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Mortality Projection of the Fukushima Disaster
A study published today in the journal Energy and Environmental Science entitled Worldwide Health Effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident has attempted to estimate the number of deaths...
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Physics Photo Phriday (July 20, 2012)
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) Last week, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced the discovery of a fifth moon around Pluto! From the Hubble website, The moon is...
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The Adventure of Links (July 22, 2012)
This week, we have a Do-it-Yourself spectrometer, a study on the health effect of wind turbines, and XKCD asks how much power Yoda can produce with the Force? Physics/Astronomy DIY Spectrometer...
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Canada to Fund Study on Health Effects of Wind Turbines
In southwestern Ontario, if you turn north of the 401 and head up towards the Bruce peninsula, you will eventually stop seeing familiar farmland and your eye will be drawn to the towering wind turbines...
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Physics Photo Phriday (July 27, 2012)
In July of 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon. The Lunar Module ascends from the Moon’s surface to dock with the Command Module. Photo: NASA While we have not landed...
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The Adventure of Links (July 29, 2012)
London, UK, from space. Photo: NASA This week, we have the physics of firewalking, another protest against research cuts in Canada, and NASA releases photos of Olympic host cities…from space! Physics...
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Physics Photo Phriday (August 3, 2012)
This week, the manuscripts for papers describing the discovery of a boson, possibly the Higgs, of a mass of around 125 GeV from both the ATLAS and CMS experiments are online. Results of the diphoton...
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Mars Science Laboratory Landing Today!
Well, hopefully. Landing on another planet is about as easy as it sounds, which is not at all. But the MSL will be entering Mars’ atmosphere this evening and if all goes according to plan, we will have...
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TOUCHDOWN!!!
The Curiosity rover has landed safely on the surface of Mars! #bbpBox_232348380431544320 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0099B9; }#bbpBox_232348380431544320 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }I'm...
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Physics Photo Phriday (August 10, 2012)
So the big news this week of course is the successful landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. It is an incredible achievement, and the excitement of the landing all over the world is truly...
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