Nobel Prize blurs boundaries

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006, awarded to Roger Kornberg at Stanford University, California for his breakthrough work about the crystal structure of RNA polymerase II, an enzyme that helps messenger RNA take information from DNA disgruntled many chemistry bloggers. Scientists in the chemistry department showed their displeasure at the choice of recipient, which is on the biological side of biochemistry but Aaron Klug, the Nobel chemistry prizewinner of 1982 is happy with the choice.

Achievements and awards, RNA polymerases, Nobel laureates, Stanford University, Structure, Nobel Prizes, 2006 AD, Kornberg, Roger D.

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Direct view of a dark and distinct world

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Astronomers have made a detailed measurement of radiation emitted by two exoplanets, which has hinted that the worlds are cloaked in black silicate clouds that do not let light in or out. The astronomers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have used Spitzer Space Telescope to analyze the atmosphere of a hot Jupiter-like planet called HD 209458b, which is 150 light years from Earth.

Space Research and Technology, Natl Aeronautics & Space Admin, Usage, Radiation, Observations, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Radiation measurement, Extrasolar planets, Spitzer Space Telescope (Artificial satellite)

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How to drive light round the wrong bend

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Researchers have achieved the negative refraction for the first time with meta-materials, which had components of roughly the same size of light's wavelength. They have used electromagnetic waves called surface plasmons to carry the light across the gold prism to achieve the negative refraction of visible light.

Refraction, Optics, Physical, Physical optics

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