Does the Higgs boson particle exits? What happens if we find it and what if we don’t? These are just a few of the questions discussed in this hour long video as a panel of scientists discus the search for Higgs boson at the 2012 Columbia Science Forum on searching for the Higgs particle. The [...]
April 26, 2012
Three Earthlike Planets Could be Hospitable to Life
As NASA’s Kepler Mission continues to supply important data and continuously monitors stars for transit signals, astronomers from Cornell University focused on 80 M dwarf stars for Earthlike planets. In doing so, the researchers found three planets orbiting within their host stars’ “habitable zones,” an important spot for determining whether life as we know it [...]
April 26, 2012
Study Blames Warm Ocean Currents for Majority of Ice Loss in Antarctica
Using new techniques with satellite measurements to differentiate between the warm ocean currents attacking the underside ice shelves and warm air melting it from above, a team of scientists established that warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica. Their findings are being published this week (Thursday 26 April) in [...]
April 26, 2012
3-D X-Ray Reveals Fibers that Control Heart Rhythm
A new technique developed by scientists at the University of Liverpool may help medical experts develop ways to reduce the risk of fibrillation by showing them a 3-D image of the heart and the fibers that control heart rhythm. The new 3-D images could further understanding of how the body’s heartbeat can be disturbed, which [...]
April 26, 2012
Ion Crystal Set to Power Quantum Simulator
Quantum computers are getting closer to reality as scientists created the ion crystal that will allow this quantum simulator to perform calculations that eclipses the current maximum capacity of any known computer by an astonishing 10 to the power of 80. The ion-crystal used is poised to create one of the most powerful computers ever [...]
April 26, 2012
A Closer Look at Titan’s Chemical Production
Two new papers published in the Astrophysical Journal describe the process of hydrocarbon creation on Saturn’s moon Titan and predicted how long Titan’s chemical factory has been running by modeling how concentrations of methane on the surface change over time. The papers are backed by data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and the European Space Agency’s [...]
April 26, 2012
Nanotextures Make Anti-Fogging, Self-Cleaning and Glare-Free Glass
Are you tried of foggy windows on rainy days and glare coming off your TV screen? Scientists at MIT have developed a new process of creating glass that uses surface nanotextures that are self-cleaning and resists fogging and glare. The researchers believe this “multifunctional” glass could improve upon a variety of products from photovoltaic panels [...]
April 26, 2012
Proteins in Mucus Offer Immune Protection
It turns out that mucus may not be just a messy side effect of colds and sickness. Biological engineers at MIT are exploring the antiviral properties of mucins, a component of mucus, and found that mucus is the body’s first line of defense, allowing nutrients to enter and keeping out pathogens such as certain dangerous [...]
April 25, 2012
Nanomedicine BIND-014 to Enter Human Clinical Studies
The cancer drug, BIND-014, is the first targeted and programmed nanomedicine to enter human clinical studies. A newly published study demonstrate BIND-014’s ability to effectively target a receptor expressed in tumors to achieve high tumor drug concentrations and could potentially revolutionize how diseases such as cancer are treated. A team of scientists, engineers and physicians [...]
April 25, 2012
Quantum Photon Gun Could be Basis for Quantum Information Processing
The advent of a quantum internet, one based upon single photons used to encode and send information, which in turn is protected by quantum cryptography, has become more likely, thanks to the development of a photon gun that can fire pairs of photons on demand. The main reason why such a system is desirable is [...]
April 25, 2012
New Model May Rule Out the Presence of Dark Matter
Searching for dark matter and studying conventional models for the origin and evolution of the universe has led astronomers from the University of Bonn to assemble data in an effort to better understand what surrounds our galaxy. Their analysis of this data paints a new picture of our cosmic neighborhood, which appears to rule out [...]
April 25, 2012
Billionaires and Futurists Plan Space Missions to Mine Asteroids for Metals
It’s been long thought, especially in science-fiction, that once Earth’s dwindling metallic resources dry up, the human race would look to the stars for precious metals. While this has been posited for decades in science-fiction literature, this is the first time that futurists are actually planning missions to harvest asteroids from space for metals. Asteroids [...]
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