Spacewatch: the end of the era of space shuttles
The Guardian
In the two weeks since I mentioned Nasa's uncertain role in post-shuttle manned spaceflight, the agency and world astronomy has been shocked by a move by the US House Appropriations Committee to cancel the 6.5 metre aperture James Webb Space Telescope, …

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Coin, Bank Note Technology Advance
NumisMaster.com
Dr. Andrew Parnell of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield was quoted as saying, “Our aim was to mimic the wonderful and funky-colored patterns found in nature, such as peacock feathers. We now have a painter's palette …

17th century is trendy at New Saint Andrews College
USA Today
"The quadrivium kind of assumes the world has an order to it and there is a creator behind that order," Vest says, referring to the subjects that formed the core of the medieval university: arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. …

Stigler's Law: Why nothing in science is ever named after its actual discoverer
io9
But the law had already been described in 1519, the year of Gresham's birth, by a Polish scientist named Nicolaus Copernicus, who went on to slightly greater fame with some mildly controversial theories about astronomy. (Of course, whether he got …

Where Trendy Is 17th Century
Inside Higher Ed
"The quadrivium kind of assumes the world has an order to it and there is a creator behind that order,” Vest says, referring to the subjects that formed the core of the medieval university: arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. …

Light gets dragged after getting slowed down to speed of sound
ZME Science
Miles Padgett in the Optics Group in the School of Physics & Astronomy, said: “The speed of light is a constant only in vacuum . When light travels through glass, movement of the glass drags the light with it too. “Spinning a window as fast as you …

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London's Royal Society reveals "Arabick Roots" of British science
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
However, Arabick Roots shows how thinkers from the Arabic and Muslim world helped to pave the way for Jenner's great breakthrough and other key advances in astronomy, medicine and other disciplines. When London was devastated by a smallpox epidemic in …

Cling-film solar cells could lead to advance in renewable energy
TMC Net
The Council has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground-based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, …

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Mapping the Route to Retirement
ScienceCareers.org
Irene Little, a former astronomy professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and her astronomer husband, Stephen, moved in 1990 to the cabin they'd built a decade before in Estes Park, Colorado, near Rocky Mountain National Park, but they couldn't …

Arabick Roots. 'Arabick'? Ask the Royal Society London.
Al-Bawaba
Two large collections that once belonged to the Royal Society are now at the British Library, including manuscripts on astronomy, mathematics, medicine, grammar, history and literature. And the Bodleian Library in Oxford has thousands of Oriental …