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7 years ago

Teaching And Learning At The Boundaries Of Two Cultures

The course 'Understanding the Universe: From Atoms to the Big Bang' is designed for non-science majors, focusing on exploring humanity's confrontation with the material world without math.
Philosophy
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

A Public Health Researcher and Her Engineer Husband Found How Diseases Can Spread through Air Decades before the COVID Pandemic

Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband, William Firth Wells, challenged the prevailing belief that diseases like tuberculosis could not spread through the air, proving otherwise in 1930s.
Public health
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

The Scintillating Science of Twinkling Stars, Explained

Twinkling, or scintillation, is the apparent variation of brightness and color of stars, creating a lovely visual effect, but posing challenges for astronomers.
OMG science
OMG science
fromNature
9 months ago

Daily briefing: Peer-review reports unsealed for papers by Turing, Watson and Crick

Historical peer review highlighted genuine scientific discourse before formalization; a recent archeological discovery unveils significant burial sites beneath Petra.
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