How to trick your brain into remembering what you study
Minggu, 30 Januari 2011
Scientists make next-generation computers with gold and DNA
Researchers have fabricated a lattice out of gold and virus fragments. It could make your computer much faster. And turn it into a biologic...
Building Microbial Fuel Factories
Grow lights illuminate flasks of photosynthetic microörganisms that produce biofuels. Credit: Bob O’Connor Viewed from a biofuels pe...
Brain Control
Ed Boyden is learning how to alter behavior by using light to turn neurons on and off. Seeing lights: In his MIT lab, Ed Boyden stu...
Transgenic Worms Make Tough Fibers
Jumat, 28 Januari 2011
These silk fibers, made by transgenic silkworms, contain strengthening spider proteins and green fluorescent proteins. ...
PROCCESS OF COLOUR, HOW IS IT HAPPEN
Some details have an important place in the minds of humans and they never change. Let us begin with trees, ...
Communication and Signalling in the Language of Birds
Scientific research has revealed that throughout the living world, communication is just as important as it is to human beings. Countles...
New Magnets Could Solve Our Rare-Earth Problems
Kamis, 27 Januari 2011
Researchers are working on composites that would make strong magnets that need less of the hard-to-get ingredients. Stronger, li...
A Cheaper Way to Clean Water
Low sodium: Jacob Roy, an employee at desalination startup Oasys Water, takes measurements at a new development facility in Boston. Cred...
Guangzhou, China, Wins Sustainable Transport Prize
Selasa, 25 Januari 2011
The award-winning transport system in Guangzhou, in south China's Guangdong province...
World's Oldest Optical Illusion Found?
Long before the famous duck-rabbit illusion (seen at right), prehistoric artists were creating mind-bending double images of their own, acc...
Hydropolis Underwater Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Hydropolis is the world’s first luxury underwater hotel . It will include three elements: the land station, where guests will b...
10 Countries with the Largest Armed Forces
Jumat, 21 Januari 2011
Even with diplomacy being the backbone the international scenario nowadays, countries find the need to spend a sizeable percentage of thei...
Science of Boomerangs: How to Make & Throw the Aussie Magic
Selasa, 18 Januari 2011
At the preseason tryouts for the U.S. Boomerang Team in Greenfield, Mass., one figure stands out among the hacky sack players and pizza d...
The Mesothelioma
The deadly disease of mesothelioma is diagnosed in close to 3,000 Americans each year. The only established cause of this cancer is expo...
Natural Purple Pigments In Fruits, Vegetables And Berries, Such As Blueberries, May Help Prevent Obesity
Scientists in Arkansas are reporting new evidence that natural pigments responsible for the beautiful blue/purple/reddish color of ce...
Bioactive Compounds in Berries Can Reduce High Blood Pressure
Eating blueberries can guard against high blood pressure, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Harva...
Where Unconscious Memories Form
Jumat, 14 Januari 2011
A small area deep in the brain called the perirhinal cortex is critical for forming unconscious conceptual memories, researchers at the U...
Wink Glasses Remind Computer Users to Blink
Wink Glasses Technology has replaced conscious memory in so many aspects of our lives, reminding us of our appointments or alerting us w...
Improving Plants: New Software Quantifies Leaf Venation Networks, Enables Plant Biology Advances
Plant biologists are facing pressure to quantify the response of plants to changing environments and to breed plants that can respond to ...
Langganan:
Postingan (Atom)