Website for the flame challenge
L. A. Rozema et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2012)
| Most extensive census of
insects, spiders and their relative uncovers 25,246 arthropod species
in 1.2 acre section of Panamanian rainforest |
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| Winning entry explaining "What
is a flame?" as judged by over 6000 11-year olds Website for the flame challenge |
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| Nine year old model of a finite
universe as a giant dodecahedron
remains a viable explanation for patterns in the cosmic microwave
background radiation |
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| New study updates the age of the
Grand Canyon from 6 Million years to over 70 Million years, sparks
geological debate |
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| North Korean archeologists
discover ancient unicorn lair |
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| New type of matter, "color-glass condensate,"
discovered in the Large Hadron Collider (h/t Tyler B.) |
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| Four wings would have made
Microraptor a terrifyingly agile, if small, flying predator |
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| 'Super-Earth' alien planet may be habitable for
life |
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| Self-portrait of Martian rover
Curiosity (click for hi-res image) |
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| What happens if you give a thousand computers
with no instruction to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a
printed word? |
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| You will be assimilated. |
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| Beluga whale speaks human |
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| First human achieves supersonic
freefall |
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| New determination that the
half-life of DNA is 521 years rules out possibility of real-life
Jurrasic Park |
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| Mathematicians and physicists
disentangle reason ponytails sway rather than bounce |
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| New experiments show
probabilistic nature (not act of measurement) accounts for the correct
version of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle L. A. Rozema et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2012) |
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| A Classic Video about Scale |
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