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PHYSCI matrix
A Physical Sciences Newsletter
April 2007
  

FEATURES

Device Designed to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

Chemists have demonstrated the feasibility of exploiting sunlight to transform a greenhouse gas into a useful product.
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Gift for Telescope will Provide Unique Look at ’Big Bang’

A $400,000 gift from the James B. Ax Family Foundation toward the proposed POLARBEAR telescope will allow physicists to better understand how the universe began.
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High School Statistics Competition Winners Honored

Winners of the San Diego High School Honors Statistics Contest organized by the Department of Mathematics were recognized for their achievements following the Kyoto Prize lecture.
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Chemistry of Volcanic Fallout Reveals Secrets of Past Eruptions

A team of American and French scientists has developed a method to determine the influence of past volcanic eruptions on climate and the chemistry of the upper atmosphere, and significantly reduce uncertainty in models of future climate change.
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