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Scientific Curiosity Captured in Photos - 0 views

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    Caleb Charland is a Maine-based photographer who combines a love of scientific experiments and photographs into wonderful and amazing photographs. If Isaac Newton or Benjamin Franklin were into photography, their photographs might look something like these:
Ilmar Tehnas

Clearest sign yet of dark matter detected - physics-math - 18 December 2009 - New Scien... - 0 views

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    Good article, though it still doesn't identify dark matter. Could it be the neutralino? Wait the results from the LHC in 2010 with great interest.
Ilmar Tehnas

2010 preview: Will a neutralino steal Higgs's thunder? - physics-math - 26 December 200... - 0 views

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    The predicted neutralino may actually make up a portion or all of dark matter, if it's existence can be proved by the LHC.
Charles Daney

Some like it hot : Nature News - 0 views

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    All of which could lend credence to the suggestion of biochemist Lawrence Henderson in 1913 that water is peculiarly favourable to the evolution of life. In the introduction to a 1958 edition of Henderson's book, Wald wrote 'we now believe that life… must arise inevitably wherever it can, given enough time.' But perhaps what it needs is not so much enough time, but the right amount of heat.
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Singularity Summit | Summit 2011 > A Sample of the Singularity Summit - 0 views

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    Full Videos of the Singularity Summit 2010 Talks
Walid Damouny

Primordial weirdness: Did the early universe have 1 dimension? - 1 views

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    "(PhysOrg.com) -- Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010."
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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Highlights from the Gallery of Fluid Motion - 9 views

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    The best of the bunch (so far) for the 2010 American Physical Society's Gallery of Fluid Motion Each year, the Fluid Dynamics division of the American Physical Society holds a conference. This year, the meeting is in Long Beach, California, in November. One of the highlights is the impressive set of videos of fluid motion that the delegates put together. These videos have already begun to appear on the arViv in impressive numbers. Videos are an effective and increasingly popular way of publishing research. Expect to see more like this. But there are clearly better ways to make them available other than as downloads from the arXiv or as videos in a room in Long Beach. One obvious option is to make them available on streaming websites such as YouTube andVimeo. As far as I can tell, they are not available like this. Another is to create a website that showcases them in advance, to make it a global, web-based event. Many of the videos are superb. Not only could they command a bigger audience, they deserve it. If plans are afoot to make the Gallery of Fluid Motion a bigger event, then great. If not, shame! Here is my selection of the highlights this year.
Skeptical Debunker

Robot kojiro: Could this be the mechanised servant who will serve you breakfast in bed?... - 1 views

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    Ever dreamed of having a robot servant who would do all the boring chores around the house? Well mechanised domestic staff have come one step closer, thanks to an android being developed in Japan. Researchers at Tokyo University's JSK Robotics Laboratory, have created a humanoid called Kojiro, who is learning how to mimic how we walk.
Erich Feldmeier

Stem-Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth Right In Your Mouth | Popular Science - 0 views

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    "Stem-Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth Right In Your Mouth"
Erich Feldmeier

Ron Frostig, Melissa Davis Whisker stimulation prevents strokes in rats; Stimulating fi... - 0 views

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    "We have sensitive body parts wired to the same area of the brain as rodents' fine-tuned whiskers. In people, "stimulating the fingers, lips or face in general could all have a similar effect," says UCI doctoral student Melissa Davis, co-author of the study, which appears in the June issue of PLoS ONE. "It's gender-neutral," adds co-author Ron Frostig, professor of neurobiology & behavior. He cautions that the research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is a first step, albeit an important one.... "with the potential for maybe doing things before a victim even reaches the emergency room.""
Janos Haits

Research Funding Explorer /Home : BIS - 0 views

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    Research Funding Explorer
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Super-high pressures used to create super battery: 'Most condensed form of energy stora... - 0 views

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    Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy.
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Our brains are more like birds' than we thought - 0 views

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    For more than a century, neuroscientists believed that the brains of humans and other mammals differed from the brains of other animals, such as birds (and so were presumably better). Researchers have now found that a comparable region in the brains of chickens concerned with analyzing auditory inputs is constructed similarly to that of mammals.
thinkahol *

"Sex at Dawn": Why monogamy goes against our nature - Nonfiction - Salon.com - 0 views

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    From testicle size to our slutty ancestors, a new book explains what human history teaches us about sex and couples
thinkahol *

Ocean changes may have dire impact on people - 0 views

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    "Scientists reveal the growing atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are driving irreversible and dramatic changes to the way the ocean functions, with potentially dire impacts for hundreds of millions of people across the planet. "
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Undersea cauldrons replicated life's ingredients - life - 27 May 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    "THE precursor of life may have learned how to copy itself thanks to simple convection at the bottom of the ocean. Lab experiments reveal how DNA replication could have occurred in tiny pores around undersea vents." "To test this theory, Mast and Braun put these ingredients into tubes 1.5 millimetres long. They used a laser to heat one side of the water and create thermal convection. Sure enough, they found that the DNA doubled every 50 seconds (Physical Review Letters, vol 104, p 188102)."
thinkahol *

You can't fight violence with violence - opinion - 13 July 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    The psychology of vengeance explains much about the state of the world and suggests the war on terror can never succeed, says Metin Basoglu
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Quantum entanglement holds together life's blueprint - life - 15 July 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    To see if quantum processes play a role in determining the shape of DNA, Elisabeth Rieper of the National University of Singapore and colleagues modelled each base pair as a cloud of electrons that oscillates around a positively charged nucleus. The team found that quantum entanglement between these clouds helped DNA to maintain its helical structure.
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The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 0 views

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    Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the "Torrance kids," a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed by professor E. Paul Torrance. Schwarzrock still vividly remembers the moment when a psychologist handed him a fire truck and asked, "How could you improve this toy to make it better and more fun to play with?"
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