Science Marches Onnnnnn
…Drinking Champagne out of anything other than a glass flute will severely — we repeat, severely — diminish the experience.
That’s according to a new study from the University of Texas at Austin on the acoustics of Champagne bubbles (because, apparently, that’s a real thing that people study).…
Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist who defied a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to live virtually his entire adult life with the disease – in a wheelchair and paralyzed but making constant contributions to a world few could understand – has died at age 76…
…In 2011, Cynthia was unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico and at initial stages of its life it was absorbing oil slicks with a breathtaking speed. In January, 2011 the Register reported that that scientists were particularly impressed by the speed with which the bacteria was eating up its “meal”.
But then this bacteria mutated and soon it was feeding on organic lifeforms. Strange reports started coming from the US, like five thousand birds falling victims of an “unknown disease” in Arkansas, or more that a hundred thousand of dead fish found off the coast of North Louisiana. It was also reported that a total of 128 British Petroleum employees that participated in the liquidation of the oil slick were struck by some mysterious illness. According to various sources they were forbidden to seek relief in public hospitals, to prevent them from talking to anyone about what has happened to them……
In 1960, scientists with the poultry research branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they had successfully created a chicken-turkey hybrid. They called the new bird a "churk."…
…They suffered from mental retardation… They were mostly silent… feathers grew twisted.… crooked legs or beaks…
…In "The Human Genome Project—Write," the 25 co-authors announced their intention to synthesize a human genome from scratch. In layman's terms, they are saying that they are going to design a human being.… If you go all the way and try implanting it into a womb, you will learn a lot more about how your product performs, but at the risk of causing the woman to give birth to a baby with no parents—just a computer program. At the same time, the risk of deformities or other abnormalities in the baby thus created will be very great. So we have many of the moral issues associated with stem-cell research coming up with this project as well, only more so.…
A laboratory experiment in Hungary has spotted an anomaly in radioactive decay that could be the signature of a previously unknown fifth fundamental force of nature, physicists say – if the finding holds up.…
…the Bohmian view of quantum mechanics—less fuzzy but in some ways more strange than the traditional view—may be poised for a comeback.…
Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have developed an algae that could be effective in controlling the mosquito population.…
Venter’s team painstakingly whittled down the genome of Mycoplasma mycoides, a bacterium that lives in cattle, to reveal a bare-bones set of genetic instructions capable of making life. The result is a tiny organism named syn3.0 that contains just 473 genes. (By comparison, E. coli has about 4,000 to 5,000 genes, and humans have roughly 20,000.)
Yet within those 473 genes lies a gaping hole. Scientists have little idea what roughly a third of them do. Rather than illuminating the essential components of life, syn3.0 has revealed how much we have left to learn about the very basics of biology.…
Tel Aviv University unveiled a remote-controlled, bionic heart patch, which researchers say could become a revolutionary alternative to heart transplants for patients whose hearts have been damaged by heart attacks or cardiac disease.…
Amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen has made history as the first person to regain real-time sensation of touch using a bionic fingertip.… successfully recognized the different textures with a 96% accuracy.…
…What they discovered was that celebrities who had bored or annoyed looks were showing underlying levels of emotions that are not seen in people who don't have RBF.…
A study showing that nearly all mammals take the same amount of time to urinate has been awarded one of the 2015 Ig Nobel prizes at Harvard University.
These spoof Nobels for "improbable research" are in their 25th year.…
a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg…the word "huh?" occurs in every human language.…
Scientists are moving closer to developing mind reading technology after researchers at the Wadsworth Center in New York were able to record the brain waves directly associated with speech during a recent study.…
Researchers say the key to making new friends is all in the mouth. Show your shiny whites, and friendships are easier to come by. The reason smiling is key to new and healthy relationships is that people are more attune to positive emotions when they’re forming new relationships.…
Headline: Chicken Embryos With Dinosaur Snouts Created in Lab
…Might it be possible to reconstruct what someone was saying from video of nearby objects alone? A team of MIT computer scientists have figured out how to do just that, turning a chip bag into a "visual microphone."…
Researchers in Hawaii are recruiting girls as young as 14 to participate in second trimester abortions, where the preborn baby is 18-24 weeks gestation, in order to test whether or not oxytocin can reduce bleeding in mothers during and after abortion.…
…Would it really be possible to bring back mammoths, or at least creatures resembling and behaving as them, using the synthetic life technology of molecular genetics and cloning? …
…unnamed woman… had tissue from her nose implanted in her spine… [trying to] repair… nerve damage… treatment failed. …eight years after… the woman… complained of increasing pain in the area. … Doctors discovered a three-centimetre-long growth… mainly nasal tissue, as well as bits of bone and nerve branches that had not connected with the spinal nerves.
Researchers at a Texas university have designed a chip that could give smartphones the long-envied ability of comic book her Superman to see through walls, clothes or other objects. ... "The combination of CMOS and terahertz means you could put this chip and a transmitter on the back of a cell phone, turning it into a device carried in your pocket that can see through objects." ...
Mind-bending ‘psychotronic’ guns that can effectively turn people into zombies have been given the go-ahead by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
"It wasn't in your arm.It's moved into your vascular system. It may be in your heart, or elsewhere. We are prepping you immediately to have the Interventional Radiologist attempt to use a catheter to find and extract the lost tubing, but if that fails, and it is still in your heart, we will have to perform open heart surgery on you."
206 I love this singularity bubkis. Computer technology is advancing so fast, yadda yadda yadda.
The logic has not changed since they were invented. We're still playing out all the variations on the same thing, is all, it's still rather infant.
Computer technology has advanced in much the same way internal combustion technology has advanced. Cars keep getting faster and faster and faster... soon no doubt they will develop conciousness and rebel against their human masters.
Um no, it's just a car. Obviously that's silly. But with computers, lots of people assert we're somehow getting closer to conciousness, based on the fact that we are getting calculators to do basic arithmetic faster.
Using a powerful laser, researchers have created water droplets in the air. The technique, called laser-assisted water condensation, could one day unlock the secrets of weather cycles and enable humans to decide where and when it rains. [Some long, far-off, distant day....]
altering chicken DNA to create embryos with alligator-like snouts instead of beaks. Experts changed the DNA of chicken embryos in the early stage of their development, enabling them to undo evolutionary progress and give the creatures snouts which are thought to have been lost in the cretaceous period millions of years ago. The scientific revelation of 'rewinding' evolution could pave the way for scientists altering DNA in the other direction and use the same process to create species better able to adapt to Earth's climate. [Yeah, right. Or, they could just be mucking things up for fun and profit. Which is more likely?]
reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim. Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control — and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain. [AND THE ALIENS ALL VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS? Sheesh!]
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