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Friday, November 19, 2010

Older but Not Wiser? The Psychology Behind Seniors' Susceptibility to Scams: Scientific American

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  • Centauri Dreams
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  • Recent Articles in Phys. Rev. Lett.
    Efficient Simulation of Parametrized Quantum Circuits under Nonunital Noise through Pauli Backpropagation - Author(s): Victor Martinez, Armando Angrisani, Ekaterina Pankovets, Omar Fawzi, and Daniel Stilck França As quantum devices continue to grow in size but re...
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  • physics.soc-ph updates on arXiv.org
    Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence - arXiv:2506.20676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gen...
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  • Backreaction
    That’s Big: Natural Hydrogen Could Power World for 100,000 Years, Survey Finds - Hydrogen is the perfect fuel in some aspects – it burns cleanly and is efficient – but unfortunately it’s currently mostly produced from fossil fuels, whic...
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  • The Reference Frame
    AdSense became unusable - For several months, I have been getting direct censorship requests from Google AdSense. In recent days, the frequency increased to "several articles to be ...
    3 years ago
  • Physics Today magazine
    Exotic forms of silicon - Physics Today, Volume 69, Issue 12, Page 34-39, December 2016.
    8 years ago
  • Astronomy Blog
    First astronaut to run a marathon in space - Despite what several major-media organisations may have reported in recent months, the first astronaut to run a marathon in space was Sunita Williams. She ...
    9 years ago
  • New Journal of Physics latest papers
    Segregation and periodic mixing in a fluidized bidisperse suspension - Author(s): A Deboeuf, G Gauthier, J Martin and D Salin Affiliation(s): Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, UMR 7608, Lab. FAST, Bat. 502, Ca...
    13 years ago
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