May

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Telegraph: Top Ten Greatest Experiments

May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Top Ten Greatest Experiments. ‘George Johnson celebrates the great thinkers whose home-brewed experiments transformed our world: A few years ago, while reading stories about superstrings vibrating in 10 dimensions or quantum computers solving problems in parallel universes, I began to feel nostalgic. I love these grand speculative theories and admire their creators, but sometimes the [...]

Jan

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TEAM 0.5: The World’s Most Powerful Microscope

January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World’s Best Microscope. ‘TEAM 0.5, the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope capable of producing images with half angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom has been installed at the Department of Energy’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at [...]

Jan

16

Scientific American on Science 2.0: An Experiment

January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Wikis, blogs and other collaborative web technologies could usher in a new era of science. Or not. ‘Welcome to a Scientific American experiment in “networked journalism,” in which readers—you—get to collaborate with the author to give a story its final form. The article is a particularly apt [...]

Jan

16

Touch the Invisible Sky: NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille

January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers. ‘At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind. Touch the Invisible Sky is a 60-page book with color images of nebulae, stars, [...]

Jan

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Journal Citation Impact Forum

January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Thomson Scientific Launches Journal Citation Forum Dedicated to Discussion About Citation-Based Research Evaluation: From H-index to Impact Factor, Citation Impact Forum Hosts Expert Commentary and Scholarly Discussion About Citation-based Research Evaluation. ‘Thomson Scientific announced on January 8 the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about all facets of citation-based [...]

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