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Nano-antennas could help keep quantum secretsSunday, March 14, 2010 @ 1:05PMNanorod arrays can guide light along the path toward quantum communication.

London Word Festival: School For Gifted ChildrenSunday, March 14, 2010 @ 10:20AM              If there's a comedy night that's smarter, funnier or more eclectic than Robin Ince's School for Gifted Children around at the moment, we can't think of it. A mixture of musicians, scientists and comedians, you always come away having not just been entertained, but edified too. All hail the London Word Festival then, for bringing Robin back to host a space special in the stunning St ...

Response: Scientists should stop deceiving usFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 2:56PMIn holding that the aim of science is truth alone, they misrepresent its real aims George Monbiot is surely right to bemoan the profoundly unsatisfactory state of affairs that exists between science and the public ( With complex science, we must take much on trust. The trouble is we can't , 9 March). Many members of the public instinctively and irrationally distrust, even fear, science. Thus ...

SA slips to No 4 in gold rankingsFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 5:37AMSouth African gold output has fallen nearly 6% in 2009, leaving it in fourth place in global stakes.

Shorter delusionals: “HeyThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 9:03PMIn reply to The ABC Of Climate Denial : Shorter delusionals: “Hey - don’t trust the authority of the scientists in the field, the Royal Society and Academy of the Sciences! They’re the authorities but you’re an independently gifted and talented Free Thinker! No, you should trust the authority of this delusional blowhard website I just happen to have handy here, CO2JunkScience’rUs.com!” And: “Of ...

There’s no accounting forThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 9:03PMIn reply to The ABC Of Climate Denial : There’s no accounting for religion. Rational processes are invalid with faith based-reasoning. “Carbon bad, solar good…” chant the Warmers, “Carbon bad, solar good…” Then the shuffling throng of vacant-eyed Warmers fall upon the despairing Rationalists whose final agonised realisation is that their careful wisdom has been cast as pearls before swine.

‘Brainwave’ fuses art, science, philosophyThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 2:09PMOne of the more innovative — and certainly the most esoteric — public program series in the city has got to be “Brainwave.”

Researchers identify immune cells that fight parasites may promote allergies and asthmaThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 12:43PMMillions of people in both the developing and developed world may benefit from new immune-system research findings from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

Largest physics meeting of the year convenesThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 10:19AM( American Institute of Physics ) The March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) -- the largest physics meeting of the year -- will take place from March 15-19, 2010 in Portland, Ore., at the Oregon Convention Center and the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower Hotel.