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Laser used to cool semiconductor

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In an announcement that could be filed under either “counter-intuitive” or simply “wow”, scientists at Copenhagen University's Niels Bohr institute have used a laser to cool a semiconductor membrane to -269°C. The research, published in Nature Physics, ...

'Copenhagen' Comes to Academy Theatre, Opening 4/27

Broadway World - 
Copenhagen, Michael Frayn's Tony award winning masterwork about the final conversation between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg comes to Academy Theatre from April 27 th until May 20 th .

Guest opinion: Masters of physics, imagination and play

Daily Camera - 
By Len Barron As profound as was the work of Einstein and Niels Bohr in physics, their thoughts and practice in education were of the same nature.

Is Your Idea Crazy Enough? Book Giveaway!

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Niels Bohr summarized it for Pauli's benefit by saying that everyone had agreed his theory was crazy. The question that divided them, he claimed, was whether it was crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

Your Funds Chuck Jaffe: Fearless fund forecasts for 2012

The Seattle Times - 
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr gets credit for first noting that "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Sports and culture (or lack thereof) / Not exactly hand-in-hand

Haaretz - 
Neils Bohr, a Nobel prize winner in physics, was a pioneer of European soccer and a member of the Danish national team at the beginning of the 20th century, according to Rubenstein, who notes that his brother, Harald Bohr, was better known for being on ...

ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile (credit: ESO/Z. Bardon)

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Using a method that is highly sensitive to planets that lie in a habitable zone around the host stars, astronomers, including members from the Niels Bohr Institute, have discovered that most of the Milky Way's 100 billion stars have planets that are...

Weird science

Financial Times - 
Kaiser, too, sees an interconnection between the FFG, quantum pioneers such as Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, and the debate over what quantum physics reveals about the nature of reality.

Error margins: forecasting energy demand

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As Danish physicist Niels Bohr said: "Prediction is a very difficult art, especially when it involves the future".

About one out of every ten stars has an earth size planet in the habitable ...

Next Big Future - 
Using the gravitational microlensing method that is highly sensitive to planets that lie in a habitable zone around the host stars, astronomers, including members from the Niels BohrInstitute, have discovered that most of the Milky Way's 100 billion ...

New surveys find plenty of planets in Milky Way

Summit County Citizens Voice - 
Using a method that is highly sensitive to planets that lie in a habitable zone around the host stars, astronomers, including members from theNiels Bohr Institute, have discovered that most of the Milky Way's 100 billion stars have planets that are ...

Physicist creates scale model of Large Hadron Collider's particle detector ...

Daily Mail - 
By Rob Waugh A physicist at Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute has recreated one of the two main particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider out of Lego - and the replica machine is to scale with the tiny Lego engineers that walk through its tunnels.

Billions of potentially populated planets in the galaxy

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said astronomer Uffe Gråe Jørgensen from the Niels BohrInstitute. Star-gazing boffins from PLANET, the Probing Lensing Anomalies Network, used the gravitational microlensing technique to spot the worlds lying in the habitable zone around a star, ...

Quantum numbers, Chern classes, and a bodhisattva

PhysicsToday.org - 
Bohr quantization. In 1913 Niels Bohr derived the spectrum for the hydrogen-like atom by postulating a quantization condition that was later interpreted as requiring the circumference of an electron orbit to contain an integral number of de Broglie ...

Hot Off the T: Ziggy Stardust, Hot Cheese and More

Patch.com - 
The production centers on two of the 20 th century's greatest scientists—Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr—in Denmark during World War II.

Pete Martin: Here's a future imperfect

Scotsman (blog) - 
That quip by physicist Niels Bohr no doubt cracked up his fellow scientists while they cracked the atom. You'll notice the Nobel Prize winner didn't say the future was unknowable.

Gardener could teach master class in messing up

Reno Gazette-Journal - 
If the famous physicist Niels Bohr was right when he said an expert is someone who has made all the mistakes they can in a very narrow field, then I probably earned a doctorate last summer in raised garden beds.

3 NY and 3 California Muni ETFs to Buy

Investorplace.com - 
As physicist Niels Bohr once said: “Prediction is difficult - particularly about the future.” That makes it all the more important for investors interested in municipal bonds to seek diversification.

What will our energy world look like in 2040?

Greenbang - 
As physicist Neils Bohr is quoted as saying, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.” But that doesn't stop us from trying to envision the future anyway.

In Higgs they trust

Deccan Herald - 
The new theory on atomic structure was formulated by Rutherford in collaboration with Neils Bohr from Denmark. According to Bohr-Rutherford's model, an atom consists of positively-charged nucleus made of protons and neutrons. Electrons which are equal ...