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String theory may limit space brain threat

23/05/2013 14:56
22 May 2013 by Adam Becker Magazine issue 2918. LEGIONS of disembodied brains floating in deep space threaten to undermine our understanding of the universe. New mathematical modelling suggests string theory and its multiple universes may just provide our salvation – and that could win the...

Cloned stem-cell study under fire for sloppy errors

23/05/2013 14:54
22:15 23 May 2013 by Peter Aldhous Once again, controversy is swirling around a paper describing human embryonic stem cells created by cloning.Just over a week ago, researchers led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton announced their success in...

Long may science continue to inspire poetry

23/05/2013 14:53
23 May 2013 Magazine issue 2918. "KEPLER was my North, my South, my East and West… I thought Kepler would last forever: I was wrong." So lamented astronomer Geoff Marcy on discovering that the space telescope might have spotted its last exoplanet. Marcy's impassioned pastiche of W. H. Auden's...

Bees start to buck trend of decline in UK wildlife

23/05/2013 14:49
22 May 2013 Magazine issue 2918 IT'S a rare piece of good news for pollinators. In Europe, wild insects and plants are bouncing back after decades of decline. The years between 1950 and 1989 saw drastic decreases in the range of species in Belgium, the UK and the Netherlands. But since 1990,...

"Something" Crashed Into The Moon In February - Photos Reveal Unknown Object (UFO?)

23/05/2013 14:43
23 May, 2013 MessageToEagle.com - In March an object 10 times brighter as anything seen before exploded on the Moon. This incident reminded our reader, Kathie in South Australia about a curious event she witnessed and photographed one month earlier. "After reading the story about the March Luna...

RNA

22/05/2013 09:10
Source: Georgia Tech A new study shows how complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth. The study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of the early Earth. Because...

Coming into existence: Quantum Style

22/05/2013 09:01
by Phillip F. Schewe for JQI News College Park MD (SPX) May 21, 2013 Entanglement, by general consensus of physicists, is the weirdest part of quantum science. To say that two particles, A and B, are entangled means that they are actually two parts of an inseparable quantum thing. An important...

Over 800 world scientists agree: GM crops are nothing short of a bio-war on our food

22/05/2013 06:04
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by: Summer Tierney (NaturalNews) You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand why genetically modified foods are dangerous, but if you look closely, you may just find the name of one listed among the names of more than 800 scientists from around the globe who have...

Small Quantum Computer Can Simulate Physical Phenomena A Classical Computer Cannot!

20/05/2013 17:23
20 May, 2013 MessageToEagle.com - Innsbruck physicists led by Rainer Blatt and Peter Zoller experimentally gained a deep insight into the nature of quantum mechanical phase transitions. They are the first scientists that simulated the competition between two rival dynamical processes at a novel...

Brain Makes Call On Which Ear Is Used for Cell Phone

20/05/2013 07:39
May 16, 2013 — If you're a left-brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear, according to a newly published study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. [Read more] ...
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