We’ve all seen a full moon looming large shortly after it rises, when it’s still hugging the horizon. Scientists say that large moon is an illusion, a trick your brain is playing. It’s called the...
Cosmologists have revealed intruiging new ways to probe the mystery of whether dark energy exists and how it might be accelerating the universe’s growth A LIGHT in the darkness can come from...
(Submitted on 4 Sep 2014) M. S. Leifer Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 2Y5. September 4, 2014 Abstract Towards the end of 2011, Pusey, Barrett...
With a temperature below -268 degrees Celsius, liquid helium keeps MRI machines and particle accelerators properly cooled (yay!). Take liquid helium's temperature even lower than that, however, and...
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have discovered that humans prefer increased autonomy for robots. And no, those researchers were not robots. More robot...
Larry Meinert:  Since this is going to be a science talk, let's start with a little thought experiment. Imagine two vineyards right next to each other. One, over hundreds of years, has produced...

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All About Geology of the Bryce Canyon area The exposed geology of the Bryce Canyon area in Utah shows a record of deposition that covers the last part of the Cretaceous Period and the first half of...

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All About Biochemistry Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms By controlling information flow through...

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Geophysical technologies are going to play a crucial role... to meet the world's increasing demand for energy in the decades to come. A lot more hydrocarbons will be needed, as the world's population...

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Today I’m talking about the lost art of stratigraphy. It is an area of archaeological practice that’s quite dear to my heart. I grew up reading Mortimer Wheeler’s Archaeology from the Earth and of...

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