Archive for February, 2008
Quantum Teleporting, Yes; the Rest Is Movie Magic
In a battle waged with popcorn, floodlights, chalk and star power, science and art squared off at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology one night last month in regards to the upcoming film Jumper.
Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 — a cosmic fossil?
The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, seen in this latest image from Hubble, belongs to a category of galaxies called giant ellipticals. The small galaxies surrounding it are dubbed a fossil group.
Embryos Created With DNA From 3 People
British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.
Nanotechnology: Entirely New Way Of Storing Gas Created
A new process for catching gas from the environment and holding it indefinitely in molecular-sized containers has been developed.
Just How Nasty Is Space Food?
Astronauts flying the space shuttle or working the International Space Station (ISS) can choose among 180 food and beverage items.
Cool spacedust survey goes into orbit
University of Nottingham astronomers will be studying icy cosmic dust millions of light years away using the biggest space telescope ever built.
Tiny camera implanted inside a mouse?s brain
Japanese researchers have implanted a small camera inside a mouse?s brain to see how memory is formed, in an experiment they hope someday to apply to humans to treat illnesses.
String Theory Gets a Boost
Among the scientific theories that excite a great deal of controversy are those theories that deal with strings. And the idea of cosmic strings gets as much play as any in scientific circles.
Nova Finding Challenges Thinking On Powerful Stellar Explosions
First results from a new NASA-funded scientific instrument are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful explosions called novae and have produced the first unified model for a nearby nova called RS Ophiuchi.
Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles
A new computerized scan of the biomedical research literature has turned up tens of thousands of articles in which entire passages appear to have been lifted from other papers. Researchers estimate that there may be as many as 200,000 duplicates among some 17 million papers in leading research database Medline.
Rogue Stars: The Miscreants of Our Galaxy
A young star speeding away from the Milky Way is in fact an alien visitor, astronomers have confirmed. The wayward object is one of several rogues that are giving astronomers a glimpse into the volatile nature of our galaxy and others.
Funding shortfalls threaten science research
Scientists are chafing at the U.S. government’s unfulfilled pledge to boost funding for basic scientific research, the source of innovations ranging from the World Wide Web to high-tech cancer treatments.
Lasers Make Other Metals Look Like Gold
In a feat of optical alchemy a postdoctoral researcher uses ultrashort laser bursts to pockmark the surface of a metal in a way that is not perceptible to the touch.
Dark Fluid: Dark Matter And Dark Energy May Be Two Faces Of Same Coin
Astronomers at the University of St Andrews believe they can “simplify the dark side of the universe” by shedding new light on two of its mysterious constituents.
