Timothy Peake, the first Briton to represent the European Space Agency aboard the International Space Station, will be away from the planet for six months but looks forward to Earthly pleasures like seeing the new Star Wars ...
Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2015
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Many of the most memorable stories in the history of science revolve around the conscious realization of an idea - the "Eureka!" moment. But what triggers these moments? Is there always some serendipitous event preceding ...
Other
Sep 1, 2015
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Biophysicists have taken another small step forward in the quest for an automated method to infer models describing a system's dynamics - a so-called robot scientist. Nature Communications published the finding - a practical ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 25, 2015
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There is a bit of a mystery surrounding a book at William & Mary.
Other
Jun 15, 2015
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Let us discuss the very nature of the cosmos. What you may find in this discussion is not what you expect. Going into a conversation about the universe as a whole, you would imagine a story full of wondrous events such as ...
Mathematics
Jun 8, 2015
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On 29 May 1919, a shadow dance took place over the Caribbean which was to make history: While the new moon covered the blazingly bright disk of the Sun, astronomers around Arthur Stanley Eddington measured the shift of stars ...
Astronomy
May 26, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A new review of a notebook filled with scrawlings by Isaac Newton shows that he very nearly uncovered the secret of how plants defy gravity by pulling water up from roots all the way into their stems and leaves. ...
Some physical principles have been considered immutable since the time of Isaac Newton: Light always travels in straight lines. No physical object can change its speed unless some outside force acts on it.
General Physics
Jan 21, 2015
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Take a look at the moon and it isn't hard to imagine it as a planet. A 3,476 kilometres-in-diameter ball of rock, with basalt plains and mountain ranges, whose gravitational pull produces tides here on Earth.
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2014
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In this month's issue of Physics World, Felicity Mellor, a senior lecturer in science communication at Imperial College London, questions whether the requirement of the modern physicist to collaborate and communicate is preventing ...
General Physics
Apr 1, 2014
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