I previously posted a link to the Scale of the Universe web page where you can interactively explore the cosmos from the smallest to the largest and click on objects for more information about them. Commentator ixtrix points out a … Continue reading
Here’s a fascinating web page that lets you zoom in and out with a slider at the bottom to see objects on different scales, starting with the size of a human being and zooming out to see the size of … Continue reading
Nifty goshwow physics demonstration from Tel Aviv University involving a superconducting disk and several magnets: A physics professor (Andrea Damascelli of Canada’s University of British Columbia) shows the same effect to his students, with a little more in the way … Continue reading
This is really remarkable. Scientists at UC Berkeley used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of members of their own team while the subjects watched movie trailers, after which the scans were run through computer analysis to … Continue reading
Britain’s The Independent newspaper http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-smoked-out-tobacco-giants-war-on-science-2347254.html that tobacco giant Philip Morris International is using legal maneuvers in the UK to try it get its hands on research at Stirling University into how children and teenagers respond to tobacco marketing. (The Guardian … Continue reading
Wolfgang Wagner, editor of the online scientific journal Remote Sensing, has resigned after criticism for publishing a paper about climate models that was outside the journal’s normal subject area and drew criticism from a number of scientists. Wagner wrote in … Continue reading
I haven’t had time to verify this report with another source, but it seems plausible and interesting enough to warrant mention. Basically, it appears that there is a deep flow of groundwater four kilometers (2.5 miles) below the Amazon River, … Continue reading
Yesterday I posted something about a list of proposed dates for the end of the world, as maintained by a British cosmetics company. Many of the predictions come from religious or mystical sources, but one of them referenced an short … Continue reading
Former Utah governor and current Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has lately begun distancing himself from his leading GOP rivals but presenting himself as more electable that they because, basically, he’s willing to accept what scientific evidence says about nature … Continue reading
A news item published today on the website of the journal Science reports the discovery of dark seasonal streaks that appear on some equator-facing slopes on Mars when the local temperature rises high enough. Here are the last two paragraphs … Continue reading