Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City. Desert cities are notorious water-guzzlers, but could Phoenix break free from its brown reputation?
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City. Scientific evidence that you probably don’t have free will. Giving an old bee a youngster's job causes brain rejuvenation. Right?
I have a terrible, uneducated, sneaking suspicion that the media are confusing the reappearance in old bees of proteins normally found in young bees to the arrival of 'brain rejuvenation' processes. Low-Tech Geohacking Methods that Changed The World. The world's biggest, oldest impact crater hollowed out Greenland three billion years ago. Scientists Invent Mind-Reading System That Lets You Type With Your Brain. Modelling behaviour: Game theory in practice. What It's Like to Judge the Turing Test. Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space? Where Are My Medical Nanobots? Why Eating When You’re Depressed Makes You Eat More. Your Gut Beats Your Brains in Shady Transactions. The fine line between replicating cells and cancer, explained. Ah, that is a totally different kind of animal (pardon the pun).
I don't see a distinction, however, between transmitting a disease vector from a person carrying the virus to another host, and the disease being transmissible. It is similar to a tuberculosis patient transmitting the bacterium from one person to the next; they may have no symptoms - no coughing, fatigue, fever, fluid on the lungs, etc. (analagous to a person who carries cancer-causing virus, but having no warts or tumors) to another person: The distinct cause of the disease is the TB bacteria (HPV virus). We make little distinction between being infected by other disease viruses (cold, influenza, HIV) and the condition; why are we still treating HPV and other cancer-causing viruses and the cancer itself? Does a galaxy filled with habitable planets mean humanity is doomed? Scientists use 'molecular sex' to create first genetically evolved semiconductor parts. The Humans With Super Human Vision. An average human, utterly unremarkable in every way, can perceive a million different colors.
Vermilion, puce, cerulean, periwinkle, chartreuse—we have thousands of words for them, but mere language can never capture our extraordinary range of hues. Our powers of color vision derive from cells in our eyes called cones, three types in all, each triggered by different wavelengths of light. Every moment our eyes are open, those three flavors of cone fire off messages to the brain. The brain then combines the signals to produce the sensation we call color. Studying the Brain Can Help Us Understand Our Unscientific Beliefs. Editors’ Note: Portions of this post appeared in similar form in a December, 2009, piece by Jonah Lehrer for Wired magazine.
We regret the duplication of material. Last week, Gallup announced the results of their latest survey on Americans and evolution. The numbers were a stark blow to high-school science teachers everywhere: forty-six per cent of adults said they believed that “God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years.” South African Student Invents Waterless Bathing. Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? Groundbreaking rat experiment offers new hope for paralyzed humans. Supervolcanoes can erupt with pretty much zero warning. Is what your saying similar to The knowing?
"Knowing", starring Nicolas Cage. Came out 4 years ago or so. Yeah but it sucked and had NO coherent plot ideas, so there is definitely room for more entries in this area. Interesting idea, I kinda like it. Egyptian Teenager Creates Next Generation Quantum Space Propulsion System. An Egyptain teenager has patented a next-generation propulsion system that could send spacecraft to other solar systems—without using a single drop of fuel.
While it is not quite warp-drive technology, young physicist Aisha Mustafa’s system is based on quantum physics and could see mankind boldly go where no man has gone before. The 19-year-old is further proof that young minds produce fresh new ideas. Is Extraterrestrial Life More a Dream Than a Real Possibility? Biomimicry. Biomimicry or biomimetics is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.[1] The terms biomimicry and biomimetics come from the Greek words bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate.
A closely related field is bionics.[2] Over the last 3.6 billion years,[3] nature has gone through a process of trial and error to refine the living organisms, processes, and materials on Earth. The emerging field of biomimetics has given rise to new technologies created from biologically inspired engineering at both the macro scale and nanoscale levels. Biomimetics is not a new idea.
Humans have been looking at nature for answers to both complex and simple problems throughout our existence. History[edit] Researchers claim quantum breakthrough › News in Science (ABC Science) News in Science Thursday, 26 April 2012 Connor Duffy and staffABC Giant leap Researchers say they have designed a tiny crystal that acts like a quantum computer so powerful it would take a computer the size of the known universe to match it.
Details of the crystal, which is made up of just 300 atoms, are published today in the journal Nature. "Quantum computing is a kind of information science that is based on the notion that if one performs computations in a fundamentally different way than the way your classical desktop computer works," says study co-author University of Sydney's Dr Michael Biercuk.
"There's a huge potential to solve a variety of problems that are very, very hard or near impossible for standard computer. " Earth-Sun Distance. How Far Away is the Sun?
Astronomers determined the size and shape of our galaxy and measured distances to other stars using the “parallax method” (and eventually other methods using the star’s light spectrum). Unfortunately, these methods do little to help us find out the exact distance to our very own star, the Sun. Glowing Nebula's Clouds Look Like Giant Human Face in New Photo. The wispy clouds of a distant nebula bursting with newborn stars take on an eerie face-like shape sculpted by stellar winds in a new photo snapped by a telescope in Chile. The hotbed of star birth, called NGC 3324, is full of hot young stars, whose ultraviolet radiation is making the gas clouds glow. The Mind and other Dangerous Things. Google Search 3T. Rocketry. The 10 Books You Absolutely Must Read to Understand the History of Earth. What unit of measurement is now exactly 149,597,870,700 meters? Pink Tentacle.
"Science proves ideas," and other misinterpretations of the scientific process. Medicine. Biology. Evolution. Genetics. Military Hardware. Computing/Misc. Technology. Neuroscience/Psychology. Mathematics. Earth Systems. Climate. Oceans. Sharks & Rays. Watching this scientist sample lava from an active volcano will make your heart race. Future - Science & Environment - Global resources stock check. Chemistry. Physics. Space. Space.com. 30 years of Space Shuttle history.
10 Amazing Naturally Occurring Phenomena You Need To See To Believe. Everest Deaths in 2012. 12 bizarre real-life places that are stranger than science fiction. Science fiction is home to some fantastic societies, from Cloud City to Bartertown. World's tallest tower opens in Tokyo. The vast, abandoned salt mines that lurk beneath Detroit. 15 images of not so secret secret service buildings. A women's asylum rots on an abandoned New York island.
The Creepiest Haunted House in Silicon Valley. World's largest outdoor pool. 10 Amazing Real-World Locations for Fantasy Worldbuilding. Ten gemstones that are rarer than diamond.