Search Results
-
Bookmark
Brightness variations of sun-like stars: The mystery deepensBorn from clouds of gas and dust, stars like our Sun spend most of their lifetime slowly burning their primary nuclear fuel, hydrogen, into the heavier element helium. After leading this bright and shiny life for several billion years, their fuel is almost exhausted and they start swelling, ...
JDP
added
12 days ago
-
Bookmark
Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentricNew research compares religious people's beliefs to their estimates of God's beliefs and the beliefs of other people. The research was led by Nicholas Epley, Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Religious people tend to use their own beliefs ...
JDP
added
2 weeks ago
-
Bookmark
Sandia's Sunshine-to-Petrol Machine Turns CO2 Into Fuel | Sustainability | Fast CompanyCarbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a questionable technology at best, so it's a good thing that scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have come up with a potential alternative--the Sunshine to Petrol machine, which supposedly turns CO2 into usable fuel. The device, technically ...
JDP
added
3 weeks ago
-
Finding more in 'most': Scientific study of an everyday wordWilliam Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about words, advised that "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." But the exact meaning of plain language isn't always easy to find. Even simple words like "most" and "least" can vary greatly in definition and interpretation, and are ...
JDP
added
4 weeks ago
-
Bookmark
Secret Math of Fly Eyes Could Overhaul Robot Vision | Wired Science | Wired.comBy turning the brain cell activity underlying fly eyesight into mathematical equations, researchers have found an ultra-efficient method for pulling motion patterns from raw visual data. Though they built the system, the researchers don’t quite understand how it works. But however mysterious ...
JDP
added
5 weeks ago
-
.jpg)
Bookmark
Scientists discover bacterium that transmutes gold, were the alchemists right?Scientist Frank Reith in Australia Gold is in the news, not only because of its record high at $1,060 an ounce according to the Globe and Mail , but also through Australian scientists’ recent study of a bacterium that plays a basic role in the cycle of solid gold formation.
Tima Vlasto
added
2 months ago
- SHARE
- VIEW IN TWINES (2)
- VIEW WEB PAGE
-
Bookmark
Rediscovering The Dragon's Paradise Lost: Komodo Dragons Most Likely Evolved In Australia, Dispersed To IndonesiaRediscovering The Dragon's Paradise Lost: Komodo Dragons Most Likely Evolved In Australia, Dispersed To Indonesia ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2009) — The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis ), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its ...
JDP
added
2 months ago
- SHARE
- VIEW IN TWINES (4)
- VIEW WEB PAGE
-
Bookmark
Humans spread out of Africa later | PhysorgModern humans spread out of Africa 20,000 years later than previously thought, according to new genetic research just published. Scientists, including the Natural History Museum’s human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer, re-examined how scientists get dates for key events in human ...
Amira's items
added
3 months ago
-
Bookmark
More ‘Evidence’ of Intelligent Design Shot Down by Science | Wired Science | Wired.comIntricate cellular components are often cited as evidence of intelligent design. They couldn’t have evolved, I.D. proponents say, because they can’t be broken down into smaller, simpler functional parts. They are irreducibly complex, so they must have been intentionally designed, as is, by an ...
JDP
added
3 months ago
-
Australian scientists hail triple dinosaur findAustralian scientists hail triple dinosaur find Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur at an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, 2008. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed ...
Al Wood
added
5 months ago
- SHARE
- VIEW IN TWINES (1)
- VIEW WEB PAGE