Giant crack in Africa formed in just days - environment - 04 November 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views
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Article on active rifting in Africa
Technology Review: Intelligence Explained - 1 views
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"Tracking and understanding the complex connections within the brain may finally reveal the neural secret of cognitive ability."
Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock? - life - 19 October 2009 - New Scientist - 3 views
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chemiosmosis - alternate and quite well explained possible origin of life
Child Abuse Raises Risk of Illness in Adulthood - 0 views
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"Child abuse has had a known association with increased risk for virtually all types of psychological and psychiatric problems - but a new evidence review suggests that it raises the risk of physical illness just as much."
Are you asleep? Exploring the mind's twilight zone - life - 07 October 2009 - New Scientist... - 1 views
World will 'cool for the next decade' - 09 September 2009 - New Scientist - 2 views
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Predictions by Mojib Latif that there may be a slow down in global warming over the next decade that could bely the overall trend.
The Great Beyond: Alzheimer's genes identified - 0 views
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Three new genes associated with Alzheimer's have been discovered, to the delight of researchers in the field. In two papers published in Nature Genetics, two teams describe how they compared the genomes of sufferers to healthy controls to identify potential gene variations leading to the disease.
Bird sex gene found :The Scientist - 0 views
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Researchers have cracked the long-time mystery of how sex is determined in birds: A dose-dependent effect of a single gene on one of the sex chromosomes does the trick, according to a study published this week in Nature.
From butterfly to caterpillar: How children grow up - New Scientist - 0 views
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In the past 30 years, a scientific revolution has completely transformed our understanding of babies and young children. Babies both know more and learn more than we would ever have thought possible, and we have recently begun to grasp the mechanisms by which they do this. I wrote The Philosophical Baby to try to show that thinking about childhood can help us answer deep questions about truth, imagination, love, consciousness, identity and morality. Without exaggeration, I believe it can tell us how we came to be human.
Moon may reveal elusive cosmic neutrinos - New Scientist - 0 views
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Hunting for the elusive neutrino typically involves treks to Antarctica, the Mediterranean, and Lake Baikal. But a growing number of projects are looking for the most energetic neutrinos by aiming radio telescopes at the moon.
Seismic boom: Breaking the quake barrier - New Scientist - 0 views
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Supershear earthquakes are the fastest thing underground -- and they tear along hidden superhighways in areas previously not considered at risk
Visualizing loop quantum gravity -- Symmetry Breaking - 0 views
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To try to illustrate the concept, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics made the accompanying movie of "Quantum Spin Dynamics in Loop Quantum Gravity." It depicts the quantum evolution of geometry in Loop Quantum Gravity
Model suggests how life's code emerged from primordial soup - 0 views
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By working with the simplest amino acids and elementary RNAs, physicists led by Rockefeller University's Albert J. Libchaber, head of the Laboratory of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, have now generated the first theoretical model that shows how a coded genetic system can emerge from an ancestral broth of simple molecules.
Dark Energy From the Ground Up: Make Way for BigBOSS - 0 views
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A proposed experiment using ground-based telescopes, called BigBOSS, may be the most cost-effective way to study and measure the phenomenon called dark energy, which appears to be causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.
The cosmic comic: Riding early waves - 0 views
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Two fictitious high-spirited scientists of the institute, passionate surfers, take off to visit the early Universe. Not to do serious research there but to experience the ultimate ride on the plasma waves of the big bang. However, they quickly realize that they would be stuck without their knowledge of the physics of the early Universe.
Dark energy may disguise shape of universe - New Scientist - 0 views
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Exquisite measurements of the radiation left over from the big bang led us to believe that we could work out the curvature of the universe to within a few per cent. In doing so, we have determined how much energy the universe contains and that most of it is in an exotic form called dark energy, which is driving the expansion of space. However, recent discoveries have left me wondering if these claims were premature. As we learn more about dark energy and its effect on the expansion of space and time, we find that dark energy and the shape, or geometry, of the universe are worryingly intertwined.
Mystery of Bird Maleness Partly Solved - 0 views
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In a recent study, researchers show that a gene called DMRT1 found only on the Z chromosome partly explains bird "maleness". When a ZZ embryo gets less DMRT1, the embryos start to take on some female traits. These studies show us that bird gender can be partly explained by genetics. Not having enough of a single gene can keep a bird from becoming a bona fide male bird. But this doesn't rule out the possibility of a female gene being on the W chromosome. Scientists just haven't yet found one.
In Search of Antimatter Galaxies - 0 views
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In addition to sensing distant galaxies made entirely of antimatter, the AMS will also test leading theories of dark matter, an invisible and mysterious substance that comprises 83 percent of the matter in the universe. And it will search for strangelets, a theoretical form of matter that's ultra-massive because it contains so-called strange quarks
Symmetry in Physics, Part 1: Spacetime Symmetry - US LHC Blog - 0 views
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One of the reasons why physicists often wax poetic about the beauty of physics is that so much of the field has based on symmetry, and humans find symmetry beautiful.
