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Posts in the past four weeks
Wednesday
May 16 2012
12:30 UTC
May 16 2012
12:30 UTC
Tuesday
May 15 2012
11:43 UTC
May 15 2012
11:43 UTC
P-dog's blog: boring but important: Education research: Astronomy …
Astronomy and physics education research and comments, field-tested think-pair-share (peer instruction) clicker questions, flashcard questions, in-class activities (lecture-tutorials), current events questions, backwards faded scaffolding ...
Posted by My Astronomy Blog
Tuesday
May 15 2012
07:19 UTC
May 15 2012
07:19 UTC
EPSRC Blues
... woke up this morning to find via Twitter an interesting blog post about a demonstration in London against the policies of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). For those of you not up with the ins and outs of the UK science funding regime, EPSRC is the agency that funds the more
Posted by In The Dark
Monday
May 14 2012
16:20 UTC
May 14 2012
16:20 UTC
Rigid Body Sings
Gin a body meet a body Flyin' thro the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? And where? Ilka impact has its measure Ne'er a' ane hae I Yet a' the lads they measure me, Or, at least, they try. Gin a body meet a body Altogether free, How they travel afterwards
Posted by In The Dark
Saturday
May 12 2012
00:45 UTC
May 12 2012
00:45 UTC
Fusion for the Future: ITER
The way of the future is fusion. I dream of a world where humans have harnessed the power of the Sun. Clean, safe, energy. But there is no clear path to fusion. The most exciting possibility for a future with fusion may be the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor or ITER. ITER is not the only option of course. Previously, I have discussed the National Ignition Facility or NIF which has pioneered unique technologies is the field, but their success is not ensured. Many small research p
Posted by The Astronomist
Friday
May 11 2012
22:11 UTC
May 11 2012
22:11 UTC
Negative Sunset
Earth has blue skies and red sunsets. Interestingly enough, Mars has red skies and blue sunsets. While at first glance, it might seem curious that the two planets seem to have the opposite skies to each other, it starts to make more sense when you look at what causes the colour of a planet's sky in the first place.(Read more ...)
Posted by Supernova Condensate
Wednesday
May 09 2012
11:53 UTC
May 09 2012
11:53 UTC
Dielectric Breakdown
This is the season when our Āsecond-year students are picking the projects they want to do in their third year, as are those third-year students intending to carry on for Year 4 of the MPhys programme. I've been chatting to quite a few students about this particular project so thought I'd do a quick post
Posted by In The Dark
Monday
May 07 2012
18:16 UTC
May 07 2012
18:16 UTC
Random STEM Question of the Day #3
My current job has my flying a lot. I'm on flights somewhere around 8-10 times a month now. I'm not a huge fan of airports (although there was an interesting segment on NPR this week about a writer being invited to live in one for a week) but I do like airplanes. There's all sorts of great science wrapped up in them. Bernoulli's principle obviously comes to mind since that's what makes them work in the first place. Last time I was flying we were on a 757 which had a great little touch s
Posted by Angry Astronomer
Thursday
Apr 26 2012
21:10 UTC
Apr 26 2012
21:10 UTC
How Small Are Atoms?
Here on Universe Today we often discuss things that exist on the atomic and sub-atmonic scale. Even though astronomy is concerned with very big things that happen over very, very large distances and time spans, the reality is that our Universe is driven by events occurring on the tiny atomic scale. We all know atoms
Posted by Universe Today
Thursday
Apr 26 2012
14:37 UTC
Apr 26 2012
14:37 UTC
The Belated Laser Revolution
As you may already know, the future is now. And when you stop and think about it, it really is. It's the 21st century and things which not long ago were science fiction are now so commonplace we don't even notice them anymore. My mobile phone doesn't need buttons because it has a touchscreen. It also probably has more computing power than the Apollo missions used to get men to land on the Moon. The notebook I throw in my bag every morning has a pocket containing an SD card which c
Posted by Supernova Condensate
Wednesday
Apr 25 2012
11:40 UTC
Apr 25 2012
11:40 UTC
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – NEXT MONDAY, 30th April – DR …
... PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY . PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM. Date: Monday, 30th April 2012
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Wednesday
Apr 25 2012
11:40 UTC
Apr 25 2012
11:40 UTC
REMINDER: Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – TODAY (23 April …
... PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY . PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
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Sunday
Apr 22 2012
20:47 UTC
Apr 22 2012
20:47 UTC
Random STEM Question of the Day #1
Every so often, good questions for math/science classes pop into my head that are interesting (to me) at least to spend a few minutes thinking about. So I'm going to start posting them here under the tag STEM-Q so I can refer back to them. Here's the first one. Just got home from a quick roadtrip to Ohio today. On the way up there my family and I drove through some pretty heavy rain which reminded me of a question that I kick around in my head every so often:When plowing through a good rainstorm,
Posted by Angry Astronomer
Friday
Apr 20 2012
12:26 UTC
Apr 20 2012
12:26 UTC
[Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics] GCOE seminar … – Scienceweb
[Physics, Astronomy , Mathematics] GCOE seminar: An Equation of state for dark matter. Last updated : Last updated : April 20th, 2012. Date & Time: April 27 (Fri) 2012, 10:30-11:30
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Friday
Apr 20 2012
12:26 UTC
Apr 20 2012
12:26 UTC
21 New Physics & Astronomy Books @ NC … – NCSU Libraries News
21 New Physics & Astronomy Books @ NC State Libraries. 23 New Physics & Astronomy Books @ NC State Libraries. Mathematical structures of quantum mechanics
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Friday
Apr 20 2012
05:47 UTC
Apr 20 2012
05:47 UTC
Anomaly!
... breakdowns of gravitational physics or bizarre outer solar system phenomena. The only thing there was simple heat. Heat in a very cold environment.(Read more ...)
Posted by Supernova Condensate
Thursday
Apr 19 2012
22:25 UTC
Apr 19 2012
22:25 UTC
Seeing' Cosmic Rays in Space
Astronauts have long reported the experience of seeing flashes while they are in space, even when their eyes are closed. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin both reported these flashes during the Apollo 11 mission, and similar reports during the Apollo 12 and 13 missions led to subsequent Apollo missions including experiments specifically looking at this
Posted by Universe Today
Thursday
Apr 19 2012
13:38 UTC
Apr 19 2012
13:38 UTC
Cosmic Rays: They Aren't What We Thought They Were
... enduring mysteries in physics, and it looks like it's going to stay that way for a while longer. One of the leading candidates for where cosmic rays come from is gamma ray bursts, and physicists were hoping a huge Antarctic detector called the IceCube
Posted by Universe Today