1987: Thousands of physicists crowd a ballroom at the New York Hilton for a hastily arranged marathon session on high-temperature superconductivity. The event generates so much excitement that it is later referred to as the “Woodstock of Physics.”
Discovered in 1911, superconductivity is a phenomenon in which certain materials, at very low temperatures, become essentially transparent [...]
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March 18, 1987: Woodstock for Physicists
March 18th, 2010 |
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NASA’s lunar reconnaissance orbiter begins detailed mapping of moon’s south pole
September 18th, 2009 |
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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon’s south pole.
The spacecraft already has made significant progress toward creating the most detailed atlas of the moon’s south pole to date.
“The LRO mission already has begun to give us new data that will [...]