'Thermal cloak' hides objects from heat

BBC News - 'Thermal cloak' hides objects from heat:

This could make the best oven mitts ever!

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Question over theory of lunar formation

Question over theory of lunar formation : Nature News & Comment:

That's no moon!

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More powerful than solar flares

More powerful than solar flares - Telegraph:

That's right, you can never escape radiation! (mwahahha etc...).

Serious side note:  This constant radiation has enabled life on Earth to evolve with defence mechanisms against its potentially damaging effects.  Radiobiology  has shown us that life can be resilient to ionising radiation and it's effects on organisms (including us).

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Neutrino-based communication is a first

Neutrino-based communication is a first - physicsworld.com:

Here's a currently somewhat impractical method of communication, but one that can go through a lot of stuff without getting buggered up!

Sadly not faster-than-light though, coz that'd have been awesome.

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From the BBC micro to the Raspberry Pi: Campaigning for Computer Literacy | Science Museum Blog

From the BBC micro to the Raspberry Pi: Campaigning for Computer Literacy | Science Museum Blog:

Nice wee piece on the Raspberry Pi and its heritage as a computer training tool.

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Neutrino oscillations measured with record precision.

Neutrino oscillations measured with record precision : Nature News & Comment:

Neutrinos.  Behaving themselves for once.

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Tevatron collider's mighty boost for Higgs hunt

Tevatron collider's mighty boost for Higgs hunt - physics-math - 05 March 2012 - New Scientist:

The Tevatron give us its final bow? Not a bad way to go, and certainly excellent work getting these result with the data and equipment they had :-)

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