The World in 2050
The World in 2050
This 23,000 years old “Venus of Renancourt” with 4 centimeters height is one of the rare statuettes of women from the Gravettian period found in France. It adds up to a series of fifteen other effigies, uncovered since 2014 on the same site but in broken pieces. The previous major discovery in France was the “Venus of Tursac”, in 1959, in Dordogne.
GoogleDoodle pays special tribute to Belgian physicist and mathematician Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau on his 218th birth anniversary.
This special doodle is a pictorial depiction of the Plateau’s genius device ‘phenakistiscope’:
https://g.co/doodle/f8eek
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“We need to celebrate women physicists because they’re out there… I’m honoured to be one of those women,“ says Donna Strickland.
She becomes the third woman to receive the #NobelPrize in Physics, joining Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Marie Curie (1903). Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/m2XLJHTW0V— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)October 2, 2018
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BREAKING NEWS⁰The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland. pic.twitter.com/PK08SnUslK
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)October 2, 2018
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Arthur Ashkin, awarded the 2018 #NobelPrize, had a dream: imagine if beams of light could be put to work and made to move objects. He realised his dream by creating a light trap, which became known as optical tweezers. pic.twitter.com/6W6juINq5f
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)October 2, 2018
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This year’s #NobelPrize inventions revolutionised laser physics. Extremely small objects and incredibly fast processes now appear in a new light. Advanced precision instruments are opening up unexplored areas of research and a multitude of industrial and medical applications. pic.twitter.com/RZp78piSRF
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)October 2, 2018
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BREAKING: Canadian Donna Strickland among three winners of Nobel Prize for Physics for advances in laser physics. The University of Waterloo’s Strickland shares the honour with Arthur Ashkin of the U.S. and Gerard Mourou of France. https://t.co/FeLoTXLkJY
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts)October 2, 2018
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A reporter asked what it felt like to be the third woman in history to win the prize.
“Really? Is that all? I thought there might have been more,” Strickland responded. “Obviously we need to celebrate woman physicists because we’re out there.”https://t.co/Z2ULxaMLpe— Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48)October 2, 2018
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The last two women to win the Nobel Prize in Physics: Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963 https://t.co/OBAaPyrbw1
— Scientific American (@sciam)October 2, 2018
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: Arthur Ashkin, USA; Gérard Mourou, France, and Donna Strickland, Canada. #NobelPrize #Physics https://t.co/8QnyWLrbPk pic.twitter.com/kp8bQIGeR9
— Vetenskapsakademien (@vetenskapsakad)October 2, 2018
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20 years ago Ashkin’s work formed the basis for Steven Chu’s work on cooling and trapping atoms, which earned Chu a Nobel Prize in Physics. Today, at 96, Ashkin won one for himself. Kol hakavod! #NobelPrize2018 pic.twitter.com/DlZA5kgcKF
— Tsvetina Kaneva (@Tsvetince)October 2, 2018
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Charles Kao, the ‘Father of Fiber Optics’ has passed away. In 1966 he made a discovery that changed the way we communicate - fiber optic cables that can transmit light over hundreds of kilometers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 https://t.co/0Hjs5OWBp7 pic.twitter.com/dMeeejEm8K
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)September 24, 2018
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If a woman wins the Nobel Prize in Physics next week, she will be the first to do so in more than 50 years. Over the same period, just one woman has won in chemistry. https://t.co/jjNwlvmoVS
— Scientific American (@sciam)September 29, 2018
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With only 18 hours until the next Physics @NobelPrize is announced, it seems like a good time to repost this 2014 article on women who deserve to win it (no woman has won it for >50 years) https://t.co/r4kbjsPSB7
— Dr Michelle Collins (@michelle_lmc)October 1, 2018
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Not long now! Very soon the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced.
Join the discussion – use the hashtag: #NobelPrize
Photo: Alexander Mahmoud pic.twitter.com/KsdtIzpz7u— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)October 2, 2018
I took a batch of DNA tests so you don’t have to http://bit.ly/2MdnTBH
Miss the woolly mammoth? Soon you won’t have to, because Harvard scientists are working to develop a “hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo,” which could be grown within the next couple of years.
A group of 13 dinosaurs that died in a mud pit in China has yielded an unprecedented discovery.
Seeing the first actual great image of Pluto reminded me how Carl Sagan said “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.“ All we could see before was a blurry speck and by sending the New Horizons spacecraft out there we discovered a new world.
credits: NASA/APL/SwRI
Here’s Our First Close-Up Photo Of Pluto’s Surface
NASA’s New Horizons probe launched in 2006 and has traveled 3 billion miles in the past nine years. It’s not stopping at Pluto, but it flew past the dwarf planet at 7.49 a.m. ET Tuesday.
At its closest approach, the spacecraft will have been just 12,500 kilometers (about 7,750 miles) from the surface, traveling at 14 kilometers per second (31,000 miles per hour). This is the first time we’ve come this close to Pluto. [x]
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