PNNL’s Kleese van Dam makes sense of the data landscape
On long walks in the desert near Richland, Wash., it’s easy for Kerstin Kleese van Dam to imagine the vast expanses of sagebrush and tumbleweeds as immeasurable points of data stretching to the horizon. It’s a notion with which she is familiar.
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Cooling trend could be on the way unless thwarted by greenhouse gasses. There's an old saying that if you don't like the weather in New Mexico, wait five minutes. Maybe it should be amended to 10,000 years, according to new research.
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Symmetry Magazine
Symmetry is a magazine about particle physics and its connections to other aspects of life and science
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