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At the Media Lab, a research scientist named Sharifa Alghowinem is researching personal robot technology that can explain emotions in both English and Arabic. Research science at the Personal Robotics Group (PRG) at the MIT Media Lab [more…]
Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Physics Department Lecturer Dr. Ali Övgün was an invited speaker at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Bilkent University on Monday, April 3, 2023. [more…]
On March 16, historian and writer Prof. Dr. Timothy Garton Ash will give a talk titled “Turkey in the History of the Present” via online link. The closing speech of the same day was “Turkey After 50 Years”. [more…]
Turkey had sacrificed an important scientist to a traffic 'accident' 18 years ago. Under the vehicle used by the unlicensed driver, Prof. Dr. Ordal Demokan was one of the rare physicists trained by Turkey. plasma in Turkey [more…]
The Dresselhaus Lecture series is named after Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus. Mildred Dresselhaus, whose work helped solve the mystery of carbon, the most basic of all living elements, earned her the title of "queen of carbon science". [more…]
Considering that Martha Gonzalez hardly ever went to college, we wouldn't believe what she did. A 1999 UCLA graduate, Gonzalez is now a prominent musician-activist, university lecturer, and feminist philosopher. Also in October 2022 [more…]
On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed in Tehran after being detained by the Guidance Patrol for wearing an “inappropriate” headscarf while traveling from Sakkez to Tehran, in violation of Iran's mandatory headscarf law. [more…]
Charles Bartholemew “Ben” Gascoigne AO (11 November 1915 – 25 March 2010) Anglo-Australian, Australia's largest optical telescope and once one of the world's most important astronomy facilities [more…]
Nazmi Arıkan, the famous educator and founder of the Science Courses, was killed. It was claimed that Arıkan's farm in Gallipoli was raided and he and his driver died in a knife attack. Speaking to Cumhuriyet on the subject, the Mayor of Gallipoli [more…]
The seventh Nagamori Award, given annually by Newswise by the Nagamori Foundation in Kyoto, Japan, goes to Burak Özpineci, Institutional Researcher and Head of Vehicle and Mobility Systems Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [more…]
China is tightening its grip on the use of genetic data collected from citizens, including in scientific research. According to the researchers, this method makes it difficult for scientists in the country to work with their international counterparts. China Science and Technology [more…]
Feryal Özel (born 27 May 1975), Turkish astrophysicist. His research interests are in black holes, neutron stars and theoretical astrophysics. His academic career took shape at US universities such as Columbia, Harvard and Princeton, and he worked in Geneva, Switzerland. [more…]
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko is a British naturalized Russian asylum seeker and former Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer specializing in the fight against organized crime. One of the leading critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, British [more…]
The Annus Mirabilis papers (Latin: annus mīrābilis; miracle year) are articles published by Albert Einstein in the scientific journal Annalen der Physik in 1905. These four articles contributed greatly to the foundation of modern physics. [more…]
Quantum's weirdness opens new doors for electron microscopes used in high-resolution imaging. These microscopes are being studied in the laboratory of University of Oregon Physicist Ben McMorran. Two new developments they have made [more…]
In 1682, Josiah Franklin and his wife immigrated to Boston from Northamptonshire, England. His wife died in Boston, leaving Josiah and their seven children alone, but not for long, Josiah Franklin later named Abiah Folger. [more…]
What I'm going to tell you now is what we tell physics students in their third or fourth year of graduate school. I will tell them. You think you'll understand too, do you? No, you will not understand anything. So why with all this stuff? [more…]
Orhan Veli Kanık (13 April 1914 – 14 November 1950), better known as Orhan Veli, was a Turkish poet. He is the founder of the innovative Garip movement together with Melih Cevdet and Oktay Rifat. [more…]
Dağdeviren was born on May 4, 1985 in Üsküdar, Istanbul, as the first child of a mother from Adana and a father from Sivas. He has two brothers named Caner and Emre. When he was 5 years old, his father [more…]
prof. Metin Sitti is the Director of the Department of Physical Intelligence at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, since 2014. Currently in assistant academic positions as well as professor in Zurich, Switzerland, Coach [more…]
He was born on December 28, 1950 in Erzincan. He has been serving as the rector of Koç University (KU) since 2009. Inan graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical Engineering in 1972. [more…]
Asım Orhan Barut was born on 24 June 1926 in Malatya. The productive life of Barut, which played a major role in the emergence of new groundbreaking ideas and inventions in the explanation of the symmetry properties of elementary particles, [more…]
John Forbes Nash Jr was born in 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, USA. As a child, chemistry and mathematics were among his favorite subjects. He went to college in the industrial city of Pittsburg. Chemical engineering when you first went to college [more…]
Behram Kurşunoğlu is originally from Aydıncık village of Bayburt's Merkez district. After completing his high school education in Trabzon, he studied at Ankara University and Edinburgh University in England, and then completed his doctorate in physics at Cambridge University in England. [more…]
The explosion of scientific activity that began with the discovery of the J/ψ particle in 1974 is known to particle physicists as the 'November revolution' because it radically changed their perspective. Attraction quarks, which are heavier than the quarks that make up protons and neutrons, [more…]
Marie Noëlle is the director of the film, which is about the struggle of the first female Nobel Prize-winning scientist to be recognized in the scientific community. Marie Curie is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. His achievements also earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [more…]
The formation of the Pauli exclusion principle in ultracold atomic gases was first detected by three independent research groups. The so-called Pauli blockade was first noticed 30 years ago. Pauli [more…]
Sophisticated mummification of the dead appears to have been done in ancient Egypt 1000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence that could lead to the rewriting of history books. High named Khuwy discovered in 2019 [more…]
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is one of the most famous scientists of all time, and his name has become almost synonymous with the word "genius". His reputation is due to his eccentric appearance and to philosophy, world politics, and other non-scientific subjects. [more…]
Oktay Sinanoğlu (25 February 1935, Bari – 19 April 2015, Miami, Florida), Turkish chemical engineer and academic. He has taught courses in chemistry, molecular biophysics, biochemistry and mathematics. Oktay was established in 1975 with a special law. [more…]
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