Eruption of 3 volcanoes has scientists asking questions

PUZZLE: Is there a common thread or were events just coincidence?How likely is it that three neighboring volcanoes would all erupt at the same time — as the Kasatochi, Okmok and Cleveland volcanoes in the Aleutians did this summer?About as likely as a storm that only appears once in a thousand years, says Anchorage volcanologist [...] continue reading latest news

Math profs link particle actions, human free will

Math professors Simon Kochen (above) and John Conway proved the Free Will Theorem, which suggests an unexpected connection between the nature of human decisions and the behavior of microscopic particles.Scientists and philosophers have long questioned whether the future of the world is entirely a function of its past. They have wondered whether everything that happens [...] continue reading latest news

An ancient metal - copper - the new weapon against superbugs

Following research by Professor Bill Keevil at the University of Southampton showing that copper can significantly reduce the presence of MRSA, a Birmingham hospital is to launch an 18-month clinical trial next month (April 2007) to establish whether the installation of copper surfaces will kill MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections.Laboratory tests by Professor Keevil, Director [...] continue reading latest news

Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?

Out of the Blue Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?In the basement of a university in Lausanne, Switzerland sit four black boxes, each about the size of a refrigerator, and filled with 2,000 IBM microchips stacked in repeating rows. Together they form the processing core of a machine [...] continue reading latest news

Famed geneticist creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel

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‘Frankenfoods’ Giant Monsanto Plays Bully Over Consumer Labeling

Monsanto doesn’t want consumers to know the truth about the milk they’re drinking. The corporation’s monopoly is at stake.“There are some corporations that clearly are operating at a level that are disastrous for the general public … And in fact I suppose one could argue that in many respects a corporation of that sort is [...] continue reading latest news

Chemical brain controls nanobots - BBC NEWS

A tiny chemical “brain” which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines has been invented.The molecular device - just two billionths of a metre across - was able to control eight of the microscopic machines simultaneously in a test.Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say it [...] continue reading latest news

Lab Freaks Gone Wild?

Scientists plan to make “cybrids” by putting human DNA into cow eggs.The British government gave the go-ahead this week for two separate groups to experiment with the process. Scientists will “inject human DNA into empty eggs from cows, to create embryos known as cytoplasmic hybrids that are 99.9 per cent human in genetic terms,” according [...] continue reading latest news