Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with significant memory loss who are on their way to developing Alzheimer’s disease. Although there has been increasing evidence of the value of this and other tests in finding signs of Alzheimer’s, the study, which will appear Tuesday in the [...]
A few days ago, I blogged about the effort of Austin Sendek of UC Davis to get the SI people to recognize “Hella” as the nomenclature for 10^24 power. It would seem that some of the nerds over at Google agree! If you want to find out what 1 hellameter is click here. Please support [...]
Sweet. Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km (10 miles), much further than the few hundred meters previously achieved, which brings us closer to transmitting information over long distances without the need for a traditional signal. [...]
I think this is pretty fucking cool! In fact, I think it’s HELLAcool!! I have no idea what the fuck that this “The Official Petition to Establish “Hella-” as the SI Prefix for 10^27” will do or what impact they can possibly have but click the fucking link and show your support. As science becomes [...]
A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results: a single molecule can perform a complex calculation thousands of times faster than a conventional computer. A proof-of-principle test run of a discrete Fourier transform — a common calculation using spectral analysis and data compression, among other things [...]
Now you can have your nuggets and eat them too! Scientists reported the development of a “smart” roof coating, made from waste cooking oil from fast food restaurants, that can “read” a thermometer. The coating automatically switches roles, reflecting or transmitting solar heat, when the outdoor temperature crosses a preset point that can be tuned [...]
Look close. You may be staring at the end of cancer. Those tiny black dots are nanobots delivering a lethal blow to a cancerous cell, effectively killing it. The first trial on humans has been a success, with no side-effects: … The most amazing thing is that you can send as many of these soldiers [...]
Researchers using a diamond paste to polish a slice of meteorite stumbled onto something remarkable: crystals in the rock that are harder than diamonds. A closer look with an array of instruments revealed two totally new kinds of naturally occurring carbon, which are harder than the diamonds formed inside the Earth.Crystals in meteorite harder than [...]
Wow. So much for Obama supporting NASA! If there was any doubt in my mind that Obama was a GIGANTIC mistake, it’s gone now. NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way. When [...]
A man who was partially blinded when ammonia was squirted in his eye during an attack 15 years ago has regained his sight after receiving a pioneering stem cell treatment. … Turnbull’s healthy eye and grown on a layer of amniotic tissue, which is routinely used as a burn dressing. The NHS banks amniotic sacs [...]
NASA scientists have reproduced uracil, a key component of the hereditary material, RNA. The uracil was created by exposing an ice sample containing the molecule pyrimidine to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions. The research may help astrobiologists understand how molecules for the origin of life were first made.Uracil Made in the Lab
At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish. In this way, the dolphins help [...]
At the beginning of the month, Stephen Hawking retired from the prestigious position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, after 30 years in the chair once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton. His could scarcely been a harder act to follow, and the person to take on that challenge has now been [...]
The periodic table has been stamped into the minds of countless generations of schoolchildren. Immediately recognised and universally adopted, it has long since achieved iconic status. So why change it? According to Mohd Abubakr from Microsoft Research in Hyderabad, the table can be improved by arranging it in circular form. He says this gives a [...]
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