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The Science Behind Foldit | Foldit | more learning | Scoop.it
"Abstract This qualitative phenomenological study involving in-depth interviews with seven educators in K-12 and higher education examines the role that the microblogging service Twitter plays in the formation and development of Personal Learning Networks (PLN) among educators.
Perception of Science: in popular culture vs. actual science - Lounge of the Universe Cafe
a carbon-based biped sharing fragments from both virtual and physical world.
NextNature.net – Exploring the Nature caused by People.
Just like corn, bananas , and essentially any other plant we cultivate, the Cutie mandarin is the result of a concerted effort to produce an ideal food. Mandarin oranges come from wild orange trees that grew in India, possibly as long as three millennia ago. Introduced to the West in the 19th century, the mandarin has since been carefully bred, even irradiated , to bring tasty new mutations to market. The Cutie’s peel comes off like zipper.
We may not realize it, but each one of us is a walking ecosystem. Minuscule, eight-legged Demodex mites nestle head down inside the follicles of the eyelashes, feasting unnoticed on skin cells. Microscopic bacteria live on the tongue, teeth, and skin and in the intestine * .
Your Body Is a Planet | Infectious Diseases | DISCOVER Magazine
Babies with three parents possible within three years - Telegraph
It came as the Department of Health ordered a public consultation on whether the technology should be moved from the lab to patients, which will be followed by a Commons debate on the ethics of the issue. The Health Secretary has the power to lift the regulations and if both the scientific and political criteria are satisfied, the therapy could be trialled in humans within two to three years.
Infrared Image Shows Helix Nebula in Fresh Light | Wired Science | Wired.com
The nearby Helix nebula just received the piercing infrared gaze of a giant telescope in Chile, and the resulting image reveals cold gas normally hidden among warmer star-lit material.Learn.Genetics™
DNA is extracted from human cells for a variety of reasons. With a pure sample of DNA you can test a newborn for a genetic disease, analyze forensic evidence, or study a gene involved in cancer. Try this virtual laboratory to perform a cheek swab and extract DNA from human cells. PCR is a relatively simple and inexpensive tool that you can use to focus in on a segment of DNA and copy it billions of times over. PCR is used every day to diagnose diseases, identify bacteria and viruses, match criminals to crime scenes, and in many other ways.
“The pattern, and it alone, brings into being and causes to pass away and confers purpose, that is to say, value and meaning, on all there is.
‘To understand is to perceive patterns’ ... - Lapidarium notes
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Mimicking the brain, in silicon - MIT News Office
For decades, scientists have dreamed of building computer systems that could replicate the human brain’s talent for learning new tasks.British scientists made the discovery while on an expedition to explore boiling undersea springs - which may be hotter than 450C - on the Caribbean seafloor. Some 5,000 metres down, in a rift in the seafloor, exists a volcanic spring known as a 'black smoker', which fires a jet of mineral-laden water more than a kilometre into the ocean above. Hot stuff: Thousands of the newly discovered species of shrimp mass around an oceanic geyser beneath the Cayman Islands, in temperatres in excess of 450C