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The race is on to revamp the accelerator that found the Higgs boson, doubling its energy by February 2015. Michael Brooks samples the action at CERN (full text available to subscribers)
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For the last few days Harith Farooq, a Mozambican scientist from the University of Lúrio in Pemba, and his colleague, MO Roedel from Berlin, two herpetologists participating in a biodiversity survey of the Cheringoma Plateau in Gorongosa National Park, have been trying to catch some of the many lizards found in the Nhagutua Gorge, the site of our first camp. Alas, the sneaky reptiles proved to be extremely difficult to catch by hand, which prompted Harith to come up with an alternative […]
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Unplugged Rossi in his Bologna warehouse with a 10-kilowatt E-Cat module. He has been criticized in the past for not unplugging his machine during demos. Steve Featherstone The E-Cat strikes again. A well-known promoter of cold fusion technology-who's been demonstrating his latest invention here and there over the past two years-has announced that an independent third party has verified his machine works. That is, it creates a large amount of energy in the form of heat, far more than it
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Tide-born pebbles on the seabed can drown out other ocean noises.
Originally published:
May 21 2013 - 10:00am
By:
Joel N. Shurkin, ISNS Contributor
Science category:
Acoustics
Environment
Geology
News section:
Inside Science News Service
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Taming The Desert When completed in 2025, Masdar City will pack 40,000 inhabitants into two square miles of carbon-neutral buildings. Courtesy Foster + Partners Why would a petro-state erect a solar-powered eco-metropolis in the middle of the Arabian desert? To change the world. At first glance, Masdar City appears a mirage. From a distance it looks like a single multicolored building, standing lonely on the horizon. Part of the illusion is due to the city's strange setting: next to Abu Dhabi
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SUMMARY: crammed with gorgeous full-colour photographs and rich graphics, clear and concise writing, and large, easy-to-read font, this is the best chemistry primer I've ever read! Did you know that the bamboo lemur consumes enough cyanide daily to kill a human? ...that Paris green paint, which gets its colour from arsenic, was so toxic that it was used as a rat poison as well for painting masterpieces? ...that there is a lump of crystallised carbon (a diamond) that is 3,000... Read more
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A paper on partially entangled states seems to have fallen victim to a confusing entanglement of authors and studies. Here’s the notice for the paper, “Optimal quantum communication using multiparticle partially entangled states,” by Atul Kumar, Satyabrata Adhikari, Subhashish Banerjee, and Sovik Roy: This article should be considered withdrawn from publication. Although the paper shows […]
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Mysteries of vernacular: Tuxedo - Jessica Oreck
How did tuxedo’s roots extend from Native American history to black tie evening wear? Jessica Oreck reveals what the Delaware Indians and formal fashion have in common.
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mysteries-of-vernacular-tuxedo-jessica-oreck
Lesson by Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel, animation by Jessica Oreck.
via TED Education.
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We've been hinting at this for the past couple of weeks so we're reall...
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The Bonobo and the Atheist and How Animals Grieve show that we must be careful when studying animals to learn about the origins of human traits and behaviours
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A panel discusses the first American woman in space's lasting legacy and the challenges still to be overcome for gender equality in the sciences
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Last March, an article I wrote about the spread of Asian carp in U.S. waters appeared in the journal BioScience. A month later, the editors received a letter from a [...]The post Avoiding fear and loathing in self-editing appeared first on The Science Writers' Handbook.
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Justin Sonnenburg, a microbiologist at Stanford, suggests that we would do well to begin regarding the human body as “an elaborate vessel optimized for the growth and spread of our microbial inhabitants.” This humbling new way of thinking about the...
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According to genetics, there is not much that makes us human; depending on how you count, we share 98.5 per cent of our genes with chimpanzees. Perhaps this is not such a significant matter, given that we also share about...
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In the summer of 1494, soon after his engagement, Albrecht Dürer made a startlingly intimate drawing of his fiancée Agnes Frey. One might have expected a twenty-three-year-old to depict his betrothed as a source of love, or comfort or well-being,...
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National Inventors Hall of Fame Honoree Andrew Viterbi
Electrical engineer and cofounder of wireless technology giant Qualcomm, Andrew Viterbi, received two National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grants to further develop and commercialize Code Division Multiple Access, a technology important for wireless communication throughout the world.
via Videos at NSF.
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Some things theoretical physicists study aren't true, but they help with reality.
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Pulling a plane out of the English Channel isn't easy. When it's a relic of World War II, it's even harder.
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A Bion-M1 capsule launches aboard a Soyuz rocket DLR photo via Wikimedia The longest orbital experiment dedicated purely to biology has returned to Earth. Less than half of the rodents, lizards, fish, and other small animals that were lofted skyward last month made it back alive, but nonetheless Russian researchers are calling their so-called "Space Ark" mission--the longest-duration space mission ever dedicated purely to biological study--a success. After spending a month in space, the Russian
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By Kristen Weiss In a few short days, I will be heading to Micronesia with several USC staff and faculty members, as well as 26 bright, enthusiastic USC undergraduates. This trip is the culmination of a semester’s worth of anticipation, in which the students were trained in scientific diving skills, the physics of diving, and [...]
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In behavioral biology there is a fair amount of attention to individual quality, which may be determined by genes or parasite load or energy balance, or some interaction among these (and other) factors. Individual quality is honestly indicated by some trait or behavior; a large bright thing hanging of your head, a long bout of…
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DNA analysis of 166-year-old potato plant leaves has revealed the disease strain that caused the starvation of millions
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On our radar today: 1) A tornado in Oklahoma kills at least 91 people; 2) The largest python ever caught in Florida; 3) Researchers find that a piece of hair might be able to measure your soda intake, and…
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Afghan law to protect women’s rights blocked by opponents – From Critical Dragon1177. Why do men keep putting me in the girlfriend zone? – This is brilliant. From Blakut. Felicia Day on the women in the new Star Trek movie – Spoilers, of course. I couldn’t agree more with her assessment. 6 women scientists who were snubbed due to sexism – Why not start your day with some outrage?
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I’ve yet to meet anyone who loves cancer. When President Nixon began the war on cancer in 1971 with the signing of the National Cancer Act, it was intended to “…strengthen the National Cancer Institute in order to more effectively carry out the national effort against cancer.” Despite the billions of dollars spent, and a [...]
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ChemMatters: How NASA keeps tabs on air pollution from space
What flies around the world 14 times a day and can detect global air pollution levels from space? It’s NASA’s Aura satellite, whose mission is to understand the changing chemistry of the Earth’s atmosphere. This remarkable satellite can measure air quality across the entire planet in just 24 hours.
Find out more about Aura, how smog is formed, the future of Earth’s ozone hole and much more in our latest episode of
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The storms that swept through Oklahoma yesterday left astonishing devastation in their wake. The live video and photos taken from the ground are horrifying, grim, and heart-breaking.
Whenever there is some sort of terrible weather event, one of the first things I do is check the satellite imagery to see what the system looks like, and how wide-spread it is. And every time, I forget how different things look from space. The contrast is shocking, even when you expect it.
That’s a Geostationary
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Mass can be explained in two ways: by the amount of force required to accelerate an object (inertial mass) and by that object’s attraction for other objects (gravitational mass). For ordinary matter, these two measurements are equal. What about for antimatter? While we can’t yet answer this question definitively, we now have the first observations of anti-atoms within a gravitational field.Where ordinary hydrogen is composed of one electron and one proton, antihydrogen is composed of a
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Irving Langmuir fue un científico en la frontera entre lo
experimental y lo teórico. Fue la antítesis de la imagen
prototípica del científico: práctico, pragmático, elegante,
industrial, con una gran capacidad de comunicación. Recibió el
premio Nobel y fue presidente de la Asociación Química Americana
(ACS, por sus siglas en inglés). En una famosa charla-coloquio de
1953 describió lo que él llamó la “ciencia de las cosas que no
son” o, como sería conocida más tarde,
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