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4 Jul 2009
Top Story: A Joint Love Letter to Science
By Alom Shaha
Why is science important? As a teacher – faced with the inevitable question: "what’s the point of studying science?" - I set out to discover how leading scientists, writers and science teachers would reply. The answers were...
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> The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
> Where Physics and Mysticism don't meet
> Can Science Reveal the Truth?
Why is science important? As a teacher – faced with the inevitable question: "what’s the point of studying science?" - I set out to discover how leading scientists, writers and science teachers would reply. The answers were...
> Read this article
> The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
> Where Physics and Mysticism don't meet
> Can Science Reveal the Truth?
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Can Science Reveal the Truth?
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Fractal Power
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Featured Poem
The Atom
By Thomas Thornely
"We do not in the least know how to harness the energy locked up in the atoms of matter. If it could be liberated at...
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The Atom
By Thomas Thornely
"We do not in the least know how to harness the energy locked up in the atoms of matter. If it could be liberated at...
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Facts
In a rainbow, each raindrop acts as a tiny spherical prism. A rainbow is seen whenever there are enough raindrops distributed properly with respect to the viewer and the sun and there is not too much absorption of the light in the rain.> More facts
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Polonium: The Secret Agent
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Successful business applications such as drug screening...
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For their pioneering work in uncovering the molecular basis of...
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