mel | Shared With: Everyone - 9 days ago | science, atom smashing, armageddon
Suh-weeeeet....
Quoted: The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2008 | science, embryonic stem cells, videoQuoted: After two weeks, the researchers had created a culture that included all three kinds of heart cells, and – importantly – no others. Even in a Petri dish, the cells beat.
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2008 | science, baby, cerealHuh.
Quoted: "If you want a boy, eat a healthy diet with a high calorie intake, including breakfast," says Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter in the UK, and lead researcher of the study.
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 07 2008 | astronomy, science, ET
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 26 2008 | space, whodathunk?, science, what goes around comes around
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 01 2007 | science, nanotechnology
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 06 2007 | science, research, babyQuoted: The association between breastfeeding and intelligence has been hotly debated. Fatty acids uniquely present in breast milk were thought to be behind why children who are breastfed as babies do better in IQ tests than those not given breast milk.
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2007 | science, color, genderHmmmm....
Quoted: As expected from previous work, both sexes rated blues as best. But analysis of all the colour comparisons revealed that the women had a significantly higher preference for blues with "pinkish" undertones – such as lilac – whereas men tend to lean towards purer blues.
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 16 2007 | energy, environment, biofuel, oil, news, science
Interesting...
Quoted: It sounds counterintuitive, but burning oil and planting forests to compensate is more environmentally friendly than burning biofuel. So say scientists who have calculated the difference in net emissions between using land to produce biofuel and the alternative: fuelling cars with gasoline and replanting forests on the land instead.
mel | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 02 2007 | brain, news, science
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