Science!!!

[jammer06]

Fun with numbers in science is about to get a whole lot more....


Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’

 

[JWR]

We may soon get an answer as if the EM-drive can actually produce measurable thrust.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-mythical-form-of-space-propulsion-finally-gets-a-real-test/

 

[jammer06]

Beer science

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190131101014.htm

 

[JWR]

1st photo capturing Quantum Entanglement unveiled

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-unveiled-the-first-ever-photo-of-quantum-entanglement

 

[ChilledAgua]

Margaret Hamilton (no, not the Wicked Witch of the West) honored by Google -

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/us/apollo-11-margaret-hamilton-50th-anniversary-trnd

Moonlight. How Apropos.

 

[ChilledAgua]

Just happened across this beautiful video -

 

[VF]

That was indeed cool, but since this is the Science!!! thread, the moon was a waxing crescent on July 20th, 1969, not full

 

[ChilledAgua]

This piece was done by an LGKer some time back. IIRC, his username was Deadmarsh28.

Beautifully done, and check out how many stars,as well as the Milky Way, are visible in shots where the Sun hasn't even yet set...

 

[xcheck]

Beer science

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190131101014.htm

It had to be the beer guzzlers at UW-Madison. Go Badgers!

 

[ChilledAgua]

More Jovian target practice...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-meteor-just-exploded-on-jupiter-and-a-photographer-actually-caught-it-on-video/ar-AAFwXq2?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[ChilledAgua]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-no-brainer-nobel-prize-hungarian-scientists-may-have-found-a-fifth-force-of-nature/ar-BBXcgsR?li=BBnbcA1

Gloriosky!

 

[ChilledAgua]

Found under a rock, so to speak...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-mineral-found-in-a-meteorite-has-never-been-seen-in-nature-before/ar-BBYmC4a?li=BBnbfcL

 

[SloMo26]

Jr and i just came back from viewing the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope...............

James Webb Space Telescope


It was at Northrup/Grumman in El Segundo. Pretty awesome to see such a huge telescope up close.

 

[notbob]

 

[ChilledAgua]

Considering the number of unsolicited phishing, and other such nuisance calls, I receive daily, these celestial boiler-room employees probably inhabit the planet Spoofer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-repeating-radio-signal-traced-to-strange-v-shaped-star-forming-region-of-massive-spiral-galaxy/ar-BBYFB1f?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[ChilledAgua]

Chia House

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230263-living-concrete-made-from-bacteria-used-to-create-replicating-bricks/

 

[ChilledAgua]

Party like it's 1999...2019...2037

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229238-a-lazy-fix-20-years-ago-means-the-y2k-bug-is-taking-down-computers-now/

 

[ChilledAgua]

Potential window into the strange goings on with Betelgeuse?

https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-gravitational-burst.html

 

[jammer06]

Professors behaving badly?

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/8004...arrested-accused-of-lying-about-ties-to-china

 

[VF]

Images from the new Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, which shows the sun in approximately three times the detail of previous solar observatories. Each cell is about the size of Texas: