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The Best Song About Immunization You’ll Hear All Day
Word. (via Skepchick)
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Evidence Emerges That Laws of Physics Are Not Fine-Tuned For Life
via Technology Review The value of the cosmological constant suggests that the laws of nature could not have been fine-tuned for life by an omnipotent being, says a cosmologist KFC 01/18/2011 One of the more curious debates in science focuses on the laws of physics and why they seem fine-tuned for life. The problem is…
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Particle Pings: Sounds Of The Large Hadron Collider
ANDREW PRINCE, NPR Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland, the world’s most massive physics machine is sending subatomic particles smashing into each other at speeds nearing the speed of light. Physicists working with the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider hope it will help solve some of the universe’s mysteries. But first, researchers must overcome…
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Astronomers Find First Evidence Of Other Universes
via Technology Review Our cosmos was “bruised” in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background There’s something exciting afoot in the world of cosmology. Last month, Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and Vahe Gurzadyan at Yerevan State University in Armenia announced…
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Scientists find new squid in Indian Ocean depths
via Physorg.com Scientists have uncovered a new large species of squid among 70 types gathered during an exploration of the depths of the Indian Ocean, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said on Monday[2010.11.15]. The 70 centimetre (27 inches) long new species is part of the “chiroteuthid” family with light emitting organs that…
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NASA – Year in Review, 2010
Part One Part Two Both episodes are available as audio or video streams. Let’s think “positive” for the year(s) ahead!
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Future holds key to quantum physics
via USA Today Dan Vergano 2010.11.21 If Yogi Berra had pursued a career in quantum physics instead of baseball, you could imagine him saying something like, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” That’s because for a lot of things in quantum physics (and baseball), exactly what happened in the past can be…
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Why Are You Here? A New Theory May Hold the Missing Piece
via The Huffington Post: Living by Robert Lanza, M.D. 2010.11.12 Why do you happen to be alive on this lush little planet with its warm sun and coconut trees? And at just the right time in the history of the universe? The surface of the molten earth has cooled, but it’s not too cold. And…
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Stem Cell Rap
via Talking Science In 2009, Dr. Garlick succeeded in growing three-dimensional tissues from human embryonic stem cells, making him and his team of scientists the first to achieve the pioneering research for the field. READ MORE
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Play a Game, Help Save Humanity
Humans are still better than computers at solving certain kinds of problems, so crowdsourcing is becoming a common way to harness lots of meat-based processing power. Turning the problem into a game guarantees even more participation. Phylo asks players to find the best arrangement of colorful little boxes, whilst behind the scenes they’re actually aligning…