(PhysOrg.com) -- When most of us think of an atom, we think of tiny electrons whizzing around a stationary, dense nucleus composed of protons and neutrons, collectively known as nucleons. A collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne and Thomas Jefferson National Laboratories has demonstrated just how different reality is from our simple picture, showing that a quarter of the nucleons in a dense nucleus exceed 25 percent of the speed of light, turning the picture of a static nucleus on its head.
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How state science standards stack up, according to a new report from The Fordham Institute A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute paints a grim picture of state science standards across the United States
Read More »U.S. State Science Standards Are "Mediocre to Awful"
How state science standards stack up, according to a new report from The Fordham Institute A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute paints a grim picture of state science standards across the United States.
Read More »Real-life SpiderMan: Thomas Shahan
photo by Thomas Shahan As the science media today is carrying news of how spiders use defocus to judge distance , I thought it an opportune moment to share the portfolio of a master of spider portraiture. Oklahoma artist Thomas Shahan may scarcely be out of college, but he is recognized worldwide for his startling portrayals of jumping spiders.
Read More »Photo Issue 2011: Train Waiting
"I took this on the way back to the hotel on my last day of a weekend trip to Hamburg, Germany. I was waiting for the train at Landungsbrücken train station when I suddenly see this well-dressed guy walking down the track," said photographer Thomas Leuthard.
Read More »Photo Issue 2011: Train Waiting
"I took this on the way back to the hotel on my last day of a weekend trip to Hamburg, Germany. I was waiting for the train at Landungsbrücken train station when I suddenly see this well-dressed guy walking down the track," said photographer Thomas Leuthard
Read More »Thomas Pink Launches an Inaugural Line of Suits
Renowned London-based shirt-maker Thomas Pink has added a collection of suits to its offerings this season. After nearly 30 years of specializing in shirts, the retailer decided it was time to offer its clients a full head-to-toe wardrobe
Read More »The Decline of Violence
On July 22, 2011, a 32-year-old Norwegian named Anders Behring Breivik opened fire on participants in a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya after exploding a bomb in Oslo, resulting in 77 dead, the worst tragedy in Norway since World War II.
Read More »U.S. Senate Reaches Deal to Avoid Government Shutdown
* FEMA now says money could last through the week * Deal reduces possibility of a shutdown * Requires House approval as well By Andy Sullivan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. [More]
Read More »Finding Buried Earthquake Victims By Smelling Their Breath And Sweat
A new machine lets first responders find people trapped at disaster sites by detecting individual molecules of breath, sweat, and urine that float up through the concrete. Firefighters and other first responders rushing to collapsing buildings and disaster situations will soon have a new weapon in their arsenal, replacing dogs, cameras, and robots: a series of sensors that find individual molecules of sweat and spit coming from victims trapped under concrete, locating them by their emissions. The high-tech emergency solution, which was unveiled in a research paper for the actually existing Journal of Breath Research, was created by a joint European team that reconfigured a series of commercially available detectors to hunt for unique human emanations.
Read More »Bjorn gets revenge at British
PGT: Casting aside memories of his 2003 meltdown, Thomas Bjorn returned to Royal St. George's and shot a 5-under 65 on Thursday.
Read More »Recollection: A Collaborative Tool For Sharing And Visualizing Cultural Data
A new service from the Library of Congress lets you build maps, graphs, timelines, and trees from the collective digital and digitized history of an entire nation. As digital tools move on, standards change, and interoperability fails, we lose access to older information. As our history becomes harder to access, only the newest information rises to the top, leaving us with a collective digital memory that is foggy on anything but the most recent past
Read More »McGraw Wentworth
Providing the best customer service and rewarding their stellar staff goes hand-in-hand for these two co-founders. Co-founders, Thomas P. McGraw and Bill Wentworth, started the company with the goal of hiring the best people to provide the best service.
Read More »FrontRunners: Prime Time
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