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Calculating Space Threats

laboratoryequipment:

Space is a violent place. If a star explodes or black holes collide anywhere in our part of the Milky Way, they’d give off colossal blasts of lethal gamma-rays, X-rays and cosmic rays and it’s perfectly reasonable to expect Earth to be bathed in them. A new study of such events has yielded some new information about the potential effects of what are called “short-hard” interstellar radiation events.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Calculating-Space-Threats-101011.aspx

♥ 8 10th October 2011
scinerd: Does The Multiverse Really Exist? Proof of parallel universes radically different from our own may still lie beyond the domain of science The word “multiverse” has different meanings. Astronomers are able to see out to a distance of about 42 billion light-years, our cosmic visual horizon. We have no reason to suspect the universe stops there. Beyond it could be many—even infinitely many—domains much like the one we see. Each has a different initial distribution of matter, but the same laws of physics operate in all. Nearly all cosmologists today (including me) accept this type of multiverse, which Max Tegmark calls “level 1.” Yet some go further. They suggest completely different kinds of universes, with different physics, different histories, maybe different numbers of spatial dimensions. Most will be sterile, although some will be teeming with life. A chief proponent of this “level 2” multiverse is Alexander Vilenkin, who paints a dramatic picture of an infinite set of universes with an infinite number of galaxies, an infinite number of planets and an infinite number of people with your name who are reading this article. Briefing The notion of parallel universes leapt out of the pages of fiction into scientific journals in the 1990s. Many scientists claim that mega-millions of other universes, each with its own laws of physics, lie out there, beyond our visual horizon. They are collectively known as the multiverse. The trouble is that no possible astronomical observations can ever see those other universes. The arguments are indirect at best. And even if the multiverse exists, it leaves the deep mysteries of nature unexplained.
♥ 1096 10th October 2011
laboratoryequipment: Mercury Test is Cheaper, FasterWorldwide, about 1,000 tons of mercury is produced per year. The resulting pollution makes water and soil unusable, and poses substantial health risks to people nearby. Univ. of Utah researcher Ling Zang hopes to address this growing problem in China and beyond with a new test for detecting mercury. The test promises to be faster and cheaper than conventional tests, which require samples to be sent to a laboratory, can take weeks to process and can cost hundreds of dollars.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Mercury-Test-is-Cheaper-Faster-101011.aspx
♥ 35 10th October 2011
nicefigure: Folding principles of the human genome +citation
♥ 255 8th October 2011
laboratoryequipment: Scientist of the Week: Mariah EvansEvery Thursday, Laboratory Equipment features a Scientist of the Week, chosen from the science industry’s latest headlines. This week’s scientist is Mariah Evans from the Univ. of Nevada, Reno. Evans research showed that while stem cell research is a hotly debated topic most Americans support it. She talkes about her work here: www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-sow-Evans-100611.aspxThe original article can be read here: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-most-americans-support-stem-cell-research-062911.aspxDo you have a question for Mariah Evans? Let us know and we’ll pass it on!
♥ 3 6th October 2011
discoverynews: The Weather On Other Planets We might be inclined to believe that the weather on Earth is sometimes less than hospitable to the life that inhabits it.But compared to other planets, stars and bodies in the cosmos, the weather on Earth is downright mild. In fact, the storms on this tiny brown drawf located approximately 47 light-years away blow any earth storm away. Here’s a look at the weather on planets and galaxies near and far.
♥ 4226 3rd October 2011
ohscience: spiny-backed orbweaver spider (from wikipedia)
♥ 332 3rd October 2011
ohscience: the pompeii worm is the most heat’resistant animal on earth
♥ 137 3rd October 2011

December, 1974 - A Letter to Carl Sagan

jtotheizzoe:

Dear Carl,

I have just finished The Cosmic Connection and loved every word of it. You are my idea of a good writer because you have an unmannered style, and when I read what you write, I hear you talking.

One thing about the book made me nervous. It was entirely too obvious that you are smarter than I am. I hate that.

Yours,

Isaac Asimov

(Source: Shaun Usher of Letters of Note)

(via jamessteiner)

♥ 307 1st October 2011

"Why did the archaeopteryx catch a worm?
Because he was an early bird."

   ~   Submitted by Ria (via laboratoryequipment)
♥ 23 1st October 2011
sciencecenter: Tevatron shuttered after 27 years due to lack of funding Formerly the world’s most powerful particle accelerator (before CERN, of course), the Tevatron at Fermilab in Chicago was responsible for discovering the top quark, among other contributions to particle physics. According to scientists at Tevatron, the group was closing in on the elusive Higgs boson, an undiscovered particle tying the Standard Model of particle physics together. Friday marked the last time the particle beams would be turned on at the facility, due to a decision by the federal government to cease funding the lab. The annual budget of the Tevatron? $35 million. Just for reference, $35 million would fund the Afghanistan war for 144 minutes. This is awful
♥ 571 1st October 2011
mothernaturenetwork: Astronauts become ‘aquanauts’ for asteroid mission trainingNASA astronauts are set to travel deep undersea for the NEEMO 15 mission to simulate a manned trip to an asteroid.
♥ 53 27th September 2011
ohscience: hippocampal neurons
♥ 368 26th September 2011
♥ 85 24th September 2011

Scientists 'See' YouTube Videos in the Mind - ABC News

blogvader:

Wow… this is an incredible leap forward, perhaps we may even one day be able to read minds, or even record thoughts?

Per ABCNews:

California scientists have found a way to see through another person’s eyes.

Researchers from UC Berkeley were able to reconstruct YouTube videos from viewers’ brain activity — a feat that might one day offer a glimpse into our dreams, memories and even fantasies.

“This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery,” said Jack Gallant, professor of psychology and coauthor of a study published today in Current Biology. “We are opening a window into the movies in our minds.”

Gallant’s coauthors acted as study subjects, watching YouTube videos inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine for several hours at a time. The team then used the brain imaging data to develop a computer model that matched features of the videos — like colors, shapes and movements — with patterns of brain activity.

(via actioncityzoolife)

♥ 10 23rd September 2011
 

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