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Trillion-frame-per-second video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 22 posts.
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What everyone should know about the human eye
Odds are, you will one day build something someone will see. Here are three key findings from people who study how people see to keep in mind for your next project.
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9800 Feet Underground at Kidd Creek Mine in Northern Ontario, Canada
The blog you are searching for has been archived. Visit Eos for the latest Earth and space science news or go to the AGU homepage.
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MIT’s ‘Artificial leaf’ makes fuel from sunlight
Solar cell bonded to recently developed catalyst can harness the sun, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Liquefaction from the Sendai earthquake – a remarkable video
By Dave Petley
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IPhone 4 films final Discovery launch from 30,000 feet up.
Business travel can get a bit boring can’t it? (OK a LOT boring). Imagine looking out of the window on a flight to see Discovery launching on its final mission. That would be quite cool. Neil Monday just did. I once saw Comet Hale Bopp and the northern lights when flying to San Francisco. I […]
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The 'why I am not worried' article, edited by MIT nuclear scientists
MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub
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People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
While people say they welcome creative ideas, they are in fact frightened by them and favor the tried and true, according to a new ILR School study. (Aug. 25, 2011)
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Urban Decay: Exploring an old abandoned particle collider facility
Learn about public engagement activities from the American Physical Society
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Google offers researchers 1 billion computing core-hours
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Molecular Expressions: The Silicon Zoo
This page contains a photomicrograph of the surface of a Digital VAX microprocessor containing a phrase written in Russian.
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This text circulated on the internet in September 2003. I first became aware of it when a journalist contacted a my colleague Sian Miller on 16th September, trying to track down the original source. It's been passed on many times, and in the way of most internet memes has mutated along the way. It struck me as…