A short movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature. Go to etereaestudios.com if you are looking for more information: the theory behind the movie (Fibonacci, Golden Ratio, Delaunay, Voronoi…), stills and screenshots showing the work in progress. Music: "Often a Bird" by Wim Mertens.
The animation begins by presenting a series of numbers. This is a very famous and recognized sequence since many centuries ago in the Western World thanks to Leonardo of Pisa, a thirteenth century Italian mathematician, also called Fibonacci. So it is known as Fibonacci Sequence, even although it had been described much earlier by Indian mathematicians.
Another step towards a fair assessment of research projects comes again from the private sector: we are talking about the Cariplo Foundation. On the wake of Telethon, which opened the road by importing the peer-review system inspired by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and considered the best in the world, the merit-based and impartial model is taking place among private "funding agencies".
After 3 years of data taking in the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN with the OPERA detector at LNGS, and several months of analysis and checks, a really unexpected result has come out last week: the time of flight of CNGS neutrinos detected by OPERA appears to be shorter by 20 parts per million as compared to that of light. The researchers, after a careful scrutiny of statistical and systematical errors have decided to publicize this astonishing anomaly with a series of seminars and with a paper recently appeared on the archives. The goal
Where are they, how do they work, what experiments are the Gran Sasso underground laboratories conducting? An infographics prepared by the press office of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics takes visitors in the halls of the laboratories to discover Borexinus, Opera and other research projects hosted in one of the most fascinating physics laboratories in the world.
A simple explanation of Cloud Computing.
Space Shuttle is perhaps the most complex technological system ever
built. In 30 years, it has flown 135 times and helped humankind to
dispatch and partially even return many satellites and deep-space
probes, to build the International Space Station and to conduct
out-of-this-world science. The Shuttle has transported also 24 European
astronauts to Earth orbit on 25 missions.
This video highlights these flights with European flavour - from STS-9 in 1983 to STS-134 in last May.
