Archive for the ‘ Science ’ Category
There is much to hate about the Global Warming movement, especially the politics involved. Any query is met with, ‘denialist!’, irrespective of the merit of the question. There is also a tendency to overstate the case. A Newsnight episode back at the start of December 2009 invited an ex-scientific advisor to the UK government to [ READ MORE ]
It seems that children are not as visually gullible as their parents. VISUAL ILLUSION STUMPS ADULTS BUT NOT KIDSFinding suggests that sensitivity to visual context develops slowly By Bruce Bower Web edition : Friday, November 20th, 2009 Text Size EnlargeSIZE DISGUISED In a new study of visual abilities, researchers asked volunteers to identify the biggest [ READ MORE ]
We are all familiar with the diagrams and models of molecules proudly displayed by chemists, but now scientists working for IBM have, for the first time, imaged a molecule of pentacene. The classic model of pentacene looks like this. IBM used an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to produce the following image. What, you may ask, [ READ MORE ]
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