The colorful history of one of astronomy’s rarest events — the transit of Venus — was discussed at the recent IAU conference in Beijing, China.
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Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) announced a new publishing partnership for the Society’s highly cited and internationally prestigious journals. OUP will assume publication of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Geophysical Journal International, and Astronomy & Geophysics from January 2013. Professor…
Dear Colleagues, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/ With Regards, Librarian
Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that’s morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide in New York on Jan. 11 as a trial loomed involving charges that he had allegedly illegally…
JSTOR offers free Register & Read program to online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account. To register, follow the link https://www.jstor.org/action/registration This program includes approximately 1,200 journals from more than 700 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. Once you’ve you may add the item to…
Prof. Sujan Sengupta, IIA has written a book on “Worlds Beyond Our Own” and Springer has published the book recently. Read More:
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