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 access to economic development to crime clusters. It is freely downloadable and open-source.

via New software helps reveal patterns in space and time.

You can download the software (and other analytics software) here

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.

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 – 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 and non-mathematical core model and proposes unique yet empirically consistent explanations for major phenomena including, but not limited to, quantum gravity, phase transitions of water, why living systems are predominantly CHNOPS
(carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur), homochirality of sugars and amino acids, homeoviscous adaptation, triplet code, and DNA mutations. The theoretical
framework unifies the macrocosmic and microcosmic realms, validates predicted laws of nature, and solves the puzzle of the origin and evolution of cellular life in the universe.

Erik D Andrulis

via Life | Free Full-Text | Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life.

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 it picks up from the first immune cells it infects, to keep the virus’ outer membrane fluid. That allows it to communicate with – and disrupt – the body’s immune system.

Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus’ Attack on Immune System | Health | English.

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 an interesting idea. Just as its easy to make a lens that focuses light in space using diffraction, so it is possible to use dispersion to make a lens that focuses in time.

Such a time-lens can be made using an electro-optic modulator, for example, and has a variety of familiar properties. “This time-lens can, for example, magnify or compress in time,” say Fridman and co.

This magnifying and compressing in time is important.

The trick to building a temporal cloak is to place two time-lenses in series and then send a beam of light through them. The first compresses the light in time while the second decompresses it again.

But this leaves a gap. For short period, there is a kind of hole in time in which any event is unrecorded.

So to an observer, the light coming out of the second time-lens appears undistorted, as if no event has occurred.

In effect, the space between the two lenses is a kind of spatio-temporal cloak that deletes changes that occur in short periods of time.

via First Demonstration of Time Cloaking  – Technology Review.

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 chalcopyrite, or “CIGS” – so named for the copper, indium, gallium and selenium elements of which it’s composed – due to its high solar efficiency. A layer of chalcopyrite one or two microns thick has the ability to capture the energy from photons about as efficiently as a 50-micron-thick layer made of silicon.

The researchers were able to create an ink that could print chalcopyrite onto substrates with an inkjet approach, with a power conversion efficiency of about five percent. While this isn’t yet high enough to create a commercially viable solar cell, the researchers say they expect to be able to achieve an efficiency of about 12 percent with continued research.

via Researchers cut waste and lower cost of ‘CIGS’ solar cells using inkjet printing technology.

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 car in front and subsequently having to brake, or simply changing lanes. When we overtake, for example – perhaps to get past the person in the middle lane – we create a space in the lane we’ve left. When that happens often enough, we create a phantom jam – a congestion from nowhere that will radiate exponentially backwards and take significantly longer to dissipate than it took to develop in the first place

via The dark science of the traffic jam: Ever wondered why you’re stuck in one when there’s no jam? | Mail Online.