The GeoDa Center for Geographical Analysis & Computation, led by ASU Regents’ Professor Luc Anselin, has just released a new version of its signature software, OpenGeoDa. The software provides a user-friendly interface to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modeling. It has been used to better understand issues ranging from health care Read more about New software helps reveal patterns in space and time[…]
Two dwarf stars – oribiting each other every 13 minutes – have been observed to slightly change the size of their orbits as well as the time it takes to complete them. The effect occurs when expected to happen as they hit the waves. BBC News – Gravitational waves spotted from white-dwarf pair.
If you keep it in your mouth for a minute, it will cavity proof you for a few hours… Scientists Create Molecule to Make Teeth Cavityproof.
Dark matter filament found, scientists say – BostonHerald.com.
BAE systems has developed a system based on radio frequency systems to position itself. It’s a learning system that uses GPS to track it’s own location whilst reading the unique RF signals strength and ID. One Per Cent: TV and radio signals take over when GPS goes wrong.
Through a process involving thin layers of material deposited on a surface and then selectively etched away, the MIT team produced a surface covered with tiny cones, each five times taller than their width. This pattern prevents reflections, while at the same time repelling water from the surface via Researchers find a way to make Read more about Researchers find a way to make glass that’s anti-fogging, self-cleaning and free of glare[…]
Feeding rats bucky balls (Buckminster Fullerine) resulted in a doubling of the lifespan for rats. Immortality is coming! oral administration of C60 dissolved in olive oil (0.8 mg/ml) at reiterated doses (1.7 mg/kg of body weight) to rats not only does not entail chronic toxicity but it almost doubles their lifespan via ScienceDirect.com – Biomaterials Read more about The prolongation of the lifespan of rats by repeated oral administration of [60]fullerene[…]
All of Einstein’s notes and papers scanned and collected in one place for your perusal. Einstein Archives Online.
Life is an inordinately complex unsolved puzzle. Despite significant theoretical progress, experimental anomalies, paradoxes, and enigmas have revealed paradigmatic limitations. Thus, the advancement of scientific understanding requires new models that resolve fundamental problems. Here, I present a theoretical framework that economically fits evidence accumulated from examinations of life. This theory is based upon a straightforward Read more about Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life[…]
Want to think outside the box? Try actually thinking outside of a box. In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking and found that the instructions Read more about To ‘think outside the box’, think outside the box[…]
Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory | Wired Science | Wired.com.
Fit females make more daughters, mighty males get grandsons.
An insect’s internal chemicals can be converted to electricity, potentially providing power for sensors, recording devices or to control the bug, a group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University report. via Implanted biofuel cell converts bug’s chemistry into electricity: Scientists take step toward cyborgs.
2 glasses of cherry juice per day allows you to sleep on avg 39 minutes longer and more efficiently as well as reducing napping behaviour. Tart cherry juice drinkers gain sleep advantage.
Gene therapy can protect against HIV : Nature News & Comment.
By heating carbon nanotubes a Texas scientist has created a small invisibility cloak. Texas scientist Ali Aliev makes strands of a real ‘invisibility cloak’ | Mail Online.
Why do we lie? Robert Trivers has written a book “The Folly of Fools” that covers deception from an evolutionary standpoint. The evolution of deceit – Salon.com.
Using a variety of techniques, a fontface has been designed that makes it much easier for dyslectics to read texts. studiostudio, dyslexie lettertype, project dyslexia, dyslexie, lettertype dyslexie, project dyslexie.
These are useful for surgeons who need to operate and see beforehand what they will need to do. The current cost is in the thousands of pounds for a single model. Using NL company safeways as a printer slashes the costs significantly. BBC News – Plastic bones could save the NHS thousands of pounds.
Less efficient than proper solar panels, but cheaper and easy to install yourself. 3M film turns windows into transparent solar panels | ITworld.
Scientists say they have found a way to disarm the AIDS virus in research that could lead to a vaccine. Researchers have discovered that if they eliminate a cholesterol membrane surrounding the virus, HIV cannot disrupt communication among disease-fighting cells and the immune system returns to normal. Scientists have discovered that HIV needs cholesterol, which Read more about Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus’ Attack on Immune System[…]
The researchers have found neutrino’s that seem to go faster, but are putting this out as a request for confirmation. They believe it could be measuring errors but are looking for others to replicate their experiment or check their measurements. BBC News – Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern.
Time cloaking is possible because of a kind of duality between space and time in electromagnetic theory. In particular, the diffraction of a beam of light in space is mathematically equivalent to the temporal propagation of light through a dispersive medium. In other words, diffraction and dispersion are symmetric in spacetime. That immediately leads to Read more about First Demonstration of Time Cloaking[…]
For the first time, engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) have now developed a process to create “CIGS” solar cells with inkjet printing technology that allows for precise patterning to reduce raw material waste by 90 percent and significantly lower the cost of producing solar cells with promising, yet expensive compounds. The researchers focused on Read more about Inkjet print solar cells[…]
This article includes pictures of what the traffic managers see on their screens and how the information gets there. Unfortunately, ghost jams are generally caused by human idiot drivers: But often we have only ourselves to blame: staying in the middle lane rather than keeping to the left whenever possible, getting too close to the Read more about The dark science of the traffic jam: UK traffic explored in detail[…]