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Is Europe's oldest city in Bulgaria?
The "classic" study of the fertile crescent may be rewritten as they dig up Eastern Europe and the Crimea.
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The "parlour trick" behind the Nobel Prize:
The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a pair of scientists for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them....------------------------
"Single particles are not easily isolated from their surrounding environment, and they lose their mysterious quantum properties as soon as they interact with the outside world," the Nobel committee explained.
"Through their ingenious laboratory methods Haroche and Wineland, together with their research groups, have managed to measure and control very fragile quantum states, which were previously thought inaccessible for direct observation. The new methods allow them to examine, control and count the particles."
Happy Cephalopod Awareness Week!
- October 8 – Octopus Day, for all the eight-armed species
- October 9 – Nautilus Night, a time for all the lesser-known extant cephalopods
- October 10 – Squid Day/Cuttlefish Day, or Squittleday, covering the tentacular species
- October 11 – Kraken Day, for all the fantastical cephalopods of myth, movies, literature and legend. Cthulhu fthagn!
- October 12 – Fossil Day (to coincide with National Fossil Day), for all the incredible suckers that have gone extinct but left an impression with us.
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