<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Physical-Sciences News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=11&amp;catid=272</link><description>News Feed for - Physical-Sciences</description><item><title>Video: The Chemistry of Thanksgiving</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96592080&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T20:19:00</pubDate><description>If you want to arm yourself with some nice science trivia for tonightâ??s dinner conversation, check out this lecture by Diane Bunce , a professor of chemistry at The Catholic University in Washington, </description><source>Wired News</source></item><item><title>Boost for 'spin-based' electronics</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96517479&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T01:06:00</pubDate><description>Science and technology reporter, BBC News The next generation of computers may make use of the "spin" of electrons instead of their charge. Spintronics relies on manipulating these spins to make them </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>French bid for Emirates nuclear plant at risk</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96460175&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T20:23:00</pubDate><description>PARIS, FRANCE A French attempt to win a $41 billion contract to build nuclear power stations in the Emirates is at risk over pricing, the La Tribune newspaper reported. The newspaper reported that the </description><source>Electricity Forum</source></item><item><title>Human cytomegalovirus UL76 induces chromosome aberrations.</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96562790&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T13:49:00</pubDate><description>Diabetes mellitus (DM) is characterized by hyperglycemia caused by a lack of insulin, insulin resistance, or both. There is increasing evidence that insulin also plays a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) </description><source>Bioscience Technology Online</source></item><item><title>Letter: Two-dimensional normal-state quantum oscillations in a superconducting heterostructure</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96584064&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:10:00</pubDate><description>AbstractSemiconductor heterostructures provide an ideal platform for studying high-mobility, low-density electrons in reduced dimensions1, 2, 3, 4. The realization of superconductivity in heavily doped </description><source>Nature</source></item><item><title>Letter: Liquid-gated interface superconductivity on an atomically flat film</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96584060&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:10:00</pubDate><description>Abstract Liquid/solid interfaces are attracting growing interest not only for applications in catalytic activities and energy storage, but also for their new electronic functions in electric double-layer </description><source>Nature</source></item><item><title>Cambridge: new Cosmology Institute opens</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96583338&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:17:00</pubDate><description>e forat Cambridge University, funded by the Kavli Foundation, opened this week. The Institute will form part of an international network of research centres funded by the Kavli Foundation at other universities </description><source>Science Business</source></item><item><title>Warwick: engineer to chair synchrotron users panel</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96583319&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:17:00</pubDate><description>ofessor of Engineering at Warwick Universitys School of Engineering, Joanna Collingwood, has been elected as Chair by the members of the newly-formed Diamond User Committee, a body that represents the </description><source>Science Business</source></item><item><title>Large Hadron Collider Gets Smashing</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96491390&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T02:49:00</pubDate><description>Before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, can begin to unlock the mysteries of the universe -- as physicists around the world hope it will -- it has to be taken for a series of </description><source>Tech News World</source></item><item><title>First Black Holes May Have Incubated in Giant, Starlike Cocoons</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96418598&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:50:00</pubDate><description>The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown </description><source>Scientific Computing</source></item><item><title>Moving Cold Atoms with Quantum Ratchets</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96598389&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:28:00</pubDate><description>How Do I Get Access? 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Activate AAAS members activate your FREE subscription to </description><source>Science Magazine</source></item><item><title>Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96595348&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T20:58:00</pubDate><description>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by </description><source>Genetic Engineering News</source></item><item><title>[Report] A High-Resolution Structure of the Pre-microRNA Nuclear Export Machinery</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96599769&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:40:00</pubDate><description>How Do I Get Access? Sign In Registered Users and Subscribers User Name: Password: Auto Sign-In: Save my user name &amp; password on this computer. Activate AAAS members activate your FREE subscription to </description><source>Science Magazine</source></item><item><title>[Perspective] Cell Biology: Nuclear Export of Small RNAs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96599657&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:39:00</pubDate><description>How Do I Get Access? Sign In Registered Users and Subscribers User Name: Password: Auto Sign-In: Save my user name &amp; password on this computer. Activate AAAS members activate your FREE subscription to </description><source>Science Magazine</source></item><item><title>[Perspective] Chemistry: Calcite Biocomposites Up Close</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96599647&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:39:00</pubDate><description>How Do I Get Access? 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If you would like to recommend that </description><source>Science Magazine</source></item><item><title>Physics of the Turkey Bowl</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96587864&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:33:00</pubDate><description>If you are in the US you are probably looking forward to two things this Thanksgiving Dayâ?¦turkey and football. And from the safety of your couch, you might just wonder about the forces involved in a </description><source>PhysicsWeb</source></item><item><title>Superconductor magnet spacecraft heat shield being developed</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96496764&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T15:33:00</pubDate><description>(PhysOrg.com) -- European space agencies and an aerospace giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the </description><source>PhysOrg.com</source></item><item><title>Atom smasher starts speeding proton beams</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96311991&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T22:58:00</pubDate><description>GENEVA â?? The world's largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe. The $10 billion </description><source>York Dispatch</source></item><item><title>Optical Properties of Antarctic System Studied</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96564531&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T14:06:00</pubDate><description>The Antarctic system includes the continent itself, Antarctica, and the ocean surrounding it, the Southern Ocean. In a study for a doctoral degree by geophysicist Kai Rasmus, University of Helsinki, measurements </description><source>Fars News Agency</source></item><item><title>Change in Electronic Structure upon Optical Excitation of 8-Vinyladenosine: An Experimental </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96553923&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T08:30:00</pubDate><description>The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Volume 0, Issue 0, Articles ASAP (As Soon As Publishable).</description><source>Journal of Physical Chemistry A</source></item><item><title>SON, ICCON task chemists on national development</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96547702&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T07:18:00</pubDate><description>CHEMISTRY experts in the country have been urged to make the needed input to the growth of the nation as their knowledge is critical to the realisation of Vision 20:2020. Director General of the Standards </description><source>Nigeria Guardian</source></item><item><title>How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96443093&amp;Channel_ID=11&amp;Category_ID=272</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T07:44:00</pubDate><description>So you'd like to do more volunteering but can't find the time? Here's an easy way to do it: Donate the spare processing power on your computer via one of the dozens of ongoing volunteer computing projects, </description><source>ARN</source></item></channel></rss>