Some 150 million years ago, a strange creature died in a tropical lagoon that today is located in Bavaria, Germany. In 1861, a single...
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Life Redefined: Microbes Built with Arsenic
UPDATE - In the time following this lecture, aspects of the research featured here have been disproven or come into question. See this article...
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Particle Accelerator on a Chip
Accelerators are huge, expensive tubes sometimes miles long that produce high energies for smashing protons or making intense X-ray light. 21st-century technology has taken...
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Deep Science: Mining for Dark Matter
Astronomers infer that the universe contains huge amounts of a mysterious, invisible substance called "dark matter". To account for the structure of galaxies and...
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Printing Solar Cells for Greener Energy
One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is finding a way to provide the world's population with clean energy. Since sunlight is our most...
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Engineering Human Touch
We humans interact with our physical environment through our senses of touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. One of the great challenges in developing...
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Magnetic Movies: Watching Memory Bits Dance
Movies allow us to experience and understand worlds we may never be able to visit. During this presentation Bill Schlotter will explain how to...
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In the Shadow of the HIGGS!
This has been an exciting summer for particle physicists who have collectively spent the last forty years hunting for the Higgs boson. Last year...
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The Mary Rose, built in 1511, was the flagship of King Henry VIII. She sank in 1545 while en route to confront the French...
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Supernova Shock Waves: Powerhouses of the Galaxy
An exploding star, or supernova, is one of the most violent events in the universe, giving off a billion stars' worth of light. Even...
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As electronics become faster and more powerful and the components of integrated circuits shrink, scientists are bumping up against the limitations imposed by fundamental...
