READ MORE
Up-to-date With The Big Bang...
Quantum Leap Or Quantum Mirage? What Happens When...
Chemicals To Put Out Fires Are 'Riskier' For Firefighters...
The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
Six-muon Events Probe Proton Collision Dynamics
[For the first part of this two-part post, see here]>
I was reached this evening by the news of the passing of a dear friend, Enrico Stomeo. Enrico was an architect by profession, but for me he was rather defined by his activity as an amateur astronomer - in fact, if I had to define what a serious amateur astronomer is, I would more or less consciously be describing>
Espresso is a coffee extraction process where hot water is forced through finely ground coffee at a barometric pressure of nine - which means nine times the usual pressure you feel at sea level, which translates to about 130 pounds per square inch, about 400 percent of your car tires.Some people drink it diluted with>
At a major Artificial Intelligence competition at the University of Reading on 12 October, machines have come close to imitating human communication.
As part of the 18th Loebner Prize, all of the artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competing to pass the Turing Test have managed to fool at least one of their>
Where is 'sea level' and how far above sea level is a particular place located?
Quite a lot of things may go wrong in bridge building and the inhabitants of the German and the Swiss parts of Laufenburg were looking forward to a new bridge over the Rhine, the High Rhine Bridge, when they were taken aback by>
Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Princeton University have shown for the first time that the difference in reflection of light from the Earth's land masses and oceans can be seen on the dark side of the moon, a phenomenon known as earthshine. Sally Langford from the University of Melbourne's School>
