Scientists shed new light on aging process HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Hong Kong have shed new light on why cell repair is less efficient in older...
Towards a Quantitative, Metabolic Theory for Mammalian Sleep http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio.OT/0506042 Two-component sandpile model: self-organized criticality of...
In a special collection of articles published beginning 1 July 2005, Science Magazine and its online companion sites celebrate the journal's 125th anniversary...
Swarm Smarts Eric Bonabeau, Guy Théraulaz Scientific American, March 2000 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~prasanna/index_files/ANTS.pdf Swarm intelligence: A Whole...
Pages of Google research staff and Google scientists Sergey Brin (Google Co-Founder) http://labs.google.com/people/sergey/ Monika Henzinger (Ex-Research...
"Recent experiments indicate that your environment alters your genes. The longer identical twins live apart, the more their "epigenomes" (genetic sequences...
Interesting Review on SlashDot http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/05/1622241 of David Alan Grier's book "When Computers Were Human", Princeton...
Wired.com - MicroRNA Is a Big Topic in Bio http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67065,00.html Even identical twins grow apart genetically -study ...
miRNA or micro-RNA is a form of single-stranded RNA which is typically 20-25 nucleotides long, and is thought to regulate the expression of other genes....
Great article. I copied it to my blog (http://russabbott.blogspot.com/) and then added the following paragraph. This is not different from the way "real"...
If you think the complex microchips that drive modern computers are models of deterministic precision, think again. Their behaviour is inherently unpredictable...
43 Things is a new Web site where people write about their goals (What do you want to do ?) and favorite places (Where do you want to go ?). With the help of ...
"Is there some sort of antigravity force blowing the universe up? All signs point to yes." "the nature of dark energy is arguably the murkiest question in ...
Richard Dawkins has opened the global TED conference of big thinkers (http://www.ted.com/) warning that our Universe may be just "too queer" to understand. ...
Is terrorism a natural response to selfish global superpowers? Terrorism can be caused by powerlessness and helplessness in combination with poverty, injustice...
Yes, indeed. Terrorism is but one (perhaps the most news-likely) of the many ways by which injustice and inequalty naturally tend to equilibrium. I see this...
... Define 'selfish'. Give examples of not 'selfish' behaviour which you have observed in any states. ... Yes PERCEIVED powerlessness and injustice. We act on...
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No country or company would normally or naturally want to create some form of terrorists. Nor does economic deprivation triggers this. Otherwise we would have...
Jochen, You asked at the end, "What do you think?" Since you solicited my opinion, I'd say that I think the message you sent is particularly stupid and simple...
... Mike, I don't think you got it either. Neither did Joachim. It is the culture and not stuff like miserableness, poverty etc etc, - and unless you have...
One of the greatest scientific mysteries, which has puzzled scientists for thousands of years, is what controls the length of life. At a time when human...
NewScientist.com news article by Will Knight Virtual computer characters more accustomed to battling deranged alien monsters are about to take part in a unique...
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