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Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism, Human RightsExcerpt from Facts, Fascism, and Fascists, Friday, January 24, 2020Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious…
Image Source: History.com/Civil Rights Act of 1964 Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Existentialism, Human Rights Sixty years ago today, I was a month and twelve days from my second birthday. Sixty years ago today, my world…
Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. The light of a background star located in the LMC is bent by a putative primordial black hole (lens) in the Galactic halo and…
Scientists have found elevated mercury levels in dolphins throughout the Southeast since 2007. Sources: Bryan, Damseaux, Griffin, Stavros, Woshner. Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Civilization, Environment In a study with…
AP Photo/Andres Kudacki Topics: Applied Physics, Diversity in Science, Physics, Physiology "B-boys and B-girls wield physics to pull off gravity-defying dance moves." Okay, "gravity-defying" is a bit of hyperbole. Break dancing, as the article…
Image source: Wikipedia/Pine_Tree_Flag Since its creation during the American Revolution, the flag has carried a message of defiance: The phrase “appeal to heaven” comes from the 17th-century philosopher John Locke, who wrote of a responsibility to…
Filled with briny lakes, the Quisquiro salt flat in South America's Altiplano region represents the kind of landscape that scientists think may have existed in Gale Crater on Mars, which NASA's Curiosity Rover is exploring. Credit: Maksym Bocharov…
Two researchers have revised the Drake equation, a mathematical formula for the probability of finding life or advanced civilizations in the universe. University of Rochester. Are We Alone in the Universe? Revisiting the Drake Equation, NASA Topics:…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Existentialism, Fascism, History “On **May 17, 1954**, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.…
(a) Schematics of the word INFORMATION is written on a material in binary code using magnetic recording. Red denotes magnetization pointing out of the plane and blue is magnetization pointing into the plane. (b)–(d) Time evolution of the digital…
Researchers have synthesized sheets of gold that are one atom thick. Credit: imaginima/Getty Topics: Graphene, Materials Science, Nanoengineering, Nanomaterials, Solid-State Physics It is the world’s thinnest gold leaf: a gossamer sheet of gold just…
Source: Same source for the Dark Matter definition below. Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Einstein, General Relativity Note: Your "secret decoder ring" for reading the Abstract. Dark matter: It makes up about 85% of the…
Credit: Menno Schaefer/Adobe Starlings flock in a so-called murmuration, a collective behavior of interest in biological physics — one of many subfields that did not always “belong” in physics. Topics: Applied Physics, Cosmology, Einstein, History,…
Topics: Applied Physics, Civics, Materials Science, Solid-State Physics, SuperconductorsI'm a person who will get Nature on my home email, my previous graduate school email (that's active because it's also on my phone), and my work email. Because it…
