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Does crank science make real scientists cranky?
I'm a relative newcomer to ResearchGate, but I've enjoyed the questions, discussion and postings in this forum. I think it's a great way for professional scientists to meet colleagues in different fields, and also common folk who are interested and i... Read more »
Ancient and Veteran Oaks in the UK
“Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism.” Sir David Attenborough[1] The 1500 year-old Angel Oak Tree[2] Introduction Woodlands recorded in or befo... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Coral, Climate & The Leap Second
Bottom trawling fishing boats have caused extensive damage to many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. But now, researchers have uncovered a glimmer of hope for these important biodiversity hotspots in the form o... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Tickers, Tiny Frogs & Temporal Cloaks
Chris Austin, of Louisiana State University, has discovered the world’s smallest known vertebrate in the form of a frog found in New Guinea. Averaging only 7.7 millimetres in size, Paedophryne amauensis takes the title away from Paedocypris progeneti... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Quasicrystals, Graphitic Hips & Virgin B...
Graphite may prove to be the key to a stronger and longer-lasting hip implant. New research released by Northwestern University focused on what is known as the tribological layer, the lubricating layer that forms on metallic joints as a result of fri... Read more »
Essentials of the Hilbert book model
The Hilbert book model This model is a simple model of physics that is strictly based on the axioms of quantum logic. Quantum logic is very similar to classical logic, but one of the axioms of quantum logic is weaker than the corresponding axiom of c... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Metallization, Memory & Pygmy Hippos
According to research from the Carnegie Institution for Science, the properties exhibited by iron oxide change depending on its composition and where it is located within the Earth, with experiments pointing towards a new kind of metallization occurr... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Frankenstein Viruses, Silent Cars & Spin...
A massive star spinning around its axis at 600 kilometres per second has been discovered by researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara. The rotational velocity, which is the fastest ever recorded, is so high that the star is almost... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Violent Video Games, Black Holes & Earth...
Rejoice! Earth may have found its long-lost twin, Kepler 22-b. The exoplanet is located around 600 light years away from Earth and has been identified as having many similarities to our own - making it the latest potential target for life. Housed in... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Magic Gel, Muscle Regeneration & Malaria
Researchers at Texas A&M University are close to developing a topical gel that prevents the transmission of HIV by dissolving the virus on contact. The synthetic compound contained within the gel, PD 404,182, acts by breaking the virus open and e... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Soybeans, Yeast & Octopus
A multidisciplinary team of researchers has developed the world’s lightest material. With a density of 0.9 mg/cc, the new material is around 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. The unique micro-lattice cellular architecture consists of interconnected h... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Stars, Smart Drugs & Salmonella
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has peered 9 billion years back in time and uncovered 18 young dwarf galaxies filled with forming stars. The galaxies, all of which are on average a hundred times smaller than the Milky Way, appear to produce stars at su... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Roars, Rays & A Rather Rogue Rock
Human skin detects light in much the same way as the eye, according to a recent study. Researchers from Brown University discovered that skin cells known as melanocytes contain rhodopsin, a photosensitive receptor the eye uses to detect light. When w... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Fruit & Vegetables
Strawberries are good for you! A pan-European team of researchers has shown that eating strawberries reduces the damage alcohol causes to the stomach’s mucous membrane. By giving ethanol to laboratory rats, the team found that the stomachs of those w... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Ears, Embryos & Energy
A team of scientists from the Medical Research Council have found a potential alternative treatment for ‘Glue ear’, a common condition in children that prevents oxygen from reaching the middle ear. Currently the only treatment is grommet surgery, whi... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: MRI, Maps & Mars
Using a piece of software known as Eureqa, researchers from Cornell University have demonstrated that a computer can analyse data from biological systems and turn it into mathematical equations - these equations describe precisely how a system operat... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Hatred, Holes & Biogeochemical Hotspots
Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created our planet’s oceans. New measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory show that comet Hartley 2, which originates in th... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Sickle Cell, Sleep & Stars
Researchers at John Hopkins University have used a patients’ stem cells to correct the genetic defect that causes sickle cell disease, a disorder that occurs mainly in African Americas. The disease is caused by a single DNA change in the gene for adu... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Does E still equal mc²?
The news that neutrinos might travel faster than light, and thus violate the speed limit of the universe, this week caused an audible stir in the scientific community. The CERN experiment, which employed highly precise GPS positioning and timing meas... Read more »
Goods-thinking versus Tree-thinking
In the famous Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch, John Cleese returns to a pet shop where he has just bought a parrot and asks for his money back. The reason being that the parrot is in fact dead. This seems to be a not unreasonable request on the p... Read more »
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