Scientists Measure Dream Content for the First Time: Dreams Activate the Brain in a Similar Way to Real Actions

Scientists Measure Dream Content for the First Time: Dreams Activate the Brain in a Similar Way to Real Actions

  9:51:00 PM    Science Lover

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The ability to dream is a fascinating aspect of the human mind. However, how the images and emotions that we experience so intensively when we dream form in our heads remains a mystery. Up to now it has not been possible to measure dream content. Max Planck scientists working...

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Design Rules Will Enable Scientists to Use DNA to Build Nanomaterials With Desired Properties

Design Rules Will Enable Scientists to Use DNA to Build Nanomaterials With Desired Properties

  12:35:00 AM    Science Lover

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Nature is a master builder. Using a bottom-up approach, nature takes tiny atoms and, through chemical bonding, makes crystalline materials, like diamonds, silicon and even table salt. In all of them, the properties of the crystals depend upon the type and arrangement of...

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Global Warming Is Real, New Analysis Confirms

Global Warming Is Real, New Analysis Confirms

  9:38:00 PM    Science Lover

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Global warming is real, according to a major study released Oct. 20. Despite issues raised by climate change skeptics, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study finds reliable evidence of a rise in the average world land temperature of approximately 1°C since the mid-1950s. Comparison...

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Pi enthusiast calculates it to ten trillion digits

Pi enthusiast calculates it to ten trillion digits

  10:01:00 AM    Science Lover

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Shigeru Kondo is a seriously committed guy. Ever since discovering he had an interest in calculating pi (aka π) back in his college days, he’s been following the results achieved by others using massive supercomputers. Now, in his late 50's, with some help from Northwestern...

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Mental time-travel in birds

Mental time-travel in birds

  10:22:00 AM    Science Lover

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Certain types of birds may track army ant swarms using sophisticated memory and the ability to plan for the future. White Whiskered Puff bird Credit: Glenn M Duggan FZS Some tropical birds collect their prey at army ant raids, where massive swarms of ants sweep...

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From Blue Whales to Earthworms, a Common Mechanism Gives Shape to Living Beings

From Blue Whales to Earthworms, a Common Mechanism Gives Shape to Living Beings

  10:19:00 AM    Science Lover

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Why don't our arms grow from the middle of our bodies? The question isn't as trivial as it appears. Vertebrae, limbs, ribs, tailbone ... in only two days, all these elements take their place in the embryo, in the right spot and with the precision of a Swiss watch. Intrigued...

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Dark Matter of the Genome Revealed

Dark Matter of the Genome Revealed

  10:29:00 AM    Science Lover

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6MK9UNF4B2AX An international team of researchers has discovered the vast majority of the so-called "dark matter" in the human genome, by means of a sweeping comparison of 29 mammalian genomes. The team, led by scientists from the Broad Institute, has pinpointed the...

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LHSee - Large Hadron Collider app - Big bang science in your pocket

LHSee - Large Hadron Collider app - Big bang science in your pocket

  2:46:00 AM    Science Lover

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Want to find out how to Hunt the Higgs Boson using your phone? Ever wondered how the Large Hadron Collider experiments work, and what the collisions look like? Scientists at the world's biggest scientific experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)at CERN,...

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Paralyzed man uses mind-powered robot arm to touch

Paralyzed man uses mind-powered robot arm to touch

  2:11:00 AM    Science Lover

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Giving a high-five. Rubbing his girlfriend's hand. Such ordinary acts - but a milestone for a paralyzed man. True, a robotic arm parked next to his wheelchair did the touching, painstakingly, palm to palm. But Tim Hemmes made that arm move just by thinking about it. Emotions...

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Graphene's 'Big Mac' creates next generation of chips

Graphene's 'Big Mac' creates next generation of chips

  10:03:00 AM    Science Lover

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The world's thinnest, strongest and most conductive material, discovered in 2004 at the University of Manchester by Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, has the potential to revolutionize material science. Artistic impression of graphene molecules. Image:...

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World's highest webcam brings Everest to Internet

World's highest webcam brings Everest to Internet

  8:54:00 PM    Science Lover

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The world's highest webcam has been installed in the Nepalese Himalayas, beaming live images of Mount Everest back to scientists studying the effects of climate change on the planet's tallest peak. This undated image released by German surveillance firm Mobotix...

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India to launch $45 tablet computer

India to launch $45 tablet computer

  9:48:00 AM    Science Lover

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India is set Wednesday to launch its long-awaited low-cost computer, a $45 tablet device designed to bring the information technology revolution to tens of millions of students. Indian customers visit the computer section at the Croma electronics mega-store in Mumbai...

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Electricity from the nose: Engineers make power from human respiration

Electricity from the nose: Engineers make power from human respiration

  8:59:00 AM    Science Lover

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The same piezoelectric effect that ignites your gas grill with the push of a button could one day power sensors in your body via the respiration in your nose. Graduate Student Jian Shi and Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Xudong Wang demonstrate a...

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