The Sixty Symbols team looks at some witches in space.
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Sixty Symbols looks at ghost particles.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 6 months ago • 964 views • 8:17FOR SCIENCE
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 2 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,131 views • 10:58FOR SCIENCE !
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 741 views • 6:54From YT: Studying supernovae and the accelerating universe - and a bet over a bottle of whisky. It's our take on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, won by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,241 views • 8:15Sixty Symbols looks into recent announcement that some scientist think they may have detected neutrinos going faster than the speed of light.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 7 months ago • 1,732 views • 9:38From YT: A dramatic collision of two moons may explain why our Moon is very much two-sided. Professor Mike Merrifield briefly discusses a recent paper in Nature. Check it out at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal... continue reading
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,102 views • 4:24Shaking grains and interesting physics.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 8 months ago • 961 views • 9:52From YT: A lecture theatre at Trinity College, Dublin, is named in honour of Erwin Schrödinger. It was in Dublin that the physicist gave his famous lectures: "What is Life?"
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 827 views • 9:04From YT: Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,686 views • 7:57Water on Mars and oxygen in the Orion Nebula - two recent news stories are discussed by Sixty Symbols astronomer Professor Mike Merrifield.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,607 views • 6:02Sixty Symbols
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 2 years 9 months ago • 960 views • 9:17The badass professors drop some science
posted by acidSpine 1 decade 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,476 views • 11:54Professor Mike Merrifield talks about how all the stars of a galaxy move around at the same speed, which would make the the pretty spiral pattern impossible. He explains the "winding paradox" and how then... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 2,236 views • 7:43Originally called hydrogen inflammable air when he discovered it until he breathed it in and blew it out over a candle... tested electricity by measuring how much agony it caused him... and did experiments... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 920 views • 6:27From YT: A galaxy dubbed NGC 6744 is being hailed at the Milky Way's galactic twin... Find out why?
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 10 months ago • 1,263 views • 5:20Sixty Symbols goes into a bit about the Solstice and Equinox
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 897 views • 11:49From YT: Electrons are the most spherical objects in the universe, according to recent reports. Professor Ed Copeland discusses what this all means.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 651 views • 9:48YT: "Tidal forces don't just affect the ocean... They can affect entire galaxies." Also, tempting for a *cute for the lovely scientist.
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