The United States Postal Service wants you to "go green in 2011," so its released--just in time for Earth Day, we imagine-- a set of stamps with little tips on how to achieve better harmony with nature.
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Feed SubscriptionThe Evolution of Prejudice
Psychologists have long known that many people are prejudiced towards others based on group affiliations, be they racial, ethnic, religious, or even political. However, we know far less about why people are prone to prejudice in the first place
Read More »Predicting when, how spins of electrons arrange in one-dimensional multiferroic materials
The properties of a material are greatly affected by the electrical and magnetic structure of its constituent ions and electrons. In a ferromagnet, for example, neighboring electron spins point in the same direction, producing a strong external magnetic field
Read More »Black holes: a model for superconductors?
Black holes are some of the heaviest objects in the universe. Electrons are some of the lightest. Now physicists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown how charged black holes can be used to model the behavior of interacting electrons in unconventional superconductors.
Read More »The Forgotten History of Muslim Scientists [Slide Show]
A millennium ago a physicist under house arrest rewrote the scientific understanding of optics--the study of the behavior and properties of light.
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