Culture Desk: Republicans vs. Science: Ranking the Candidates : The New Yorker

The Republican Party has often been the party of science and technology. Abraham Lincoln created the National Academy of Sciences and earned a patent on shipping technology. The creationist Democrat William Jennings Bryan twice lost to the Republican William McKinley. Dwight Eisenhower was perhaps the most forceful Oval Office advocate for science and technology of the …

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Nobel in Physics Goes to Perlmutter, Schmidt and Riess – NYTimes.com

Three astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discovering that the universe is apparently being blown apart by a mysterious force that cosmologists now call dark energy, a finding that has thrown the fate of the …

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Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged – WSJ.com

One of the very pillars of physics and Einsteins theory of relativity — that nothing can go faster than the speed of light — was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the worlds …

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Women Atop Their Fields Discuss the Scientific Life – NYTimes.com

Elena Aprile, Joy Hirsch, Mary-Claire King and Tal Rabin are members of a rare breed — women scientists at the top of their fields.

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The Anthropocene: A man-made world | The Economist

THE here and now are defined by astronomy and geology. Astronomy takes care of the here: a planet orbiting a yellow star embedded in …

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Particle physics: Not pear-shaped | The Economist

FUNDAMENTAL building blocks of matter, like quarks (which make up the protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei) and electrons (which orbit those nuclei), are called…

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Futurology Onward, specks

NOT long ago I confided in an astrophysicist friend that I find it a little scary to think about the universe because it makes me feel like an insignificant speck. He responded that it’s cool to be a speck, partly because it gives us the opportunity to think about such things. Graeme Wood checks in with some of the world’s leading specks, the scientists and philosophers who have taken up the question of what the very faraway future will look like:

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