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2013-05-14 22:53:51 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-05-14 20:07:50 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

We present: Gravity Ink! - our very own educational videos about gravity, and how it will change our picture of the Universe.
In this first episode you will learn about how Einstein revolutionized our understanding of gravity. Enjoy!

Don't forget to support the Gravitational Universe science theme at http://support.elisascience.org/

Thanks a lot to Henry from Minute Physics for the inspiration.

2013-05-14 07:47:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A team of scientists has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity. http://hvrd.me/10usHlk 

#space   #exploration  

2013-05-11 14:45:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

John Matson explains the 3 approaches for detecting planets beyond our solar system.

2013-05-08 20:14:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Happy Birthday +Sir David Attenborough, the only person to win a BAFTA in all four television formats - Black/white, Colour, HD and 3D

2013-05-05 14:46:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Fire in the hole!

Will an astronaut who falls into a black hole be crushed or burned to a crisp?

More: http://www.nature.com/news/astrophysics-fire-in-the-hole-1.12726

#ScienceSunday

2013-05-03 15:01:06 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 0 +1s)

The Theoretical Minimum is a series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses taught by world renowned physicist Leonard Susskind.  These courses collectively teach everything required to gain a basic understanding of each area of modern physics including all of the fundamental mathematics.

2013-05-02 17:17:46 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 2 +1s)

WebRTC, Online Code Editor Team Up for Real-Time Coding

Codassium uses +WebRTC to bring together WebRTC-based video chat and Mozilla’s Ace code editor. The result is what Wreally Studios, creators of Codassium, call “a better way to conduct remote interviews.” Of course Codassium could be used for more than just interviews — think code reviews, remote pair programming or even just discussing code with remote employees.

Website: http://codassium.com/

Via +Webmonkey 

2013-04-30 14:03:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

An international team of astronomers, including Alexandre Santerne of the EXOEarths team at CAUP, identified and characterized two new exoplanets, thanks to combined observations from the Kepler space telescope, plus SOPHIE and HARPS-N spectrographs.

2013-04-27 21:38:16 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Here, +Katie Mack does a terrific job tying together papers & media coverage concerning searches for dark matter. There's been a flurry of news just in the last few weeks, and it's very useful to have an expert like Katie bring it all together. If you like Twitter I suggest you follow Katie there (she's @astrokatie) for discussion of the latest news in astrophysics.

2013-05-10 21:05:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

How astronomers hunt new Earths.

2013-04-20 16:34:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

So, you want to know where the whole Universe really came from?

All the way back to the beginning, as far as we can go?

Let's go a little farther, even, and see where theoretical physics can take us, to the very limits of the information available in our Universe!

2013-04-16 22:25:24 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

This trailer is not for a movie, it's not for a TV show and it's not for a computer game.
This trailer is for the largest instrument ever built by humanity. An enormous space-based gravitational wave detector that will measure distortions of space-time, revolutionize astronomy, our understanding of physics, and the past and future of our cosmos. That's it really.....enjoy! :)

2013-04-14 14:36:43 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen and particle physicist Tom Whyntie discuss the Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

Subscribe +Head Squeeze TV.

2013-04-09 20:32:01 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

The "Beginning of the Universe, for Beginners" is the premiere of a series of five, first of their kind, CERN/TED Ed collaborations that feature content on the Origins of the Universe, Dark Matter, Anti-Matter, Big Data and the Higgs Boson. These animations were specially developed by CERN scientists and animated by talented animators who work with TED-Ed. 

http://youtu.be/DmUiCweDic4

The other four animations will premiere at TEDxCERN, another first of its kind event, on May 3rd, 14:00 - 20:00 CEST, and the animated Lessons will be available on ed.ted.com starting May 3rd. The webcast will be available to the public on http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/.  Tune in and watch!

2013-04-02 21:07:21 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

+The Kavli Foundation  is on Vimeo!

Huge repository of video lectures.

Astronomy and Astrophysics
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfosastronomy

Physics
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfosphysics

Mathematics
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfosmathematics

Biology
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfosbiology

Chemistry
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfoschemistry

Computer Science
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfoscomputerscience

Materials
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfosmaterials

Medical Science
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfosmedicalscience

Earth Science
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfosearthscience

Neuro Science
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfosneuroscience

Social Science
https://vimeo.com/channels/kfossocialscience

Source:... more »

2013-03-26 17:47:45 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 11 +1s)

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation - Sixty Symbols

2013-03-22 11:34:17 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Take action to keep DRM out of the HTML5 standard. The open web is no place for anti-user technology.

2013-03-20 20:09:49 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

We may be on the verge of discovering what happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. 

The worldwide scientific community is awaiting the release of data sampling the "oldest light" in the cosmos. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21828202 

The implications are enormous: "A whole swathe of models [about the universe] will probably be confined to the bin at the end of the day," says BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos.

2013-03-17 19:36:28 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

Maximize Audience Without Destroying Your Profile
A lot of people are destroying their Google+ profiles by sharing the same post to multiple communities. Not only does this add a lot of redundancy to your profile but you are also making your posts ineligible for What’s Hot. Here’s a simple tip to maximize your audience without killing your profile.

1. Change your personal settings by unchecking “Show your Google+ communities posts on your profile” (see left pic).
2. Share your post publicly (this makes your post eligible for What’s Hot).
3. Then re-share your public post to relevant communities.

Using this strategy will: (a) only show one post on your profile, as opposed to showing many duplicate posts, (b) show the share count on a single post, rather than being scattered across multiple posts, and (c) keep your post eligible for what’s hot and willdisplay the... more »

2013-05-18 00:55:17 (6 comments, 8 reshares, 13 +1s)

The Best +YouTube  Educational Channels

+Google Science Fair 
https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleScienceFair

+Khan Academy 
http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy

#Scishow by +Hank Green 
http://www.youtube.com/user/scishow

#CGPGrey +C. G. P. Grey 
http://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey

+Epipheo 
https://www.youtube.com/user/epipheo

+MinutePhysics  by +Henry Reich (Physics)
http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
#MinuteEarth
https://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth

#PhysicsLectures #DrPhysicsA  (Physics)
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrPhysicsA

+Derek Muller by +Derek Muller 
http://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium

#Vsauce - Amazing Facts & The Best of the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/VSAUCEhttp://www... more »

2013-03-16 14:35:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

ALMA: The View from a Different World

2013-03-13 19:57:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This 16-minute video presents the history of #ALMA from the origins of the project several decades ago to the recent first science results. Illustrated by dramatic helicopter footage, the movie takes you on a journey to the 5000-metre-high Chajnantor Plateau, where ALMA stands, in the unique environment of the #Atacama Desert of Chile.

+Eso Observatory /NAOJ/NRAO

2013-03-13 08:26:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

On 13 March 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) - the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world - will be inaugurated, marking the transition from construction project to fully fledged observatory.

The stream of the day’s events will run from 14:30 UT to around 16:00 UT. The stream will be available on the day at http://www.almaobservatory.org/inauguration/.

2013-03-07 21:01:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

The new trio: Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).

2013-03-06 21:21:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Extremely Geeky talk.

2013-03-06 03:18:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-03-01 16:01:48 (14 comments, 6 reshares, 6 +1s)

Yes 3D printing will definitely change the world.

#3dprinting

2013-02-28 11:17:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

National Science Day, India

National Science Day is celebrated in India on February 28 each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. Sir C.V.Raman was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery, which is now called Raman scattering (Raman effect).

Indian scientists have pioneered several significant scientific discoveries, since the ancient period and they are a big inspiration to our younger generation and aspiring scientists.

2013-02-24 21:42:24 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Physicist proposes to his physicist girlfriend in the form of an academic paper

This is what I call the 5 sigma question/answer.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/194ilz/my_boyfriend_of_7_years_and_i_are_both_physicists/

2013-02-23 13:41:46 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Astronomers and cancer researchers team up to beat cancer

Cancer Research UK and Institute of Astronomy  scientists have honed techniques originally developed to spot distant galaxies and used them to identify biomarkers that signal a cancer’s aggressiveness among some 2,000 breast tumours, in a study published in the British Journal of Cancer.

2013-02-21 18:16:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

New Astronomy courses will be availabe soon on +Coursera .

One of them is Highlights of Astronomy. This course is an introduction to the most modern astronomy's most important themes like: exoplanets and astrobiology, stellar evolution, galaxy formation and evolution, cosmology and the history of the Universe.

2013-02-21 10:35:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hi Everyone, Coursera is thrilled to welcome 29 new universities across 4 continents to our community, teaching over 90 new courses in 5 different languages! http://bit.ly/Zt4Sjs

2013-05-10 21:07:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The exponential thinking.

2013-02-20 18:14:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

60 Second Adventures in Astronomy

+The Open University produced a wonderful series of videos, “60 Second Adventures in Astronomy“.  In this 12 episode series, voiced by famous British TV star and comedian, David Mitchell, 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy examines all the hottest scientific concepts in astronomy, from the big bang to relativity, from black holes to dark matter. They are a great simple introduction to astronomy.

#sciencesunday #scienceeveryday

CC +ScienceSunday +astroPT 

2013-02-14 20:36:12 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

A new study using observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence that the expanding debris of exploded stars produces some of the fastest-moving matter in the universe.

2013-02-11 18:25:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

The Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS)

Leiden Observatory and ESA are pleased to welcome applications for the inaugural edition of the LEAPS program. LEAPS is an opportunity for students with an interest in astronomy and astrophysics to perform a 10-12 week summer research project in collaboration with a research scientist from Leiden Observatory or ESA. The program is open to all students not currently engaged in a Ph.D. program, although we are most interested in students at the senior-undergraduate or masters level who are enthusiastic about research in astrophysics.

2013-02-10 16:46:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Check this one out

Biggest Thing in the Universe - Sixty Symbols

2013-02-08 19:55:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Happy Birthday, Jules Verne: the father of science fiction.
Jules Verne, born on this day in 1828.

He presaged airplanes, submersible warfare, space travel, and fuel cells before anyone else.

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real”
Jules Verne

2013-02-07 20:56:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Check out this list of some of the BEST Science Online [in VIDEO form]

2013-02-07 16:58:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

+European Space Agency, ESA uploaded a new lecture to AstroBiology Course.

In this video, Dr Heike Rauer gives an overview on the current status of exoplanet detections with focus on terrestrial planets in and near the habitable zone, detected by different techniques from ground and space-based observations. The mean composition and internal structure of planets shows a much larger diversity then expected from the planets in our Solar System.

2013-02-06 21:51:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Data from NASA's Kepler mission suggests that 6% of nearby red dwarf stars should have at least one Earth-sized world in the zone where life as we know it can exist. Such planets may have life that is much older than Earth's.

2013-02-05 19:51:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Leonard Susskind has a recent/updated three part (so far) Standford Cosmology lecture series on Youtube.  I've been watching them at night and they're pretty interesting, and not too complicated in terms of the math.  It seems like a good place to start getting into Newtonian laws and derivatives.

Susskind argues that Newton should have derived the Friedmann equations from his own laws instead of having us wait until Fredmann did this from General Relativity.  Perhaps Newton's religion played a role.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann_equations

The Friedmann equations are a set of equations in physical cosmology that govern the expansion of space in homogeneous and isotropic models of the universe within the context of general relativity.

Cosmology Lecture 1
Cosmology Lecture 2
Cosmology Lecture 3

Susskind also has a newbo... more »

2013-02-04 10:04:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

PostPanic director Mischa Rozema's new short film, Stardust, is a story about Voyager 1 (the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system). The probe is the furthest man-made object from the sun and witnesses unimaginable beauty and destruction.

The film's story centers on the idea that in the grand scheme of the universe, nothing is ever wasted and it finds comfort in us all essentially being Stardust ourselves. Voyager represents the memories of our loved ones and lives that will never disappear.

2013-01-31 10:47:47 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

NEW COMIC: A very special quote for my 100th comic!
CARL SAGAN - The Pale Blue Dot
http://zenpencils.com/comic/100-carl-sagan-pale-blue-dot/

2013-01-30 20:56:45 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 4 +1s)

New simulation from DEUS Consortium.

3D dark matter distribution in physical space at Z=0
Comparison of 3 cosmological models:
ΛCDM: concordance model
RPCDM: quintessence model
wCDM: phantom model

Parameters:
Simulation : 8192^3 particles
up to 2500 billion computing points
Luminosity = dark matter density
Color = cosmological model

http://www.deus-consortium.org/

2013-01-26 18:50:06 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Seeing Beyond: The James Webb Space Telescope

Made from a talk designed to introduce the JWST and the science it will do.

2013-01-25 22:07:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

On 25 January 1983 +CERN  announced the discovery of the W boson.

A timeline of the Standard Model of particle physics http://econ.st/NlVaoX by +The Economist 

2013-01-25 08:33:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

How many bits of information could you fit in the whole universe?

Let's figure it out!  For starters, let's say we mean the observable universe.  The universe may be infinite in size.  But when we look back all the way to when the hot gas of the early universe first cooled down and became transparent, everything we see fits in a finite-sized ball centered at us.  That ball has by now expanded to be much larger.  This larger present-day ball is called the observable universe. 

Maybe it should be called the 'once-observed universe', since we can't see what distant galaxies are doing now.  But regardless of what it's called, this ball is about 9 × 10^26 meters in diameter.  How much information could we fit in it?

When you keep trying to stuff more information into some region, eventually you get a black hole.  The informationbecomes i... more »

2013-03-24 19:55:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

There are currently three main European launchers ready to rocket into space.

Ariane 5 is the biggest, capable of lifting 10 tonnes into orbit. Soyuz is the Russian workhorse with a three tonne payload, while Vega is the +European Space Agency, ESA  new rocket, designed to take one and a half tonne satellites into low Earth orbit.

Faced with increased competition from the Far East and private companies in the US, the European Space Agency is currently treating Ariane to a make-over. The Ariane 5ME, or Midlife Evolution, will be able to combine the launch of communication satellites and scientific missions.

Looking ahead a decade, some of the new technology in Ariane 5ME will be included in its successor Ariane 6. The European Space Agency sees the evolution as a strategic move to meet the demands of both commercial and science customers.

Off topic: Do you know... more »