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"If President Bush has sunk lower than others, it is only because he is being stood on by giants."
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Zombie Feynman says it's science, and that's good enough for me.
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"One in five respondents[ to a poll in Nature] said they had used drugs for non-medical reasons to stimulate their focus, concentration or memory."
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""It appears that the electrons with the strongest repulsion in one situation are the most adept at superconductivity in another," said Ali Yazdani, a professor of physics at Princeton and the senior author of the paper. "It's counterintuitive, but that's
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Another version of the same press release as the previous link
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"[T]he real stunner was a scenario she presented for Cassini's end-of-life: to spend the very, very last phase of the mission in an orbit that threads Cassini between Saturn's cloud tops and the innermost D ring."
More like this
This from JPL:
"Shorty after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed only 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surface of the tiny moon.
From NASA:
"All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy." -Carolyn Porco
Chad, here's a challenge for a dedicated explainer of science: explain what the heck that article about superconductivity is about. (Where's the Glue)
I vaguely understand the low-temperature superconductors, with the Cooper pairs and all, but high-temperature superconductors don't make any sense to me, and that article didn't help much.
Really short answer: that experimental article was not attempting to explain high-Tc superconductors. Longer answer: see what I just posted on my blog.
http://doctorpion.blogspot.com/2008/04/superconductivity-press-release…
It really takes a picture to tell the story.