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I'm in ur atom, probing ur nucleus

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. - E. Rutherford It has been 100 years since the ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Thomas Jefferson

Time-travel doesn't imbue quantum computers with superpowers

After spending the past two months on sabbatical, I've returned to a deluge of science that I had missed out on. Almost three years ago, a company called D-Wave made waves by announcing that it was about to unveil one of the first-ever functioning ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: IBM

United Kingdom: The eco activists who are camping against climate change

(CNN) -- There was no mistaking the target: the eight huge cooling towers at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, sending plumes of steam high into the watery blue sky of the English Midlands. A mix of peaceful protest and direct action took place at ...

From CNN: MATT FORD, EcoEarth News,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  G-20,  Greenpeace,  James Hansen,  NASA

Many small steps led to Apollo 11's giant leap for mankind

I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. History records that the Chinese were the first to invent the rocket, back in ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  20 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Robert Goddard,  Neil Armstrong,  Kitty Hawk, Inc.,  Michael Collins (politician),  Alan Shepard

Scientists find a black hole that's "just right"

Some black holes are too big. Some black holes are too small. A letter appearing in this week's edition of Nature describes how astronomers may have found one that is just right. The letter, written by a team of British and French astronomers, does not ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  1 Jul 2009

Government report: climate change here, mitigation needed now

The US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a report that looks at the effects that global climate change will have on the United States. Entitled Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, it draws ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  17 Jun 2009

Science tenure track: fewer women, but equal progress

A new study commissioned by Congress and carried out by the National Academies of Science takes a snapshot of how well women are faring in academic careers. The raw numbers show a striking disparity: in 2005, women received nearly 38 percent of the ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  14 Jun 2009

Kicking a planet out of the Solar System... physically

New research by a duo of French astronomers reveals that small perturbations in Mercury's orbit could result in Mars literally getting the boot from our brotherhood of planets, being flung out of the solar system thanks to the dynamics of a chaotic ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Mercury

Onset of the "Great Dying" extinctions linked to volcanism

Throughout the history of the planet, there have been a number of mass extinction events. The largest was the "Great Dying," which occurred at the border of the Permian and Triassic periods—during this event, over half of the species on Earth at the ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  28 May 2009

Watching the brain pick junk food over healthy food

Last year, we covered research that examined how well people's dietary intentions lined up with what they actually ate. It turns out that a significant portion of those with good intentions—those planning to eat healthy—end up eating unhealthy junk ...

From MATT FORD, Ars Technica,  1 May 2009

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