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When we published a paper in 2013 finding 97% scientific consensus on human-caused global warming , what surprised me was how surprised everyone was. Ours wasn’t the first study to find such a scientific consensus. Nor was it the second . N ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 17 2016 - 8:49am - 0 attachments

... could produce the same signal they were interpreting as polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Still, new telescopes are ...

Article - Inside Science - Mar 28 2016 - 7:37am - 0 attachments

... comments on the health effects of a salty diet reveals a polarization between those supportive of the once-popular belief that ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2016 - 10:31am - 0 attachments

LIGO the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory may announce the detection of gravitational waves tomorrow at 10:30AM Eastern time.  I will watch it  and  live tweet it.  The question of the day for most nor ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 13 2016 - 7:03am - 0 attachments

... or if it is just a fanciful theory. Scattering and polarization To understand how this might have worked, we need to understand ... plane rather than in all directions at once. The amount of polarization a beam of sunlight undergoes depends on its angle to the viewer ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 30 2016 - 5:11pm - 0 attachments

... The discovery that the magnetic compass is affected by the polarization direction of light was made when trained zebra finches were trying ... lead to complete disorientation when the direction of the polarization of light was perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2016 - 3:57pm - 0 attachments

... patterns. … on my left pinky finger, there is a polarization ring made from ferrite material; this serves the determination of polarization, which means, whether the water vein spins right or left handed. ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 17 2016 - 9:25pm - 0 attachments

... light through tailoring its absorption or converting its polarization, and have investigated the 'funneling effect,' in which incoming ... as an independent deep subwavelength emitter for a given polarization and wavelength. This allows it to control emission properties such ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 24 2015 - 12:06pm - 0 attachments

... made in 2013 and 2014, measured the alignment, or polarization, of radio waves emitted by material, mostly dust, falling into a burgeoning disk orbiting the young star. The polarization information revealed the configuration of magnetic fields in this ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2015 - 2:45pm - 0 attachments

... passaged, while maintaining CYP450 activity, epithelial polarization, and protein expression at the same level as primary human ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2015 - 7:54pm - 0 attachments