By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] We live in a world governed not by the biggest creatures, but by the smallest. Our bodies act as vessels for all that we call “ourselves,” forming a barrier between “out there” and “in here.” While that barrier is not as simple as a wall or a single membrane, […]
David Spiegelhalter’s proper title is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. He is in two minds (literally) about playing it safe or chucking caution to the wind. Decisions, decisions!? Are bacon sandwiches really that dangerous and is it wise to drive when you love cycling? David shows us how to use statistics to face […]
Last week we brought you news of a Japanese experiment involving slime mold recreating the work of railway network designers. It appears that in the world of slimy science, great minds think alike. Two scientists at the University of West England (based in the same city as the University of Bristol which recently managed to […]
A rap parody of gangsters paradise by IBM scientist John Cohn. Enjoy!
Anthony Atala’s state-of-the-art lab grows human organs — from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. In the following video, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that “prints” human tissue.
Slime mold may be a pain in the home, but it turns out it can teach us how to build more effective wireless networks. Researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan have just published the results of a study into how the mold spread. The testing was based on the idea that nature would find the […]
Another technology which could only be seen in sci-fi movies a decade ago will soon be available to law enforcement agencies everywhere. Check it out: [Via Newlaunches]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] You can read about science all you like, but until you see it in live action you never grasp the little moments that fill you with wonder. Here is such a moment for me… This past semester my professor showed us the following video of a neutrophil (a […]
A man living in Santa Fe, New Mexico claims that his neighbor’s wi-fi is making him sick. According to CNN, Arthur Firstenberg believes that since his neighbor moved in next door, he’s been experiencing a sickness and side effects so severe he’s had to go homeless entirely to escape the discomfort. Firstenberg cannot go to […]
Everyone knows the story of how Isaac Newton came to develop his understanding of gravity, but now a contemporary account of the incident is available to read in its original form. It’s part of a series of documents published by the Royal Society, a British scientific institution. Unlike most such projects, this involved publishing scans […]