Rubric 01
Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
49Science
Two Images and One Ship: The Picard Maneuver and the Limit of Measurement
Two Images and One Ship: The Picard Maneuver and the Limit of Measurement A television trick that survived the arithmetic In the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an episode called "The Battle" introduced...
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50Science
Picard Maneuver Physics Upgrade Reveals Real Effect
Picard Maneuver Physics Upgrade Reveals Real Effect The Simplest Answer Misses Something In the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an episode called "The Battle" introduced a tactical trick that seemed too...
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51Science
Climate Change Shifts Malaria Across Africa
Climate Change Shifts Malaria Across Africa Reading a Century in Drops of Blood Researchers have assembled a dataset that spans more than a hundred years of blood samples collected from children across sub Saharan...
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52Science
Langlands program connecting number theory and analysis
Langlands program connecting number theory and analysis A Letter That Redrew the Mathematical Map In 1967, a Canadian mathematician named Robert Langlands sat down and wrote a letter to a colleague. 1] He was not...
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53Science
NASA Roman Telescope to Discover 100000 Exoplanets
NASA Roman Telescope to Discover 100000 Exoplanets One Instrument, a Hundred Thousand New Worlds NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch no earlier than May 2027 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. It...
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54Science
Hispanic American Firsts That Changed US History
Hispanic American Firsts That Changed US History When a People Enters the Record For the first time, a broad accounting sketches something never assembled in one place before: the full sweep of Hispanic American...
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55Science
Quantum Industry Shifts from Software to Manufacturing
Quantum Industry Shifts from Software to Manufacturing The Assumption That Software Would Carry the Day For years, the pitch for quantum computing rested on an assumption so foundational that few questioned it: the...
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56Science
Scientists Quote Beatles Lyrics in Academic Papers
Scientists Quote Beatles Lyrics in Academic Papers In 1997, two researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute began a private bet: whoever could smuggle the most Bob Dylan lyrics into their published papers would win....
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57Science
Twin Satellites Rewrite Hurricane Forecasts
Twin Satellites Rewrite Hurricane Forecasts The ocean has a memory, and it is written in inches. For more than three decades, a lineage of spaceborne instruments has tracked the subtle rise and fall of sea levels, a...
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58Science
Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Science That Makes You Laugh Then Think
Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Science That Makes You Laugh Then Think Most award ceremonies follow a predictable script. Black tie, fine dining, long speeches, polite applause. Humor, when it appears at all, must be...
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59Science
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope survives political storms
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope survives political storms Nancy Grace Roman defied the advisers who told her a woman could not become a scientist. She went on to create NASA's first space astronomy programme and...
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60Science
Moon Formation Mystery Solved by Collision Temperature
Moon Formation Mystery Solved by Collision Temperature Imagine two balls of dough, one warm and soft, one cold and firm. Throw them both at a wall with the same force. The warm one splatters. The cold one might bounce...
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