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Feed SubscriptionWhy Is Quantum Gravity So Hard? And Why Did Stalin Execute the Man Who Pioneered the Subject?
What is the hottest problem in fundamental physics today? Physics aficionados most probably would answer: quantum gravity
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SINGAPORE, July 14 (Reuters) - Climate scientists haveturned to the United States and Australian navies to deploy [More]
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TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters Life!) - Its Japanese developerscall it the "Futuristic Circular Flying Object" and it's [More]
Read More »Visions: No Worlds Left To Conquer
In the series “Visions,” science fiction about the very latest research will be paired with analysis looking into the facts behind the fiction.
Read More »Stars Do Dance Of Possible Death
You could think of it as the real dancing with the stars. Two white dwarf stars have been found twirling around each other to make a complete orbit in less than every 13 minutes.
Read More »What’s in a name?
This past weekend, I sat down at my computer hell-bent on writing this post. [More]
Read More »At the #NASAtweetup for the last shuttle launch
Imagine a dark haired little girl of not quite four years old, playing outside in a cotton dress in the warm dusk of July 30, 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Read More »Should Morbid Childhood Obesity Be Considered Child Abuse?
Now that the battle against the bulge in the U.S. has reached the grade school level, plenty of efforts have begun to fight childhood obesity and its dangers
Read More »To save your marriage, hold the mayo… but only if you’re a lady
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Read More »UNICEF Aims to Eliminate HIV Infections in Infants by 2015 [Slide Show]
Every day more than 1,000 infants worldwide are infected with HIV during gestation, delivery or breast-feeding, according to U.N. estimates
Read More »The Chinese Way of Hacking
Adam Segal, one of the Council on Foreign Relations' top experts on China and technology, talks to Fast Company about what's special about Chinese cybercriminals, Chinese fears of NSA backdoors, and bored East Asian teenagers. Cyberwarfare in 2011 is an odd beast
Read More »NASA Chief to Congress: Save the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA chief Charlie Bolden went to bat for the agency's imperiled next-generation space telescope Tuesday (July 12), telling members of Congress that the instrument has greater potential for discovery than the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. A proposed congressional budget bill announced last week would terminate NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an ambitious instrument with a history of delays and cost overruns
Read More »Kinder, Gentler Defibrillator Uses Multiple, Small Jolts
By Alla Katsnelson of Nature magazine When electrical rhythms in the heart go haywire, applying a strong electric shock to the chest can set them straight. [More]
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