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RI: The Dark Universe
Here we have a new talk from the Royal Institution by a Nobel Prize winner and a leading cosmologist Adam Riess. Other speakers include Lucie Green — a space scientist based at UCL’s Department of Space and Climate Physics, Risa Wechsler — an astrophysicist and a professor at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and […]
Physics From the Past: Nuclear Testing Review (1945)
This archived video shows footage from the DVD copied by The Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Department of Defense, and contains declassified a series of historical films on the nuclear weapons program. The footage was refurbished and remastered to facilitate the declassification and release process. The films illustrate the development of the nuclear weapons throughout […]
RI: What a Wonderful World
In this presentation Marcus Chown, an award-winning writer and broadcaster and a former a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, will attempt to answer such fascinating questions as why babies are powered by rocket fuel, why slime moulds have 13 sexes, and why 98% of the Universe is invisible. The talk is […]
5 Highly Recommended Mathematical Physics Textbooks
If mathematics is the queen of all sciences, as it is often called, then physics is undeniably its younger sister. Given the strong link between the two subjects, I decided to share a brief list of some of the best mathematical physics textbooks. In this list we will focus on textbooks that offer a wide […]
SETI: Planet Occurrence and the Habitable Zone
In this SETI talk Christopher J Burke discusses the latest results in measuring terrestrial planet occurrence rates using the planet candidates discovered by the Kepler pipeline. Fresh news of discovering a number of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of their host stars as well as the recent release to the public of the model for the Kepler […]
RI: Why is Life the Way it is?
One of the hardest questions in science is, of course, “why?”. And out of many great “why” questions to ask, one of the most fascinating one is “why is life on Earth the way it is?”. In this presentation Nick Lane, an evolutionary biochemist in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, […]
10 Free Data Analysis Courses
Even though data science is by no means a new discipline, with the recent advancement in internet technologies, data scientists have new power in their hands. As an example consider this article on how twitter can predict stock prices more accurately using the cci trading strategy pdf than any other investment tactic. Now, given that […]
SETI: Exoplanet Kepler 452b
So recently a planet called Kepler 452b got some big attention in the news headlines. As the name implies it is one of the exoplanets detected by the NASA’s Kepler space observatory dedicated to extrasolar planet hunt. The main reason why detection of yet another exoplanet (so far we have found over 1000) was so […]
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