February 2012
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The biggest photo of the night sky ever taken. →
I finally discovered the queue option, so now I no longer have to sync my watch for postings! Makes my life so much easier.
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Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a... →
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Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal.
The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be orders of magnitude smaller and...
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Woot! I got 5th overall in science and top physics :D our team took 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th and top chemistry as well. Of course we also got top team. Science champions!
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I’ll be heading to another science tournament for the rest of the day, so here is another random fact :)
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“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via crownedrose)
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How the first plant came into existence
iheartchaos:
It was an incredibly long and complex journey for life to go from chains of proteins, to single-celled organisms to things like dinosaurs and plants and people and pandas. But as far as plants, scientists feel certain they have an idea of how single celled life started creating energy via photosynthesis to become plants.
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