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Laser-plasma accelerators ride on Einstein's shouldersLaser-plasma accelerators ride on Einstein's shoulders This is an example of a laser wakefield simulated in a "Boosted Frame." Electrons (colored tubes) are injected and accelerated by surfing the wave (blue surfaces) generated by a laser pulse. Credit: Samuel F. Martins, Instituto Superior Técnico ...
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Ground-Breaking Science: Very Old Papers Are Both Awesome and Hilarious | Wired Science | Wired.comCan one species be transmuted into another just by swapping their blood? What are those funny little things swimming in my water? Did this Einstein guy get his math right? Those are a few of the questions addressed in a trove of history-making papers published by the United Kingdom’s Royal ...
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The Lights Stay On Inside a Black Hole! : Starts With A BangFrom gluons to galaxies, one scientist takes on all the mysteries the Universe has to offer. The Lights Stay On Inside a Black Hole! The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. -Vladimir Nabokov...
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Nov. 11, 1936: Einstein Gets Ice Cold | This Day In Tech | Wired.com1936: Albert Einstein and fellow nuclear scientist Leo Szilard receive an American patent for a new kind of refrigerator that requires no electricity. The most famous physicist of the 20th century wasn’t a Thomas Edison: The fridge would prove to be one of Einstein’s few forays into the world ...
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Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this roundRacing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish may stoke the fires of debate among physicists over Einstein's special theory of ...
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Do Three Meals A Day Keep Fungi Away? Protective Effect Of Being Warm-bloodedDo Three Meals A Day Keep Fungi Away? Protective Effect Of Being Warm-blooded ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2009) — The fact that they eat a lot – and often – may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to research from Albert Einstein ...
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Erasing Dark Energy § SEEDMAGAZINE.COMErasing Dark Energy Wide Angle / by Veronique Greenwood / September 24, 2009 Why do we need dark energy to explain the observable universe? Two mathematicians propose an alternate solution that, while beautiful, may raise even more questions than it answers.
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13 more things that don't make sense - New ScientistStrive as we might to make sense of the world, some mysteries still confound us. Here are 13 of the most perplexing - cracking any one of them could yield profound truths
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Still waiting to bag the big one - BBC SpacemanStill waiting to bag the big one It was supposed to be the first great scientific discovery of the 21st Century - or so many researchers thought when they rushed down to the bookmakers to place bets at what were deemed at the time to be ludicrously generous odds. The physicists believed ...
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Lack of Gravity Waves Puts Limits on Exotic Cosmology Theories -- Researchers figure out how galaxies like the Milky Way formed -- Space.comThis time, scientists are excited to find nothing. In results announced today, a huge physics experiment built to detect gravitational waves has yet to find any. Rather than be disappointed by the null findings, physicists say the results were expected, and in fact help them narrow down ...
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