Source: Quantam Diaries
In many ways our data management and distribution problems are similar to those of Netflix streaming movies, except that their total data volume is 12 TB and ours is 20000 TB. Long-term data access and preservation is becoming a growing conce ...
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Source: The Register
Looking at the fundamental properties of matter can take some serious computing grunt. Take the calculation needed to help understand kaon decay – a subatomic particle interaction that helps explain why the universe is ma ...
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Source: Quantam Diaries
Christer Fuglesang, a former physicist who worked at CERN and now an European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut brought back to CERN a neutralino he had taken along on his mission to the Internal Space Station in 2009. Yesterday, Christer ...
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Source: TED
CERN particle physicist Bilge Demirköz investigates everything from dark matter to the possibility of antigalaxies, trying to understand what we — and the universe — are made of. What is it about space and the investigation of dark matte ...
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Source: Original Signal: Movies
David Cronenberg‘s new movie Cosmopolis premieres tomorrow at Cannes, and barring some terrible reviews or other similar misfortune, it looks like it won’t be the director’s only film with star Robert Pattinson. The actor now says that, i ...
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Source: Nature.com
Gran Sasso's Large Volume Detector (LVD) searches for neutrino bursts from supernovae. ENRICO SACCHETTI The drive along Italy's highway A24 from the central Adriatic coast towards Rome begins with a winding climb into the snow-covered Apenni ...
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Source: Street Insider
FORT WORTH, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 05/23/12 -- Allied Electronics, a trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), was recognized by TDK-Lambda Americas Inc. as the 2011 Distributor of the Year and the HWS Series Champion. TDK-Lambda i ...
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Source: The Complete Review
go to weblog return to main archive 23 May 2012 - Wednesday | Censorship in ... Tunisia The no-longer-Orange Prize | Twenty-five percent of the adult fiction market New Krasznahorkai At hlo Lajos Jánossy reviews Krasznahorkai Lászl ...
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Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
May 22, 2012 1:03 pm Share with others: By DENNIS OVERBYE / The New York Times Correction Appended When three American astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, for discovering that the expansion of the universe was speeding up in defia ...
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