April 2.

Released: 16-Apr-2007 6:25 PM EDT
U.S. Residents’ Exposure to Medical Radiation 6 Times Higher than in 1980
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The average U.S. resident is exposed to nearly six times as much radiation from medical devices than in 1980, according to preliminary results of a study done by the National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurements (NCRP).

Released: 17-Apr-2007 11:45 AM EDT
Gun Technology Could Reduce Shooting Tragedies
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A new technology has been developed that could help prevent gun tragedies, especially when a gun is used by someone other than the gun's licensed owner.

Released: 1-May-2007 2:35 PM EDT
Proposed European Missile Shield’s Politics Overshadow Feasibility
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The proposed US missile defense shield system in Europe is an unproven defense against a long-range ballistic missile attack, says a leading physicist who has studied missile defense systems. The existing system has been tested fewer than a dozen times.

Released: 1-May-2007 2:35 PM EDT
Ultrashort Light Pulse Blazes New Paths for Science, Industry
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Researchers in Italy have created an ultrashort light pulse--a single isolated burst of extreme-ultraviolet light that lasts for only 130 billionths of a billionth of a second. The achievement will help scientists understand and control extremely rapid processes involving electrons in atoms and molecules.

Released: 3-May-2007 8:50 AM EDT
The Physics of Utensils
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Forget about cooking classes--forks, knives, and spoons can provide a rich lesson in physics.

Released: 16-Jul-2007 8:50 AM EDT
Innovative Physics Device May Revolutionize Cancer Treatment
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Using innovative physics, researchers have proposed a system that may one day bring proton therapy, a state-of-the-art cancer treatment method currently available only at a handful of centers, to radiation treatment centers and cancer patients everywhere.

Released: 27-Jul-2007 4:50 PM EDT
U.S. Physics Team Wins Gold and Silver Medals at International Competition
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The five-member high-school-aged US Physics Team, sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics, earned two gold and three silver medals at the International Physics Olympiad.

Released: 2-Aug-2007 8:35 AM EDT
Electric Fields Have Potential as a Cancer Treatment
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Low-intensity electric fields can disrupt the division of cancer cells and slow the growth of brain tumors, suggest laboratory experiments and a small human trial, raising hopes that electric fields will become a new weapon for stalling the progression of cancer. The August 2007 issue of Physics Today describes the mechanisms by which the electric fields do their work.

Released: 2-Aug-2007 3:55 PM EDT
Quad Backflip is the Limit in X Games Best Trick Contest
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

How many backflips can a motocross biker do in the X Games? The American Physical Society says: limit is four.

Released: 16-Aug-2007 1:10 PM EDT
Advisory: Hurricanes Experts and Story Tips
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Ocean research instruments improve forecasts; tornadoes come from hurricanes; hurricane damage scale; ocean plankton and hurricanes; hurricane resistant glass for homes.

Released: 16-Aug-2007 2:30 PM EDT
Earthquake Experts and Story Tips
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Earthquake simulator for homes, ultrasounds assess quakes, jelly earthquake models from the American Institute of Physics.

Released: 28-Sep-2007 12:00 PM EDT
Major Energy and Nanotech Meeting
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

AVS holds its annual International Symposium and Exhibition in Seattle October 14-19, 2007. AVS is a professional society devoted to scientific research in a number of technology fields, such as surface science, nanotechnology, and controlled environments, including the creation and manipulation of vacuum or plasmas.

Released: 3-Oct-2007 4:55 PM EDT
Digital Pioneer Wins National Physics Prize---Larry Hornbeck Invented Key Technology Behind HDTV
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is awarding Dr. Larry J. Hornbeck of Texas Instruments the 2007-2008 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics "For his invention and pioneering innovations in both the design and manufacturing of Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs) integrated into metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) technology."

Released: 10-Oct-2007 6:00 PM EDT
Asking the Wrong Questions on Global Warming?
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

What we should be talking about when we talk about climate change, is no longer if it is occurring but how and where. Dr Philip Mote, a climatologist who is one of the lead authors of the recently released Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will deliver a public lecture at on this topic at the AVS 54th International Symposium & Exhibition in Seattle. The lecture is free and open to the public.


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