At last, something worth the money spent:
Saudi supercomputer lures researchers
By Asma Alsharif
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world's largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state.
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is due [...]
Some interesting readings to start your cyber day:
Via Channel 4: In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a process of non-thinking called faith'. Dawkins is well known for bringing to a wide audience the complex scientific concepts that underpin evolution. His first book, The Selfish Gene was an [...]
Should you have any to waste, read these:
1. Pigs glow in the dark:
Scientists in Taiwan have used jellyfish genes and created pigs that glow in the dark.
They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green. Although the pigs glow, they are otherwise no [...]
Nasa team sees explosion on Moon and two-headed snake 'up for auction' then Yahoo shapes up online video project Reality TV on the Internet and finally a British woman marries Dolphin.
Also tagged Moon, NASA, News You Can Do Without, UK, WomanWhy Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?
I've got this alert today by email. Honestly, when I first read the title "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?" I said to myself; not again! But then went on to explore what's in the research. And to be honest with you, the guy caught my attention.
As he [...]
I was not in Jordan when the rumors started about earthquake hits Jordan. But following up the news from Jordan, and small poll at JP, I came to the conclusion that this Earthquake thing is nothing more than a rumor (following the majority of the vote, which I presume are living in Jordan).
However, it was [...]
Winner, Visions of Science Photographic Awards. (BBC; official site)
Science is cool (not really, but that's what we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better). The coolest science pictures you're going to see all day. Check out the Top 10 Winners of the Visions of Science Photographic Awards. I'm partial to 6 and 7, [...]
Also tagged Art, Award, News, PhotoShould Scientists Mix God and Science?
At a recent scientific conference at City College of New York, a student in the audience rose to ask the panelists an unexpected question: "Can you be a good scientist and believe in God?"
The answer was quick and sharp. "No!" declared Herbert A. Hauptman, a Nobel laureates who shared the [...]
In the wake of this month's military coup, Mauritania has established its first ministry for education and scientific research. Can you believe that?
Also tagged Coup, Good News, Mauritania, Science and TechnologyGuardian suggests that it may soon be possible to produce meat without the need to kill animals. Scientists have adapted the cutting-edge medical technique of tissue engineering, where individual cells are multiplied into whole tissues, and applied them to food production. With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply. Yaaakhh!!!
Also tagged (Mis) Use of TechnologySiberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting.
Also tagged Bleeding Edge, Science and TechnologyIn cutting-edge experiments, scientists have injected human brain cells into monkey fetuses to study the effects.
Scientists have been warned that their latest experiments may accidently produce monkeys with brains more human than animal.
An eminent committee of American scientists will call for restrictions into the research, saying the outcome of such studies cannot be predicted and [...]
A Star on Earth: France build a 10bn-euro nuclear fusion reactor. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) will be the most expensive joint scientific project after the International Space Station. Nuclear fusion is seen as a cleaner approach to power production than nuclear fission and fossil fuels.
Also tagged France, Fusion, Good News, ISS, Iter, Nuclear, Science and Technology, Star, TechnologyDid you read this story? Scientists Raise The Dead In Dog Experiments:
US SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with [...]
A couple of months ago, the Japanese entertainment giant Sony has patented an idea for transmitting data directly into the brain, with the goal of enabling a person to see movies and play video games in which they smell, taste and perhaps even feel things, it was reported today.
That sounded science fiction? Today I came [...]
