X-Nico

unusual facts about scientific data



Panton Arms

It became more widely known in February 2010 when a group of scientists released the Panton Principles — a set of recommendations on how to license and label scientific data that have been made public — that they had drafted in the Panton Arms starting in June 2009.


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Atomic Weapons Establishment

AWE cooperates with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States and other American nuclear weapons laboratories in carrying out subcritical nuclear tests at the Nevada underground test site to obtain scientific data to maintain the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons.

Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens

Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens is a non-fiction book by historian Andrea Wulf that narrates international efforts to collect scientific data related to the transit of Venus in 1761 and 1769.

Davidson Seamount

Scientific data on the water currents and food availability of the seamount was collected, as was information on the age and growth patterns of the corals themselves.

Intention tremor

Cannabis has offered as an effective treatment for individuals with tremors, but the inclination to find conclusive scientific data on such a treatment has not existed in the medical community.

Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

MDIBL also maintains the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database, which curates scientific data describing relationships between chemicals, genes, and human diseases

Sigma 6

The SDS Sigma 6 computer, made by Scientific Data Systems (SDS), later known as Xerox Data Systems (XDS)

Smoking in the United States military

With the scientific data about the health risks of smoking and information about the effect of smoking on troop readiness, in 1975, the United States Department of Defense discontinued the inclusion of cigarettes in K-rations and C-rations.

Universal library

A similar idea was a planet called Memory Alpha, (from the Star Trek episode "The Lights of Zetar") which was the Federation's "storehouse of computer databases containing all cultural history and scientific data it has acquired.".