The famous double slit experiment has been recreated using large molecules. So it’s not just a subatomic thing. Thomas Juffmann et al. fired molecules composed of over 100 atoms at a barrier with openings designed to minimize molecular interactions, and … Continue reading
The 2012 peace index is out. All you need to know about it is here: “The USPI is the first national peace index produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. Similar in concept to the Global Peace Index (GPI), … Continue reading
And the missing 60 nanoseconds reinforce relativity instead of disproving it. It turns out the GPS satellites are in a separate reference frame from the experiment and once you account for the effects of relativity between the frames, the difference … Continue reading
“The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject’s … Continue reading
“…no convincing evidence of any cancer connection.” Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday. … Continue reading
Whether it’s radioactive half-life or an Instalanche, the curve looks the same. Math is awesome. Too bad public schools do their best to ruin it.
One of my favorite videos from the Apollo days.
I found this great post via Neatorama. What you thought you knew about Dinosaurs is probably wrong. Next time someone tries to tell you the science is settled you can laugh in their face. Science is never settled.
Now its a killer solar flare. Like global warming, it’s a “might happen” disaster. Anything to keep your attention off the REAL looming disaster, the one that is sure to happen and there is no avoiding it: The economic collapse … Continue reading