http://www.mail.com/subjects/92-physics.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/92-physics.html http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2090908-senate-confirms-physicist-moniz-energy-chief.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the nation's new energy secretary. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama's first term. Moniz served as an energy undersecretary in the Clinton administration.... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:13:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2090908-senate-confirms-physicist-moniz-energy-chief.html 2013-05-16T20:13:29Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2010340-alert-to-congress-nuclear-evacuation-bog.html Regulators and congressional investigators clashed Wednesday over a new report warning that in the event of an accident at a nuclear plant, panicking residents from outside the official evacuation zone might jam the roads and prevent others from escaping. The report by the Government Accountability Office, which acts as the investigative arm of Congress, ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:08:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2010340-alert-to-congress-nuclear-evacuation-bog.html 2013-04-10T20:08:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1965854-nrc-orders-nuclear-sites-to-upgrade-vents.html WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. nuclear power plants must upgrade ventilation systems at 31 reactors with designs similar to those that melted down two years ago in Japan, under a Nuclear Regulatory Commission order that stops short of requiring filtered vents, as some safety advocates and NRC's staff had urged. The filters are required in Japan and much of Europe... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:49:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1965854-nrc-orders-nuclear-sites-to-upgrade-vents.html 2013-03-20T00:49:20Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954100-physicists-they-higgs-boson.html GENEVA (AP) — It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. In what could go down as one of the great Eureka! moments in physics — and win somebody the Nobel Prize — scientists said Thursday that after a half-century quest, they are confident they have found a ... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:30:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954100-physicists-they-higgs-boson.html 2013-03-14T20:30:53Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954554-closer-higgs-boson.html GENEVA (AP) — Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced they are confident that the new subatomic particle discovered last summer is a version of the long-sought Higgs boson. The particle bears key attributes of the so-called "God particle" that was theorized nearly a half-century ago as fundamental to the creation of the universe. It ... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:45:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954554-closer-higgs-boson.html 2013-03-14T16:45:11Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1944490-nuclear-chief-us-plants-safer-japan-crisis.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after the nuclear crisis in Japan, the top U.S. regulator says American nuclear power plants are safer than ever, though not trouble-free. A watchdog group calls that assessment overly rosy. "The performance is quite good," Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane said in an interview with The Associated Press.... Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:35:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1944490-nuclear-chief-us-plants-safer-japan-crisis.html 2013-03-10T17:35:24Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1931974-energy-nominee-favors-all-of-the-above-approach.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Energy Department advocates an all-of-the-above approach to energy and favors natural gas as a "bridge fuel" to help the country develop clean energy. Ernest Moniz, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leads the MIT Energy Initiative, a research group that gets fund... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:40:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1931974-energy-nominee-favors-all-of-the-above-approach.html 2013-03-05T17:40:30Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1904156-cornell-physicist-nobel-winner-richardson-dies.html ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Robert C. Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died. He was 75. Richardson died Tuesday in Ithaca from complications of a heart attack, Cornell said Wednesday. He and fellow Cornell researchers David Lee and Douglas Osheroff were awarded the Nobel for 1996 ... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:32:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1904156-cornell-physicist-nobel-winner-richardson-dies.html 2013-02-20T21:32:46Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1799458-atom-smasher-hiatus-sets-stage-discovery.html GENEVA (AP) — The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a 2-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum energy levels that could lead to more stunning discoveries following the detection of the so-called "God particle." With the reopening of its $10 billion proton collider in early 2015, the stage... Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1799458-atom-smasher-hiatus-sets-stage-discovery.html 2013-01-04T15:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1777428-final-goodbye-roll-call-who-died-2012.html Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades. Sadly, for others an established image was shattered by a fall from grace. Whitney Houston ruled as a queen of pop music, but ... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1777428-final-goodbye-roll-call-who-died-2012.html 2012-12-19T20:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1762940-epa-finds-contamination-rocket-test-site.html SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Lingering radioactive contamination exists at a former rocket test lab outside of Los Angeles that was the site of a partial nuclear meltdown, federal environmental regulators said Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency launched a $42 million study to investigate radioactive pollution at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1762940-epa-finds-contamination-rocket-test-site.html 2012-12-13T02:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1757884-hawking-cern-scientists-win-huge-physics-prize.html GENEVA (AP) — A Russian billionaire's foundation is awarding two special prizes of $3 million each to British cosmologist Stephen Hawking for his work on black holes and to seven scientists at the world's biggest atom-smasher for their roles in the discovery of a new subatomic particle believed to be the long-sought Higgs boson. Yuri Milner's Fundamental ... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1757884-hawking-cern-scientists-win-huge-physics-prize.html 2012-12-11T10:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1747288-ap-exclusive-japan-scientists-took-utility-money.html TOKYO (AP) — Influential scientists who help set Japan's radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world's top academic group on radiation safety. The potential conflict of interest is revealed in one sentence buried in a 600-page parliamentary investigation into... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1747288-ap-exclusive-japan-scientists-took-utility-money.html 2012-12-07T00:08:00Z