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...supporters were appalled. "It's disheartening that a large number of fairly intelligent people could do such a dumb thing," lamented Nobel- prizewinning physicist Leon Lederman. His frustration is understandable. Since the 1930s, physicists have been using accelerators to smash atoms together and analyze the debris, with an impressive result: the discovery that matter in all its complex forms seems to be made up of just a few simple particles operating under a handful of basic forces. But this so-called Standard Model is a puzzle that's not quite complete, and finding the last pieces would take something like...
...Every time he smashes a world record, he just puts the bar a bit higher and goes at it again. It's not just that he's never satisfied with himself; he also knows his many competitors won't let the record stand. What Chu, a University of Houston physicist, and his rivals keep pushing higher and higher is the temperature at % which it's possible to create superconductors --those almost magical materials that allow electricity to flow through them with no resistance whatsoever. When scientists get the temperature high enough, superconductors could, among other wonderful things, make computers more...
...senior doctors acting for the local health authority said many cancer patients had died because their radiation dosages had been miscalculated. In 1982 the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary bought a computer programmed to determine precise dosages for cancer treatment. But it arrived minus an instruction manual. Senior physicist Margaret Grieveson assumed that a "correction factor" needed to adjust the dosages had not been programmed in. Unfortunately, it had. The result: in the years from 1982 to 1991, 1,045 patients received insufficient radiation. Four hundred and one died; 91 who are still alive have experienced a recurrence of cancer...
...lectures, sponsored by the Harvard University Council for Economic Affairs, are named after the physicist-turned-economist who oversaw the economic recovery in Taiwan...
...last thing physicist Kim Griest expected was to find what he was looking for. Griest and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley had been scanning the skies for more than a year in search of the mysterious and elusive material called dark matter. The scientists couldn't see it and couldn't say what it was, but they knew it was out there because of its undeniable effect on stars and planets. What could the invisible stuff be made of? The Berkeley group was checking out a theory that dark matter takes the form of large planets or small...