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Physorg (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In order to infer missing data in an astronomical measurement with more than just imagination, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have formulated a theory of spatial perception...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Researchers reconstruct the evolution of bat migration with the aid of a mathematical modelNot just birds, but also a few species of bats face a long journey every year. Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany studied the migratory behavior of the largest extant family of bats, the so-called "Vespertilionidae"...
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
It's the question I've been asking myself since the University of East Anglia CRU emails surfaced last week. I don't have an answer despite having read about a third of the emails. For guidance I sought out a bongo player-slash-raconteur. Here's the musician riffing on science: "...It is interesting, therefore, to bring it out now and speak of it explicitly. It's a kind of scientific integrity,...
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The GREEN MARKET (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The meeting in Copenhagen is the fifteenth meeting on climate change but it is not the last. The US Senate's inability to pass climate change legislation before international negotiations begin at COP15 does not constitute the end of the process. The Senate's inaction may be profoundly dissapointing, however, the Obama administration has demonstrated its commitment to reducing emissions. COP15 can...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two-dimensional carbon layers, so-called graphenes, are regarded as a possible substitute for silicon in the semiconductor industry. The electronic properties of these layers can be varied by "building in" specific arrays of holes in their structure. Physicists at Empa, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in...
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whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | yesterday
“..The famed physicist Albert Einstein may no longer be living, but his robotic double almost seems to bring the scientist back to life. The engineers at Hanson Robotics have created a robotic head designed to look like Albert Einstein’s and put it on top of the “HUBO” bipedal robotic frame. The following video demonstrates the intricate facial [...]
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DCist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo by Bullneck The Catholic Church is shaking things up these days, huh? The same Church that silenced Galileo Galilei has acknowledged that aliens could maybe exist . Further, the Church says that xenomorphs might not require redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church is only talking astrobiology in theoretical terms right now, but what's preventing the Vatican from launching...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter was in the Bronx on Friday, to settle his World Series bet with Mayor Bloomberg. The two mayors decided not to do a cheesesteak-cheesecake bet (Senators Schumer and Gillibrand did that with Senators Casey and Specter) and instead agreed "that the losing mayor would travel to the winning city to join the winning mayor in a volunteer service project, while wearing...
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Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week is Thanksgiving in the United States. This means that over the coming weekend many Americans will be putting up Christmas decorations in and outside their houses. Many children will be putting finishing touches on their letters to Santa. The shopping malls will start to fill and while economists examine and measure the retail sales bump for signs that the world will not end, we, as a nation,...
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GAFCON (Free subscription) | yesterday
The usual suspects are all buzzing with excitement (well the noise is either excitement or Peter Ould has finally worked up the courage to buy a “special” device on ebay) about The Manhattan Declaration , which is the latest definitive statement on what Conservative Christians must believe. Superseding all previous definitive declarations of Biblical Christianity, including those found...
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Quest for Balance (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
* “Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it’s important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn’t just ourselves that we’re discovering. We’re discovering [...] Inspiration from Pema Chodron:...
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Remembrance in Spacetime (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Related Link » Hadleygate: Politics and Peer Review “Premier journal publications amplify your voice and pay your bills. And when that becomes a political process, the American Association for the Advancement of Science will resemble ACORN more than it will resemble anything Galileo, Darwin, or Albert Einstein would recognize as an organization promoting the advancement of science. And...
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small dead animals (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein h/t R. Black...
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For The Love Of Food! (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Here's what I came up with after buying some Portobello mushrooms... My daughter ate them up, not even knowing there were mushrooms in them! After I told her, she freaked out :D I made some homemade tortillas for these, and I tried the Mrs. Dash's Steak Seasoning since I like it on steak so much... and it was just as good on the mushrooms. I'm sending this to KO Rasoi's CREATE For a Chilli Chopper...
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In the Dark (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The era of modern physics could be said to have begun in 1687 with the publication by Sir Isaac Newton of his great Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, (Principia for short). In this magnificent volume, Newton presented a mathematical theory of all known forms of motion and, for the first time, gave clear definitions of the [...]
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dickdaisy | 10/14/2009
And this is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program, Explorations. Today we tell about a scientist who changed the way we understand the universe, Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein, Mathematics, Experiments http://www.1-language.com/eslnews/explore030122.htm
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techzene | 10/09/2009
Charles K.Kao (Standard Telecommunication Laboratories) is awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres" For List of All winners.Visit @ Current Affairs
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rekon | 10/08/2009
ndian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz from United States and Ada Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their pioneering work on the ribosomes, which may help develop new medicines in decreasing the sufferings of the humanity. Chemistry Nobel Prize 2009