Santa Fe Institute - 0 views
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The Santa Fe Institute is a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, for multidisciplinary collaborations in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences. Understanding of complex adaptive systems is critical to addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges.
Electron Beams Whip Up A Quantum Tornado - 0 views
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"A group of researchers have developed what are known as vortex beams - rotating electron beams - which make it possible to investigate the magnetic properties of materials and in the future it may be possible to manipulate the tiniest components in a targeted manner and set them in rotation also."
Mysterious force holds back Nasa probe in deep space - Telegraph - 1 views
Short Sharp Science: Tiny tractor beams enter the third dimension - 0 views
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Not quite there yet for human teleportation, but at least they are thinking about it.
Physicists investigate fate of five-dimensional black strings - 2 views
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Extension of string theory.
Why your brain flips over visual illusions - life - 03 September 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views
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What happens in your brain when you view illusions in which two separate images can be seen?
Why the 'sixth extinction' will be unpredictable - life - 03 September 2010 - New Scien... - 1 views
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A major extinction event is under way - but predicting which species will survive could be harder than we thought. That's the conclusion of one of the most accurate analyses ever of diversity in the marine animal fossil record.
How animals evolved personalities - life - 04 September 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views
Ants take on Goliath role in protecting trees in the savanna from elephants - 0 views
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2010) - Ants are not out of their weight class when defending trees from the appetite of nature's heavyweight, the African elephant, a new University of Florida study finds.
Most new farmland in tropics comes from slashing forests, research shows - 0 views
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2010) - Global agricultural expansion cut a wide swath through tropical forests during the 1980s and 1990s. More than half a million square miles of new farmland -- an area roughly the size of Alaska -- was created in the developing world between 1980 and 2000, of which over 80 percent was carved out of tropical forests, according to Stanford researcher Holly Gibbs.
Acting selfish? Blame your mother - 0 views
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The fact that our female ancestors dispersed more than our male ancestors can lead to conflicts within the brain that influence our social behaviour, new research reveals.
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