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Princeton Plasma Physics Lab hosts 250 Boy Scouts for science fair

Edit NJ dot com 23 Oct 2016
Led by physicists and engineers, groups of middle and high school students completed hands-on activities that gave them the opportunity to earn badges or strengthen their knowledge of the sciences that ......

Rio Rancho hosts 3rd annual UFO conference

Edit Albuquerque Journal 23 Oct 2016
Guadalupe Sotelo even grabbed a quick photo with keynote speaker Stanton Friedman, who wore a tie with a solar system pattern. Sotelo said he wanted the shot because Friedman, a physicist whose work includes a documentary titled “UFOs are real,” is famous ... Of course, those attending know their beliefs might make some people laugh, but they’re largely unconcerned about the outside skepticism ... (Greg Sorber/Journal) ... ....

Soon, moth eye-inspired tech to make surfaces 'invisible'

Edit Deccan Chronicle 23 Oct 2016
Inspired by moth eyes, scientists have developed a new technology that manipulates surfaces to make them 'invisible' across a wider wavelength range. Most lenses, objectives, eyeglass lenses and lasers come with an anti-reflective coating. However, this coating works optimally only within a narrow wavelength range ... They are only a few hundred nanometres high and taper conically towards the tip," physicist Zhaolu Diao said ... ....

Human Stupidity: Stephen Hawking Explains, Elon Musk Agrees, Frank Zappa Expounds

Edit Inquisitr 23 Oct 2016
Last week, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking delivered an impassioned speech at the University of Cambridge in England where he teaches. While speaking via computer voice to students and faculty at the brand-new multi-disciplinary Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at the esteemed university, the 74-year-old scientist said the following. ... https.//t.co/mVFGnGOSEl. — lescarr (@lescarr) October 20, 2016 ... AI....

11 gripping questions raised by 'Westworld'

Edit Business Insider 23 Oct 2016
Note. Spoilers are ahead for previously aired Westworld episodes, as is some potentially spoiler-y speculation for future episodes. Something is wrong in "Westworld." ... And all of it teed up by the people who are essentially Westworld's game designers ... Do we all live in a simulation? ... Physicists and philosophers say that in our world, we can’t prove we don’t live in some kind of computer simulation ... Can we control artificial intelligence? ... ....

How LED Lighting May Compromise Your Health

Edit Mercola 23 Oct 2016
Can light affect your health? In this interview, Dr. Alexander Wunsch, a world class expert on photobiology, shares the hidden dangers of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting that most people are completely unaware of ... Largely as a result of energy efficiency, there's been a major transition to using LED as a primary indoor light source ... What Is Light? ... Physicists think that infrared radiation is just thermal waste ... This has consequences ... ....

Physicists use lasers to capture first snapshots of rapid chemical bonds breaking

Edit Science Daily 22 Oct 2016
An international team has used a molecule's own electrons to scatter the molecule — a process called mid-infrared laser-induced electron diffraction, or LIED — and capture snapshots of acetylene as it is breaking apart ... ....

When quantum scale affects the way atoms emit and absorb particles of light

Edit Science Daily 22 Oct 2016
In 1937, US physicist Isidor Rabi introduced a simple model to describe how atoms emit and absorb particles of light. Until now, this model had still not been completely explained. In a recent article, physicists have for the first time used an exact numerical technique. the quantum Monte Carlo technique, which was designed to explain the photon absorption and emission phenomenon ... ....

The universe might NOT be expanding, controversial new study claims

Edit The Daily Mail 22 Oct 2016
In contrast to the current understanding on the behaviour of the universe, researchers led by an Oxford University physicist say it instead may be expanding at a constant rate without dark energy ... ....

Falling Into the Wormhole Connecting Physics and Education

Edit Wired News 22 Oct 2016
The theoretical particle physicist Helen Quinn has blazed a singular path from the early days of the Standard Model to the latest overhaul of science education in the United States. The post Falling Into the Wormhole Connecting Physics and Education appeared first on WIRED ... ....

Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw join Oprah Winfrey in Disney's 'A Wrinkle in Time'

Edit DNA India 22 Oct 2016
--> Sat, 22 Oct 2016-12.40pm , Los Angeles , PTI ... Alexander Murry, a physicist and the father of Storm Reid's Meg, in the film adaptation of 1962's classic children's book by Madeleine L'Engle, reported Deadline ... Kate Murry ... ....

Voice Actors Strike Against Video Game Companies

Edit National Public Radio 22 Oct 2016
Enlarge this image. Electronic Arts is one of the video game makers facing a strike from voice actors. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption. toggle caption. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg/Getty Images ... Patrick T ... Guardians, Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 3, and a quantum physicist in BioShock Infinite ... ....

Prop. 54 asks California voters to outlaw practice of last-minute deal-making

Edit The Mercury News 22 Oct 2016
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers worked in the dead of night in August during the final hours of the legislative session, approving last-minute policy changes that affect millions of people. But activists are asking voters to outlaw that practice on Nov ... Its chief backer is Republican donor Charles Munger Jr., a Palo Alto physicist who has contributed more than $10 million to the effort ... The spending plan became public mid-day on Aug....
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