Two new rocky 'super Earths' found http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996348 To the solar system, and beyond: scientists find new planets ...
Computers: Scientific friend or foe? About the use of computers in scientific research and the new "omic" sciences — disciplines like genomics, proteomics...
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." "Program testing can be used to show...
The "new scientist" is excited about mysterious signals from 1000 light years away... http://www.newscientist.com/news/nographic.jsp?id=ns99996341 ...but the...
An Analysis of MMOG Subscription Growth The "Big Four" MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) and MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing...
Computers today are just plain dumb. The MIT Open Mind Commonsense project is an attempt to make computers smarter by making it easy and fun for people all ...
Phytoplankton are tiny little plants that drift with the currents throughout the ocean. Did you know that a teaspoon of sea water can contain as many as a...
Does anyone know where I can find some good information about different types of relationships or interactions between systems? Relationship/interaction...
... The two most basic types of interactions between agent based systems are competition and cooperation. Competition is the rule, especially in evolutionary...
Photos of complex planetary nebulae and dying stars which create sculptures of gas and dust. A planetary nebula forms when Sun-like stars gently eject their ...
Many missions of the European Space Agency ESA are named after great scientists. Scientists which never gave up the hope to find something new and original,...
... http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/plus/sfg/resources/res_epigenetics.shtml Thanks for the reply. I had my yahoo settings incorrectly set, so the reply went...
Simple search lightens Net load http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/090804/Simple_search_lightens_Net_load_090804.html Scalable Percolation Search in Power Law...
If you are a someone who prefers adventure holidays, you probably would like to live in the USA: on the west coast you live in fear of earthquakes, and it is...
If evolution could be re-run, how would the story end? In this exclusive extract from his latest book, "The Ancestor's Tale - A pilgrimage to the dawn of...
The american Public Broadcasting Service PBS is running a program this month, called "The Video Game Revolution", that examines the evolution and history of...
If there is one thing I hate, it is arrogance in ignorance, scholars with nothing to say who hide their lack of knowledge and insight behind an arrogant facade...
Emergence is what happens when the whole is smarter than the sum of its parts. It's what happens when you have a system of relatively simple-minded component...
The US warmachine is like a vast living being or life-form. It needs input in form of money and targets. It produces output in form of better and stronger...
Search for a Standard Explanation of the Pioneer Anomaly http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0107022 Indication, from Pioneer 10/11, Galileo, and Ulysses Data, of an...
Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/28/ Reheating Big Bang's Leftovers ...
Has the universe always existed? How did it become a place that could harbor life? Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would ...
Some papers from the 2nd Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications (ESOA 2004)
"Using the Experimental Method to Produce Reliable Self-Organised...