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...study by Philip Sadler, director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...Museum directors from around the world will attend, including directors from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the Louvre in Paris, as well as museums in Japan and New Zealand...
...earth revolves in such a way as to make the stars apparently revolve around Polaris from East to West over the course of a night," Kraig G. Salvesen '01 writes in an e-mail. "It is another thing to camp out with friends on the roof of the Smithsonian Center playing the guitar and actually watch it happen...
Both groups, one at Harvard's physics department and the private Rowland Institute for Science and the other at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took advantage of the fact that a beam of light can transform matter--a cloud of rubidium atoms in one case, supercooled sodium in the other--from ordinary opaqueness into temporary transparency. Having done that, they shone a second light on the clouds, and then turned the first...
...idea of quantum information is in its infancy," said David F. Phillips, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and co-author of one of one of the studies. "We hope for wonderful things. Our imagination hasn't figured out what the possibilities...