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Frank Shoemaker, a leader in the development of high-energy particle accelerators during a highly revelatory era for physics and a founding member of the experimental particle physics group at Princeton, has died at age 86.

The error relates to internal inventory and accounting that documents movement of sensitive materials within a small portion of Technical Area 55. LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, February 26, 2009— Officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory have reported an internal material control error to the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Double success for Imperial researchers developing the solar cells and plastic electronics of the future Highly-cited honour for two Imperial-authored papers %0A " By Danielle Reeves Monday 23 Februa

A 'green' concert performed by reggae artist Carlos Dadawah will be entirely powered by hydrogen, thanks to the expertise of engineer Alex Bevan from the University of Birmingham.

San Francisco - Berkeley Psychologist Jack Block, 85, has died Positive prospects for California's green businesses, study finds Chancelllor Birgeneau announces senior-management transition plans, as

In order for plastic solar cells with 8% efficiency to supply U.S. electrical energy needs, a land area of 58 million acres (shown as eight green blocks) would have to be covered by solar farms.

20. Bern - SNF Protein crystallography started 50 years ago with simply structured molecules. Now researchers from the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) "Structural Biology" are exploring ever larger, ever more complex proteins.

First Director of Imperial's Institute for Shock Physics appointed Professor Steve Rose takes on new role %0A " By Danielle Reeves Thursday 12 February 2009 Professor Steve Rose from Imperial's Department of Physics has been appointed the first Director of the College's Institute for Shock Physics.

PA 46/09 The aircraft and motor industries could become much greener thanks to new research into carbon fibre recycling by engineers at The University of Nottingham.

Office of News and Information Johns Hopkins University 901 South Bond Street Suite 540 Baltimore, Maryland 21231 Phone: 443-287-9960 Fax: 443-287-9920 February 18, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Johns Hopkins Media Contact: Lisa De Nike 443-287-9960, Lde [a] jhu (p) edu JPL/NASA Media Contacts: Whitney Clavin and Rhea Borja 818-354-4673/354-0850 There is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe.

An international team of scientists, led by a Princeton University group, has observed an exciting and strange behavior in electrons' spin within a new material that could be harnessed to transform computing and electronics.

How many arms does a spiral galaxy have? Can you spot a galaxy with a 'peanut' bulge? Or a galactic merger? Answers to these and other strange questions will be provided by ordinary web users who — by working together — have proven to be just as good at galaxy-spotting as professional astronomers.

San Francisco - Berkeley Psychologist Jack Block, 85, has died Positive prospects for California's green businesses, study finds Chancelllor Birgeneau announces senior-management transition plans, as

Postgraduate named as one of the UK?s best young female engineers Imperial student wins the 2008 IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award %0A " Monday 16 February 2009 By Colin Smith Imperial Colle

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, a New York firm known for its careful attention to context, creative use of materials and innovative modernist work, has been chosen to design Princeton University's new Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment .

Imperial becomes first university to commit to halving the construction waste it sends to landfill New agreement signed with WRAP to reuse and recycle more waste materials - %0A " Imperial College Lo

Inner workings of photosynthesis revealed by powerful new laser technique Instant images show how energy is transported across photosynthetic molecules %0A " Imperial College London news release For

PA 33/09 February 5 2009 Scientists can easily explain the structural order that makes steel and aluminium out of molten metal. And they have discovered the molecular changes that take place as water turns to ice. But, despite the fact that glass blowers have been plying their trade since the first century BC, we have only just begun to understand what makes molten glass solid.

The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, February 3, 2009—Laboratory researchers Carol Burns and Jeffrey Hay are new 2008 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

What is 'life', where did it first emerge on our planet - and are we alone in the universe' UCL astrobiology researcher Lewis Dartnell will be grappling with these and other questions in his Royal Institution lecture on 24 February.

Worms from The University of Nottingham should be checking in for a flight onboard the Space Shuttle later this year — to help researchers investigate the effect of zero gravity on the body's muscle development and physiology. Researchers are also hoping to get primary school children involved in the project.

San Francisco - Berkeley Psychologist Jack Block, 85, has died Positive prospects for California's green businesses, study finds Chancelllor Birgeneau announces senior-management transition plans, as

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Jan. 15 that Princeton University has been awarded a five-year management and operating contract to continue managing the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory .

13 January 2009 New technique offers breakthrough in Nano-construction Researchers at the University of Sheffield have devised an innovative technique to join together nanoscale-objects.

Cambridge - Harvard - From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike.

Cambridge - Harvard - Researchers from Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have measured, for the first time, a repulsive quantum mechanical force that could be harnessed and tailored for a wide range of new nanotechnology applications.

San Francisco - Berkeley Psychologist Jack Block, 85, has died Positive prospects for California's green businesses, study finds Chancelllor Birgeneau announces senior-management transition plans, as

Research by the University of Birmingham has provided evidence that a warm atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide was present in an ancient ice age. This could only have happened if the planet was nearly all covered in ice and snow. Scientists from the University's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, say that, whereas today, we associate more greenhouse gases with a warm world, in a very severe ice age, even plenty of greenhouse gas cannot stop the world being covered in reflective ice and snow.