Want to think outside the box? Try actually thinking outside of a box. In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking and found that the instructions Read more about To ‘think outside the box’, think outside the box[…]
Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory | Wired Science | Wired.com.
Fit females make more daughters, mighty males get grandsons.
An insect’s internal chemicals can be converted to electricity, potentially providing power for sensors, recording devices or to control the bug, a group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University report. via Implanted biofuel cell converts bug’s chemistry into electricity: Scientists take step toward cyborgs.
2 glasses of cherry juice per day allows you to sleep on avg 39 minutes longer and more efficiently as well as reducing napping behaviour. Tart cherry juice drinkers gain sleep advantage.
Gene therapy can protect against HIV : Nature News & Comment.
By heating carbon nanotubes a Texas scientist has created a small invisibility cloak. Texas scientist Ali Aliev makes strands of a real ‘invisibility cloak’ | Mail Online.
Why do we lie? Robert Trivers has written a book “The Folly of Fools” that covers deception from an evolutionary standpoint. The evolution of deceit – Salon.com.
Using a variety of techniques, a fontface has been designed that makes it much easier for dyslectics to read texts. studiostudio, dyslexie lettertype, project dyslexia, dyslexie, lettertype dyslexie, project dyslexie.
These are useful for surgeons who need to operate and see beforehand what they will need to do. The current cost is in the thousands of pounds for a single model. Using NL company safeways as a printer slashes the costs significantly. BBC News – Plastic bones could save the NHS thousands of pounds.
Less efficient than proper solar panels, but cheaper and easy to install yourself. 3M film turns windows into transparent solar panels | ITworld.
Scientists say they have found a way to disarm the AIDS virus in research that could lead to a vaccine. Researchers have discovered that if they eliminate a cholesterol membrane surrounding the virus, HIV cannot disrupt communication among disease-fighting cells and the immune system returns to normal. Scientists have discovered that HIV needs cholesterol, which Read more about Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus’ Attack on Immune System[…]
The researchers have found neutrino’s that seem to go faster, but are putting this out as a request for confirmation. They believe it could be measuring errors but are looking for others to replicate their experiment or check their measurements. BBC News – Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern.
Time cloaking is possible because of a kind of duality between space and time in electromagnetic theory. In particular, the diffraction of a beam of light in space is mathematically equivalent to the temporal propagation of light through a dispersive medium. In other words, diffraction and dispersion are symmetric in spacetime. That immediately leads to Read more about First Demonstration of Time Cloaking[…]
For the first time, engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) have now developed a process to create “CIGS” solar cells with inkjet printing technology that allows for precise patterning to reduce raw material waste by 90 percent and significantly lower the cost of producing solar cells with promising, yet expensive compounds. The researchers focused on Read more about Inkjet print solar cells[…]
This article includes pictures of what the traffic managers see on their screens and how the information gets there. Unfortunately, ghost jams are generally caused by human idiot drivers: But often we have only ourselves to blame: staying in the middle lane rather than keeping to the left whenever possible, getting too close to the Read more about The dark science of the traffic jam: UK traffic explored in detail[…]
GE has announced the first power plant to integrate wind and solar power with natural gas—a 530-megawatt plant that will start operating in Turkey in 2015. The power plant is made practical by a flexible, high-efficiency natural-gas system the company announced two weeks ago and a solar thermal power system created by eSolar, a Burbank, Read more about GE Combines Natural Gas, Wind, and Solar in hybrid powerplant[…]
A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells. The researchers found a way to make an “optical battery,” said Stephen Rand, a professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physics and Applied Physics. In the process, Read more about Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possible[…]
Now this is from MS themselves, so obviously they’ll have picked sites which work best for IE, but most importantly it shows that there is a huge variability in the amount of power each browser uses. This is not only useful for laptop users who want to maximise their batteries, but also for the global Read more about Browser Power Consumption compared – big differences[…]
Nearly all the energy we use on this planet starts out as sunlight that plants use to knit chemical bonds. Now, for the first time, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge have created a potentially cheap, practical artificial leaf that does much the same thing—providing a potentially limitless source of energy Read more about Artificial leaf – Spinning the Sun’s Rays Into Fuel[…]
The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures final report and executive summary provide an overview of the evidence and discuss the challenges and choices for policy makers and others whose interests relate to all aspects of the global food system. via Reports and publications | Our work | BIS.
The story then says that radiation levels are still ‘safe’. I’d say radiation levels were still ‘safe’ too. As far as I’m concerned we get enough radiation levels from the global background radiation, we really don’t need ANY more radiation from any source at all. Except medical X-Rays – these fall under what I term Read more about TSA Airport perv scanners emit 10 times more radiation than initially stated.[…]
Companies are measuring the responses your brain gives to parts of movies, allowing producers to tweak movies to provide the kinds of responses they want. How Hollywood Studios Harness Your Brainwaves to Win Oscars.
The test of replicability, as it’s known, is the foundation of modern research. Replicability is how the community enforces itself. It’s a safeguard for the creep of subjectivity. Most of the time, scientists know what results they want, and that can influence the results they get. The premise of replicability is that the scientific community Read more about Why is a lot of science not reproducible – the decline effect[…]
This is the second time scientific results are being questioned on a very deep level in a very short time. It’s a very disturbing trend. In just the last two months, two pillars of preventive medicine fell. A major study concluded there’s no good evidence that statins drugs like Lipitor and Crestor help people with Read more about A lot of medical science in question[…]