Giant Garbage Patches Help Redefine Ocean Boundaries
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 2, 2014 – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of environmental concern between Hawaii and California where the ocean surface is marred […]
Reigning in Chaos in Particle Colliders Yields Big Results
WASHINGTON D.C., June 30, 2014 – When beams with trillions of particles go zipping around at near light speed, there’s bound to be some chaos. Limiting that […]
Is the Power Grid too Big?
WASHINGTON D.C., April 8, 2014 — Some 90 years ago, British polymath J.B.S. Haldane proposed that for every animal there is an optimal size — one which […]
How Twitter Shapes Public Opinion
WASHINGTON D.C., March 11, 2014 — How exactly does Twitter, with its 241 million users tweeting out 500 million messages daily, shape public opinion? That question was […]