Thursday, January 24, 2008
Web Application
A web application is an application that is accessed with the web browser throw internet or intranet.
Compare periodic element details side-by-side
This is pretty darn cool for anyone who loves science (or is stuck in a science class). This site allows you to compare any elements of the periodic table side-by-side. So, you can do comparisons against the Atomic radius, Covalent radius, Electron configurations and just about anything else you can think of. HOT!
NASA Wants To Slice Your Brain With Nanoknife
Carbon nano-tubes aren't just gorgeous, they might also save your brain one day. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is teaming up with a cancer center, City Of Hope, to develop a new minimally invasive type of brain surgery using carbon nanotubes. Researchers hope that these sharp-tipped tubes, 50,000 times narrower than a human hair, can deliver can
Embryonic Stem Cells Grown from Primate Skin Cells
The OHSU Primate Center is the first research center to succeed in creating embryonic stem cells from skin cells in primates. This could revolutionize transplant medicine as we know it!
Man Playing God: Researchers a step closer to synthetic life
The possibility of a synthetic life form being created in a laboratory has come tantalisingly close to reality after scientists said last night that they had generated the largest man-made molecule of DNA – the chemical blueprint of life.
A Meteorological Fiction
Paul Mark Tag talks about the process of writing meteorological thrillers, using his professional background and knowledge to craft his characters and plots.
New tool probes brain circuits
Researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the Jan. 24 online edition of Science that they have created a way to see, for the first time, the effect of blocking and unblocking a single neural circuit in a living animal.
Singularities and Nightmares
Options for a coming singularity include self-destruction of civilization, a positive singularity, a negative singularity (machines take over), and retreat into tradition. Our urgent goal: find (and avoid) failure modes, using anticipation (thought experiments) and resiliency -- establishing robust systems that can deal with almost any problem as i
The Ultimate Flood Folly!
Once again CMI lie stupidly and claims that what is shown in the fossil record is consistent with Noah's Flood while ignoring the real evidence behind the fossil record that was formed by anything BUT Noah's Flood.
Life, version 2.0: Is the world ready for synthetic biology?
From Frankenstein's monster to "Blade Runner" replicants, the prospect of assembling life from inert matter has long tantalised the imagination with hope and fear.
New Data on Magnetic Reconnection
Cluster satellites have observed the extent of the region that triggers "magnetic reconnection." Until recently, theoretical scientists believed that the "electron diffusion" region was relatively tiny (width about 2 km, length about 10 km). The length of the observed region measured 3000 km, 300 times longer than seen in recent simulations.
The SINGULAR news feed
KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas. ~Many of you have known of this site for quite some time...Spread the word...
The spray-on condom: safe sex in a can
What's more likely to make you blush? Nipping into the toilets or your local chemist or for a "packet of three" or buying a can of condom spray?
Australian Transplant Recipient, World First - Changes Blood
A medical first, a 'one-in-six-billion miracle.' A girl who received a liver transplant inherits the donor's blood type and immune system.
Genius IQ3
Genius iq health is how we think, feel and act as we cope with life. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Like physical health, genius iq health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
Myth Busted! Women Are More Thick-headed than Men!
While men may have a reputation as the more thick-headed of the sexes, women actually have the thicker skulls, a new imaging study finds.
Scientists develop synthetic lifeform
A team of U.S. scientists is reporting that it has constructed the genome of a living organism for the first time. Assembling bits of lab-made DNA, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Maryland say they have built the genetic structure of a bacterium from scratch in the lab.
Worms Make Black Ants Grow Big Red Berry Butts [pic]
An amazing example of a parasite that causes its host to resemble a luscious red berry -- all so the parasite's eggs are passed onto birds, the next step in the parasite's life cycle. includes pictures.
Researchers Take Step Toward Synthetic Life
Researchers say they have created the entire genome of a bacterium by stitching together its chemical components.
Cyprus divers to dig out ancient ship
Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300-year-old ship thought to have been ferrying wine when it sank off the coast of Cyprus, researchers said Thursday.
Toolmarks at a Crime Scene
Toolmarks examination is an important discipline of forensic science. When tools are used at a crime scene they can be linked to the unique toolmarks.
Why We Love - TIME
What scientists, not to mention the rest of us, want to know is, What makes us go so loony over love? The more scientists look, the more they're able to tease romance apart into its its individual strands--the visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, neurochemical processes that make it possible.
Researchers a step closer to synthetic life
The research team succeeded in creating a man-made copy of the genome for a bacterium, the first time that's been done. A genome is the complete set of DNA in the chromosomes of a living organism, the instruction set for how an organism works.
Scientists Create Gene Map For Synthetic Life
Researchers in Maryland took the first critical step to creating artificial life by assembling the entire genome of a living organism — a bacterium. Sunstroke author David Kagan wrote about a similar experiment by desperate scientists in the book Medscan. The microorganism has the smallest genome of any living organism, with 485 working genes.
The Richard Dawson Delusion
The greatest tragedy of all awaits Dawson when he dies - if he's right and there is no god, he'll never know he was right. If he's wrong and god does exist - he'll have to live the entire afterlife annoyed with the extremely unlikely complexity of god.
Scientists create synthetic genome
Scientists have synthesized the entire genome of a living organism — a bacterium — an accomplishment they say could lead to the development of artificial life.
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