Tumours on tumours - hypertumors - might limit lethal disease in large animals, see http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070730/full/070730-3.html "Cancer may be...
The famous musician Stevie Wonder is a victim of ROP. Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a dangerous eye disorder that primarily affects premature infants ...
Unicode 5.0 encodes exactly 98,884 graphic characters on different planes. Here you can see them all: What does it stand for? In which languages is it used?...
The idea we might live in a computer simulation is not new. Could it be that our universe world might be somebody else's hobby ? Or an accident in an attempt...
Is there anything you'd like to say to the one who is simulating our world? -The game sucks but the resolution is great! -Is it possible to leave the simulated...
Team finds way to create cancer stem cells http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/breast-cancer-0813.html A way to eliminate them would be much better.. -J....
From the biggest companies of the world, nearly all have something to do with oil and automobiles, except Wal-Mart. 9 out of 10 from the biggest companies of...
Philip Ball writes in Nature about the two new books from Miller, Page and Epstein (Philip Ball, Social science goes virtual, Nature Vol. 448 August 7 (2007)...
The complexity of ageing and cancer does not allow simple generalizations. If it is possible to draw a simple connection, then one could say: -Accumulated...
What do administration, aliens, space-flights, ball games and wars have in common ? Long periods of boredom interruped by moments of terror: Weeks and months...
Dear all, The definitive and detailed program of ECAL2007, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, to be held in Lisbon (10 - 14 September), as well as a ...
from a book review in Science (Eric Werner, "How Central is the Genome", Science Vol. 317 August 10 (2007) 753-754 about the conductor metaphor: "Even though...
Death seems to have provided William Shakespeare the best route to superstardom Chicago Tribune Book review by Art Winslow: "Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely...
Some call it the Primordial Existential Question, or PEQ. Why is there something rather than nothing? The PEQ question can be traced at least back to Leibniz ...
I've always wondered why do we not view "life", "intelligence" as an emergent property of a complex system of collaborating cells which again could be seen as...
Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfoot Indians said 1890: "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time....
Very interesting point of view, Jochen. I never thought our life as an exception. Since kid I was taught that life is wonderful, life is a bless. Now I know...
Max Tegmark claims that Mathematics does not only describe reality, he says reality is mathematics. He says that there is a reality independent of humans, and...
Ian Crofton trawls through the annals of history to find all the juicy bits, including: - 'The Origin of Coffee' - 'The First Automobile Accident' - 'The...
Nature.com article by Philip Ball, see http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070917/full/070917-11.html "It's not easy making a human. Getting from a fertilized egg...
Why is the average life span of an elephant 40-60 years, of a tiger 15-20 years, of a cat 12 years, of a rabbit 5 years and of a mouse only 2 years ? In...
"If anything sets humans apart from other animals, it must surely be our way with words. For something so ubiquitous, our gift for gab still has strangely...
hello, thank you very much for this link. as you I am interested in the wheels that make the machine tick and more over in their working together. I am...
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