Extremophiles, micro-organisms that can live in volcanos, space and the deep oceans, are still a mystery, but one scientist has found a way to use them to study other elements.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Extremophiles - Nano Technology Discovery
Extremophiles, micro-organisms that can live in volcanos, space and the deep oceans, are still a mystery, but one scientist has found a way to use them to study other elements.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
CERN: Our World is Changing...and quickly (perhaps faster than the speed of light)
Our World is Changing...quickly (faster then the speed of light)
Detectors at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics' Gran Sasso Laboratory have measured neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light; from the CERN physics center on the French-Swiss border, more than 450 miles away.
It was Einstein’s theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, that stated that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second.
Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the researchers at CERN, said: “We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing.” Scientists agree if the results are confirmed, that it would force a fundamental rethink of the laws of physics. John Ellis, a theoretical physicist, said Einstein’s theory underlies “pretty much everything in modern physics”.
The results have so astounded researchers that American and Japanese scientists have been asked to verify the results before they are confirmed as a discovery. We lived in a universe that was explained by theories...correct me if I'm wrong, but it was called THE THEORY of Relativity, which doesn't in my opinion make Einstein out to be a scientist who believed in absolutes. Theories are just that...there meant to be broken by factual occurances that render all of our previous findings faulty. I for one do not find these sorts of discoveries dishearetening, but encouraging. It took 100 years for man to go from a horse and buggy to walking on the moon; why shouldn't it take just as long for man to prove that there is no absolute limit on speed.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
One of the 100 most prominent people to watch: Dr. V.S. Ramachandran
Via: ramaillusions
Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, San Diego. Ramachandran, director of the university’s Center of Brain and Cognition, has been called one of the “hundred most prominent people to watch” in the 21st century by Newsweek magazine. Ramachandran’s early work was on visual perception but he is best known for his experiments in behavioral neurology which, despite their apparent simplicity, have had a profound impact on the way we think about the brain.
Dr. Ramachandran has published over 180 papers in scientific journals. Twenty of these have appeared in Nature, and others have appeared in Science, Nature Neuroscience, Perception and Vision Research. He is author of the acclaimed book Phantoms in the Brain that has been translated into nine languages. His more recent book, “The Emerging Mind”, captures the series of distinguished lectures he gave for the BBC and explores the evolutionary and causal relationships between the gift of sight, art and the development of the human mind.
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Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, San Diego. Ramachandran, director of the university’s Center of Brain and Cognition, has been called one of the “hundred most prominent people to watch” in the 21st century by Newsweek magazine. Ramachandran’s early work was on visual perception but he is best known for his experiments in behavioral neurology which, despite their apparent simplicity, have had a profound impact on the way we think about the brain.
Dr. Ramachandran has published over 180 papers in scientific journals. Twenty of these have appeared in Nature, and others have appeared in Science, Nature Neuroscience, Perception and Vision Research. He is author of the acclaimed book Phantoms in the Brain that has been translated into nine languages. His more recent book, “The Emerging Mind”, captures the series of distinguished lectures he gave for the BBC and explores the evolutionary and causal relationships between the gift of sight, art and the development of the human mind.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Study Shows That Men May Be Born With “Cheating Gene”
To what lengths will science go to prove that everything is genetic?
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Newborn Babies Learn While They’re Asleep
Via: discovermagazine.com
Researchers recruited one-and two-day-old infants for a study that was published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. With each sleeping baby, the researchers played a musical tone and followed that by a puff of air to the eyes, a mild annoyance that caused the infant to automatically scrunch up its eyes. As this sequence of events was repeated, the sleeping babies learned to associate the air puff with the tone, and soon began to to tighten their eyelids as soon as they heard the musical note, even if the air puff didn’t follow. Electrodes stuck to their scalps also showed activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in memory.
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Researchers recruited one-and two-day-old infants for a study that was published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. With each sleeping baby, the researchers played a musical tone and followed that by a puff of air to the eyes, a mild annoyance that caused the infant to automatically scrunch up its eyes. As this sequence of events was repeated, the sleeping babies learned to associate the air puff with the tone, and soon began to to tighten their eyelids as soon as they heard the musical note, even if the air puff didn’t follow. Electrodes stuck to their scalps also showed activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in memory.
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
British scientists develop ‘brain to brain communication’
Via: telegraph.co.uk
The system, developed by a team at the University of Southampton, is said to be the first technology that would allow people to send thoughts, words and images directly to the minds of others, particularly people with a disability. It has also been hailed as the future of the internet, which would provide a new way to communicate without the need for keyboards and telephones. The scientists claimed the research proved it could eventually be possible to create a system where people sent messages through their thoughts alone, although they conceded it was many years away.
Scientists used “brain-computer interfacing”, a technique that allows computers to analyse brain signals, that enabled them to send messages formed by a person’s brain signals though an internet connection to another person’s brain miles away. According to Dr James, during transmission two people were connected to electrodes that measure activity in specific parts of the brain. The first person generated a series of zeros and ones, where they imagined moving their left arm for zero and right arm for one.
After the first person’s computer recognises the binary thoughts, it sends them to the internet and then to the other person’s PC. A lamp is then flashed at two different frequencies for one and zero, the Times reported. The second person’s brain signals are analysed after staring at this lamp and the number sequence is picked up by a computer. “It’s not telepathy,” Dr James told the paper. “There’s no conscious thought forming in one person’s head and another conscious thought appearing in another person’s mind. “The next experiments are to get that second person to be aware of the information that is being sent to them. For that, I need to get my thinking cap on, so to speak.”
The system, developed by a team at the University of Southampton, is said to be the first technology that would allow people to send thoughts, words and images directly to the minds of others, particularly people with a disability. It has also been hailed as the future of the internet, which would provide a new way to communicate without the need for keyboards and telephones. The scientists claimed the research proved it could eventually be possible to create a system where people sent messages through their thoughts alone, although they conceded it was many years away.
Scientists used “brain-computer interfacing”, a technique that allows computers to analyse brain signals, that enabled them to send messages formed by a person’s brain signals though an internet connection to another person’s brain miles away. According to Dr James, during transmission two people were connected to electrodes that measure activity in specific parts of the brain. The first person generated a series of zeros and ones, where they imagined moving their left arm for zero and right arm for one.
After the first person’s computer recognises the binary thoughts, it sends them to the internet and then to the other person’s PC. A lamp is then flashed at two different frequencies for one and zero, the Times reported. The second person’s brain signals are analysed after staring at this lamp and the number sequence is picked up by a computer. “It’s not telepathy,” Dr James told the paper. “There’s no conscious thought forming in one person’s head and another conscious thought appearing in another person’s mind. “The next experiments are to get that second person to be aware of the information that is being sent to them. For that, I need to get my thinking cap on, so to speak.”
Friday, May 15, 2009
I take a little time out and contemplate over the universe
Via: Daily Galaxy
Universe's Largest Black Hole Discovered
Allegedly astronomers have discovered the universe's most massive black hole. How massive? Think my ex-wife's gaping pie-hole times three.
"Whatever gave birth to this monster can be real proud. The biggest black hole in the universe weighs in with a respectable mass of 18 billion Suns, and is about the size of an entire galaxy. The biggest black hole beats out its nearest competitor by six times. Fortunately, it's 3.5 billion light years away, forming the heart of a quasar called OJ287."
Everything is changing...the scope of our world is miniscule in complexity to what's out in space. I find this discovery fascinating...
Universe's Largest Black Hole Discovered
Allegedly astronomers have discovered the universe's most massive black hole. How massive? Think my ex-wife's gaping pie-hole times three.
"Whatever gave birth to this monster can be real proud. The biggest black hole in the universe weighs in with a respectable mass of 18 billion Suns, and is about the size of an entire galaxy. The biggest black hole beats out its nearest competitor by six times. Fortunately, it's 3.5 billion light years away, forming the heart of a quasar called OJ287."
Everything is changing...the scope of our world is miniscule in complexity to what's out in space. I find this discovery fascinating...
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