Welcome back! This week has seen our index get topped with free Mac apps, some better than others. As usual, I've made three freeware picks which, hopefully, readers will find just as useful and fun as I have. Two of the apps are games, just in case you needed a boost to continue scrolling down. One of them doe... |
5 April 2009
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Three prestigious authors, two great books, one important goal. The books that should be out by January next year address the uncomfortable matters of the atomic bomb – its spreading, the involved politics, nuclear proliferation and the like – and warn once again about the dangerous course the nuclear eff... |
10 December 2008
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This Monday, the first meeting of the Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament took place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Sydney, Australia. Gareth Evans, the co-chair of the commission, former Australian foreign minister between 1988 and 1996, and President of the International Crisis Group at Brusse... |
22 October 2008
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Radioactive batteries, also known as atomic batteries, are electricity storage devices which use the charged particle emissions from a radioactive isotope to directly generate electricity. Recently, this old idea has been reinvented by, who else, DARPA (Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency), in search of new hi... |
9 July 2007
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On August 6, 1945, a uranium-based weapon, "Little Boy", was released over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a plutonium-based weapon, "Fat Man", was dropped onto the city of Nagasaki. They were the first (and only) nuclear attacks in history.Officially, the first nuclear test - code-named "Trinity" -... |
11 June 2007
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Have you ever wondered how do you know exactly what time it is?I know, you looked at your watch, but when you first bought it? From the news or the Internet, right? And where do they get it from?NIST-F1 is a cesium fountain atomic clock that serves as the United States' primary time and frequency standard and i... |
5 April 2007
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In modern physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible for electromagnetic phenomena. It mediates electromagnetic interactions and makes up all forms of light. The photon has zero invariant mass and travels at the constant speed "c", the speed of light in empty space. However, in the presence of matter... |
3 April 2007
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