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Credit where it’s due: why not nominate yourself or a colleague for an Institute of Physics award?

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And if the application process is off-putting or complex, there could be a bias towards nominations by people who know how to “play the game”. The Isaac Newton Medal and Prize and honorary fellowships are for individuals of any nationality.

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Web of confusion

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Teenagers are far more familiar with calories than joules in the context of food, but they were thrown into confusion by the bombshell that what people often call “calories” are actually kilocalories. “So Whatever the reason, Isaac Newton would surely be turning in his grave, if only he had access to the Internet.

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Guide to Mathematics

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Mathematics is described by various people as the only science that will ever prove anything, the only science capable of providing an absolute “yes” or “no” answer, and as the purest science. Arguably, most people should know more about statistics than they actually do. What is Mathematics? The History of Mathematics.

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Replicating how plants move

Physics World

“In the absence of any other proof,” Isaac Newton is once said to have proclaimed, “the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” That’s a problem when developing prosthetic hands for people who have lost an arm in, say, an accident or surgery. The post Replicating how plants move appeared first on Physics World.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

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This is the age of Copernicus who defined the heliocentric model of the Solar System, Johannes Kepler who set down laws determining how planetary bodies moved, Galileo whose astounding work in developing telescopes reinforced the Copernican view of the solar system, Isaac Newton who set down universal laws on motion and gravity.