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Transgender rights bill long overdue

Edit Toronto Sun 20 May 2016
Bill C-16 to protect transgender rights in Canada, introduced by the Justin Trudeau government Tuesday, is long overdue. It can be seen as a response to transphobia in this country, which is pervasive enough to warrant the protection of the vulnerable trans community here ... The obvious solution is education ... Mischa Haider is a brilliant physicist, trans rights activist, transgender mother and researcher at Harvard University ... ....

Astronomers See Faintest, Furthest Galaxy (University of California - Davis)

Edit Public Technologies 20 May 2016
(Source. University of California - Davis). A team of scientists led by two UC Davis physicists has detected and confirmed the faintest early-universe galaxy yet. This new object, seen as it was about 13 billion years ago, could help astronomers understand the 'reionization epoch' when the first stars became visible. Gravitational lensing and a special instrument on the 10-meter telescope at the W.M ... Understanding the early universe....

No Need for Geniuses by Steve Jones review – astonishing scientific advances

Edit The Guardian 20 May 2016
From melting down the Eiffel Tower to the Tour de France to black holes ... a richly rewarding if factually unreliable history of revolutionary science ... Except – aha! – when the 19th-century physicist Léon Foucault decided to demonstrate these effects with a giant pendulum, he did so in the Panthéon – the deconsecrated church that the revolutionaries turned into a shrine to the “Great Men of the Patrie” ... • David A Bell’s Napoleon ... ....

Mariah Carey wants to star in 'Empire'

Edit The Times of India 20 May 2016
She added ... 1101 ... Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper both are physicists at Caltech and share an apartment; Penny, a waitress and an aspiring actress who later becomes a pharmaceutical representative and lives across the hall ... Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper both are physicists at Caltech and share an apartment; Penny, a waitress and an aspiring actress who later becomes a pharmaceutical representative and lives across the hall....

UK physicist is among winners of Special Breakthrough Prize (IOP - Institute of Physics)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
(Source. IOP - Institute of Physics). 19 May 2016 ... The scientists, based in countries across the globe, will each receive nearly $2,000 as their equal shares of the $2 million. Among them were physicists at nine UK universities and the Rutherfor Appleton Laboratory. Scottish physicist Drever began his career at the University of Glasgow, one of the institutions whose researchers contributed to LIGO ... (noodl. 33643680) ....

Rotational motion is relative, too, Mr. Einstein!

Edit Science Daily 19 May 2016
It has been one hundred100 years since the publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity in May 1916. Physicists have now demonstrated that the rotational motion in the universe is also subject to the theory of relativity ... ....

Photonic billiards might be the newest game!

Edit Science Daily 19 May 2016
When one snooker ball hits another, both spring away from each other in an elastic manner. In the case of two photons a similar process -- the elastic collision -- has never been observed. Physicists have now shown, however, that such a process does not only occur, but even could soon be registered in heavy ion collisions at the LHC accelerator ... ....

Physicist Creates Solar System Symphony (Northwestern University)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
(Source. Northwestern University). Travel the solar system -- from the violent volcanoes of Venus to the many moons of Jupiter and the icy plains of Pluto -- on the notes of a seven movement orchestral suite, 'The Planets,' performed by the Bienen School of Music Brass Ensemble. EVANSTON, Ill ... 'Evening of Brass. Solar System Symphony,' an audio and visual fusion of science and music on stage, will take place from 7.30 to 9 p.m ... (noodl....

TU Delft secures ten Vidi grants: from non-verbal behaviour to the analysis of 30,000 paintings (Technische Universiteit Delft)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
(Source. Technische Universiteit Delft) ... Vidi grants are given to experienced researchers qualified to PhD level who are already some years into their research career ... By using specially-designed optomechanical crystals, physicists aim to gain complete control over phonons and link them to light particles (photons) on a quantum chip ... Physicists are currently attempting to make the building blocks of a quantum computer more reliable....

US center gifts atomic bomb images to Hiroshima museum

Edit Deccan Chronicle 19 May 2016
Washington. Days after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an Army leader briefed a group of top government officials at the Department of War in Washington ... Groves had directed the Manhattan Project, in which physicists including Robert Oppenheimer designed and created the world's first nuclear bombs ... The photographic gift comes at a historic moment ... ....

Hey Jude: By accident, a new spiky dinosaur is discovered

Edit CNN 19 May 2016
(CNN)At first glance, Judith, the plant-eating, horned dinosaur looks like a triceratops. But it's really not. It's an altogether new species, and a dinosaur enthusiast literally stumbled upon it ... Bill Shipp ... Shipp, a retired nuclear physicist, had become increasingly more interested in paleontology after moving into the Montana area, which has been known to be rich in dinosaur fossils, according to the Canadian Museum of Nature ... ....

Researchers identify two horned dinosaur species

Edit Taipei Times 19 May 2016
Fossils of dinosaur skulls unearthed in the midwestern US have revealed two new species of unusual horned dinosaurs, researchers said on Wednesday. One, nicknamed Judith after the Judith River geological formation in Montana where it was found a decade ago, is said to be about 76 million years old ... “Little did I know that the first time I went fossil hunting I would stumble on a new species,” said Shipp, a retired nuclear physicist....

Bill Gates says everyone should read this book about the moon blowing up

Edit Business Insider 19 May 2016
When Bill Gates released his five recommended summer reading books for this year, there was a fun surprise — Neal Stephenson's science fiction epic "Seveneves," the first sci-fi book that Gates says he's read in a decade. It's no spoiler to say that in the novel, the moon is destroyed ... We asked some physicists how realistic that scenario was, and what they had to say about the outcome of a moon explosion did not comfort us ... ....
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