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Not So Elementary (the Cosmos, That Is)

Recently there are appeared a paper showing how Physics - Iron–Helium Compounds Form Under...

Carbon — to capture or not to capture

This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture...

The Azolla Event: when is a fern not a fern?

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Betelgeuse, Gamow, and a Big Red Horse

There has been a lot of talk recently of Betelgeuse possibly going supernova this century or not...

Robert H Olley

Until recently, I worked in the Polymer Physics Group of the Physics Department at the University of Reading.

I would describe myself as a Polymer Morphologist. I am not an astronaut,

恭賀新禧 And The Moon

Feb 16 2018 | comment(s)

To observers in much of North America and East Asia, on January 31^st, the second full moon of the month, passed through Earth’s shadow in a Super Blue Blood Moon.

De Haut En Bas

Oct 19 2017 | comment(s)

Recently, in the New Statesman, under the headline David Attenborough: Brexiteers “probably don’t understand” facts, we read:

Is Betelgeuse A Cannibal Star?

Jun 29 2017 | comment(s)

A day or two ago I came across this article

Rocket salad, enantiomers, and nomenclature

Apr 29 2017 | comment(s)

Yet another article in the Telegraph: this time Supermarket rocket salad healthier than homegrown. featuring the vegetable kingdom this time:

Muck and Medicine

Apr 12 2017 | comment(s)

An article in The Federalist:

The Darwinism That Fuels Atheism Actually Favors Religiosity

contains a section based on a 2016 report

The First Known Deuterostome?

Feb 14 2017 | comment(s)

A few days ago I read an article in the Telegraph Humanity’s earliest known ancestor discovered - and it looks like a ‘wrinkled old sack’, featuring this creature:

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Berkshire_Bee
In his Epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton, (1735) The English poet Alexander Pope (1688–1744) wrote: Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light....

Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity Has A Fundamental Flaw. No Lagrangian, No Theory · 7 hours ago
IrishNeanderthal
Have you seen the film The Heroes of Telemark ? This is a 1965 British war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true...

There Is No Such Thing as a "Nuclear Scientist". There Are Only Physicists · 5 days ago
John H.
Politicians are loathe to say, "You are fat because of your diet not because of processed food or corporations making you eat." It is the same with education ... "When was the last...

You Don't Need Government Food Bans For Health, Provide Structure And Choice For Kids · 5 days ago
Hank Campbell
Indonesia bans it because it is so dangerous. Yet they grow it, for export to the United States. If you know even middle school chemistry you know it is dangerous. A psychoactive compound derived...

FDA Goes After Illegal Kratom 7-OH Supplement Sellers · 1 week ago
Caleb Long
Kratom is hardly considered dangerous. This article reads like a 3rd grader wrote it.

FDA Goes After Illegal Kratom 7-OH Supplement Sellers · 1 week ago

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