Extraterrestrial Life: The Need for an Answer

post from Centauri Dreams on 22 March 2011 09:20:40 AM. © Centauri Dreams

An article in Time Magazine?s latest issue caught my eye as I thumbed through it while waiting in line at the grocery store. The magazine is running a feature called ?10 Ideas That Will Change the World,? and they tend toward being optimistic takes on[...]

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Researchers crack molecular code regulating
neuronal excitability

post from Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought on 22 March 2011 09:18:52 AM. © Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought

A key question in protein biochemistry is how proteins recognize "correct" interaction partners in a sea of cellular factors. Nowhere is that more critical to know than in the brain, where interactions governing channel protein activity can alter an organism's behavior.

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Project Management for Biotechnology

post from Canadian BioTechnologist2.0 on 22 March 2011 09:17:24 AM. © Canadian BioTechnologist2.0

Resource: Discovery Net Discovery Net is one of the earliest examples of a scientific workflow system allowing users to coordinate the execution of remote services based on Web service and Grid Services (OGSA and Open Grid Services Architecture) standards. The system was designed and implemented at Imperial College London as part of the Discovery Net [...]

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Study finds reports of domestic violence rise 10
percent after NFL upsets

post from Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought on 22 March 2011 09:14:48 AM. © Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought

Calls to the police reporting men's assaults on their wives or intimate partners rose 10 percent in areas where the local National Football League team lost a game they were favored to win, according to an analysis of 900 regular-season NFL games reports researchers in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

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A world first in the fight against tuberculosis

post from Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought on 22 March 2011 09:13:03 AM. © Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a major global health threat. Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacteria every second. Every year, more than 9 million people develop active TB and it claims about 2 million lives.

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Biotechnology News

post from Canadian BioTechnologist2.0 on 22 March 2011 09:12:52 AM. © Canadian BioTechnologist2.0

Canadians make malaria breakthrough Scientists in Saskatoon have developed an inexpensive malaria treatment that will help the million people who die every year from the infection. ?This is the most important drug in the treatment of malaria today. The World Health Organization says it should be the first line of defence,? said Patrick Covello, a [...]

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Study suggests gastric banding associated with
relatively poor long-term outcomes

post from Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought on 22 March 2011 09:11:19 AM. © Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought

In a study of 82 patients who were evaluated 12 or more years after undergoing laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding for morbid obesity, a majority of patients reported that they were satisfied with the procedure, although approximately 40 percent experienced major complications and nearly half required removal of their bands, according to a report posted online that will appear in the July print issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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I Took the Turing Test

post from Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought on 22 March 2011 09:08:04 AM. © Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought

In his landmark 1950 paper ?Computing Machinery and Intelligence,? the mathematician, philosopher and code breaker Alan Turing proposed a method for answering the question ?Can machines think??: an ?imitation game? in which an ?interrogator,? C, interviews two players, A and B, via teleprinter, then decides on the basis of the exchange which is human and which is a computer.

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moving one inch closer to real world wetware

One of the classic ideas in science fiction is the concept of wetware, a hybrid of biology and electronics which would allow just about any living thing with a brain to hook up to a machine and carry out computing tasks we could never accomplish solely[...]

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The Universe is expanding at 73.8 +/- 2.4
km/sec/megaparsec! So there.

In 1998, two teams of astronomers independently reported amazing and bizarre news: the Universal expansion known for decades was not slowing down as expected, but was speeding up. Something was accelerating the Universe.Since then, the existence of this[...]

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