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A contribution to why we need the ACT, what science needs to proceed, etc.

who has an ordered desk in the ACT :)

Self-organizing equipment could cut energy bills.

An article about mentoring in science.

KI tool that automatically organizes files, emails, etc.

A method on how to run businesses based on consent (not consensus).

In Mac... (who is using it really? have it installed since some time but am not really using it LS)

like this particularly and would even go one step further: take one day or one half day during the week internet free - just unplug the cable. We did this during my PhD in our lab and it really helped! LS

How to Create Another Mediawiki on the Same Server, Using the Same Source Code, Using the Same Database, but with its own Tables

I would propose that we test this as an alternative to collaborative writing on wiki or google docs? what you think? LS

Illuminating article about corporations trying to exploit "open source" and not getting what they want.

I like the red had definition: "To be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way."

yeah, it is the same with crowdsourcing in general, when some company "managers" see how much cheaper they could do it but don't understand where it comes from...

Awesome, they managed. (this is a different deal as the micro ones )

this looks like a very nice project back in 2005 ...

Does it also attack people to capture their fish & chips like those beasts we have here in St. Ives?

fortunately I've never managed to use it properly...

lol cloud

Give the Ubermancycle a try?

> As in never ever see sun and daylight :)) Like in the Netherlands you mean?

Tri-phasic sleep rhythm works fine.

Scientists have discovered how algae that survive in very low levels of light are able to switch on and off a weird quantum phenomenon that occurs during photosynthesis. The function in the algae of this quantum effect, known as coherence, remains a mystery, but it is thought it could help them harvest energy from the sun much more efficiently. Working out its role in a living organism could lead to advances such as better organic solar cells.

very very nice! we tried already a few years back to find an angle to see how we could study quantum phenomena occuring in plants and photosynthsis is one of the great examples since somehow plants manage to make the phenomena work for them at elevated temperatures, a feat in itself ... any good idea most welcome!!!

Anna maybe? Joe?

By attaching a diamond crystal to an AFM tip, researcher at New York City University managed to measure the heat flows at atomic levels in resistors. The method works due to a vacancy in the carbon lattice, two spots are empty of which one is filled with a nitrogen atom. The energy state of the vacancy is temperature dependent and can actually be read out spectroscopically.

Researchers have managed to create a materials that can extract CO2 from a humid environment, which was up to now not possible due to water blocking the absorption. With this hurdle taken, it may be possible to extract CO2 in large quantities from the atmopshere. This would then either be stored or possible even processed with H2 to form carbohydrates. Marsian atmosphere?

RIP Mars One, you were stupid to begin with.

Who would have thought?

while the whole project was obviously a scam and i'm surprised how long it took courts to figure that out, it managed to get an enormous amount of people interested in space and ignited a conversation (even if that one was just about bashing the project :D)

first science results reported in Nature (as far as I know) from the Yutu-2 and Chang'e mission .... and they look very good!

Sure they are very useful! It will be even better if they manage to fit the data to modeled circulation of the lunar magma ocean that was formed posterior to the "Theia" body collision with Earth. The collision was the cause of the magma ocean in the first place. The question now is how this circulation pattern of the lava-moon "froze" in time upon phase transition to solid. Because, what crystallizes last in sequence, is more rich in "incompatible" with the crystal structure, elements, we might combine data+models to predict their location. Those incompatible tracers are mainly radioactively decaying elements that produce heat (google publications about lunar KREEP elements (potassium (K), rare earth elements(REE), and phosphorus(P)). By knowing where the KREEP is: - we know where to dig for them mining (if they are useful for something, eg. Phosphorus for plants to be grown on the Moon) - we avoid planning to build the future human colony on top of radioactives, of course. The hope is that the Moon, due to lack of plate tectonics, has preserved this "signature of the freezing sequence". Let's see.

thanks Nasia! very interesting comment