Jason Karp Wins Research Expo 2010 Rudee Outstanding Poster

Congratulations to Jason Karp, the electrical engineering PhD student who won the top prize -- the Rudee Outstanding Poster Award -- at Research Expo 2010 for his new solar concentrator design. Read the abstract at Poster #98 at http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re/ Related Link »

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Bizarre matter could find use in quantum computers Rice physicists: Odd electron mix has fault-tolerant quantum registry

From left, Rice physicist Rui-Rui Du, graduate students Chi Zhang and Yanhua Dai, and (not pictured) former postdoctoral researcher Tauno Knuuttila have found that odd groupings of ultracold electrons could be useful in making fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Through the Looking Glass: Scientists Peer into Antarctica's Past to See Future Climate

Link Discovered Between Carbon, Nitrogen May Provide New Ways to Mitigate Pollution Problems

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La vraie couleur des dinosaures

Comme leurs descendants les oiseaux, les théropodes étaient pourvus de plumes colorées, selon une découverte de paléontologues britanniques et chinoi
Dans un gisement vieux de 100 millions d’années situé dans le nord-est de la Chine, une équipe de paléontologues ont exhumé les plumes fossilisées de théropodes.

Negating "Climategate": Copenhagen Talks and Climate Science Survive Stolen E-Mail Controversy Release of stolen messages

CLIMATE CLAMOR: Demonstrators in Copen­hagen at December rally in a call for action.

New large-clawed Jurassic dinosaur sheds light on elusive lineage

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Nothing New Under The Sun

Anthropogenic global warming started when people began farming

Galileo, Four Centuries On As important as Darwin

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