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Maria Salamanca • Remix Culture: Jumpstarting Creativity
Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space (Kindle Single)
The discovery suggested to Robert that electrostatics can enable a plant-pollinator mutualism, a well-known example of coevolution. This dynamic — in which a bee feeds on a flower’s nectar and gathers pollen to feed larvae, and also propagates pollen from flower to flower, enabling plant reproduction — was already well established. The potential ro... See more
Max G. Levy • The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology | Quanta Magazine
In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.
Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
All the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. For example, element 117 was discovered by an international collaboration who got an unstable isotope of berkelium from the single accelerator in Tennessee capable of synthesizing it, shipped it to a nuclear reactor in Russia where it was attached to a titanium film, brought it to a particle accele... See more
Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Is Science Slowing Down?
On early scientific discoveries: To peer into the nucleus and discover a new and important phenomenon that no one had ever glimpsed “was like the trembling of the veil that poets write about,” Wilczek says. “Something was stirring deep in the heart of nature.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN's Large H…