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A few posts back I was concerned with optimising the WiFi reception in my flat, and I chose a simple method for calculating the distribution of electromagnetic intensity. I casually mentioned that I really should be doing things more rigorously by solving the Helmholtz equation, but then didn't. Well, spurred on by a…
Media Advisory: Press Conference at ESO HQ Announcing Unprecedented Discovery
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There is a lot of anxiety.
A dual-mode ramjet was developed and tested in less than 11 monthsTesting demonstrates a threefold increase in airflow compared to previously flight-tested hypersonic technology
New analysis finds tests for new doctors can measure what matters — the life and health of patients
To create this composite image, photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together. Thi
A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf—collapsed cores of stars—with an ultra-powerful…
Study implicates changes to way DNA is organized, regulated rather than changes to genetic code
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
Scientific American writes about rescuing the enormous theorem (classification of finite simple groups) before the proof vanishes. How can...
Emergence occurs when there is a conceptual discontinuity between two descriptions targeting the same phenomenon. This does not mean that emergence is a purely subjective phenomenon — only th…
A Q&A style dialogue to separate fact from fiction.
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
A blog dedicated to helping Science Fiction authors create and discuss worlds where a realistic setting can still serve the fiction.
I have suspected for years that the classic buffet line system is a deeply flawed method, so I decide to simulate different methods to find out better ways
A figure from the study showing rock dripping from the craton. The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by…
What happens when you ignore the math
In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations. The advancement, published in Nature, represents a major leap toward the realization of…
If you'd rather read python than english you can go straight to the code on github: https://github.com/jminardi/volume-from-shadow
"As for c , that is the speed of light in vacuum, and if you ask why c , the answer is that it is the initial letter of celeritas , the Latin word meaning speed." Isaac Asimov in "C for Celeritas (1959)" [1]
Moving electricity around the world has huge financial and environmental benefits. Unfortunately, current power transmission systems are both lossy and expensive to build. This post explores an alternative design for cables to make undersea power transmission substantially cheaper.
