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A proportional counter that mimics human tissue can measure cosmic-radiation exposure at high altitudes
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A proportional counter that mimics human tissue can measure cosmic-radiation exposure at high altitudes
Physicists have developed a new and simple way to produce ultraslow light at room temperature
Long ago, when I was a postdoc at Harvard, I read a book by Herman Kahn, futurologist and all-round guru at the Hudson Institute in New York State. He gave a ranked list of the 50 major problems that science and technology – broadly defined – needed to solve over the coming decades. “A pill […]
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