For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains how it’s...
You might have seen some extraordinary teachers in your life or you might be lucky enough to be a student of one but Hans Rosling in this video is a Swedish professor of international health and also director of the Gapminder...
Its time when big auto makers are busy in Detroit Auto Show to unveil their latest road runners and to catch more customers. Previously I posted about future of Chinese trains at AMAZING : Chinese Concept – The train that...
We are living our days but how it look when we have an outer look on a complete 24 hour day. This is what photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos wants tell us. Impressive panorama photographs of Chris Kotsiopoulos contains 35...
WORRIED about loose-tongued friends sharing your private details with the world? Culling the least discreet members of your social network will help you feel more secure, but it's not a perfect solution. What if your best...
IT IS a disarmingly simple idea: to find out if a drug might treat a disease it wasn't intended for, check out whether it has an opposite effect on gene activity to the illness itself. How do you find such drugs? By mining large public biological datasets.For more than a decade, so-called DNA chips have routinely measured the activity of thousands of genes at a time, and researchers have deposited the results online into the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), after their papers were published.Atul Butte, a bioinformatician at Stanford University...
Facts found (Image: TEPCO)
Japan's nuclear safety agency today rejected a claim in British newspaperThe Independent that the earthquake itself, not the subsequent tsunami, destroyed cooling systems leading...
Icy planet rings might be highly charged (Image: JPL/NASA)
ELECTRIC ice may pervade space. This strange form of water is more persistent than was previously thought, and the discovery could change our understanding...
AIDS has now surpassed the Black Death on its course to become the worst pandemic in human history. At the end of 2004, 20 million people had been killed by it, and twice that number are currently infected...
