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Hamsa Sridhar ’12 works with levitating gold on a regular basis—but the work is neither magical nor costly...
Under the direction of Applied Physics Professor Federico Capasso, Sridhar has to devise feasible ways to coat the micro-particle with gold and magnetic materials...
Sridhar, a joint physics and mathematics concentrator, is the only undergraduate researcher involved in a project at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences that seeks to levitate certain micro-particles coated with a thin layer of gold...
Journalist Mark Boal, 37, struck Oscar-nomination gold with his screenplay for The Hurt Locker; as one of the film's producers, he's up for Best Picture too. Boal spoke with TIME's Radhika Jones in Los Angeles about the genesis of his script, the meaning of the phrase the hurt locker and why it's good to kill off famous people in your movie...
...competitor. In Vancouver, it was hard to see past American skier Lindsey Vonn or South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na. But the sporting success of the home nation helps set the tone for an Olympics. Just ask Canada's rabid ice hockey fans. Canada topped the gold-medal count this winter, and the U.K. will be under pressure to deliver in 2012. Recent history is encouraging: Britain finished fourth in the medals table in Beijing and landed its biggest gold-medal haul in a century...