Physics
- Witness The Singularity AI Nanotech Co-Evolutionary Merger
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How is this for some exciting news, straight from the same source as “ I Let My Computer Use My Brain ” three years ago, but much advanced in the ways artificial intelligence (AI) has integrated itself further so that most anybody can now work with it, or ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 26 2014 - 2:56am
- Quantum Teleportation 25 Kilometers Away
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Physicists at the University of Geneva have succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometers of optical fiber. The experiment shatters the previous record of 6 kilometers achieved 10 years ago by the same team. Passi ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2014 - 8:53pm
- Sam Ting On AMS Results: Dark Matter Might Be One Seminar Away
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Last Friday Samuel Ting, the winner of the 1975 Nobel prize in Physics for the co-discovery of the J/ψ particle, gave a seminar in the packed CERN main auditorium on the latest results from AMS, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer installed on the internationa ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 29 2014 - 5:33am
- Factor In Space Bubbles Or The Terrorists Win
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In the early morning hours of March 4th, 2002, a reconnaissance team of US Navy SEALs became pinned down on the ridge dividing the Upper and Lower Shahikot valley in Afghanistan. A Chinook helicopter with 21 men on a mission to rescue them was heading for ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 1:06pm
- Small Is Ugly 2
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The very small is very weird; I explained that the last time in Small Is Ugly 1 already with help of the example of water being in the driest of places (Vastness and Fastness of the Small helps Evolution is of course somewhat related). And today, I still ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 26 2014 - 4:37am
- Donate To Sense About Science!
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Sense About Science is a non-profit organization that campaigns in favour of more correct diffusion and use of scientific information. It is a great attempt at increasing the quality of the scientific information in circulation, focusing on evidence and de ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 29 2014 - 5:49am
- Top Mass: CMS Again On Top!
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I wonder how interesting can be to an outsider to learn that the mass of the sixth quark is now known to 0.38% accuracy, thanks to the combination of measurements of that quantity performed by the CMS experiment at CERN. In fact, the previously best measur ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 30 2014 - 6:30am
- Emergence: The Remarkable Simplicity Of Complexity
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Patterns of emergence are all around us. Credit: Feliciano Guimarães /Flickr, CC BY By Andy Martin, University of Melbourne and Kristian Helmerson, Monash University From the fractal patterns of snowflakes to cellular lifeforms, our universe is full of co ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 1 2014 - 9:01am
- Sterile Neutrinos Remain Elusive
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BEIJING; BERKELEY, CA; and UPTON, NY- The Daya Bay Collaboration, an international group of scientists studying the subtle transformations of subatomic particles called neutrinos, is publishing its first results on the search for a so-called sterile neutr ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 1:05pm
- Streaming Of My Talk On "Publish, Blog, Tweet: Furthering One's Career In Science"
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Last Thursday and Friday I attended a workshop aimed at students of science communication and researchers who want to use the web tools to improve their collaboration networks and the visibility of their scientific output. I gave a talk discussing the good ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 8 2014 - 5:16am