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The Lasker Award is awarded to clinical scientists annually and is considered “a precursor to receiving the Nobel Prize,” said Philippa Marrack, a professor of immunology at the National Jewish Medical Center and an investigator with Wiley for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
What is the best way to tell a secret? Whisper it as quietly as possible. How quietly is that? Richard Hughes, 47, a researcher at the fabled Department of Energy lab in Los Alamos, N.M., and the preeminent researcher in the mind-bending field of quantum cryptography, speaks as softly...
Hughes runs his experiments in the rugged, volcanic Jemez mountains that surround Los Alamos--which, as an ultramarathon runner, he knows intimately. He sets up a laser and fires a burst of light so precise it consists of a single photon. The photon flies at (what else?) the speed of...
Mad science? Not at all. Hughes, who was born in Liverpool but is an American citizen, believes we will see quantum cryptography in everyday use within a couple of years, and not only ground to ground but from the earth to satellites in orbit. For a guy who works with...
In Washington two weeks ago, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the President's Special Counselor, Karen Hughes, met with Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, and Mavis Leno, who has long worked to bring attention to the problems of Afghan women. "We asked the Administration to make returning...