December 2011
21 posts
China Unveils Ambitious Plan to Explore Space -... →
“Broadening its challenge to the United States, the Chinese government on Thursday announced an ambitious five-year plan for space exploration that would move China closer to becoming a major rival at a time when the American program is in retreat.”
An MRI machine could teach you Kung-Fu, everything... →
“Just a few months ago, we wrote about how UC Berkeley researchers have been able to use functional MRI (fMRI) machines to extract your dreams from inside your brain. A joint American and Japanese team has since discovered that this technique works both ways: it’s possible to use an fMRI machine to generate specific patterns inside your brain that can be used to teach you new...
'Mermaids' are helping to detect earthquakes →
17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing... →
Japan bids to build the world`s largest collider →
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Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for... →
Shifting the morals of quantum measurement
Measuring the wavefunction
Cloaking in space and time
Measuring the universe using black holes
Turning darkness into light
Taking the temperature of the early universe
Catching the flavour of a neutrino oscillation
Living laser brought to life
Complete quantum computer made on a single chip
Seeing pure relics from the Big Bang
Space Travel Of The Future: 7 Vehicles That May... →
Bid to program new life forms with 'operating... →
“Now imagine trying to design a similar operating system not for a laptop, a PC or even a smartphone, but rather for something much, much tinier — a living biological cell. This is exactly what a group of scientists at the University of Nottingham, in England, will attempt to do as part of a five-year, $1.58 million research project that has been aptly named AudACiOus — which,...
Selling Cheap: Abandoned, Half-Finished, Would-Be... →
“$6.5 million: The initial asking price for the 135-acre property in Texas that two decades ago was supposed to be the site of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Superconducting Super Collider. Congress canceled the project in 1993 after spending $2 billion (300 times the site’s current price) to construct eight buildings and 14 miles of underground tunnels.”
“In traditional studies, scientists guard their data from outsiders for several...”
– Citizen Scientists Take On the Health Establishment - WSJ.com
Someone should write self-help books for scientists on how not to be so insecure…
News From The Future: Mammoth Burgers →
Japan, Russia see chance to clone mammoth.
Teams from the Sakha Republic’s mammoth museum and Japan’s Kinki University will launch fully-fledged joint research next year aiming to recreate the giant mammal, Japan’s Kyodo News reported from Yakutsk, Russia.
By replacing the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those taken from the mammoth’s marrow cells, embryos with mammoth DNA can be...
Darpa's Very Expensive, Sci-Fi Projects from the... →
Cognitive Computing, The 100-Year Starship Study (I keynoted at DARPA’s Symposium for this a couple months back), The World’s Fastest Airplane, Battery-Powered Human Exoskeleton, Insect Cyborgs, Synthetic Blood, Flying Submarine, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Limbs, Flying Armored Car.
New nanoscience lab targets 'quantum weirdness' →
“A new quantum nanoscience lab that opened in Sydney last week aims to understand the physical limits of ‘quantum weirdness’.”
Entangled diamonds vibrate together →
“Diamonds have been linked with quantum entaglement - “spooky action at a distance”.”