BBC News recently covered a project at the intersection of theology and computer science, in which experts with scanners are digitizing and reassembling the world’s oldest bible… Read the rest “Tracing the Evolution of Religion”
A new research center is delving into a rich, as-yet-untapped reservoir of African medical knowledge, seeking new treatments for AIDS and other diseases by hoping, in effect, the witch-doctors… Read the rest “Investigating the Roots of Traditional African Medicine.”
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This is America’s answer to Sputnik, the Explorer I satellite, launched aboard the Jupiter C rocket on January 31, 1958. This satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Explorer I”
Some bright scientists in Boston (with a little help from the government) are turning energy-efficient lights into flickering wireless repeaters:
… Read the rest “The Light-Net.”Gizmodo:
The technology will be able
A new Vanderbilt University study demonstrates why learning an instrument and, like, rocking out can make your brain better – because musicians use both sides of their brains:
… Read the rest “Musicians have ambidextrous brains.”The
PhysOrg enters the presidential fray with a new UC Berkeley study that finds playing the terror card can backfire on political conservatives:
… Read the rest “Terror warnings undermine conservative candidates.”…[A] new national field study conducted
AP is carrying a poignant story about Israel’s first astronaut, whose diary survived the Columbia’s explosion over Palestine, Texas:
… Read the rest “Columbia Astronaut’s Diary Recovered”The U.S. space agency returned the
The aptly-named NoiseAddicts online magazine delves into some unusual research as Norwegian acoustic scientists study violinist Mari Kimura, who’s able to play sounds that she… Read the rest “Sounds that should not be.”
The same hormone that makes men hairy (and both genders feel frisky) is to blame for the current mess on Wall Street, say researchers:
… Read the rest “Testosterone fuels financial crisis.”Scientific American reports:
Men with more of the sex
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree power” company… Read the rest “If a potato can power a clock…”
Science Daily was recently buzzing about the decision-making strategies of bees:
… Read the rest “A Committee of Beehive Realtors?”Scientists had known that honeybee scouts “waggle dance” to report on food. Seeley and
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