Archive for the ‘Biology’ Category
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
The possibility of life on Mars has been debated almost since the invention of the telescope.
Annual growth and shrinkage of the martian ice caps and seasonal changes in color were observed by astronomers such as Herschel and Whewell in the 18th and 19th centuries. Late in the 19th century, Schiaparelli ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed a wireless antenna that channels signals along human skin could broadcast signals over your body to connect up medical implants or portable gadgets. The new power-efficient approach could make more of established medical devices like pacemakers or help future implants distributed around ...
Posted in Biology, Embedded, Energy, Future, Gadgets, Innovative, Life, Networking, Research, Science, Technology, Trends | 8 Comments »
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes -- visual aids to help vision-impaired people, ...
Posted in Biology, Fiction, Future, Innovative, Life, Research, Science, Science Fiction | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Lonestar, a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) recently performed a laser cancer surgery on a dog without the intervention of a surgeon. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was ...
Posted in Biology, Computers, Future, Innovative, Linux, Research, Science, Science Fiction, Super Computing, Technology, Trends | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as vitamin B-2) is responsible for much of the energy produced by these organisms.
The bacteria, Shewanella, are commonly found in water and soil and are of interest because they can convert simple ...
Posted in Biology, Energy, Future, Innovative, Research, Science, Trends | 3 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers. The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people.
Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere. The visual ...
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