Trilayer graphene exhibits quantum effect
Three could be the magic number for making spintronic devices from thin carbon sheets
When stacked like lasagna noodles, the thinnest material on the planet changes what it can do — and what those trying to make devices out of it might do [...]
A result of zero doesn’t always mean zero results
Forlorn graduate students sometimes turn to a publication called The Journal of Negative Results.* In graduate student mythology, it’s the repository for toiled-over experiments that produced nothing — no effects, no detections, no differences, [...]
UK company to build Sun satellite
Ralph Cordey from Astrium UK explains how the craft will be built to survive its mission to the Sun
British industry will lead the production of Solar Orbiter (SolO), a spacecraft that will travel closer to the Sun than any satellite to date.
SolO [...]
Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins chat God, politics in final interview
British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on 15 December 2011 at the age of 62.
Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication [...]
Richard Dawkins: Illness made Hitchens a symbol of the honesty and dignity of atheism
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011): Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, [...]
Evolution: Education and Outreach for free
Evolution: Education and Outreach — the new journal aspiring to promote accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — will be freely available through December 31, 2011, thanks to the generosity [...]
Ripples in one of Saturn’s rings
In this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft, the outer part of Saturn’s C Ring is shown at left, the inner part of the planet’s B Ring at right. Red lines indicate “dirty” particles, while the green and turquoise sections contain [...]
RNCSE 31:5 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce the fifth issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format. The issue — volume 31, number 5 — features Lorence G. Collins and Barbara J. Collins’s article “Pleistocene [...]
Congratulations to Mark Terry
Mark Terry and students
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Mark Terry on being named the 2011 recipient of the Evolution in Education Award. The award, sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the Biological Sciences Curriculum [...]
Ozone hits a new low
On the right is a view of the North Pole in the spring of 2011. At left is the same view, in 2010. Blue areas show low levels of ozone in the stratosphere. Credit: NASA
Scientists saw something missing in the skies over the North Pole this [...]
