Scientists Need Volunteers To Look At the Sun (Saturday 13th of March 2010 08:00:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that Royal Observatory's 'Solar Stormwatch' needs volunteers
to help scientists spot Sun storms — known as coronal mass ejections — before they
cause damage on Earth. 'When you look up at the Sun certainly ...
(more)Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Worries Researchers (Sunday 30th of August 2009 06:30:01 PM)
NeverVotedBush writes with an update to a story we discussed early this month about an third
edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003
amassment of garbage and plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean, a million-dollar ...
(more)IBM Scientists Build Computer Chips From DNA (Tuesday 18th of August 2009 01:30:01 AM)
Snydeq writes "Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as a way to create
tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more mighty thinking machine* chips. The
system builds on work done by Cal Tech's Paul Rothemund, who found ...
(more)Study Highlights Gap Between Views of Scientists and the Public (Sunday 12th of July 2009 03:00:04 AM)
ZeroSerenity was one of many to write with news of a survey from the Pew study Center which
sought to find out how Americans feel about science and divergence that with the opinions of
actual scientists. The study showed that "nearly 9 in 10 scientists ...
(more)Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear (Thursday 25th of June 2009 05:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that scientists have found that if you want to get
someone to do something, ask them in their right ear. Known as the 'right ear advantage,'
scientists believe it is because eduction orthodox through the right ...
(more)US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors (Tuesday 23rd of June 2009 12:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Nature reports that the US martial has abruptly ended an
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(more)How Common Is Scientific Misconduct? (Sunday 31st of May 2009 12:15:07 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The image of scientists as
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(more)Nanomaker's Toolkit — Methods For Self-Assembly (Sunday 24th of May 2009 04:15:10 PM)
Gabrlknght writes with this excerpt from Science News: "Because nanoparticles are small, a
large proportion of their atoms are near the particle's surface. Having fewer neighbors, those
proportionately unconfined atoms can link in unusual ways, giving ...
(more)Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey (Tuesday 05th of May 2009 08:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Industry experts claim the market for vintage whiskey has been flooded
with fakes that purport to be several hundred years old but instead contain worthless spirit
made just a few years ago. Now researchers at the Oxford Radiocarbon ...
(more)Hints of a Link Between Autism and Vinyl Flooring (Wednesday 01st of April 2009 05:15:01 PM)
SpuriousLogic sends in a link from Scientific stars and bars to a study by Swedish and US
researchers that reaches the without warning conclusion that there may be a link between autism
and vinyl floors. "Children who live in homes with vinyl floors, ...
(more)Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work (Sunday 08th of March 2009 02:30:02 PM)
An unsigned reader sends this quote from the customer's broker Press: "Reversing an
eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science, top brass* Barack Obama plans to lift
restrictions Monday on taxpayer-funded study using elementary stem cells. ...
(more)Fly Me To Which Moon? (Wednesday 11th of February 2009 07:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "NASA and the catalan Space Agency are 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt
printing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. all rights
reserved.view results from: 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing ...
(more)Scientists "Teleport" Quantum Information One Meter (Friday 30th of January 2009 05:30:01 PM)
The4thdimension writes "While we may not be beaming up to the company anytime soon, a team of
scientists from the reading mash of Maryland and the schooling mash of Michigan have managed to
teleport skinny between two atoms up to a meter apart. Until ...
(more)Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes (Saturday 24th of January 2009 07:00:01 AM)
KentuckyFC writes "There is absolutely, positively, definitely no chance of the LHC destroying
the planet (or this way either) when it eventually switches on some time later this year. And
yet a few niggling doubts are persuading some scientists to run ...
(more)Scientists Teleport Information Between Ions a Meter Apart (Saturday 24th of January 2009 07:00:01 AM)
Erickhill writes with word that scientists from the apprenticeship mash of Maryland have
successfully transferred report from one charged atom to another without having it cross the
intervening space of about one meter. The erudite paper is present in ...
(more)Water Detected At Record Distance From Earth (Monday 22nd of December 2008 02:00:01 AM)
Matt_dk writes with news that scientists have detected water in a galaxy 11.5 billion
light-years from Earth. diploma came in the form of emissions from water masers around a quasar
at the center of the galaxy. expose at such a large stretch was made ...
(more)Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Dtolman writes "Scientists at the Keck and Gemini telescopes stole the thunder of Hubble
scientists posting the first picture of an extrasolar world orbiting a star. Hubble scientists
announced today that they were able to lay open an extrasolar world ...
(more)Storing Qubits In Nuclei (Saturday 25th of October 2008 08:00:01 AM)
Bednarz writes "Scientists have demonstrated what is being called the 'ultimate miniaturization
of mainframe memory,' storing data for nearly two seconds in the nucleus of an atom of
phosphorus. The hybrid quantum memory execution is a key step in the ...
(more)Researchers Build Logic Gates With RNA (Saturday 18th of October 2008 10:15:01 PM)
Ars Technica reports on fishing expedition* out of Cal Tech where scientists were able to
create logic gates out of RNA molecules. Thus far, they've demonstrated AND gates and OR gates,
with work proceeding on more labyrinthine systems. The work shows ...
(more)Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA" (Monday 08th of September 2008 05:30:01 AM)
Quinnlynn writes "A group of inquest scientists at Yale discovered that the llc.cite this
source roget's ii: the new thesaurus of opposable thumbs and upright walking in humans is due
to changes in the genome in the areas still classified as "junk DNA." ...
(more)Drug Reverses Retardation In Mice (Friday 27th of June 2008 04:30:04 PM)
Snydeq writes "Rapamycin, a inoculation doctors prescribe to transplant work to prevent organ
rejection, has been used to reverse learning disorders and mild retardation associated person
with TSC (tuberous sclerosis complex) in mice. Because the trim ...
(more)The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding (Friday 27th of June 2008 04:30:04 PM)
Oddwick11 writes "Aubrey de Grey and other leading scientists and thinkers in stem cell
dissection and regenerative salve will gather in Los Angeles at UCLA for Aging 2008 to explain
how their work can combat human aging, and the sociological implications ...
(more)NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid (Friday 09th of May 2008 06:00:04 PM)
FudRucker points out a story from The Guardian about NASA's plans to visit 2000SG344, an
asteroid 40 meters wide and supposition roughly 71 million kilograms. The manned mission would
take three to six months, and it would make use of the Orion spacecraft, ...
(more)First Superheavy Element Found In Nature (Tuesday 29th of April 2008 01:45:10 AM)
KentuckyFC writes "The first naturally occurring superheavy element has been found. An
international team of scientists found several nuclei of unbibium in a sample of the naturally
occurring heavy metal thorium. Unbibium has an atomic number of 122 and ...
(more)'Evolution of the Internet' Powers Massive LHC Grid (Wednesday 23rd of April 2008 09:15:02 PM)
Jbrodkin brings us a story about the growth of the data processor network supporting CERN's
Large Hadron Collider, which will begin smashing particles into one another later this year.
We've discussed some of the impressive capabilities of this network ...
(more)Mysterious Sound Waves Can Destroy Rockets (Friday 11th of April 2008 07:10:41 AM)
Ponca City, We love you writes "Scientists believe that weighty and ticklish sound waves,
created by energy supplied by the combustion process, were the cause of rocket failures in
several US and Russian rockets. They have also observed these mysterious ...
(more)Molecular Basis for Life Found on Extrasolar Planet (Friday 21st of March 2008 01:15:06 AM)
DarkProphet writes "NASA scientists have discovered the first cue of organic molecules on an
extrasolar planet. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, they detected trace amounts of methane on
a swirling gas giant about 63 light-years from our own planet. ...
(more)Mega-Cash Prizes and Revolutionary Science (Sunday 09th of March 2008 05:00:04 AM)
Bruce G Charlton writes "A new paper in Medical Hypotheses suggests that very big cash prizes
could specifically be targeted to stimulate 'revolutionary' science. Usually, prizes tend to
stimulate 'applied' science — as in the most famous example ...
(more)Encyclopedia of Life Launches First 30,000 Pages (Wednesday 27th of February 2008 01:00:07 PM)
An anonymous reader writes to let us know that the Encyclopedia of Life opened up to the public
today with its first 30,000 pages in place — and, proper to the AP, promptly crumbled
even before being Slashdotted. (The site seems fine now.) We discussed ...
(more)Very Large Array Gets Expanded Capability (Monday 25th of February 2008 09:45:05 AM)
Active Seti points out a story about upgrades for the Very Large Array radio telescope. The
improvements will increase the VLA's capabilities 10-fold, allowing it to "pick up a cell phone
signal on Jupiter." Work on the 28-antenna array is already underway, ...
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