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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

What are Quasicrystals, and What Makes Them Nobel-Worthy?

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Schectman's is an interesting story, involving a fierce battle against established science, ridicule and mockery from colleagues and a boss who found the finding so controversial, he asked him to leave the lab.

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Dark Energy

The competition between the two teams of scientists that discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating reveals how hard it can be to assign scientific credit – particularly when a Nobel prize may one day be at stake, as Robert P Crease explains