Contact lens lets people see in the dark with their eyes closed
By Ellen Phiddian
Scientists have unveiled contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark by converting normally invisible infrared light into light they can see.
#Nanotechnology #ScienceandTechnology #AcademicResearch #EllenPhiddian
Schrodinger’s Paradox, Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life
🗓️ Start: 11 June 2025 10:30 am
⏳ End: 11 June 2025 12:00 pm
In 1943, the great Erwin Schrodinger gave a lecture in Dublin (where he’d fled from Nazi Germany), entitled ‘What is Life?’, in which he approached the question from a physicist’s standpoint. At today’s meeting, Claudio Elgueta (Abingdon u3a), will revisit that famous occasion, beginning with the paradox arising from the Second Law of Thermodynamics, specifically, how is it that life creates order in the world, when disorder – or entropy, as it’s known – should (if the Law is correct) be the result of every physical interaction in nature? Next he’ll explain various theories of the origins of life, divided into two main groups: panspermia (i.e. extraterrestrial) and endospermia (i.e. emerging from within). He’ll then expose the pseudo-scientific character of the theory of Intelligent Design, founded as it is on the flawed concept of ‘irreducible complexity’, and still popular in the US despite a humiliating defeat in the courts in 2005. Finally, he’ll explain Richard Dawkins’ concept of ‘Mount Improbable’ which – although we still can’t be sure exactly where life originally began – nevertheless provides a robust, evidence-based scientific explanation of how complex life evolved naturally from simple molecules.
https://u3acommunities.org/event/schrodingers-paradox-intelligent-design-and-the-origin-of-life/
150 years ago, 17 countries signed a treaty that affects how we live today
By Belinda Smith
The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.
#Physics #ScienceandTechnology #Mathematics #EarthSciences #BelindaSmith
The truth behind the accuracy of weather forecasts
By Tom Saunders
Increasingly complex technology means forecasts are significantly better than they were decades ago — here's why.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-16/weather-forecast-accuracy-bom/105297540
#Weather #ScienceandTechnology #ClimateChange #Environment #Rain #TomSaunders
It's our last day at NSLS-II and CFN User Meeting!
Stop by our booth to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
The Environmental Impact of the Textile Industry
🗓️ Start: 14 May 2025 10:30 am
⏳ End: 14 May 2025 12:00 pm
‘Fast Fashion Fuelling Global Waste Crisis, UN Chief Warns’ was the shocking headline of a recent UN report. But that’s only part of the story. In reality, the clothing industry is damaging to people and places in many different ways, from how textiles and other raw materials are produced, manufactured into garments, packaged, distributed and sold, to how we care for them, and finally, how we dispose of those we no longer want. In this thought-provoking presentation, Helen Howard of Canterbury u3a will introduce us to some of the main issues that we should be concerned about.
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https://u3acommunities.org/event/the-environmental-impact-of-the-textile-industry/
It's our last day at MRS Spring 2025!
Stop by our booth#221 to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
#XAFS #XAS #spectroscopy #MRSSpring #scienceandtechnology #Seattle #MRS2025
It's Day 1 at MRS Spring 2025 in Seattle! Stop by booth 221 to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
#XAFS #XAS #spectroscopy #MRSSpring #Seattle #scienceandtechnology #electrochemistry #easyXAFS
We are so excited to attend MRS Spring 2025 in Seattle next week!
Stop by our booth#319 to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
#XAFS #XAS #spectroscopy #MRSSpring #scienceandtechnology #Seattle
Of War and Peace, and Chemistry
Imee Su Martinez and Günter Povoden in ACS #ChemicalHealthAndSafety
"Education on new knowledge and dissemination, hand-in-hand with developing a “chemical conscience” in our chemical practitioners, will minimize the risks and will aid in upholding the Convention."
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00044
#ChemicalDisarmament #ScienceAdvice #ChemicalWeapons #ScienceAndTechnology #ChemicalWeaponsConvention
#ImeeSuMartinez #GunterPovoden #OPCW
"Neuro-Synaptic Random Access Memory":
#neuromorphiccomputing #ann #artificialintelligence #scienceandtechnology #futurism
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https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-advancing-semiconductor-devices-ai-transistor.html
https://www.alojapan.com/1230233/japan-faces-99-times-more-heatwaves-if-global-warming-intensifies-warns-report/ Japan faces 99 times more heatwaves if global warming intensifies, warns report #ClimateChangeInJapan2025 #culture #ExtremeTemperature #ExtremelyHotDays #GlobalWarming #Japan #JapanMeteorologicalAgency #JapanNews #July2018 #July2023 #MinistryOfEducation #Nagoya #news #Osaka #ParisAgreement #rainfall #ScienceAndTechnology #sports #Tokyo #TropicalCyclones #urbanisation Japan could experience once-in-a-century heatwaves every year if global warm…
Andrew Leonard continues to write amazing things. He weaves together so many interesting things that you would not normally connect. Phillip K. Dick, Leibniz, tech, politics, Schezwan cooking, spices, journalism, internet, raising kids, Chinese history and so much more
"The Internet has become as useless as the Book of Changes because it will affirm or deny whatever we desire. And I cannot help but connect this unmooring of online truth, this cacophony of digital nonsense, to the state of politics in the United States today.
President Trump spews out insanity on a daily basis and his henchmen routinely say and do the vilest of things and Elon Musk tweets something factually incorrect almost as often as he takes a breath and it all means nothing because nothing means anything.
A quarter of the way through the 21st century, one of humanity’s supreme technical achievements is a network that facilitates the sharing of lies so efficiently that it broke democracy. Would we have elected Donald Trump president a second time, much less a first, if we still had gatekeepers keeping a lid on all the madness?"
#PhilipKDick #IChing #Internet #USPolitics #ScienceandTechnology
https://andrewleonard.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-became-the-book
Now at British Library, London 'Two Men looking at the Stars through a Telescope' for #SunitaWilliamsReturn in this 19th century #IndianMiniaturePainting from a Sanskrit manuscript 'Crest Jewel of the Essence of Systems of Astronomy' written by Durgashankara of #Benares #Varanasi #India
#ArtHistory #MastoArt #Histodons #Art #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Heritage #Painting #History #spaceship #SunitaWilliamssafereturn #artoftheday #ScienceAndTechnology #Paintings
Christians Struggle with Reasoning: Ten Examples Where They Think They Are Smart
#scienceandtechnology #christianity #atheism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iasBxFCj8BM
https://www.alojapan.com/1212509/exploring-kitakyushu-space-world-fukuoka-science-space-adventure/ Exploring Kitakyushu Space World, Fukuoka | Science & Space Adventure! #CosmicAdventures #EducationalTravel #FamilyFriendlyJapan #FukuokaJapan #InteractiveScienceExhibits #JAPANATTRACTIONS #JapanTravelGuide #Kitakyushu #KitakyushuDestinations #KitakyushuSpaceWorld #KitakyushuTour #KitakyushuTravel #KitakyushuTrip #KitakyushuVacation #PlanetariumShow #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceMuseumJapan #SpaceCampJapan #SpaceExploration #SpaceRollerCoaster #SpaceThemePark #北九州
It's Day 2 at PITTCON in Boston!
Stop by our booth (#2412) to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
#XAFS #XAS #spectroscopy #PITTCON #Boston #scienceandtechnology #electrochemistry #easyXAFS
