MKaku.org – Official Website of Dr. Michio Kaku

Quantum Teleporting, Yes; the Rest Is Movie Magic

MKaku.org — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:02:02 +0000

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?

MKaku.org — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:48:16 +0000

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

MKaku.org — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:22:50 +0000

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

MKaku.org — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:19:04 +0000

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?

MKaku.org — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:50:22 +0000

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

MKaku.org — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:43:24 +0000

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

MKaku.org — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:39:22 +0000

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

MKaku.org — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:35:26 +0000

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

MKaku.org — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:31:48 +0000

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

MKaku.org — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:38:31 +0000

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.