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Gravitational wave discovery criticisms

blogs • May 19, 2014

I thought I should put this up just because I had raved about this discovery's importance in earlier posts. In the interests of time, I'm only linking to the National Geographic article in which I first...

Head in the clouds: a bit of the science behind daydreams

blogs • May 19, 2014

[aesop_image img="https://hilite.org/core/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/default-net.jpg" caption="DELANCEYPLACE.COM / SOURCE" align="left" captionposition="left" lightbox="off"]Daydreaming – an activity...

A new shape: the hemihelix

blogs • May 2, 2014

[aesop_image img="https://hilite.org/core/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/hemihelix-1.jpg" caption="SEAS.HARVARD.EDU / SOURCE" align="left" captionposition="left" lightbox="off"]Researchers at Harvard recently...

Synthetic yeast chromosome

blogs • April 4, 2014

[aesop_image img="https://hilite.org/core/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DNA.jpg" caption="NPR.ORG / SOURCE" align="left" captionposition="left" lightbox="off"]Recently, scientists revealed a major breakthrough...

Gravitational waves: what do they tell us?

blogs • March 24, 2014

[aesop_image img="https://hilite.org/core/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bicep2.jpg" caption="BICEPKECK.ORG / SOURCE" align="left" captionposition="left" lightbox="off"]Most people have probably seen recent...

The dropleton: a new state of matter

blogs • March 10, 2014

[aesop_image img="https://hilite.org/core/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/dropletons.jpg" caption="SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM / SOURCE" align="left" captionposition="left" lightbox="off"]Say hello to the dropleton. This...

It’s ALIVE!

perspectives • February 20, 2014

A February 14 poll conducted by the National Science Foundation found that one in four Americans does not know that the Earth rotates around the sun. Arguably one of the simplest questions in science,...