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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.
Why 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, [...]
Should 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?
Guardian 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!!!
Siberia 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.
In 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.
Did 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 [...]
An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level has been launched by IBM and a Swiss university team. Called the “Blue Brain” project, it will involve building a custom-made supercomputer based on IBM’s Blue Gene design.
The hope is that the virtual brain will help [...]
Here’s some good news from the Jordan: Israel, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Palestine Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria, Jordan and many other countries from around the globe (click below graph for a list of other countries), need no “Open SESAME magic” to be able to cooperate on an advanced scientific project.
In [...]
Rubbish dumps of Oxyrhynchus, a city that flourished after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. reveals texts of Trojan Wars and early Christian gospels that do not appear in the New Testament. Originally developed by NASA scientists and used to map the surface of Mars, multispectral imaging was successfully applied [...]
In the �70s and �80s, the banana companies Dole, Del Monte and Chiquita used a carcinogenic pesticide, Nemagon, to protect their crops in Nicaragua. Today, the men and women who worked on those plantations suffer from incurable illnesses. Their children are deformed. The companies feign innocence… Nemagon�also known as dibromochloropropane, or DBCP�was developed in the [...]
Researchers in the US are using old inkjet printers to produce sheets of human skin to be used on burn victims. They think that this ’skin-printing’ method will minimize rejections by patients and reduce post-operative complications. In this article, the Wall Street Journal (paid registration needed) writes that while the technology is still in its [...]
An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far.
In June 2004, surgeons implanted a device containing 100 electrodes into the motor cortex [...]
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