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Science articles, mostly physics, but science nonetheless.

Understanding the Higgs Boson in under 10 minutes

Understand the history and mind boggling concept of the Higgs Boson (AKA the God Particle as the media like to call it) in under 10 minutes.

On why I think it is too early for biometric identification

‘Passwords have become obsolete’ was what IBM Speech CTO, David Nahamoo, said–at least effectively–in IBM’s Research News blog. His main point was that our current use of identification and security, our trusty passwords, were a) really insufficient security b) hard to remember. (Incidentally, I suspect Mr Nahamoo has over 50 log-ins to remember.) IBM 5 [...]

On why a rotating ceiling fan gathers dust

Why does a constantly rotating ceiling fan gather more dust than a stationary fan? I was reading today’s paper when I came across this question somebody had asked in the readers’ column.  It was, at least, something along those lines. Now I do not really know why I wanted to read the answer considering I [...]

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