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Geek Trivia: What Early Artificial Sweetener Was Discovered By Accident?
Feb 25th
What Early Artificial Sweetener Was Discovered By Accident? 1) Cyclamate 2) Neotame 3) Saccharin 4) Glucin Think you know the answer?
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Geek Trivia: What Early Artificial Sweetener Was Discovered By Accident?
High-precision weigh-in for W boson means fewer hiding places for Higgs
Feb 25th
Fermilab’s Tevatron particle collider may have shut down last year, but it left behind massive amounts of data for scientists to sift through—physicists I’ve talked to suggest that papers should keep flowing at the same pace as when it was running for well over a year. Thursday, the CDF detector team released a new estimate of the mass of the W boson, derived from Tevatron data, that provides the most precise value for this particle yet.
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High-precision weigh-in for W boson means fewer hiding places for Higgs
Iron-based superconductors respond well to pressure
Feb 23rd
Superconductivity—the ability of certain materials to conduct electricity with no resistance—continues to be one of the most challenging fields in materials science. On the one hand, the effect appears reliably in a number of materials, although only at very low temperatures
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Iron-based superconductors respond well to pressure
Scientists get kick out of ‘buckyball’ discovery
Feb 23rd
For the first time, astronomers have discovered the solid form of tiny carbon spheres in deep space in vast cloud of particles locked in orbit around two distant stars.
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Scientists get kick out of ‘buckyball’ discovery
Enjoy a skywatching triple play this week
Feb 23rd
Anyone out under the stars in the early evening lately likely cannot help but notice two brilliant objects dominating the western sky: the planets Venus and Jupiter. The moon is making its monthly trip around the Earth and will pass these two planets on Saturday and Sunday this week in what astronomers call a triple conjunction.
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Enjoy a skywatching triple play this week
The cost of building Great Pyramid today
Feb 23rd
Even with cranes, helicopters, tractors and trucks at our disposal, it would be tough to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza today. Its construction 4,500 years ago is so astounding in some people’s eyes that they invoke mystical or even alien involvement. But the current theory of the building of the Great Pyramid — the notion that it was assembled from the inside out, via a spiraling internal ramp — is probably still the best construction plan.
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The cost of building Great Pyramid today
Nanopore tech brings rackmounted genome machines, USB-based DNA sensors
Feb 18th
The DNA sequencing systems on the market produce their output by synthesizing new DNA in a way that allows them to read the identity of the base that’s added. There have been a few ideas floated around that involved reading the bases directly from existing molecules, but the technical challenges of doing so have kept anyone from bringing these technologies to market
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Nanopore tech brings rackmounted genome machines, USB-based DNA sensors
China unveils best moon map yet from orbiter
Feb 11th
China’s space agency released an amazingly detailed map of the moon this week, marking the best view yet of the lunar surface as seen by a Chinese spacecraft, according to state officials.
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China unveils best moon map yet from orbiter
A call for a 21st-century battlefield stretcher
Feb 10th
U.S. military stretchers have not changed much since soldiers paired up to carry their wounded brothers-in-arms away from Civil War battlefields. That’s why the Air Force’s “Batman” lab for high-tech gadgets has issued a $15,000 challenge aimed at updating the technology so that just a single soldier can safely move a casualty to a helicopter
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A call for a 21st-century battlefield stretcher
Starfleet Uniform Pillows: for Outer Space Pillow Fights
Feb 10th
We all know that if you wore a red shirt on Star Trek (the original series) that your days (or minutes) were likely numbered. Maybe it’s just that working for the Security or Engineering departments on a Federation starship is more dangerous than most other jobs
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Starfleet Uniform Pillows: for Outer Space Pillow Fights
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