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M-Theory Repositions: Now You Can Thank Us For Quantum Mechanics Too

String theory is a hypothetical framework where particle physics is replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It was originally proposed as a way to explain the strong force, then advocates re-purposed it for quantum gravity, and now it is being ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 6:06pm - 0 attachments

Bat Influenza Unlikely To Get You Sick If You Get Bit

... if you do get bit, you will probably not the flu. Halloween bats can be a little scary knowing they are not going to spread ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2014 - 11:02am - 0 attachments

Chocolate Is Brain Food? Not So Fast

... news should not inspire the purchase of an extra bag of Halloween candy. Flavanols, the active ingredient class tested in the ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Nov 2 2014 - 9:43am - 0 attachments

Ghost Light From Dead Galaxies - A Hubble Halloween

4 billion light-years away, inside a collection of nearly 500 galaxies called Pandora's Cluster, are the faint, ghostly glow of stars gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago. The scattered stars are no longer bound to any one galaxy a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2014 - 7:22pm - 0 attachments

Lithotomy: A Painful Operation Inspired The 18th-Century Equivalent Of A Horror Movie Soundtrack

... clusters. Or how about John Carpenter’s theme for Halloween , which takes a relentless, synth-based tempo, adding subtle drone ... spelt out. That’s certainly how it will seem come Halloween when those ghoulish trick-or-treaters knock on your door. Pam ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 30 2014 - 10:37am - 0 attachments

Science 2.0's Lesser Used Logos

... spent about 15 seconds creating a super special customized Halloween logo.  This thing was wildly popular.  I mean, it ... to get excited and write science about.    Halloween at least has debunking vampires . and also, just because you ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2014 - 8:43pm - 0 attachments

The Resource Curse: Science Cities Suffer

... Your correspondent at Persepolis Almost Halloween, so a good time for a ‘curse’ story! ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Oct 20 2014 - 10:24am - 0 attachments

Cancer Might Grow Faster At Night

It's not a movie about zombies, but it's a Halloween nightmare - at night while we sleep unaware, something ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 3:25pm - 0 attachments

Science Play And Research Kit: Fluorescence

... this black light (UV) LED strobe light on clearance after Halloween for around $2.00 USD: Here’s a better picture: ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Nov 18 2013 - 1:47pm - 0 attachments

STEM: In Academia There Is A Glut, But There Is A Shortage In The Corporate World

One argument for putting a halt to government spending billions of dollars doing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) 'outreach' is that, like all government programs, they become self-serving and never, ever stop. After $5 billion of taxpa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2013 - 10:56am - 0 attachments