by Elmo Tempel from Nature 513, 41–42 (04 September 2014) doi:10.1038/513041a An analysis of a three-dimensional map of galaxies and their velocities reveals the hitherto unknown edges of the large […]
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The advantages of video gaming
Playing video games is a popular leisure activity among children and adults, and may therefore potentially influence brain structure. We have previously shown a positive association between probability of gray […]
The Arcane Art of Mathematics
Jerome Bruner said somewhere that an educated man must not be dazzled by the myth that advanced knowledge is the result of wizardry. Unfortunately, mathematicians and educators conspire to maintain […]
BRAIN project meets physics
by Emily Underwood from Science 30 May 2014: Vol. 344 no. 6187 pp. 954-955 doi: 10.1126/science.344.6187.954 Neuroscientists were over the moon in April 2013 when President Barack Obama announced a […]
arXiv: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers. Here, three implementations of Internet searches […]
André-Jacques Garnerin and the feat of the parachuting
André-Jacques Garnerin was a balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. Garnerin began experiments with early parachutes based on umbrella-shaped devices and carried out the first parachute descent (in […]
Did you know? Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Facts and figures in Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 104 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded between 1901 and 2012. 63 Chemistry Prizes have been given to one Laureate only. […]
Did you know? Nobel Prize in Physics
Facts and figures in Nobel Prize in Physics: 106 Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded between 1901-2012. 47 Physics Prizes have been given to one Laureate only. 2 women […]
Did you know? Nobel Prize in Medicine
Facts and figures in Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine: 201 persons have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine between 1901 and 2012. 38 Medicine Prizes have […]
Modern math
Modern math is like a pyramid, and the broad fundament is often not fun. It is at the higher and apical levels of geometry, topology, analysis, number theory, and mathematical […]
Is it steampunk? No! It’s Leonardo’s!
Annalen der Physik: December 2012
Friedrich W. Hehl: A fruitful marriage – when #maths meets #physics goo.gl/nRIK8 — Gianluigi Filippelli (@ulaulaman) January 22, 2013 E. Anderson: Problem of time in quantum gravity goo.gl/LxJzc — Gianluigi […]
Physics at nature.com: 17 January 2013
Pulsed accretion in a variable protostar (see also: ulaulaman’s island) James Muzerolle et al. Nature doi:10.1038/nature11746 First Paragraph | Full Text | PDF Planetary system disruption by Galactic perturbations to […]
Scientific Reports – #Physics digest: January 2013
Unraveling the interlayer-related phonon self-energy renormalization in bilayer graphene Paulo T. Araujo, Daniela L. Mafra, Kentaro Sato et al. In this letter, we present a step towards understanding the bilayer […]