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santecarloni

Was the universe born spinning? - physicsworld.com - 2 views

physicsworld.com/...46688

PHY science space left and right

shared by santecarloni on 29 Jul 11 - No Cached
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  • santecarloni on 29 Jul 11
     
    following up the discussion at lunchtime over left and right...
  • LeopoldS on 29 Jul 11
     
    ""Longo and a team of five undergraduate students catalogued the rotation direction of 15,158 spiral galaxies with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey." Read: "Longo and his five student slaves ..."
Francesco Biscani

Why three buses come at once, and how to avoid it - physics-math - 29 October 2009 - Ne... - 4 views

www.newscientist.com/...-once-and-how-to-avoid-it.html

shared by Francesco Biscani on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Now systems complexity researchers Carlos Gershenson and Luis Pineda of the National Autonomous University of Mexico have devised a mathematical model that shows how the problem might be prevented
  • Francesco Biscani on 29 Oct 09
     
    This is from Carlos, the guy who gave a science coffee talk a couple of months ago.
pacome delva

Grandma Plays Favorites -- Balter 2009 (1028): 1 -- ScienceNOW - 1 views

sciencenow.sciencemag.org/...1

bio evolutionary_biology

shared by pacome delva on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • A new study finds support for the "grandmother hypothesis," the idea that older women spread their genes most effectively by helping their daughters take care of their children.
  • Thus paternal grandmothers were most beneficial to the survival of their granddaughters and least beneficial to the survival of their grandsons, while maternal grandmothers showed an intermediate effectiveness. Experts are thrilled by the findings. "Wow, very interesting," says Hawkes. "The consistent results across seven populations ... seem to clarify previously inconsistent results." Lorena Madrigal, an anthropologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, calls the study "an important contribution to a topic of great interest to evolutionary biologists."
pacome delva

Physics - Neighborly networks - 0 views

physics.aps.org/...PhysRevLett.103.058701

networks

shared by pacome delva on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Many networks, from the Internet to Facebook, are transitive: neighbors of the same node are probably neighbors of each other, or in social terms, your friends are likely to be friends with each other too. Apart from a few special cases, mathematically modeling such clustered networks is difficult and calculating their properties almost always requires numerical rather than analytical solutions. But as Mark Newman of the University of Michigan, US, reports in Physical Review Letters, it is in fact possible to generalize random graph models to include clustering in a way that allows exact derivations of network behavior.
pacome delva

Liquid crystals bend over backwards for electricity - 0 views

www.rsc.org/...iquid_crystals_electricity.asp

phy soft_matter liquid_crystal flexoelectricity

shared by pacome delva on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Antal Jákli, at Kent State University, and colleagues have made use of a property called flexoelectricity, where materials, such as LCs, convert mechanical energy into electrical energy when they are flexed.
Dario Izzo

ESA Portal - ESA to launch two large observatories to look deep into space and time - 0 views

www.esa.int/...SEMEOSZXDUF_index_0.html

shared by Dario Izzo on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • s in space, in a part of the electromagnetic spectrum still mostly unexplored. Planck is a telescope that will map the fossil light of the Universe - light from the Big Bang
    • Dario Izzo
      Dario Izzo on 11 May 09
       
      try izzo
    • LeopoldS
      LeopoldS on 12 May 09
       
      strange entries here ? just testing the system???
  • jmlloren on 11 May 09
     
    Amazing "to look deep into space and time". What a nice pun!
  • Ma Ru on 12 May 09
     
    Coooool!
Joris _

1908 Tunguska Event Caused by Comet, New Research Reveals | Universe Today - 0 views

www.universetoday.com/...sed-by-comet-new-research-says

MAD NEO

shared by Joris _ on 02 Jul 09 - Cached
  • He analyzed the space shuttle's exhaust plume and noctilucent clouds
Francesco Biscani

University of Colorado team finds definitive evidence for ancient lake on Mars - 0 views

www.eurekalert.org/...uoca-uoc061709.php

planetology bio

shared by Francesco Biscani on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 19 Jun 09
     
    Amazing, if true.
ESA ACT

Intel Announces Winner of University Notebook Challenge - 0 views

www.intel.com/...20071128comp_a.htm

NRG INF

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Pedal Power the Healthy Solution for the Energy-Efficient Laptop of the Future
ESA ACT

Goedel and his Universe - 0 views

xxx.lanl.gov/0709.1387

phy math logic

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    written version of a nice talk on Goedel I heard at a conference. No knowledge about math needed.
ESA ACT

University of Tokyo CubeSat - 0 views

www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/...index-e.html

cubesat cansat MAD

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Images taken from a cubesat
ESA ACT

African Education Websites - 0 views

www.clickafrique.com/...Default.aspx

Africa university

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    General Education links for Africa
ESA ACT

Scientists Find Another, More Reasonable Universe | Wired Science from Wired.com - 0 views

blog.wired.com/...scientists-find.html

phy science

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    for Luzi ...
ESA ACT

MIT World | Distributed Intelligence - 0 views

mitworld.mit.edu/

web videos university science technology reference

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Maybe a source of inspiration or just for intellectual interest..
Ma Ru

Euroscience Open Forum 2010 - 2 views

www.esof2010.org

science conference Europe

shared by Ma Ru on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A conference ACT should consider going to.
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  • Ma Ru on 23 Apr 10
     
    Perhaps some of ACTers will find this conference interesting... One of the talks: "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" [Edit] Oh, I see someone has already posted this link... a year ago. Anyway, if anyone of you plans to go, let me know - I'll be around ;-)
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Just came back from ESOF 2010... I was on look for ACT agents undercover, but either they were not there or the cover was good enough... Anyway here's a few remarks from me (I could write a nice report... if you paid): 1) In general, to say that ESA was underrepresented on the conference as a whole is not enough (I guess ESA just failed to notice the event taking place). For instance, on the GMES presentation, ESA as such was not mentioned at all... at some point I started to wonder if ESA is actually involved in the project, but now I checked the website and apparently it is. On the other hand, GMES presentation was crap anyway, as after 1:15 of talking, I didn't gain any knowledge of what GMES is and what its contributions to the EU community will be. 2) There was a lot of talk about LHC and particle research (well, at least among those that I attended). Some of them were very good, some of them rather crap... 3) "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" talk - quite interesting, but focusing mainly on Science-to-Wide Public and Science-to-Journalists communication. Not really on Science-to-Science (as in Ariadnet). There was quite an extensive discussion with the public. You may be interested that Nature is trying to stimulate Web 2.0 communication, running blog service, but also I think a kind of social network - perhaps you'd like to have a look. In general the conclusion was that Web 2.0 is not so useful for scientific communication because practising it requires TIME (blogs, etc.) and often some professional skills (podcasts/videocasts, etc.), and scientists have neither of these. This can be run on corporation level (like ESA does actually), but then it looses the "intimate" character. 4) "How much can robots learn?" talk... very nicely presented: understandable by the wide public, but conveying the message... which is something like "we can already make the robots do stuff absolutely imp
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Well, my comment was cut in half, and I don't feel like typing it again... the most important highlight from the rest is that the only presenter from ESA (ESTEC) did not show up on his talk because his department was undergoing some sort of audit on the same day :)
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    Fantastic comment - or better report!! thanks very much Marek! Who was the supposed no-show speaker from ESA?
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Bernard Foing (he is actually one of the 8 ESA employees who have their own page on Wikipedia)...
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    written almost entirely by a guy called a "quest for knowledge" ... who will this be????? :-)
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