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Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, speaking during the session: Global Science Outlook, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
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National Park Service staff and volunteers greeted school groups and families to the 6th Annual Science Fest.
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
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Title: Christian Science Center
Creator: Peter H. Dreyer
Date: undated
Source: Collection 9800.007, Peter H. Dreyer slide collection
File name: 9800007_454
Photographer: Peter H. Dreyer
Rights: Public Domain, Please credit Peter H. Dreyer
Citation: Peter H. Dreyer slide collection, Collection #9800.007, City of Boston Archives, Boston
DR JAY PETERSEN ADJUSTS THE LARGE GONI-OMETER INSTALLED IN A SPECIALLY SHIELDED CAVE OF THE A W WRIGHT NUCLEAR - YALE.
THE CAVE IS UNDER 20 FEET OF EARTH AND HAS 3 FOOT WALLS, FLOOR AND CEILING OF A SPECIAL CONCRETE CONTAINING NONE OF THE COMMON NATURALLY RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES (E.G. THORIUM AND POTASSIUM) SO THAT THE NORMAL RADIATION BACKGROUND LEVEL IS LESS THAN ONE THOUSANDTH OF THAT IN A TYPICAL RESIDENCE. THE PROJECTILE BEAM FROM THE ACCELERATOR ENTERS FROM THE RIGHT, AND PASSES THROUGH THE TARGET UNDER STUDY IN THE CENTRAL HEMISPHERICAL CHAMBER BEFORE EXITING TO THE LOWER LEFT AND BEING STOPPED IN AN UNDERGROUND BEAM DUMP OUTSIDE OF THE CAVE. ONE OF THE LARGE, COMPUTER CONTROLLED GAMMA RADIATION DETECTORS IS SHOWN ON ITS OVERHEAD MOUNT TO THE LEFT OF DR. PETERSEN, A NUMBER OF SUCH DETECTORS MAY BE USED SIMULTANEOUSLY UNDER ON-LINE COMPUTER CONTROL IN THE MEASUREMENT OF CHARACTERISTIC RADIATION PATTERNS FROM THE TARGET NUCLEI UNDER STUDY FOLLOWING THEIR STIMULATION BY THE PROJECTILES IN THE BEAM.
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The beginnings of the Computer Science building, being built on a parking lot in front of the E-Quad.
Our health science program grounds you in the liberal arts with a firm foundation in the sciences, while also exposing you to the realities of the health care system. By majoring in health science, you can prepare for future study in a wide range of health care careers.
While this is a non-clinical program, graduates pursue careers in fields including dentistry, public health, medicine, optometry, chiropractic, pharmacy, podiatry, and healthcare administration.
Learn more at www.hartford.edu/healthsciences
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Simulation showing Outer Planets and Kuiper Belt: a) Before Jupiter/Saturn 2:1 resonance b) Scattering of Kuiper Belt objects into the solar system after the orbital shift of Neptune c) After ejection of Kuiper Belt bodies by Jupiter
Planets shown: Jupiter (green circle), Saturn (orange circle), Uranus (light blue circle) and Neptune (dark blue circle)
simulation/description credit to enWiki user:AstroMark
Kuiper belt: ...is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU [Astronomical units]) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation. While the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water. It is home to at least three dwarf planets – Pluto, Haumea and Makemake.
Scattered disc: ...is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy minor planets, a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects. The scattered disc objects have orbital eccentricities ranging as high as 0.8, inclinations as high as 40°, and perihelia greater than 30 astronomical units. These extreme orbits are believed to be the result of gravitational "scattering" by the gas giants, and the objects continue to be subject to perturbation by the planet Neptune. While the nearest distance to the Sun approached by scattered objects is about 30–35 AU, their orbits can extend well beyond 100 AU. This makes scattered objects "among the most distant and cold objects in the Solar System". The innermost portion of the scattered disc overlaps with a torus-shaped region of orbiting objects known as the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits reach much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the belt proper.
Because of its unstable nature, astronomers now consider the scattered disc to be the place of origin for most periodic comets observed in the Solar System...
Formation of the Kuiper belt and Scattered disc?: The scattered disc is still poorly understood: no model of the formation of the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc has yet been proposed that explains all their observed properties.
According to contemporary models, the scattered disc formed when Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) were "scattered" into eccentric and inclined orbits by gravitational interaction with Neptune and the other outer planets. The amount of time for this process to occur remains uncertain. One hypothesis estimates a period equal to the entire age of the Solar System; a second posits that the scattering took place relatively quickly, during Neptune's early migration epoch.
Models for a continuous formation throughout the age of the Solar System illustrate that at weak resonances within the Kuiper belt (such as 5:7 or 8:1), or at the boundaries of stronger resonances, objects can develop weak orbital instabilities over millions of years. The 4:7 resonance in particular has large instability. KBOs can also be shifted into unstable orbits by close passage of massive objects, or through collisions. Over time, the scattered disc would gradually form from these isolated events...Modern theories indicate that neither Uranus nor Neptune could have formed in situ beyond Saturn, as too little primordial matter existed at that range to produce objects of such high mass. Instead, these planets, and Saturn, may have formed closer to Jupiter, but were flung outwards during the early evolution of the Solar System, perhaps through exchanges of angular momentum with scattered objects. Once the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn shifted to a 2:1 resonance (two Jupiter orbits for each orbit of Saturn), their combined gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, sending Neptune into the temporary "chaos" of the proto-Kuiper belt. As Neptune traveled outward, it scattered many trans-Neptunian objects into higher and more eccentric orbits... - enWikipedia
Panel discussion on Mainau Island
6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences 23.08.2017 - 26.08.2017, Lindau, Germany, Picture/Credit: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
In another portion of the abandoned school in Pine Grove Louisiana we found one classroom that still resembled it's original functioning design. The Science Lab. Valve mounts on the desktops for gas tubes that can connect to bunsen burners, small wash sinks on each island/workspace for cleaning up or rescuing the incidental burn moment. It was a surreal site to see.
Books still littered the lab, some open on the table tops to pages of experiments and exercises published around 1982. All the jars, bottles, and beakers still present had cultivated a white milky film making all the glass look frosted. Part of me wanted to take one, it filtered light so well, but the reality is it's probably toxic and the boy in me was squelched by the voice of a current father who wouldn't dare let my own children play with it, so my inner child gets corrected as well.
Ultimately this room made me think about post-apocalyptic movie scenes of the future. Is this what a classroom would look like months after someone dropped the nuclear bomb hundreds of miles away? I hope no one ever has to know that, again.
Postcard of the Science room, St. Ignatius, Galway where the pupils are writing under the instruction of a Jesuit. scgalw3-7-2-14
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Timelapse from inside of roof removal. Wall demolition of historic structure has started.
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Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture’s design for the Powerhouse Science Center re-envisions a historic riverfront structure as a hub for science education, exploration and promotion in the City of Sacramento. On the banks of the Sacramento River, the Science Center grows out from an abandoned power station building. As a principal component of the Riverfront activation, the Powerhouse Science Center anchors Robert T. Matsui Waterfront Park and borders the southern terminus of the 32-mile American River Bike Trail.
Vacant for over half a century, the structure undergoes a complete historic rehabilitation and the construction of a new floor level inside. A new two-story addition projects from the east side, containing a lobby, classrooms, offices and a cafe. A 110-seat planetarium is prominently on display with a zinc-clad hemispheric dome rising above the building’s mass. As representation of our place in the universe, the facade and building mass is sectioned by multiple planes, creating continuous vector lines that extend across the building and site. From satellites to world landmarks, the lines form connections with local and global points of interest.
The original PG&E Power Station B was designed in 1912 in the Beaux Arts Style by architect Willis Polk and was formally closed in 1954. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historic Places and the Sacramento Register of Historic & Cultural Resources. The Powerhouse Science Center is designed to achieve a USGBC LEED Rating of Silver.
Video by Otto Construction.
Sir Simon Fraser, Permanent Under Secretary for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service with Martin Donnelly, Permanent Secretary for the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills at the Science & Innovation Conference in London, 11 December 2013.
Young people from across Europe came for a few days of science experiments and debates in the 1st "Young Europeans Science Parliament". Budding scientists from 29 countries discussed the use of stem cells, access to genetic information and personalised medicine. There were also workshops and presentations in the Parliament and the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences from 29 November - 1 December.
(L to R) Paul Rübig MEP, head of the EP STOA Science Assessment, Herbert Münder - President of European Science Events Association (EUSCEA), and Young European Science Parlamentarian Judith Gabriel (Gabriel).
©European Parliament/Pietro Naj-Oleari
The CORE Science Institute hosted its week-long summer STEM institute at SLAC for underrepresented youth in the local community. This year’s 18 students matriculated from Ile Omode School in Oakland.
Dominique White and Aaron Monteleone conduct a liquid nitrogen ice cream demo with yummy samples!
Photo: Jacqueline Orrell / SLAC
A Missouri State University professor conducts a science lab experiment about glaciers and the effects of Global Warming. 5th Grade Science Lab.
UTOPIA / Heft-Reihe
Piet L. Swanson / In unbekannter Mission
cover: Rudolf Sieber-Lonati
Erich Pabel Verlag
(Rastatt / Deutschland; 1965)
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INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY CONCEPT.
FUSION IS THE POWER SOURCE OF THE SUN AND STARS. IT OCCURS WHEN FORMS OF THE LIGHTEST ATOM, HYDROGEN, COMBINE TO MAKE HELIUM IN A VERY HOT (100 MILLION DEGREE CENTIGRADE) IONIZED GAS, OR PLASMA. TO ACHIEVE INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY POWERFUL LASERS OR PARTICLE BEAMS ARE FOCUSED ON A SMALL PELLET OR FUEL FOR FEW BILLIONTHS OF A SECOND. MAGNETIC FUSION ENERGY IS ANOTHER APPROACH TO FUSION ENERGY. DOE'S FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES PROGRAM LEADS THE NATION'S EFFORT IN THE STUDY OF PLASMA, THE FOURTH STATE OF MATTER, WHICH CONSTITUTES MOST OF THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE, AND IS AT THE CORE OF A FUSION POWER SYSTEM.
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Högby near Mjölby in Östergötland is a magical place because of a serious lack of historical sensitivity. In 1876 (which is really late as these things go in Sweden) the locals demolished their little 12th century church and built a new bigger one a mile to the south. This meant that the parish centre of a millennium or so became a backwater and has not been built over later. It's completely rural, abutting a farm's back yard, very quiet. All that remains of the church is the churchyard wall and one of Östergötland's finest rune stones that was taken out of the sacristy wall. Some fine portal stonework and a 13th century door is in the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. Two more carved stones were found and re-erected nearby.
On the big rune stone, dating from about AD 1000, Torgärd's poetic commemoration of her maternal uncles can be read.
Torgärd erected this stone after Assur, her mother's brother. He met his end in the East in Greece.
The good farmer Gulle
had five sons:
Fell at Föret [Uppsala?]
did the brave fighter Ã…smund.
Assur met his end
to the East in Greece.
Halvdan was
on the island killed. [Bornholm?]
KÃ¥re died at the Cape. [Zealand?]
Dead is also Boe.
Torkel carved the runes.
In all likelihood, the inscription is intended to legitimise Torgärd's claim to Gulle's inheritance. Since all her maternal uncles are dead, Torgärd argues, their unnamed sister becomes the heir, and Torgärd inherits her mother.
By the time her descendants decided to add a sacristy to the church, Torgärd's claim was no longer controversial, but she was probably remembered as a matron of the lineage, possibly its first Christian member. And so her rune stone was made part of the structure.