science / science - 6 years ago
Even the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) needs a break from time to time. Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) flipped the switch on the LHC this week, the beginning step in a two-year effort to revamp the particle collider to accommodate intense future experiments that...
science / science - 6 years ago
Not very festive
science / science - 6 years ago
"...Like all great men, he should be remembered for the totality of his record"
science / science - 6 years ago
Japanese drug giant Takeda's mammoth $60-billion takeover of Irish pharmaceuticals firm Shire has been approved by both sets of shareholders, the pair said Wednesday. The proposed purchase, worth the equivalent of 51.5 billion euros or £46 billion, represents the biggest ever foreign takeover by a...
science / science - 6 years ago
Largely because of assaults and homicides
science / science - 6 years ago
The 21st Amendment was ratified on Dec. 5, 1933
science / science - 6 years ago
He died at age 94
science / science - 6 years ago
The report found that 78 journalists were killed while doing their job in 2017
science / science - 6 years ago
She says it's unfair to "rely on unpaid interns & underpaid overworked staff"
science / science - 6 years ago
“I don’t believe it,” said Donald Trump& when asked about the fourth national climate assessment, authored by 13 government agencies and hundreds of the US’s top climate scientists. His administration had tried to hide the report, publishing it on Black Friday when many Ameri...
science / science - 6 years ago
The Earth's vast tracts of permafrost hold billions of tonnes of planet-heating greenhouse gases that scientists warn will be released by global warming, along with diseases long locked into the ice. Permafrost -- soil that is frozen, although not necessarily permanently as it name implies -- is fo...
science / science - 6 years ago
There is some debate among economists on whether credit should also be given to another economist, Richard Price, who edited and corrected Bayes' paper in 1763, after his death in 1761. Another wrinkle on Bayes Theorem stems from a 1774 paper by French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, who was ap...
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Research out of Australia suggests that a warmer climate could make sharks "right-handed."
science / science - 6 years ago
What was so elusive for so long is now almost commonplace.
science / science - 6 years ago
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Seattle-based Spaceflight’s first-ever dedicated rideshare mission, a satellite extravaganza aimed at placing 64 spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Today’s liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California came off at 10:34 a.m. PT, sending the scorch-marked rocket i...