Lightning Appears To Strike St. Peter's Basilica Hours After Pope Benedict XVI Announces Resignation (PHOTO, VIDEO)Lightning appeared to strike St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on Monday just hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, according to the BBC. The lightning strike happened around 6 p.m. local time.
MIT Team Creates Genetic Circuits From Bacteria That Remember Logical FunctionsA team of engineers from MIT has created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that can not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results. These functions can then be encoded within the cell’s DNA and can be passed on in other cells for dozens of generations. The research,... Continue Reading →
MIT Team Creates Genetic Circuits From Bacteria That Remember Logical Functions
MIT Team Creates Genetic Circuits From Bacteria That Remember Logical FunctionsA team of engineers from MIT has created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that can not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results. These functions can then be encoded within the cell’s DNA and can be passed on in other cells for dozens of generations. The research,... Continue Reading →
MIT Team Creates Genetic Circuits From Bacteria That Remember Logical Functions
Pope resignsPope Benedict XVI made history Monday by announcing his coming resignation—something a pontiff has not done in 600 years.
Pope resigns
As use drops, companies get ‘help’ hyping HFCS to customersWith consumption of high fructose corn syrup appearing to be on the decline, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) seems to have redoubled its efforts to keep this increasingly unpopular ingredient in foods and beverages.According to a recent Bloomberg news story the amount of corn used to... Continue Reading →
As use drops, companies get ‘help’ hyping HFCS to customers
NASA unveils atlas of infrared photos of the sky from the WISE spacecraftNASA unveiled an unusual atlas and catalog of infrared images of the entire sky on Wednesday that includes more than 500 million stars, galaxies and other objects that have been captured by theWide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft.Caltech/UCLAA mosaic of the images... Continue Reading →
NASA unveils atlas of infrared photos of the sky from the WISE spacecraft
Flying without the use of rotors
http://youtu.be/O020Bh9O4qo A 1 in a million shot, the shutterspeed of the camera and the rotor speed of the helo are perfectly synchronized
Are We Running Out Of Scientific Geniuses?In the latest issue of Nature, Dean Keith Simonton argues that modern science is just building on what's already known, rather than upending what we think we know.By Rebecca BoylePosted 02.01.2013 at 9:59 am40 Comments Is the world clear out of geniuses? Will we ever have another Copernicus, another Darwin, another Einstein to... Continue Reading →
Are We Running Out Of Scientific Geniuses?
Supercomputer Will Simulate the Human BrainEven in the 21st century, there are still a lot of unsolved mysteries when it comes to the human brain. It is a complicated machine that neuroscientists continually try to understand.A new scientific endeavor hopes to unravel some of these mysteries by creating a highly detailed simulation of the human... Continue Reading →
Supercomputer Will Simulate the Human Brain
Kim Dotcom puts up $13,500 bounty for first person to break Mega’s security systemKim Dotcom is so confident in the security system at Mega, the newly launched file storage service, that the New Zealand-based German is offering a bounty of €10,000 (approx. US$13,580) to the first person who breaks it.
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