World’s biggest telescope spans continents

Source: Calgary Herald

Nick Collins in London and Jonathan Pearlman in Perth The world’s biggest and most powerful radio telescope, designed to lead the search for life on other planets, will be spread across South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. ...
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Science: The Art of the Appropriate Approximation

Source: Quantam Diaries

There is this myth that science is exact. It is captured nicely in this quote from an old detective story: In the sciences we must be exact—not approximately so, but absolutely so. We must know. It isn’t like carpe ...
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South Africa’s Future in Divine Harmony

Source: News24

Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there, for Destiny is not a place, but a state of being. If you are still confused about the country you live in, you need not look further for the answers. They are in ...
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David Holz's Leap Motion Wants to Kill the Mouse

Source: BusinessWeek

Growing up in southern Florida, David Holz was a tinkerer. “I had a large pile of all sorts of electronics,” he says. “I was trying to figure out how things worked.” In high school, he built a system that uses several microphones to pinpoint where a nois ...
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Catching Einstein's Gravitational Waves

Source: Real Clear Science

Gravitational wave physics holds the key to understanding multiple facets of our universe. Among many other things, gravitational wave experiments have the potential to: (1) Understand the correctness of Einstein’s theory in regions of the ...
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Testing variations of Planck's constant with the GPS

Source: Back Reaction

In a recent PRL, James Kentosh and Makan Mohageg of California State University at Northridge, report on a neat little analysis of GPS time correction data that they used to put bounds on a position dependence of P ...
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Big bang – science in science-fiction?

Source: News24

I normally enjoy science-fiction movies. Movies about aliens, other planets, technology not in existence like flying machines, fancy weapons, etc. And the more intelligent and real the “science” behind it, the more “credible” and enjoyable ...
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David Kaiser Elegant Wiggles How the Universe Got Its Lumps

Source: Albequerque Express

"What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" Right away I knew what my favorite candidate would be: the prevailing explanation for why the universe is lumpy. The explanation combines two ...
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Elegant Wiggles: How the Universe Got Its Lumps

Source: The Huffington Post

Back in January the Edge (the website , not the guitarist ) posted almost 200 short essays in response to the question, "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" Right away I knew what my f ...
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