MacArthur Fellows to be announced Sep 23rd
Looks like Rocky Mountain News accidentally broke the embargo...
Andrea Ghez and Adam Riess get a MacArthur.
Wow!
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And BU wins the prize for being first to crack and breaking the NRC rankings embargo...
h/t Leiter Report
National Science Foundation has announced this years awards for the Physics Frontier Centers
The full list is here
The '08 winners, some of which are renewals are:
Center for Magnetic Self-Organization - Wisconsin
Center for Physics of Living Cells - Illinois
Joint Institute for Nuclear…
NSF town hall meeting today was depressing.
The failure of the 2006 Congress to pass a budget is turning to catastrophe.
I don't blame the democrats from ducking the trap and going for a continuing resolution, am hoping the science budgets will be the pieces exempted, but am not holding my breath.…
The Swiss-French planet hunter team have a new interesting discovery.
A low mass "super Earth" in a potential habitable zone.
Nature news story
UPDATE: Details are up on the Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia
and Udry's web page
and here is the actual preprint (PDF)
Hm, interesting, the full solution…