The Sciences

climate change, global warming, stratocumulus clouds, cirrus clouds, cumulus clouds, warm blooded animals, ocean warming, fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, cloud cover, radiative forcing, Tapio Schneider, condensation, ice crystals, Lagaan, monsoons, Industrial Revolution, energy efficiency,

Up Above the World so High, Climate Change Could Kill Some Clouds in the Sky

Roxy Mathew Koll 02/03/2019

If carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceed 1,200...

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The Concept of Probability Is Not as Simple as You Think

Nevin Climenhaga 02/03/2019

Clarifying the nature of probability can help to improve...

hagfish, sharks, hagfish slime, biomaterials, mathematical models, Navier-Stokes equations, Stokes regime, Newtonian fluids, hydrodynamics, drag force, inertia, US Navy,

Hagfish Slime Is Disgustipating – but It’s Also a Material From the Future

Ronak Gupta 01/03/2019

So let's start getting over how revolting it is.

wakefield accelerator, plasma wakefield acceleration, laser wakefield acceleration, particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, petawatt laser, femtosecond, chirped pulse laser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CERN, Advanced Wakefield Acceleration Experiment, electrons, protons, positrons, medical diagnostics, biomedical research, X-rays, Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland, European Extreme Light Infrastructure, high energy physics, University of Maryland, acceleration gradient, Chandrashekhar Joshi, linac, plasma waveguide,

Using Ultrafast Laser, ‘Mini’ Particle Accelerator Sets New Energy Record

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

Smaller accelerators will be more affordable. In the hands...

Department of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, AWSAR, BJP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, authority, expertise, ivory tower, social science, humanities, scientific literacy, scientific temper, gau mutra, braid cutting, Vedic school board, Gauri Lankesh, R&D, Statue of Unity, higher education, Science Day, CV Raman,

Five Reflections on National Science Day

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

C.V. Raman won a Nobel Prize for discovering the...

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Scientists Surprised to Find a Dead Humpback Whale in Brazil’s Amazon

The Wire Staff 27/02/2019

At this time of year, humpback whales should be...

astrometry, Gaia space probe, European Space Agency - ESA, telescope, astrolabe, armillary sphere, trigonometry, Hipparchus, parallax effect, heliometer telescope, 61 Cygni, Astrographic Catalogue, Space Age, Milky Way galaxy, white dwarf stars, Kepler space telescope, Hubble's constant, quadrants, sextants, astronomy,

From Hipparchus to Gaia, the Story of Finding Our Place Among Billions of Stars

Jatan Mehta 27/02/2019

Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't...