How Prohibition Works
The alcohol prohibition of the 1920s was known at the time as ‘the noble experiment.’ Check out this podcast from HowStuffWorks to learn more about this constitutional amendment banning the sale and...
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Earth’s center is 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought, synchrotron...
The temperature near Earth’s center is 6,000 degrees Celsius, 1,000 degrees more than given in an experiment 20 years ago. This experiment with synchrotron X-rays confirms geophysical models that...
View ArticleThe Earth’s center is 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought
Scientists have determined the temperature near the Earth’s centre to be 6000 degrees Celsius, 1000 degrees hotter than in a previous experiment run 20 years ago. These measurements confirm geophysical...
View ArticleNASA, University of Iowa ground measurement campaign to improve flood...
Ground data now being collected in northeastern Iowa by the Iowa Flood Studies experiment will evaluate how well NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission satellite rainfall data can be...
View ArticleHeaven on Earth: the Brook Farm Community
In the 1840s, Boston’s West Roxbury suburb — which was completely rural at the time — was home to an experiment in transcendentalist utopian living: the Brook Farm community. The idea was to create an...
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Success for One of the World’s Longest-Running Experiments at Trinity College...
Almost 70 years after the experiment was set up by a colleague of Ernest Walton, William Goodbody, an experiment at TCD has finally produced some definitive results. The aim of the experiment was to...
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