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Chilly wet weather fails to dampen students’ passion for physics at Lagoon

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 6:39am

FARMINGTON -- Physics trumped meteorology Friday at Utah State University's Physics Day at Lagoon.

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NASA mars rover in shown. Weber State University professor says there’s a lot more to learn about space by top scientists.

WSU physics professor says lots more to learn about space

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 11, 2011 - 1:07am

OGDEN -- Humans have an endless curiosity about outer space but have never sent an astronaut beyond the gravitational pull of Earth.

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Students from Luke Mandleco’s physics class paddle their cardboard boat across the pool at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden on Tuesday. (KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)

A-B-SEAWORTHY? Students learn about buoyancy -- and duct tape

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 6:40am

OGDEN -- Lonny Vandenberg was the picture of confidence Tuesday as he prepared to board the cardboard-and-duct-tape boat he and his teammate designed for their Ben Lomond High School physics class' annual pool boat float.

The makeshift dinghy, designed to look like the Loch Ness monster, was built from watermelon boxes and waterproofed with duct tape -- silver on the keel and bright green on the hull.

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(PAUL SAKUMA/The Associated Press) Nobel Prizes winner for physics Saul Perlmutter smiles as he poses with his daughter’s telescope at his home in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 after hearing he had won. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said American Perlmutter would share the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award with U.S.-Australian Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess. Working in two separate research teams during the 1990s, Perlmutter in one and Schmidt and Riess in the other, the scientists raced to map the universe’s expansion by analyzing a particular type of supernovas, or exploding stars.

Studies of universe’s expansion win physics Nobel

Karl Ritter, LOUISE NORDSTROM The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 7:36am

STOCKHOLM — Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for overturning a fundamental assumption in their field by showing that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating.

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Kasper Kubica poses for a portrait at his family’s home in South Ogden on Saturday. Kubica, a junior at West High School, achieved a perfect score of 36 on his ACT tests recently.

Perfect 36: South Ogden teen aces ACT test

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 10:19pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- Last spring Kasper Kubica felt confident he had done well on the ACT, a college-entrance exam required by most colleges for acceptance. He was hoping for a 34 or 35. That's why he was elated when he recently found out his score -- a perfect 36.

Now Kubica can almost hear the doors opening to attend some of his dream schools -- an Ivy League school or MIT. The nice thing for Kubica is that he still has two years to think about it; he has just started his junior year of high school.

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Award-winning physicist says now not a good time to cut NASA

Ginny Grimsley Contributor

Last updated Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 6:58am

As politicians take the knife to NASA's budget with the sun setting on the decades old Space Shuttle Program that has been the cornerstone of America's manned space program, one scientist is less concerned about the loss of the jobs, the space missions or even the publicity.

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