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Not Sci-Fi Anymore. Seeing Through CONCRETE WALLS Is Now Possible !!!

Not Sci-Fi Anymore. Seeing Through CONCRETE WALLS Is Now Possible !!!

New radar technology provides real-time video of what's going on behind solid walls



The front of the phased array radar system developed by researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, which sends and receives signals of m

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   714   12 years ago

The FIRST ANCESTORS Of All Earth's LIVING CREATURES ( Including Us ) Might Have

The FIRST ANCESTORS Of All Earth's LIVING CREATURES ( Including Us ) Might Have

A birthplace for primitive life on Earth?



Serpentinites from Isua

The mud volcanoes at Isua, in south-west Greenland, have been identified as a possible birthplace for life on Earth by an international team heade

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   698   12 years ago

Water's Quantum Weirdness Makes Life Possible

Water's Quantum Weirdness Makes Life Possible

Water's Quantum Weirdness Makes Life Possible



Water very nearly wasn't like this

WATER'S life-giving properties exist on a knife-edge. It turns out that life as we know it relie

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   612   12 years ago

Do NEUTRINOS Travel Faster Than The Speed Of LIGHT ?

Do NEUTRINOS Travel Faster Than The Speed Of LIGHT ?

In September 2011, an international group of scientists made an astonishing claim - they detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light. It was a claim that contradicted more than a hundred years of scientific orthodoxy. Suddenly there was talk of all kinds of bizarre concepts, from time trave

News Articles and Discussion   howard   702   12 years ago

Dreams read by brain scanner for the first time

Dreams read by brain scanner for the first time

Dreams read by brain scanner for the first time



Now we can recognise what's inside

The secret world of dreams could soon be cracked open. Innovative neuroscientists have already begun to figure out

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   509   12 years ago

Bacteria Might Rejuvenate And Stay Biologically Immortal By Transferring Most Of

Bacteria Might Rejuvenate And Stay Biologically Immortal By Transferring Most Of

Do bacteria age? Biologists discover the answer follows simple economics

When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful population of bacteria. Bacteria, in other words, don't

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   607   12 years ago

Archaeopteryx was first bird after all

Archaeopteryx was first bird after all

Archaeopteryx was first bird after all



The crown of the famous 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx fossil as the first bird has been restored by a new evolutionary tree.

In a study published today in the journal Bi

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   525   12 years ago

Growing without cell division

Growing without cell division

Growing without cell division



This is a color-coded image of human chromosomes.

An international team of scientists, including biologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, may have pinpointed for

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   551   12 years ago

Biodiversity can promote survival on a warming planet

Biodiversity can promote survival on a warming planet

Biodiversity can promote survival on a warming planet



Whether a plant and its pollinator survive rapid climate change can depend upon the density and distribution of other species in the community, according to a new study.

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   566   12 years ago

MARS TRAVEL Simulation Ends After 520 Days

MARS TRAVEL Simulation Ends After 520 Days

Space station may be site for next mock Mars mission



A 17-month mock mission to Mars on Earth could be followed up by a shorter simulation in low-Earth orbit, Russian space officials say.

Today, a six-ma

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   514   12 years ago

Scientists identify genes that may signal long life in naked mole-rats

Scientists identify genes that may signal long life in naked mole-rats

Scientists identify genes that may signal long life in naked mole-rats

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified high levels of a number of genes in the naked mole-rat that may suggest why they live longer than other rodents and demonstrate resistance to age-related diseases.

The Liverpool team has rec

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   501   12 years ago

Researchers identify brain cells responsible for keeping us awake

Researchers identify brain cells responsible for keeping us awake

Researchers identify brain cells responsible for keeping us awake

Bright light arouses us. Bright light makes it easier to stay awake. Very bright light not only arouses us but is known to have antidepressant effects. Conversely, dark rooms can make us sleepy. It's the reason some people use masks to make sure light doesn'

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   630   12 years ago

Short Sharp Science: Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help

Short Sharp Science: Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help

Short Sharp Science: Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help



The day has come when giant spider robots do our bidding. Artificial ones, anyhow.

This creepy crawly mobile robot is a prototype designed as

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   529   12 years ago

Michio Kaku on The Singularity

Michio Kaku on The Singularity

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku discusses his thoughts and solution to the Singularity. Excerpt from the tv series Sci Fi Science.

News Articles and Discussion   duddy   690   12 years ago

Tweaking a gene makes muscles twice as strong

Tweaking a gene makes muscles twice as strong

Tweaking a gene makes muscles twice as strong

A team of researchers at EPFL, the University of Lausanne and the Salk Institute created super strong, marathon mice and nematodes by reducing the function of a natural inhibitor, suggesting treatments for age-related or genetically caused muscle degeneration are within reach.

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   519   12 years ago

Biologists uncover a novel cellular proofreading mechanism

Biologists uncover a novel cellular proofreading mechanism

Biologists uncover a novel cellular proofreading mechanism

To make proteins, cells assemble long chains of amino acids, based on genetic instructions from DNA. That construction takes place in a tiny cellular structure called a ribosome, to which amino acids are delivered by transfer RNA (tRNA).

Each of the 20 amino

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   510   12 years ago

BIG-BANG Primordial Clouds Might Have Been FOUND !!!

BIG-BANG Primordial Clouds Might Have Been FOUND !!!

Astronomers find pristine clouds of primordial gas from the early Universe



The two pristine gas clouds found by astronomers could sit in one of the filamentary regions visible around galaxies in this and the below image, which a

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   751   12 years ago

Every way devised to deflect an asteroid

Every way devised to deflect an asteroid

Every way devised to deflect an asteroid



Concept for a possible gravity tractor.

With asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close by Earth yesterday, this rather unsettlingly near flyby has many people wondering if we woul

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   968   12 years ago

Is Your Behaviour Being Altered By Brain Invaders ?

Is Your Behaviour Being Altered By Brain Invaders ?

Brain Parasite Directly Alters Brain Chemistry

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Brain cyst.

Research shows infection by the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in 10-20 per cent of the UK's population, direc

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   767   12 years ago

CERN Scientists Might Have Found ASYMMETRY Between Matter And Anti-Matter !!!

CERN Scientists Might Have Found ASYMMETRY Between Matter And Anti-Matter !!!

Charming surprise: First evidence for CP violation in charm decays



The LHCb Collaboration has presented today at the Hadron Collider Particle Symposium in Paris possible first evidence for CP violation, the difference between beha

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   686   12 years ago

IAA says 'Yes We Can' to power plants in orbit

IAA says 'Yes We Can' to power plants in orbit

Scientists from around the world have completed a study that says harvesting the sun's energy in space can turn out to be a cost effective way of delivering the world’s needs for power in as little as 30 years. As important, the report says that orbiting power p

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   667   12 years ago

Paying for sex and 'playing dead' - the deceitful gift-giving spider

Paying for sex and 'playing dead' - the deceitful gift-giving spider

Paying for sex and 'playing dead' - the deceitful gift-giving spider



Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) prepare silk-wrapped gifts to give to potential mates. Most gifts contain insects, but some gifts are inedible pla

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   748   12 years ago

E. coli could convert sugar to biodiesel at 'an extraordinary rate'

E. coli could convert sugar to biodiesel at 'an extraordinary rate'

E. coli could convert sugar to biodiesel at 'an extraordinary rate'



Xingye Yu, a graduate student in chemical engineering, and Professor Chaitan Khosla examine a culture of e. coli bacteria.

When it comes

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   741   12 years ago

World's lightest material developed

World's lightest material developed

World's lightest material developed



Ultralight metallic microlattice with a density of 0.9 mg/cm3.

A team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technolo

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   493   12 years ago

Liquid could power and cool mobile supercomputers

Liquid could power and cool mobile supercomputers

Liquid could power and cool mobile supercomputers



Computer chips could become wetware

GETTING microchips wet is normally best avoided. But a new type of chip that is both powered and coole

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   895   12 years ago

Hyperactive neurons build brains in synaesthesia

Hyperactive neurons build brains in synaesthesia

Hyperactive neurons build brains in synaesthesia



Neurons with hyperactive tendencies may help to explain the mysterious mechanisms that cause synaesthesia. The discovery could help develop treatments for other visual ano

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   689   12 years ago

New Experiments Confirm That Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light

New Experiments Confirm That Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light

New results show neutrinos still faster than light



One of the most staggering results in physics – that neutrinos may go faster than light – has not gone away with two further weeks of observations. The researchers behin

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   836   12 years ago

Range Ecology

Range Ecology

Do not know how many people know much about this particular area. It is what I specialized in and worked as a rangeland management specialist with the state and federal government. Rangeland Ecology is the science of the relationships between rangeland plants, animals and their environment. It is one area that you need great knowledge of plants (native and invasive), soils, grazing

News Articles and Discussion   oaktree   559   12 years ago

DR. QUANTUM - DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT

DR. QUANTUM - DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   617   12 years ago

Psychopaths' brains show differences in structure and function

Psychopaths' brains show differences in structure and function

Psychopaths' brains show differences in structure and function



Modern human brain.

Images of prisoners' brains show important differences between those who are diagnosed as psychopaths and those who aren'

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   497   12 years ago

Ultralight squishy metal bends like rubber

Ultralight squishy metal bends like rubber

Ultralight squishy metal bends like rubber

A new metallic material has surprising properties: it's almost as light as air and can bounce back into shape after being compressed. Created by Tobias Schaedler and his team from HRL Laboratories, you can watch it get squished then regain its original form in this video.

To cr

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   533   12 years ago

Implanted neurons, grown in the lab, take charge of brain circuitry

Implanted neurons, grown in the lab, take charge of brain circuitry

Implanted neurons, grown in the lab, take charge of brain circuitry

Among the many hurdles to be cleared before human embryonic stem cells can achieve their therapeutic potential is determining whether or not transplanted cells can functionally integrate into target organs or tissues.

Writing today in the Proceedings

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   606   12 years ago

Scientists turn on fountain of youth in yeast

Scientists turn on fountain of youth in yeast

Scientists turn on fountain of youth in yeast

Collaborations between Johns Hopkins and National Taiwan University researchers have successfully manipulated the life span of common, single-celled yeast organisms by figuring out how to remove and restore protein functions related to yeast aging.

A chemical variation of

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   577   12 years ago

Stranded Mars probe sends further signals

Stranded Mars probe sends further signals

Stranded Mars probe sends further signals



Phobos-Grunt is Russia's most ambitious space venture in years

More attempts have been made by the European Space Agency (Esa) to contact the stricken

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   798   12 years ago

How brilliant computer scientists solved the Bermuda Triangle mystery

How brilliant computer scientists solved the Bermuda Triangle mystery

How brilliant computer scientists solved the Bermuda Triangle mystery



According to two research scientists the mystery of vanished ships and airplanes in the region dubbed "The Bermuda Triangle" has been solved.

Step

News Articles and Discussion   chemb   678   12 years ago

BIOTECHNOLOGY Is Already Making EXTRAORDINARY CURES, But Hyperbolic Regulation I

BIOTECHNOLOGY Is Already Making EXTRAORDINARY CURES, But Hyperbolic Regulation I

BIOTECHNOLOGY Is Already Making EXTRAORDINARY CURES, But Hyperbolic Regulation Is Preventing Most People Benefiting From It Rapidly

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   767   12 years ago

Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming

Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming

Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming

Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to ‘junk food’ - and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it.

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News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   944   12 years ago

Why People's INTUITION Is WRONG In Many cases And In Most People

Why People's INTUITION Is WRONG In Many cases And In Most People

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   661   12 years ago

First teeth grew outside of the body

First teeth grew outside of the body

First teeth grew outside of the body



Cheek scales on prehistoric ischnacanthid acanthodian fish like this one, appear to have evolved into teeth, say researchers

The world's first teeth grew outside of the mouth befo

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   685   12 years ago

DARPA calls for antibiotic replacement

DARPA calls for antibiotic replacement

DARPA calls for antibiotic replacement



Penicillin, the first natural antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928

Most everyone that has been keeping abreast of world events knows that the clock i

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   489   12 years ago