Probably 2008 will remain in history as the year of the economic crisis, or perhaps of the LHC, or perhaps the year we landed on Mars… either way, it was a year filled with many problems, and many achievements; the achievements were mostly scientific, while the problems could find their solution… in the same field. [...]
Sunday, December 28, 2008
A study conducted by entomology and neuroscience professor Gene Robinson from the University of Illinois sheds new light on the way insect brain works proving that honey bees on cocaine tend to overreact. Usually, foraging honey bees alert the others from the hive about food sources only when more food is necessary [...]
Friday, December 26, 2008
Oh boy time sure do flies! It seems just yesterday it was January… still, it’s the 2nd day of Christmas (here), and still no snow That’s why the ZME team will set onto other plains where you can make snowfights and watch the snow from the fireplace. Let’s see… Christmas hat - check Snow - check Wine(just [...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Recently, I received this email from a reader. No worries, I replied. The email is incomplete, as I won’t add his name, replaced it with john smith; other than that, it’s the exact thing I received. i have a question, will the earth ever loose its gravity, if it does than weed be floating around [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
According to a report launched by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), more than a thousand species were discovered just in the last decade in that particular area. A rat thought extinct for 11 million years and a hot pink, dragon millipede that produces cyanide are just two of the amazing species found there. If you’re still [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The latest study conducted by researchers from the Duke University Medical Center was performed on two groups of (old and young) adults. The first group had an average age of about 70 while the younger ones were about 24 years old. Neuroscientists found out that the mechanism behind the part of the brain responsable for [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Astronomy & Astrophysics has published spectroscopic observations of one of the hottest stars discovered so far - a white dwarf called KPD 0005+5106. The observations were made using the space-based Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE), showing that the temperature can reach 200 000 K at the surface of the star. Temperatures can get so high that [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008
Combining law and neuroscience, the researchers at Vanderbilt University conducted a revolutionary study in order to find out exactly how one’s brain assesses crime and punishment. After a crime has been committed an impartial third party has the role to decide whether the accused is guilty or not and how severe the punishment should be. While [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
It’s obvious that one of the biggest challenges the president elect has to face is rejuvenating the infrastructure; let’s talk about traffic jams for a bit. Everybody hates them, we all want to avoid them, but they exist. They are an unintended consequence of personal driving. Some transportation planners often speak about the fact [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Scientist Ana Hilário plans to name at least one of these worms after the mythological creature, due to the resemblance with the Greek monster. Hilario is a researcher at the University of Aveiro, in Portugal. She discovered 20 species of these tiny undersea worms called frenulates, in some mud volcanoes located near the Gulf of Cadiz, [...]
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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