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Brookhaven National Laboratory Linear Accelerator (LINAC) was designed and built in the late 1960's as a major upgrade to the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) complex.
Its purpose is to provide accelerated protons for use at AGS facilities and the Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer (BLIP). The Linac is capable of producing up to a 35 milliampere proton beam at energies up to 200 million electron-volts (MeV) for injection into the AGS Booster or for the activation of targets at the BLIP.
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Les chercheurs MINES ParisTech détiennent une expertise pointue en simulation numérique. Ils font de leurs outils des références dans leurs domaines (matériaux, procédés, énergétique, exploitation minière…), utilisés par les industriels dans le cadre d'actions de recherche partenariale. Pour présenter leurs travaux et proposer une vision transversale et pluridisciplinaire de la « data science » et de ses enjeux pour les entreprises, MINES ParisTech créée le Data Science Day
Crédits photos : © MINES ParisTech / S. Boda 2019
Marc N. Casper, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA, speaking during the session: Global Science Outlook, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Jefferson Science Fellow talks birds and brains with Canadian scientists and students.
21-22 May 2009: Calgary / Lethbridge
Cornell University neurobiology professor Timothy DeVoogd, the State Department's 2008/09 Jefferson Science Fellow, visited Alberta to meet with senior academics at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the University of Lethbridge's Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neurobiology. Dr. DeVoogd discussed the potential for scientific collaborations with his Canadian peers, toured research and teaching facilities, and gave two lectures on his research into how birds learn to sing and what this can tell us about the human brain. Dr. DeVoogd's visit fostered new ties with Canadian scientists, researchers and students and engaged them in discussions around how the U.S. and Canada can deepen their cooperation in the fields of science and technology.
Science World at Telus World of Science, Vancouver is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver.
During the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Science World was transformed into the Russky Dom, which profiled plans for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. From February 12 to 28, 2010, the general public was allowed into the Russky Dom from noon until 5 p.m. In the evenings, parties were held in the Russky Dom for accredited guests.
A view of the Natural Science Building, which was constructed in 1948.
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Michigan State University – Buildings -- Natural Science
Repository: Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, 101 Conrad Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, http://archives.msu.edu
Resource Identifier: A001356.jpg
Pacific Science Center includes six acres of hands-on science fun, two IMAX theaters, Tropical Butterfly House, Live Science Stage shows, Discovery Carts, Laser Dome and much more.
Listed 9/3/2019
Millbrook, New York
Reference number: 100004333
Innisfree is a public garden of approximately 200 acres, blending Japanese, Chinese, Modern, and ecological design principles in Millbrook, a rural area roughly in the center of Dutchess County, New York. Innisfree’s distinctive sloping, rocky landscape, which forms the literal and visual foundation for the garden, is set within a natural bowl wrapping around the 40-acre Tyrrel Lake. This bowl, with no other signs of human intervention visible beyond the garden, creates a profound sense of intimacy and privacy at Innisfree that is one of its defining characteristics. A product of postwar ideas in American landscape architecture, Innisfree merges the essence of Modernist and Romantic ideas with traditional Chinese and Japanese garden design principles in a form that evolved through subtle, sculptural handling of the site and slow, science-based manipulation of its ecology. The result is a distinctly American stroll garden organized around placemaking techniques used in ancient Chinese villa gardens and described as “cup gardens.”
Innisfree, one of the largest intact modern designed landscapes in America, is the masterwork of Lester Collins (1914-1993), a seminal figure in American twentieth century landscape architecture. Lester Collins, fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, was one of the most sought-after designers and influential educators of his generation. Innisfree’s design reflects the philosophies and practices that guided Collins’s approach throughout his career, integrates innovative, sometimes truly groundbreaking horticultural and environmental engineering practices, and embodies the distinctive characteristics of postwar Modernist landscape architecture.
Innisfree began as the private estate of Walter and Marion Beck, who started initial work on the garden during the early 1930s. Starting in 1938, they continued its development in collaboration with and under the direction of Lester Collins. In 1960, following the deaths of the Becks and pursuant to their wishes, Collins transformed Innisfree from a private estate garden into a substantially larger, more nuanced public garden. He ran the public
garden while continuing to gradually develop and transform the landscape until his death in 1993.
Innisfree demonstrates Collins’s focus on the experience of people in the landscape; his ability to respond adroitly to the particularities of site and program; his approach and aesthetics as a Modernist; his scholarly understanding of landscape history, particularly of Romantic, Chinese, and Japanese gardens; and his innovative use of scientific and engineering principles to develop an environmentally and economically sustainable landscape. Innisfree has long been a mecca for designers from all over the world and it is now attracting similar attention from the global horticultural
community.
The primary features of Innisfree’s design are its principal cup gardens (loosely understood as garden rooms), Tyrrel Lake, and the Lake Path. Collins used the unifying features of the lake and lake path to integrate the many cup gardens into one dynamic experience in the natural landscape. The cup gardens vary in form, scale, and materials. One is an organically shaped meadow bisected by a wildly meandering stream and dotted with sculptural rocks and specimen trees. Another is a bog garden that has been carefully but lightly managed so that a new plant community emerged to play a particular aesthetic role. One more still is an elaborate complex of rock terraces stepping down a slope, each with its own vocabulary of design, materials, and mood.
Throughout the garden, there are themes and motifs that recur in varied forms. There is a dynamic tension between what appears to be natural and what appears to be cultivated. At a macro scale, this is evidenced by the entirety of the garden itself emerging from apparent wooded wilderness. Undulating, almost surreal natural topography is echoed in the rounded forms of clipped trees and constructed berms. Tall, straight pine trunks are mirrored in a 60’ high fountain jet. Naturalistic bogs are discreetly cultivated while areas that look like traditional planted beds are allowed to evolve and change like native plant communities.
While there are some exceptional horticultural specimens at Innisfree, the vast majority of the plants are native or naturalized. Instead of labor-intensive maintenance to strictly adhere to a fixed planting plan, plants are encouraged to find locations where they thrive just as they do in the wild and then gently edited for aesthetics. Sometimes this is achieved simply by allowing plants to self-sow; sometimes by sowing seed or moving plants in from elsewhere on site to increase a successful population; sometimes by limited hybridization to develop strains that are more ideally suited to specific local conditions. As a result, the overall plantings at Innisfree have an unstudied visual character punctuated by a handful of carefully placed, carefully sculpted trees.
There is also a deliberate choreographing of human perceptual experiences throughout Innisfree. Collins paid particular attention to these ideas. Scale ranges from massive to intimate. Spaces are open and bright, or tight and shadowy. Surfaces vary in material, texture, slope, and sound. Water changes form, scale, and sound. Design and planting details are dense or spare.
Another important motif at Innisfree is sculptural landforms. Collins began to clear trees to reveal the undulating glacial landforms. Collins felt that “land shapes, both natural and man-made…separate but also knit together sequences of cup gardens. Just like the sculptural rocks, these land forms are permanent design features in the garden, for they do not grow and their health is not subject to vagaries.” In the 1970s and early 1980s, Collins created dramatic berms in the garden to echo and emphasize the natural landforms.
In the nearly 70 years since Innisfree opened to the public, the garden has delighted and captured the imagination of experts and non-experts alike. Garden lovers, landscape writers and critics have sought to capture the unique aesthetic qualities and unusual design sophistication of Innisfree in various descriptive terms.
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Photos taken for work of the 12th annual Science & Engineering Fair at Des Moines Public Schools. I always enjoy how earnest the students are in explaining their work to the judges.
SANDIA'S MOBILE AUTONOMOUS WHEELED VEHICLE (MARV).
SANDIA'S LARGE ROBOTICS RESEARCH PROGRAM IS DEVELOPING ROBOTS FOR TASKS SUCH AS CLEANING TOXIC WASTE, DISMANTLING NUCLEAR BOMBS AND PERFORMING MICROSURGERY. MARV IS A PROTOTYPE MINI ROBOT, DEVLEOPED TO HELP SCIENTISTS WITH THE PROBLEMS OF BUILDING TINY AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS. RESEARCHERS HOPE MARV WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MACHINES THAN CAN DESTROY LAND MINES AND/OR WARN OF A CHEMICAL ATTACK.
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A fellow astronomy student carefully monitors progress of an observation in the Parkes Radiotelescope control room. Observing is an exhausting business. You need to keep a careful eye on all the equipment while it's doing those 50-minute integrations!
Author: Wolfgang Beyer
Date: 4th December 2006
Description: Partial view of the Mandelbrot set. Step 7 of a zoom sequence: Each of this crowns consists of similar "seahorse tails". Their number increases with powers of 2, a typical phenomenon in the environment of satellites. The unique path to the spiral center mentioned in zoom step 5 passes the satellite from the groove of the cardioid to the top of the "antenna" on the "head". Also observe that the starting view is located in the center.
Technique: Use of the program Ultra Fractal 3
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg
Image and caption provided by: Miguel Matos, undegraduate student, FCUL
The children learned that candy and science do go together and is very yummy and you can learn some really valuable science lessons. The children went outside to the amphitheater and learned about mento's and diet coke vs. spirit. Diet coke is not sticky and the explosion when the mento's are dropped into the cola, produced a much higher explosion than spirit. The children then enjoyed a snack of green apple koolaid, sour gummy worms and pop rocks. Then everyone became candy scientists with clip boards in hand the children explored 3 different centers, a gummy bear station and what happens when they are soaked in different fluids; gobstoppers and water what happened with all those colors and how they looked like pizza squares and finally M&M's and skittles producing awesome colors in warm water and floating letters. The children had fun and afterwards received M&M's and skittles as a treat before they left.