News Definition and 232 Threads

This is an open discussion for people to voice their thoughts on things which just make no sense to them. And for others to possibly elucidate for them to help them understand. I'll open with this: Touch screens in cars. Who decided that this was a good idea? Particularly when the touch screen...

There's a news report shown on Yahoo! of community college course credits not accepted for transfer-students to the CSU system schools. (These are schools in California.) https://www.yahoo.com/news/waste-time-community-college-transfers-043010995.html("Other" picked because not sure this...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-IBT-By-Default-Tip IBT is part to Control Flow Integrity strategy/standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow_integrity

A non-technical opinion piece that claims there are many fatal and near-fatal events, ~23000 total, in the US every year -- with regard to supplement consumption/abuse. Additionally, it explains US labeling requirements and available remediation for problems related to supplement usage. Which...

Hi everyone! I was wondering if any of you here on PF have heard any news related to the US federal science budget (whether through the NSF, the DOE, etc.). I was curious to see what are some of the research areas that the Biden administration would be promoting, as I haven't heard any news or...

Hello people of physicsforums. Has anyone proved these problems in number theory :Riemann hypothesis, Goldbach conjecture, twin primes conjecture, infinitude of prime numbers? If you want make discussion about them. Thank you for allowing me participate in physicsforums and for wanting to make...

If this pans out, it would be nice. I had read FB founder Mark Zuckerberg bought one of these chambers for his wife, but can find nothing about it now, only that Justin Bieber sleeps in one. :rolleyes: https://www.yahoo.com/news/human-ageing-process-biologically-reversed-153921785.html

Here is the most recent one:

A clutch of juvenile Brontosaurus has been spotted on the beaches of Isla Nublar near Costa Rica.

Here is the BBC article, I've read today. Conclusion from the original study: This sounds really alarming to me.

In a recent Scientific American blog article, it was revealed that prions can be transmitted via optical testing equipment and via sterilized surgical equipment: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/the-case-for-transmissible-alzheimers-grows/

The first perihelion of Parker was a while ago now and some data has, apparently, been sent back and presented. But I can't find any information about the data. Does anyone have a link where I can find out some more details about this first-in-history project results?

No, joke, I really dreamt somebody has solved the NP=P problem these days. Well, as I didn't dream of the proof, it probably won't matter that I don't remember the outcome. But I never had expected help from this side: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180396

Stan Lee passed away today. Rest in Peace and thanks for all the great comics.

Hello, Thank you for opening this thread. I am strongly interested in the universe, especially black hole. Though I am only eighteen years old, the more I read books about a black hole, the more my interest is getting powerful. Therefore, I want to know the latest and exciting news about...

Anyone else seen lots of recent news articles on this? Is it as scary as some portray?

This is a place to put your silly news from your daily paper. Today in the Daily Express: Nursery school children as young as three are being give controversial new books which teach them to question whether they are male or female. The toddlers are being exposed to characters who are unsure...

All life on Earth stores its genetic information in DNA using just four nucleotide letters: A, T, C, and G. Research published this week in the journal Nature describes how scientists engineered a bacterium to incorporate two new letters into their DNA (which they call X and Y, pictured below)...

I usually read science section in Google news and it's really irritating how lately any time someone "predicts" the world will end they put it on top. But now they really seem to hit the rock bottom. Here's a screenshot and you can see first news is again about "end of the world" although this...

Do you know of any good websites like MIT News or Scientific American where the cutting edge research is shared in as simple way that a high school student can understand?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin Lots of important lessons here, for scientists, teachers, and the general public who consumes and often makes personal decisions based on science news.

Might I suggest using this thread to post links to and/or summaries to real Science news? I am aware need feeds have become flooded with fake scientific discoveries or those that have been taken out of context.

...they land on April 1st. Merry confusion ensues.

Mostly PhysicsForums is about . . . well, physics and its sub-specialities, plus math and so forth. However we have a fair number of threads concerning the role of scientists, science, and critical thinking in a democracy where expertise is unevenly spread, unevenly valued, and often questioned...

This is old news by now, but having just visited the Christian Science Monitor's rather sparse online site, I thought I would browse their science section, which is even sparser; and came across this story from 2016 about the time that EurekAlert! was hacked. The interesting point to the story...

I don't ever remember anything like this happening. The Whitehouse pushed to get clearance for Breitbart the other day by kicking out CNN and The New York Times, The Associated Press and The Times both boycotted the affair according to sources, which I can't use because it is a political blog...

Who is Nils Bildt? Could Fox News be that irresponsible? Does an "independent analyst" -- a title anybody could claim -- really qualify him as ”Swedish defense and national security advisor”...

Hello PF, I built a small application which I figured some users here may be interested in. The app aggregates news and events in the space industry, allows you to view launch schedules, track the space station, and more. It's called Luna and an early version is available on the Play Store...

ZapperZ submitted a new PF Insights post Fake News and Science Reporting Continue reading the Original PF Insights Post.

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/23/npr-tracked-down-a-fake-news-creator-in-the-suburbs-heres-what-they-learned/ I'm thinking the financial part is about 99.99% of it.

I want to subscribe to a reputable news source (even if I have to pay). I want a news source that has not abandoned journalistic integrity. I'll still keep my current sources of news (Yahoo!, Google news, NPR, BBC, etc.) but I am now -- out of principle if for no other reason -- feeling like I...

I'm a student at Purdue University Northwest and we recently started a Nuclear Physics program and I want to help get the news out but I don't know how. Currently I am the only student in the program, but we are trying to grow it. My professor for all things Nuclear is talking to the ANS...

Hello. So the last few days there have been articles about how our universe may now contain around 2 trillion galaxies, up from 100-200 billion galaxies that was previously determined. But unfortunately I can't make complete sense of the articles I've read, including the one on NASA's site...

http://www.pppl.gov/news/2016/09/pppl-director-stewart-prager-steps-down It appears that Stuart Prager is “stepping down” as director of PPPL. I wish him well. But in the announcement it refers to a “recent technical setback in the NSTX-U facility”. I had not heard previously of this set...

Normally when I cite something, it's to an article I consider credible, but this one is not: http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a22996/china-quantum-stealth-radar/ The specific assertion in question is this paragraph: The article also asserts that Lockheed has patented this...

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/black-white-pay-gap-climbing-due-to-discrimination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V774104 "The discovery was announced at the November 2015". "No astrometry has been submitted to the Minor Planet Center, so there are no publicly known orbital elements". Hmm. This is an interesting object, one of the most distant, possibly only the third-ever...

I often post news fails because the media annoys me, so I think I'll start collecting them into one thread. Here's a doozy I saw today on CNN.com : Here's how this happens: Step 1: Two interesting stories about the Airbus A380 happen in 24 hours, which lends itself to a cluster format, with...

I'm always finding weird things in the news and thought it might be fun if we all shared odd stories we came across. Please feel free to post odd, funny or unusual stories in this thread. Turns out that Zoobyshoe beat me in posting about this in another thread, so he will officially be known...

Hi everyone. I'm not sure if this should fall under Biology and Medical, or under some other science category, but I found the following news link from the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) website, about analysis by physicist and complex systems researcher David Wolpert, which suggest that imprecise...

Let's say you invented something, who would you contact to make it public? Such as appear on yahoo news, or in science news articles? I've been working on a pretty cool robot for several years now and was just thinking that it would be pretty cool if it was shared on news websites. Is it even...

Cool article I thought I'd share http://www.newswise.com/articles/the-hottest-job-in-physics

Peculiar behavior of Bose Einstein Condensates known as Bosenova is known for about 15 years. Any new developments? Can physicists account now for "missing atoms"? Is it a simply collapse & rebound, the latter due perhaps due to disturbances resulting in loss of bosonic structure of collapsing...

I just saw the following news and thought this could have quite an impact on our current models and views of the Universe: The GRBs that make up the newly discovered ring were observed using a variety of space- and ground-based observatories (the sample is listed in the Gamma Ray Burst Online...

Sorry, I know this is probably the wrong place to ask this question, but where in this forum can we start threads to share and discuss random physics and math news?

Hello PF - I do not recall seeing this posted before, but they are working to develop a Tesla museum on Long Island - here is the latest news. Graphic is the link...

A new analysis suggests that the orbit of the possible planet around Alpha Centauri B is oriented in such a way that the planet is only 1 to 3 times as massive as Earth. Link: Science.

Bob Simon of CBS News dead at 73 in New York City car crash http://news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-correspondent-bob-simon-killed-york-city-025008055.html What a loss! My condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

Hi everyone, I was watching a TV programme the other day, where they talked about an Italian physicist, Ettore Majorana, who disappeared in 1938: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Majorana Apparently they've recently found evidence that he lived in Venezuela in the 50's, and that his...