You may have observed airplane passengers accompanied by pets or even musical instruments on flights. But have you ever been seated next to a particle detector? For more than a year, a small team at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been working to assemble, test and transport detector pieces for…
By David MalakoffJul. 31, 2018 , 6:20 PM The long wait for a White House science adviser is over. President Donald Trump announced today that he intends to nominate meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier, a university administrator and former vice-chair of the governing board of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), to be director of the White House…
DI: FRANCESCO PAOLO MANCINI ECONOMIA, GREEN ECONOMY 17 SETTEMBRE 2017 Il personale dell’Agenzia per la Protezione Ambientale (Epa) degli Usa se ne va: quattrocento dipendenti hanno da poco deciso di lasciare l’istituzione approfittando di incentivi e prepensionamenti. Ma si tratterebbe solo dell’inizio… continua su Futuro Europa
Fonte: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana I satelliti della costellazione COSMO-SkyMed impegnati sul fronte dell’uragano Harvey, grazie all’accordo raggiunto tra e-Geos (società partecipata da Telespazio e Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) e URSA (Ursa Space Systems Inc.) e firmato lo scorso giugno tra Adam Maher (Ad Ursa) e Massimo Claudio Comparini (ad e-Geos). Con le immagini ottenute dalla costellazione…
Fonte: http://www.unita.tv/interviste/la-politica-come-la-fisica-semplificare-le-cose-complesse-parla-anna-grassellino/ #Democratica Carla Attianese @carlattian 26 luglio 2017 La nuova responsabile dem del dipartimento italiani all’estero: “Io sono assolutamente favorevole all’idea di spostarsi, anche perché nella ricerca scientifica muoversi è cruciale” Ciò che mi ha aiutato ad andare avanti, nella vita come nella carriera di fisica, è stato provare a rendere semplici, e dunque…
DOI:10.1063/PT.5.1112 16 Mar 2017 in Politics & Policy Trump proposes big reductions for science agencies Although lacking in details, Trump’s “skinny budget” is clearly bad news for energy research. David Kramer President Trump’s budget proposal for the year beginning 1 October would slash funding for the Department of Energy’s basic research programs while adding 11%…
Fonte: Radio3Scienza 27/12/2016 E’ scomparsa all’età di 88 anni Vera Rubin, l’astronoma statunitense che con le sue osservazioni scoprì l’esistenza, quasi contro la sua volontà, della materia oscura. Che ancora oggi rappresenta uno dei grandi problemi aperti per la cosmologia contemporanea. Con Piero Bianucci, giornalista e autore di Storia sentimentale dell’astronomia (Tea, 2014), raccontiamo la storia di una…
Fonte: ANSA Addio a Vera Rubin. E’ morta all’età di 88 anni l’astronoma americana che negli anni ’70 aveva dimostrato l’esistenza della materia oscura, ossia della materia invisibile e misteriosa che occupa il 25% dell’unverso. Era arrivata a questo risultato grazie ai suoi studi pionieristici sulle curve di rotazione delle galassie. Aveva infatti scoperto che…
Fonte: The Washington Post By Joe Davidson | Columnist December 13 at 7:00 AM Global warming — “it’s a hoax.” Donald Trump has said that more than once. So it’s understandable that the request by the president-elect’s transition team for the names of individual Energy Department employees and contractors who worked on the issue makes them worry that the…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended climate change policy conferences, as well as emails and documents associated with the conferences. In question after question, the document peppers Energy Department managers with pointed queries…
From: physicsworld Nov 10, 2016 Oil executive: Harold Hamm is tipped to head the US Department of Energy US scientists have responded to the choice of Republican Donald Trump as president-elect with a mixture of astonishment and anxiety. Having anticipated the election of Democrat Hillary Clinton, who was backed by a team supportive of science,…
Latest figures show obligations down for R&D and facilities that support science and engineering June 30, 2015 Federal agencies obligated $29 billion to 995 science and engineering academic institutions in fiscal year 2013, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). The figure represents a 6…
Comunicato stampa – Al fisico italiano uno dei più prestigiosi riconoscimenti scientifici conferiti dal Governo Usa, istituito nel 1956 per onorare la memoria del Nobel italiano a due anni dalla sua scomparsa. Lo studioso italiano sarà premiato, insieme al collega americano Charles V. (Chuck) Shank, dal presidente Usa Barack Obama, in una cerimonia che si svolgerà…
Why the best-educated women are opting for more children May 23rd 2015 | WASHINGTON, DC IN 2007 Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a 37-year-old Republican congresswoman from Washington state, became the first woman in over a decade to give birth in office. In 2010 she had a second child, and in 2013 a third. That made her…
There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way. Kendall Powell 07 April 2015 By the time Sophie Thuault-Restituito reached her twelfth year as a postdoctoral fellow, she had finally had enough. She had completed her first postdoc in London, then…
China plans super collider Proposals for two accelerators could see country become collider capital of the world. Elizabeth Gibney 22 July 2014 For decades, Europe and the United States have led the way when it comes to high-energy particle colliders. But a proposal by China that is quietly gathering momentum has raised the possibility that…
By Jim Austin June 25, 2014 Over their lifetimes, graduates with majors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can expect to earn far more than high school graduates with no college attendance, with an earnings premium of $1.5 million over and above the $1.73 million that high school graduates with no college attendance can expect to…
The United States of America hasn’t been interested in building big new physics collaborations, such as the Large Hadron Collider, in the last 20 years, since the Clinton administration canceled the Superconducting Super Collider. The James Webb Space Telescope overruns and President Obama canceling NASA’s Constellation program confirm why America has a crisis of confidence…
Fonte: Science Insider Keeping busy. Senate panel wants NIH researchers to have a bit more funding. U.S. Senate bill would give NIH 2% raise in 2015 By Jocelyn Kaiser Tuesday, June 10, 2014 – 5:00pm A U.S. Senate spending panel today approved a draft bill that would raise the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) budget by…
By George Musser | Fonte: Scientific American June 9, 2014 In 1954 the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi did a simple but depressing calculation about future particle accelerators. To create particles with an energy of 3 teraelectron-volts, he estimated, you’d have to build a ring 8,000 kilometers in radius at a cost of $170 billion. It was a…
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