Topic: SCIENCE - on July 28, 2009 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Bacteria make computers look like pocket calculators
Biologists have created a living computer from E. coli bacteria that can solve complex mathematical problems
Computers are evolving – literally. While the tech world argues netbooks vs notebooks, synthetic biologists are leaving traditional computers behind altogether. A team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that could solve complex mathematical problems faster than anything made from silicon.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 14, 2009 at 11:57:00 AM CEST
Scientists find 'world's oldest willy'
Australian scientists have confirmed the oldest penis-like structure in an ancient fish specimen.
The discovery of the 400 million-year-old reproductive organ is one of the earliest examples of internal fertilisation in vertebrate animals.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on June 23, 2009 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors
Nature reports that the US military has abruptly ended an informal arrangement that allowed scientists access to data on incoming meteors from classified surveillance satellites, dealing a blow to the astronomers and planetary scientists who used the information to track space rocks. 'These systems are extremely useful,' says astronomer Peter Brown, at the University of Western Ontario.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on June 3, 2009 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
Reboot Your Brain? Science Says It's Possible -A Galaxy Insight
Contrary to popular belief, recent studies have found that there are probably ways to regenerate brain matter.
Animal studies conducted at the National Institute on Aging Gerontology Research Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, for example, have shown that both calorie restriction and intermittent fasting along with vitamin and mineral intake, increase resistance to disease, extend lifespan, and stimulate production of neurons from stem cells.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on May 31, 2009 at 2:17:00 PM CEST
World's Most Powerful Laser Unveiled
The world's most powerful laser was dedicated at the Livermore National Laboratory in California. It's designed to shore up the nation's aging nuclear weapons.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on May 14, 2009 at 1:03:00 PM CEST
Steinzeit-Sexsymbol betört Forscher
Sie ist aus Mammut-Elfenbein geschnitzt, 33 Gramm schwer, hat eine überdimensionierte Scham: Der Fund einer 35.000 Jahre alten Venus-Figur in Baden-Württemberg verblüfft Wissenschaftler. Die älteste bekannte Menschendarstellung könnte als Fruchtbarkeitssymbol gedient haben.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on May 10, 2009 at 1:58:00 PM CEST
Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them
You may think you decided to read this story -- but in fact, your brain made the decision long before you knew about it.
In a study published Sunday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people's decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on April 13, 2009 at 2:18:00 PM CEST
The Hand of God
If you look at the wrist of the hand, you’ll see a brighter swirl of gas. In the center of that blob is a tiny object, a neutron star called B1509: an incredibly dense sphere of subatomic particles, leftover when a massive star goes supernova. While the outer layers of the star explode outwards, the core of the star collapses, cramming twice the mass of the Sun into a ball only a few kilometers across. This newly born neutron star — called that because the pressure is so great in the collapsed object that electrons and protons are rammed together to form neutrons — is basically the definition of the word incredible: it spins several times per second, has a surface gravity millions of times that of the Earth (if you were on the surface you’d be crushed flatter than a good science fiction program’s chances to be renewed on Fox), and has a magnetic field 30 trillion times that of the Earth’s.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 18, 2009 at 3:35:00 PM CET
Major cache of fossils unearthed in L.A.
A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the remarkable discoveries near the La Brea tar pits. It's the largest known repository of Pleistocene ice age fossils.
Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure in Los Angeles' Hancock Park got more than just a couple hundred new parking spaces. They found the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age, an assemblage that has flabbergasted paleontologists.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 15, 2009 at 12:51:00 PM CET
63% - Reject Darwin's Theory of Evolution
n the 150 years since he published his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, and the 200 years since the date of his birth celebrated this week, Charles Darwin has failed to convince the majority of Americans of the validity of his theories; an August 2006 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, found that 63% of Americans say they believe that humans and other animals have either always existed in their present form or have evolved over time under the guidance of a supreme being while only 26% say that life evolved solely through processes such as natural selection. A similar Pew Research Center poll, released in August 2005, found that 64% of Americans support teaching creationism alongside evolution in the classroom.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 13, 2009 at 12:26:00 PM CET
Fossils reveal truth about Darwin's theory
Transitional creatures found include the 'fishibian' and the 'frogamander'
As key evidence for evolution and species' gradual change over time , transitional creatures should resemble intermediate species, having skeletal and other body features in common with two distinct groups of animals, such as reptiles and mammals, or fish and amphibians.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 12, 2009 at 1:34:00 PM CET
Vatican buries the hatchet with Charles Darwin
The Vatican has admitted that Charles Darwin was on the right track when he claimed that Man descended from apes.
A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin’s theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith, and could even be traced to St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas. “In fact, what we mean by evolution is the world as created by God,” said Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture. The Vatican also dealt the final blow to speculation that Pope Benedict XVI might be prepared to endorse the theory of Intelligent Design, whose advocates credit a “higher power” for the complexities of life.
timesonline.co.uk At 200, Darwin Evolves Beyond Evolution 200. Geburtstag von Charles Darwin
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