 | Diamonds Have Oceanic Origin
Source: UToronto Posted: 4/30/2003
Researchers at the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, believe that the materials that form some gem diamonds originated on the ocean floor. The ion microprobe was used in this research to analyze tiny minerals, called coesite, in the diamonds.
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 | New Subatomic Particle Identified at SLAC
Source: SLAC Posted: 4/29/2003
Physicist Antimo Palano representing the BABAR experiment presented the evidence for the identification of a new subatomic particle named Ds (2317) to a packed auditorium on Monday 28th April at the Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Initial studies indicate that the particle is an unusual configuration of a ‘charm’ quark and a ‘strange’ anti-quark.
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 | Energy Recovery Experiment Could Lead Way to New Accelerators
Source: JLab Posted: 4/23/2003
Newspaper, glass and aluminum recycling has become commonplace for
most households and businesses. Jefferson Lab physicists will soon begin
their own version of reuse — not with run-of-the-mill materials, but
with radiofrequency energy and the high-energy electrons that they
energize.
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 | New Insight Into How Flies Fly
Source: Caltech Posted: 4/22/2003
How does a fly fly and why should we care? To the first, says Michael Dickinson, a professor of bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, the short answer is different from what we have thought, and he and his colleagues used a dynamically scaled flapping robot (aka Robofly), a free flight arena (aka Fly-O-Rama), and a 3D, infrared visual flight simulator (Fly-O-Vision) to prove it.
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 | Solar Tadpoles
Source: NASA GSFC Posted: 4/21/2003
If you’ve ever been in a blackout in perfect weather, or had your cellular phone die for no apparent reason, you may have experienced the impact of huge explosions on the Sun’s surface. Scientists may be soon able to predict these explosions by studying so-called solar tadpoles.
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 | Nanometer-Thick Clay: Groundbreaking Technology?
Source: Purdue Posted: 4/20/2003
An ultrathin film containing 1-nanometer thick clay particles has been created for the first time, an accomplishment that may yield new materials and devices for medicine, electronics and engineering, according to Purdue University and Belgian scientists.
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 | Students to Board NASA's 'Vomit Comet'
Source: JHU Posted: 4/18/2003
Most students can only imagine what it feels like for an astronaut to conduct scientific research while floating freely inside a spacecraft. This week, for four Johns Hopkins undergraduates, that fantasy is set to become a reality.
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 | Skinny Galaxy Harbors Massive Black Hole
Source: UC Berkeley Posted: 4/17/2003
Scientists have uncovered a supermassive black hole at the core of a svelte, spiral galaxy, a finding that questions a recently devised rule of thumb in which only galaxies with bulging cores have such black holes.
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 | Desktop Device Slows Light to a Crawl
Source: URochester Posted: 4/15/2003
Though Einstein put his foot down and demanded that nothing can move faster than light, a new device developed at the University of Rochester may let you outpace a beam by putting your foot down on the gas pedal. At 127 miles per hour, the light in the new device travels more than 5 million times slower than normal as it passes through a ruby just a few centimeters long.
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 | Sandia's Z Produces Fusion Neutrons
Source: Sandia Posted: 4/13/2003
Throwing its hat into the ring of machines that offer the possibility of achieving controlled nuclear fusion, Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine has created a hot dense plasma that produces thermonuclear neutrons, Sandia researchers announced on April 7, 2003, at a news conference at the April meeting of the American Physical Society in Philadelphia.
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