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"Hackteria is a webplatform and collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects instigated in February 2009 by Andy Gracie, Marc Dusseiller and Yashas Shetty, after collaboration during the Interactivos?09 Garage Science at Medialab Prado in Madrid"

Kumaran D et al., The Emergence and Representation of Knowledge about Social and Nonsocial Hierarchies, 2012, Neuron, doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.09.035 Eine neue Studie, die in dem Journal Neuron veröffentlicht wurde, deckt auf, wie das Gehirn Informationen darüber abspeichert, wer in einer Gruppe das ‚Sagen' hat. Die Studie, die gemeinsam von Wissenschaftlern des Instituts für Kognitive Neurologie und Demenzforschung der Universität Magdeburg (IKND), des Deutschen Zentrums für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE, Standort Magdeburg) und der University College London (UCL) durchgeführt wurde, zeigt, dass Menschen zum Lernen von sozialen Rangfolgen einen bestimmten Teil des Gehirns brauchen. Die Größe dieses Gehirnareals sagt voraus, wie gut jemand soziale Rangfolgen lernen und einschätzen kann. Menschen und andere Primaten sind bemerkenswert gut darin, sich gegenseitig innerhalb einer sozialen Hierarchie einzuordnen. „Diese Fähigkeit ist überlebensnotwendig, weil sie hilft, Konflikte zu vermeiden und vorteilhafte Koalitionspartner zu finden. Allerdings wissen wir überraschend wenig darüber, wie das Gehirn dies steuert", sagt der Neurowissenschaftler Prof. Emrah Düzel.

"20.04.2013: Von nun an findet jede zweite Woche am Sonntag ab 18:00 unser Labortreff statt, bei dem wir gemeinsam forschen, Erfahrungen austauschen, lernen, neue Leute kennenlernen oder einfach nur rumhängen. Die kommenden Termine sind: 19.05., 02.06., 09.06.. Natürlich steht das Labor aber jederzeit für Arbeiten offen! "

"The problem, as I see it, is that we are not doing very much to remedy these issues, and that a lot of people have already accepted that "true science" is simply an ideal that will inevitably disappear with the current system proceeding along as it is. As such, why risk our careers and reputations to fight for some noble cause that most of academia won't really appreciate anyway?"

"Europa und insbesondere auch Oberösterreich steuern auf einen massiven Technikermangel zu. Bereits jetzt fällt es den oberösterreichischen Betrieben schwer, genügend qualifizierte Techniker zu finden und der Mangel nimmt weiter zu. In den nächsten Jahren kommt es euro-paweit zu einer Pensionierungswelle an hochqualifizierten Technikern und aus den Univer-sitäten und Fachhochschulen kommen zu wenige Ingenieure nach. Verschärft wird diese Situa-tion noch durch den demografischen Wandel. Weiters haben die österreichischen Jugendli-chen im Quervergleich mit allen EU 27 eine negativere Einstellung zu Technik und Engineering als der EU-Durchschnitt (Flash Eurobarometer „Young people and science" 09/2008). "

What happens to fat left over from a liposuction procedure? Brad Pitt might choose to turn it in to soap, but scientists at Stanford University have figured out a surprising alternative: stem cells.

From the machinery of life to the fate of the cosmos, what can't science explain?

DIGITAL LIBRARIES Capturing images of manuscripts, art, and artifacts, digital libraries are an excellent way of both preserving the past and sharing it with everyone.

"The project was kick-started by a huge public response to the team's research into the genetics of gut bacteria. In a previous study the researchers found that certain gut-specific genetic markers were related to obesity and other diseases. "I got between 50 and 100 e-mails from regular people having problems with the stomach or diarrhoea and wondering if we can help them," Peer Bork, a biochemist and co-creator of MyMicrobes, told Nature. This new website will build on that work, whilst also providing support for concerned members of the public."

"Michael Nielsen ist Buchautor und ein Vertreter der Open Access/Open Science Bewegung. Sein Buch, „Reinventing Discovery" wird im Oktober bei Princeton University Press erscheinen. Michael Nielsen hat als international renommierter Physiker die Forschung an Quanten-Computern mit begründet, das Standard-Lehrbuch des Gebiets verfasst und über 50 wissenschaftliche Fachartikel publiziert bevor er seine Professur 2008 aufgab um sich voll und ganz der Open Access/Open Science Bewegung zu widmen."

"For this study, the investigators bred mice lacking TRPV4 or administered a drug to deactivate it. In the absence of TRPV4, white cells turned on a set of genes that consume energy to produce heat, rather than storing the energy as excess fat. This "thermogenic" process normally occurs in brown or beige fat (commonly called "good fat"), which is found mostly in small animals and human infants to protect against cold. When the TRPV4-deficient mice were put on a high-calorie diet for several weeks, they did not become obese, and their level of fat cell inflammation and insulin resistance was lowered. "We have identified a target that, when inhibited, can activate beige adipose tissue and suppress inflammation," said Spiegelman."

"For study author Dan Kahan, these results are a fairly strong refutation of what is called the "deficit model" in the field of science and technology studies-the idea that if people just had more knowledge, or more reasoning ability, then they would be better able to come to consensus with scientists and experts on issues like climate change, evolution, the safety of vaccines, and pretty much anything else involving science or data (for instance, whether concealed weapons bans work). Kahan's data suggest the opposite-that political biases skew our reasoning abilities, and this problem seems to be worse for people with advanced capacities like scientific literacy and numeracy"

What he and his orangutan buddies do in the forests of Sumatra tells scientists that advance trip planning and social networking aren't just human traits, A new study of 15 wild male orangutans finds that they routinely plot out their next day treks and share their plans in long calls, so females can come by or track them, and competitive males can steer clear.

"Ein breites Gesicht mit ausgeprägtem Kinn gilt als besonders männlich. Unbewusst signalisiert es offenbar eine stark von Testosteron geprägte Persönlichkeit. Tatsächlich haben Studien in den letzten Jahren einige Verbindungen zwischen der Gesichtsform und dem Verhalten gefunden. So ergab ein Experiment im Jahr 2012, dass Männer mit maskulinen Gesichtszügen eher zur Untreue neigen. 2011 belegten Michael Haselhuhn und Elaine Wong von der University of California in Riverside, dass Manager mit einem eher breiten Gesicht erfolgreicher sind und ihre Firma profitabler führen."

Our genetic code is translated by two super-families of modern-day enzymes. Carter's research team created and superimposed digital three-dimensional versions of the two super-families to see how their structures aligned. Carter found that all the enzymes have virtually identical cores that can be extracted to produce "molecular fossils" he calls Urzymes-Ur meaning earliest or original. The other parts, he said, are variations that were introduced later, as evolution unfolded. These two Urzymes are as close as scientists have gotten to the actual ancient enzymes that would have populated the Earth billions of years ago.

How to Backup your Data on Windows 8 Phone Microsoft promises the sustainability of your data through its exciting new feature embedded into Windows 8 for mobile devices. This feature offers to synchronize your apps, settings, messages, photos, and videos by automatically uploading them to cloud storage.

"MIT-based researchers and instructors Marcelo Coelho and Skylar Tibbits teamed up to tackle this very problem. Working under a grant from Ars Electronica, the pair conceived of a whole new way to do 3-D printing. Hyperform is a new strategy for designing and printing large objects irrespective of a printer's bed size. So not only can you print out that chair at home, you can also print a table, bed frame, and everything else you need to furnish a bedroom. The solution is breathtakingly simple. By merely folding the object you want to print, you can jig it to fit into a small-scale printer. In Tibbits and Coelho's project, the object is rendered in 1-D--a line--and endlessly folded into a space-filling curve proportioned to the printer's cubic dimensions. (The designers partnered with Formlabs and iterated the process using a Form 1 tabletop printer.) When the object is exhumed from the printer bed, it doesn't at all resemble its final shape. Rather, it's a dense cluster of thin but sturdy polymer links packaged in a three-dimensional puzzle that can be intuitively assembled"

Tema central será la innovación basada en la ciencia. LANZAN CONCURSO DE PERIODISMO CIENTÍFICO 24-09-2014 - 15:57:10 Con el objetivo de incentivar a los periodistas y estudiantes de periodismo del país a escribir artículos sobre ciencia, el Centro para la Comunicación de la Ciencia de la Universidad Andrés Bello lanzó el concurso "Reconocimiento al periodismo científico".