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I am a physicist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and I operate an X-ray measurement facility at the National Synchrotron Light Source. http://xafs.org/BruceRavel
What this author considers a novel, future direction for science is something that I call "going to work in the morning." The US Department of Energy operates many user facilities distributed around the country,…
> this algae seems to only help with one kind of isotope Not quite. This organism metabolizes one atomic species. (Actually, two, if you read the original paper, you'll see that this algae metabolizes barium much…
> He has no particular expertise whatsoever at deciding > whether project Y is more useful to society as a whole > than other possible uses of the money. In a democracy, > that decision is left up to our…