Paperclippe in the City: Archive

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Feb 10th

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What's so scandalous about a naked singularity? →

Today we’re going to talk about what life is like at the very centers of black holes — the singularity — and whether we’ll ever get to see any “naked singularities” out there in the cosmos. This week’s question comes to us from Scott Rehm who asks: The idea of a naked singularity seems bizarre to me. If the event horizon truly is just the “line of no...

Feb 10th

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Did they really detect the Higgs Boson? →

As you probably know, one of the big goals –- arguably the big goal — of the LHC is to find the elusive Higgs Boson. The two biggest experiments in the Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS and CMS, announced their data updates yesterday. Both ATLAS and CMS have found a signal with relatively high significance suggesting that the Higgs Boson is real and that it has a mass of roughly 135 times the mass of a...

Feb 10th

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Feb 9th

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Scale of the Universe 2012 →

Interactive scale of the universe! With information about things of all sizes. Fucking click it. You know you want to. You might learn something.

Feb 8th

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Scientists want kids with three parents to help... →

File this under creepy as shit: Sydney scientists want to create designer babies with the DNA of three parents to prevent children inheriting life-threatening diseases. IVF specialists argue they could eradicate mitochondrial mutations - which can cause multi-organ failure and fatal heart, liver and muscle conditions - by removing defective genes and replacing them with healthy DNA from a...

Feb 8th

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