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Bizarre 6-Inch Skeleton Shown to Be Human

posted onMay 9, 2013
by l33tdawg

 Alien? Subhuman primate? Deformed child? Mummified fetus? The Internet is buzzing over the nature of "Ata," a bizarre 6-inch-long skeleton featured in a new documentary on UFOs. A Stanford University scientist who boldly entered the fray has now put to rest doubts about what species Ata belongs to. But the mystery is not over.

Injectable nano-network controls blood sugar in diabetics for days at a time

posted onMay 7, 2013
by l33tdawg

n a promising development for type 1 diabetes treatment, researchers have developed a network of nanoscale particles that can be injected into the body and release insulin when blood-sugar levels rise, maintaining normal blood sugar levels for more than a week in animal-based laboratory tests.

The work was done by researchers at North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Children’s Hospital Boston.

Hacking HIV

posted onApril 23, 2013
by l33tdawg

On a May afternoon in 2008, Bruce Walker and Terry Ragon ‘71 paid a recruiting visit to MIT. Walker is a Harvard Medical School physician who has studied HIV for three decades; Ragon, the founder and CEO of a software company called InterSystems, was about to bankroll a new $100 million research institute to develop HIV vaccines, with Walker at its head.

Astronomers anticipate 100 billion Earth-like planets

posted onApril 4, 2013
by l33tdawg

The strategy uses a technique called gravitational microlensing, currently used by a Japan-New Zealand collaboration called MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics) at New Zealand's Mt John Observatory. Their work will appear in the Oxford University Press journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Lead author Dr Phil Yock from the University of Auckland's Department of Physics explains that the work will require a combination of data from microlensing and the NASA Kepler space telescope.

Spaceborne dark matter hunter sees telltale antimatter

posted onApril 4, 2013
by l33tdawg

A dark matter-hunting telescope perched on the International Space Station has spotted millions of particles of antimatter. It could be the first clear evidence of dark matter particles smashing into each other – or something much more mundane.

"It's an indication, but by no means is it a proof" of dark matter, says Nobel laureate Samuel Ting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the principle investigator for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment.

Turing machine built from artificial muscles may lead to smart prosthetics

posted onMarch 29, 2013
by l33tdawg

In 1936, Alan Turing showed that all computers are simply manifestations of an underlying logical architecture, no matter what materials they're made of. Although most of the computer's we're familiar with are made of silicon semiconductors, other computers have been made of DNA, light, legos, paper, and many other unconventional materials.

Hacking the Mind: Social Engineering

posted onMarch 7, 2013
by l33tdawg

I recently posted about Brain Games, the new National Geographic TV show with mind-bending interactivity, and shared an infographic about intelligence. I follow that with an infographic my friend just made for Veracode on hacking the mind–perhaps a dark side of brain science.

Earlier today I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, The Drill Down, and Dwayne D. mentioned how frustrating it is for many people to juggle multiple passwords, especially those that need to change frequently.

First space tourist plans to make trip to Mars in 2018

posted onFebruary 21, 2013
by l33tdawg

Earth's first space tourist won't be outdone by a few fancy NASA rovers with their cutesy names, sky cranes and whatnot. So like the saying goes, if you can't beat 'em, make the unprecedented 500-day round-trip journey to Mars to join 'em.

That's the insanely ambitious plan that Dennis Tito, who was the first private space traveler a little less than 12 years ago will announce in more detail next week.

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