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Creating a blinking background color effect in CSS can be achieved using keyframes and animation
Creating a blinking background color effect in CSS can be achieved using keyframes and animations. Here’s a simple example of how you can make a background color blink: HTML: htmlCopy… Read more !
Troubleshooting Missing Background Color in PDFs When Increasing Page Size in MS Word 2010: Seeking a Solution
The issue you’re facing with Microsoft Word 2010 where half of the background color is missing when saving a document as a PDF may be related to the page size… Read more !
Dropping Dark Matter
Dark matter is mysterious stuff. Scientists don’t really know much about it at all, other than the fact that there seems to be a lot of it in the universe.… Read more !
PASER schmazer
You know what a laser is of course. The term stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emmission of Radiation. You may not know that they were based on principles developed… Read more !
My 2006 Physics Nobel Prize Prediction
The chances are slim that I am going to get this right. But if I do I can brag to everyone who will listen. If I’m wrong no one will… Read more !
Why is Physical Review E the Most Fun Physics Journal Ever?
Because PRE (one of several scholarly journals coming out of the American Physical Society) publishes papers like the one covered in this Fox News story and this CNN/Money story about… Read more !
Xtreme Physics
Snowboard/skating phenom Shaun White lets writer Jeanna Brynner use him to illustrate the physics of x-treme sports. As a lifelong skater and snowboarder, I was a little suprised by this… Read more !
Political Science
Some scientists and engineers are getting political with the new organization called Scientists and Engineers for America. SEA’s mission statement says they are targeting “elections at all levels of government… Read more !
Squeezing Song from Sand
You can’t squeeze blood from a stone, but you can get sound out of sand dunes. Singing dunes often make sound on their own, as a result of spontaneously coordinated… Read more !
Trouble at the alma mater
I’m coming into this story a little late, (I’m catching up on my reading after being out of commission for over a month) but this story hit me especially hard… Read more !
Microwave Map of the Universe Wins 2006 Physics Nobel
I came to work early today to catch the Nobel Prize in Physics announcement. It went to John Mather and George Smoot for their work on the Cosmic Background Explorer… Read more !
Hubble Finds 16 New Planets
Check out the NASA press release about the 16 new planets that Hubble found. Or read the more concise Wikinews story by my friend mputney. Read more !