First Images Of Mars Released: A light parody…
First Images Of Mars Released
Alien Life : Chemical Fingerprints
Twenty-two year ago sensors on the spacecraft Galileo picked up the existence of life on planet Earth. No big surprise. But what was salient about the experiment was that the space probe’s analysis system reached an accurate conclusion. In their search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists are zeroing in on so-called exoplanets. To narrow…
Study Says: Romance Driven By Women
A study of mobile phone calls suggests that women call their spouse more than any other person. That changes as their daughters become old enough to have children, after which they become the most important person in their lives. The study has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. It also shows that men…
Study Says: Booze Makes You Smarter
A recent study from the University of Illinois claims that a certain level of alcohol can push the mind out of its comfort zone, creating space for new insights and boosting the problem-solving process. It also found that people who’ve had a drink are quicker at solving really, really complicated problems. For example: can you…
Robotic News For The Masses: Automated platforms are now “writing” news
Automated platforms are now “writing” news Can technology be autonomous? Does it lead a life of its own and operate independently of human guidance? From the French theologian Jacques Ellul to the Unabomber, this used to be widely accepted. Today, however, most historians and sociologists of technology dismiss it as naive and inaccurate….
Knowledge is power – economic power – and there’s a scramble for that power
Knowledge clusters” are being built in France to kick start hi-tech industries In the United States, Europe and in rising powers such as China, there is a growth-hungry drive to invest in hi-tech research and innovation. They are looking for the ingredients that, like Google, will turn a university project into a corporation. They are…
The Future Of Science
Frontier fables Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge. Edited by Max Brockman. Vintage; 272 pages; $15.95. To be published in Britain in October by Oxford University Press; £9.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk BACK when the scientific method was a radical new idea, and when science was the preserve of wealthy (or well-sponsored) gentleman amateurs,…
Voyager Moving Away From Solar System To Interstellar Space
Voyagers ride ‘magnetic bubbles’ By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News The domain of the Sun’s influence is called the heliosphere: The Voyagers are approaching the edge of this enormous balloon of charged particles thrown out into space by our star Related Stories To boldly go beyond the Solar System Voyager near Solar System’s…
Big Footed Giant Found Ancestors of 1500 years: Family alive in Ireland
The skeleton of the famous Irish Giant Charles Byrne, who lived from 1761 to 1783, exhibited at the Hunterian Museum in London.