Source: Lab Spaces
Thanks to University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST for this article. This press release has been viewed 16 time(s). The exposed Sunda Shelf during glacial times greatly affected the atmospheric circulation. The shelf is shown on the left for present-day as the light ...
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Source: Irish Times
A chara, – Having attended local schools, it was immensely satisfying to co-organise a free public outreach lecture over the May bank holiday weekend on the discovery of the Higgs’ boson with Prof Peter Higgs as a speaker at NUI Mayno ...
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Source: Guardian Unlimited
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost," wrote Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his day, "not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things that are t ...
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Source: EssayClub.com
Cern scientists believe newly discovered particle is the real Higgs boson Results of analysis at Cern in Switzerland show particle behaves precisely as expected The Guardian, Friday 15 March 2013 A representation o ...
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Source: Quantam Diaries
This essay makes a point that is only implicit in most of my other essays–namely that scientists are arro—oops that is for another post. The point here is that science is defined not by how it goes about acquiring knowledge but rather by ...
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Source: Lab Spaces
Thanks to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for this article. This press release has been viewed 30 time(s). Injectable nanoparticles developed at MIT may someday eliminate the need for patients with Type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor their blo ...
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Source: Lab Spaces
Thanks to City College of New York for this article. This press release has been viewed 29 time(s). City College of New York Assistant Professor of Physics Cory Dean, who recently arrived from Columbia University where he was a post-docto ...
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Source: Lab Spaces
Thanks to North Carolina State University for this article. This press release has been viewed 19 time(s). The nanostructures, inspired by the surface of a moth's eye, limit the amount of light reflected at the thin-film interfaces ...
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Source: Big Think
We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage ...
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Source: The Mahablog
So the Amazing Keyboarding Vegetable has one of his standard, weaselly, more-in-pity-than-anger columns up about When Good Governments Go Bad. A sample: It’s hard to tell now if the I.R.S. scandal is political thugger ...
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