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Passing away on June 3rd, 2018, Georg von Tiesenhausen was the last of the original German rocket scientists that came to the United States with Wernher von Braun. He is also presu…

After vacuuming up a bunch of purple urchins, would it be possible to alter their DNA to be more like that of red urchins? Then release those genetically modified urchins back into…

Looking through the recent Wall Street Journal A. Pasztor headlines that you've linked to, it seems Northrop Grumman has also been having production issues with the James Webb Spac…

Sure, the article describes the Coriolis Effect. But only as a part of a larger narrative analogy describing how two groups of people can each be entirely convinced that they are r…

I wasn’t too surprised about getting downvoted. I suspected that some might find “the solution is simple” a bit brazen, but I wasn’t sure how old the thread was, and wanted to draw…

THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE I suspect that the reason curling stones curl the way that they do is primarily due to one side of the stone being subjected to “static” friction while the o…

I believe you mean 'just' $1.5B. Still a nice chunk of change, but order of magnitude less.

I think it would be interesting to have a "swap" button between the start and end points, perhaps just under where it says "to". (similar to the swap buttons in translator apps and…

It seems that improving the annealing process of printed parts from current 3D printers could, at best, reach the maximum crystallization of pure stereoregular PLA polymers. Due to…

If anyone is interested in how modern versions of these machines work, the annual conference for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is currently proceeding a…

I'm not sure the pain-in-the-back argument is necessarily true. Even for many upright refrigerators, you must still bend over or crouch to get things from lower shelves and drawers…

I do not own Facebook stock, HTC stock, or any other stock associated with VR tech. Also, I do not own any VR systems or have any current plans to buy one. I was just surprised at …

-Early adopters take considerable risk when buying new hardware. If the market ends up crowning a different system king, your options are: Accept that objectively/subjectively supe…

I think your argument is a great defense for whichever VR company ultimately secures a near-monopoly on this market. “Your Honor, my company is really just a fancy monitor company.…

Content has almost always sold hardware in the video game industry. Look at all of the exclusive content for Nintendo consoles. Or how many people bought XBox's for the sole purpos…

Perhaps Apple should consider restructuring in a way similar to Alphabet. Take big risks within individually branded subsidiaries. If a subsidiary startup-like company fails, it di…

Making the claim "Radioactivity is good for them." without any additional qualification seems irresponsible. One might similarly claim that eating fried chicken and bacon everyday …

You're right, mostly. Considerably more data has been obtained from the fields of radiation oncology and medical physics about the effects of radiation on the body in the time sinc…

Radiation therapy treatments are almost always fractionated, meaning the total dose prescribed by the radiation oncologist is spread fairly evenly across multiple days, typically 2…

I'm guessing this partially depends on region, and is of course partially dependent on both, but what is the primary factor limiting the lifespan of road surfaces: usage or weather…

What Houston lacks in zoning laws, it makes up for with many, if not most, neighborhoods being "deed restricted" communities. For residents, this is effectively the same as zoning.…

I know this isn't the point of the article, but did anyone else LOL at the bottom of page 3 when the difference of 10^100 - (ninety nine 9's) was given as 1? The author seems proud…