News Definition and 208 Threads

Anyone who tunes into CNN from to time as I do couldn't avoid noticing that they covered nothing but the downed flight 370 story all day, every day, for most of a month. I kept wondering what in the world they were doing. How much talk of pingers and pinger locators can a person really watch...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/frank-baker-spontaneous-combustion_n_4024833.html Frank Baker faced death while earning two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, but the scariest moment of his life came in June 1995. Baker was in his home in Vermont, when he suddenly burst into flames, an...

I'm pretty sure we've had this topic before but it's been a while. I read BBC News, The Economist (my favorite, but it limits access :mad:), CNN, NBC, New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Al-Jazeera, The Week. I used to look at my regional paper, The Seattle Times, but like so many...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used the NIF ( National Ignition Facility ) laser to reach encouraging progress toward ignition From "The Independent" newpaper serving Livermore: http://www.independentnews.com/news/article_792110c0-2c5b-11e3-846e-001a4bcf887a.html...

I don't know if this has already been posted. This article is about a possible proof of the twin prime conjecture. This is a breakthrough in the field of Number Theory. First proof that infinitely many prime numbers come in pairs : Nature News & Comment

Interesting news on Dark Matter, I had no idea this experiment was being carried out: http://news.yahoo.com/hints-dark-matter-possibly-seen-190603469.html

Now that I think about it, I haven't seen the news for like 6 months, they are just too boring. Before that, I only saw the news summary at the opening of the newscast. I wish there could be a place you could read the news of one month in half an hour or less, a super news summary..

My knowledge of good physics news websites is lacking. As of now, I regularly check PF, physicsworld.com, scientific american and NSF but that is it. What I am looking for is a website which basically sorts through publications for me and shows the most interesting physics/math publications...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21603490 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21608742

It is a news story that has been grumbling on for over a decade here in the UK, but as I write this, Abu Hamza is in the air, on his way to stand trial on terrorism charges in the USA. Are you aware of this particular bundle of malevolence in the USA? Has there been any mention at all in the...

BBC NEws Story "refuting" HUP http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19489385 I did a double take when I read this, can someone please explain what it's all about?

http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-ridiculous-things-people-believe-about-god-particle/ I found this accurate and amusing.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/latest-higgs-rumors/ been seeing several recent articles regarding this article this is one of the more recent ones thought you all would be intersted in it

This paper is getting splashed all over the science news heres the arxiv version: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.1035.pdf heres the Physics world version: http://phys.org/news/2012-06-neutrons-parallel-world.html They seem to be claiming 5 sigma , any thoughts? Less prosaic explantions?

Per wikipedia's article on wilting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilting :confused: Edited the article. The article before the revision can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilting&oldid=497326200

CNN has dropped to a new low in terms of very bad science news reporting. This news report is so bad, and has so many factual errors in it, one simply should not pay any attention to it completely. http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/07/sharp-as-a-laser/ Note that even the topic is...

I know that we don't know what dark matter is but according to observations, dark matter is there. I also knew that the reason why we know dark matter is there is because the universe is supposed to slowly become more compact, but the reality is that its doing the exact opposite, its expanding...

It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame...

When choosing a graduate program, how much weight should be given to its US News ranking? I've been accepted to two schools which fall within the top 10 for general math, but for my particular subarea in math, one of them ranks about 15 spots ahead of the other. Do people actually care about...

There seem to be a number of news stories coming out about the possibility of an imminent find of the Higgs Boson @ 125-126GeV: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16074411 So what if the elusive Higgs Boson is finally found? Could this somehow enable us to conquer and manipulate...

Lamest News Article ever... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8858355/E-readers-get-heavier-with-each-book.html Why do they suddenly seem so desperate for space-fillers?

I don't think anyone can explain it, but does anyone know what is up with this news about neurtinos going faster than the spead of light? I can feal all of physics crumbling around me whenever I think about it!

"Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC" - 22nd Sept News Article?! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484 Came here to get some further information and I can't find a thread. If there already is one about this, sorry I should delete it. Very interesting...

Don't remember seeing this. Does NASA do September fools jokes? I cannot imagine anything so CGI being for real.

This may seem like a naive question to some people. I had always heard that Lqg can easily incorporate supersymmetry---that if there were any evidence of it, putting it into the theory would be straightforward. This goes way back, to papers I read in 2003-2005. Not sure exactly which, but it...

Are there any news regarding twistor theory? The original ideas by Penrose to replace spacetime by its "dual lightcones" always fascinated me, but it seems the whole program is stuck. What are the reasons? Is there any progress and relation to recent progress in other QG approaches? Tom

"Nothing new under the sun"? Dark Energy Is Driving Universe Apart: NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Finds Dark Energy Repulsive (Purists can freak about dark energy being represented separately, and apparently flat, from spacetime in the accompanying diagram. )...

Does anyone know what paper this news article is referring to? http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/05/19/science-dark-energy-einstein-blake.html I'm thinking it must be this one, http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2862 but what the paper is saying and the way the article is...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13029210 I am confused about this whole Icesave deal. They lost money and then carried out a referendum few months ago to decide if they should repay UK and Netherlands? I see their behavior irresponsible.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/21/libya.robertson.report/index.html?iref=NS1 Adorable... you'd think that's the kind of detail even propogandists wouldn't overlook.

Do news organizations proof read?? So I just noticed this article pop up on google for my city's news section. http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/02/16/2276007/county-ponders-cuts-to-close-31.html However, unless they change it by the time you read this thread, the headline currently says "County...

Is there any LHC News Well the LHC has been running at 7TeV for 6 months now and everything seems very quite, is it still too early to hear of discoveries? I have searched the LHC site and the web but there nothing out there. I presume that Higgs has not been found?

Guys, I need to write journal articles for a Bio course. But I need Bio science articles to write the journals on. Do you know any sites with good recent (2011) articles?

Is this for real, no misunderstanding or misinterpreting what was actually said? Yes I know this was from 1999, but I'd still like to know if that huge dollar figure was accurate.

Sometime ago I read about a cognitive bias by which people tend to think that reality is what they see/read in the news. I don't remember the name of this bias and was wondering if anyone could help find it or a similar one. Thanks.

does anyone know what are the most recent developments and breakthroughs on m theory...i don't seem to find anything big since holographic principle few years ago. if there haven't been any big breakthroughs than what are the topics that are being studied right now? does anyone know any...

The LGM hunters have something to say! http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

Pay attention on Thursday at 2pm ET! http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

Is Fox News "Fair and Balanced"? (different than last poll!) Relative to other news programs, how would you rate Fox News?

"News" for entertainment Over the last few years, a number of discussions have brought the following to light. While it is no secret that many or most alleged news agencies have discovered that entertainment is far more profitable than good reporting, what I didn't realize is that, based on my...

Trying to get a link that works. http://news.google.com/?hl=en-GB Qantas grounds A380s after engine blast The Australian - Steve Creedy, Peter Alford - ‎1 hour ago‎ Firefighters surround the Qantas superjumbo after it made an emergency landing at Changi airport in Singapore following an...

Good news, No -- Bad news, Yes I have some good news and some bad news, http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/study+says+people+hesitant+believe+good+news+from+scientists/3483984/story.html . Obviously it is good news that bad news is generally believed. Obviously that makes it only one way...

Local "news"? Sometimes I think all local news is for is telling us what the weather will be like and what's going on at elementary schools. So far I swear they went on for 5 minutes about how the air conditioning went off at an elementary school for 2 whole days! WHO CARES?!??! I'm just...

Swedish news anchor Leif Näslund takes a much needed break from the tiresome reading of news: http://www.vgtv.no/?id=31363&category=1

To all, Yesterday mid morning my Mom had a heart attack at home in Grand Junction, Colorado. Fortunately her close neighbor was there to call 911 who responded immediately. Unfortunately it was so massive there was nothing that could have saved her. I have since spoken to the neighbor...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/In-FaultyComputer-Suit-Window-nytimes-2375403564.html?x=0 I'm a bit of a computer nerd. I often fix/build/take apart computers on a regular basis. It always irritates me when some who knows nothing about PCs tells me how awesome their Dell computer is and how I'm...

Voyager 2 Hijacked!(on news) How is this possible? is this real http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7722455/Aliens-hijack-Nasas-Voyager-2- spacecraft -claims-expert.html

I'm curious, what do you PF'ers prefer when it comes to staying up to date with science news? I.e what websites and/or subscriptions do you recommend? Currently I check physorg, sciencenews.org, and sciencedaily.

Trying to get some background for a potential news article about engineering challenges for aircraft fluid (primarily fuel and avionics cooling) systems – focusing on contrasts between designing for UAVs vs. manned aircraft. Engineers I already talked with have mentioned: designing...

Dateline March 31, 2010 Once again, the popular press serves up a pig's breakfast: From Reuters: CERN goes back to the beginning [headline] Physicists smashed subatomic particles into each other with record energy yesterday, creating thousands of mini-Big Bangs like the primeval...