Use your computer to contribute to the academic, nonprofit research being performed by climateprediction.net. Their computer models simulate the climate for the next century, producing predictions of temperature, rainfall and the probability of extreme weather events. The more models that … Continue reading →
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. Uniting scepticism and wonder, … Continue reading →
The 2014 Footlights Spring Revue at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge, England, is a chronological odyssey through the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the invention of the iPhone and everything in between. This whistle-stop tour runs through … Continue reading →
Professor of geoscience, John Valley of the University of Wisconsin, and others, have used atom-probe tomography for the first time to determine the age of a zircon crystal from the Jack Hills region of Western Australia, dating it to 4.4 … Continue reading →