Darwinian Evolution: Islam or Christianity?
Source / Courtesy: This popular collection of articles was first made in Google-knol. It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does […]
NASA Crushes 2012 Mayan Apocalypse Claims
Source: Scientific American Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put out a new video to address false claims about the “Mayan apocalypse,” a non-event that some people believe will bring the world to an end on Dec. 21. In the video, which was posted online Wednesday (Mar. 7), Don […]
New metamaterial design may usher new generation of solar cells
Nicholas X. Fang, the Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff career development associate professor in engineering design in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering, says that most thin materials used to fully capture light are limited to a very narrow range of wavelengths and angles of incidence. The new design uses […]
Upper Class People More Likely to Behave Unethically
ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2012) — A series of studies conducted by psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Toronto in Canada reveal something the well off may not want to hear. Individuals who are relatively high in social class are more likely to engage in a variety […]
Strange Effects: The Mystifying History of Neutrino Experiments
Source: Wired.com Late last year, scientists with the OPERA collaboration in Gran Sasso, Italy reported an incredible finding: neutrinos that appeared to be moving faster than the speed of light. The news spread at a barely slower pace, fascinating the public. One thing everyone knows is that a very famous […]
Researchers report ‘strong’ prospects for 2012 – survey
Source: research-live.com UK— Business prospects remain strong for research in 2012, according to a survey of 411 UK research professionals conducted by fieldwork provider Schlesinger Associates. “2011 held its own and many anticipate the same to be true for the coming year,” Schlesinger’s study says. The majority of respondents to […]
TOP STORY Study: Exotic African Fruit Extract Melts Away Pounds, Inches — And Weight Loss Isn’t the Best Part, Say Doctors
Move Over Weight Watchers, an exotic super fruit called ‘African Mango’ is quickly becoming America’s hottest new way to lose weight. And much to the chagrin of the nation’s $40 billion-dollar diet industry, which sells outrageously expensive surgical procedures and drugs that have done little, if anything, to trim America’s ever-growing collective waistline. Indeed, interest […]
Integration study author criticizes interior minister – “The Daily Life of Muslims in Germany” study
Source: The local German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has come under attack from the key author of “The Daily Life of Muslims in Germany” study, published by the Bild newspaper […]
Monarch Lotus: a flower shaped solar energy collector
The four-meter-wide Lotus not only looks like nature’s symbol of renewal but folds up the same as nature’s version. In his research, Dr. Hui employs biomimicry, a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The new Lotus is capable of generating enough power (2 […]
Video Games Depict Religion as Violent, Problematized, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2012) — In the past few years, the video game industry has grown from a niche market into a major part of mainstream media. This increase in popularity and use of technology has allowed video game developers to insert more detail and nuance into the storylines of their […]
Women Are Best At Being Buddies
ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2007) — A four-year study by sociologists at The University of Manchester has found that women are much more likely than men to make deep and lasting friendships. The investigation into social networks by the University’s Research Centre for Socio-Cultural Change found that men are more fickle and […]
Beauty Has a Dark Side: Morbid Curiosity Explained
ScienceDaily (Mar. 1, 2012) — Drew Thies, a junior English major from Kansas, always put Ralph Waldo Emerson in the “optimistic category” as far as writers of his era went … until he took “American Poetry before 1900” taught by Eric G. Wilson. Thies says he will never forget when Wilson, […]
I.B.M. Researchers Inch Toward Quantum Computer
Source: NY Times. I.B.M. is jumping into an area of computing that has, until now, been primarily the province of academia: the quest to build a quantum computer. A computer that took advantage of the oddities of quantum physics could solve in seconds certain problems that would occupy present-day […]
Dan David Prize Foundation names 2012 laureates
Jeruslem Post: By BEN HARTMAN Winners include Stanford, Oxford professors George Conquest, Martin Gilbert, South African artist William Kentridge. The international Dan David Foundation announced the names of its 2012 […]
The 10 Best Fields For Job Satisfaction
Telecommuting and flex-time privileges might have made the world of work more comfortable, but they’ve also made the lines between our work life and the rest of our life less visible. This isn’t an open letter of complaint, however. The truth is that we’re a society that lives, and loves, to […]
Rich, educated people more likely to lie, cheat
By Emily Chung, CBC News A new study gives new meaning to the word “classy” — it turns out wealthier, better educated, more successful people have a greater tendency to […]
Ancient Arabic Writings Help Scientists Piece Together Past Climate
ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2012) — Ancient manuscripts written by Arabic scholars can provide valuable meteorological information to help modern scientists reconstruct the climate of the past, a new study has revealed. The research, published in Weather, analyses the writings of scholars, historians and diarists in Iraq during the Islamic Golden Age […]
Stem Cell Finding Could Expand Women’s Lifetime Supply of Eggs
SUNDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) — Researchers report that they’ve isolated stem cells from adult human ovaries that can mature into eggs that may be capable of fertilization. The lab findings, which upend longstanding scientific theory, could potentially lead to new reproductive technologies and possibly extend the years of a […]
Muhammad in Bible: Bible which predicts coming of Prophet Muhammad unearthed in Turkey
The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome, penned in Jesus’ native Aramaic language, is said to contain his early teachings and a prediction of the Prophet’s coming. Turkish culture and tourism minister […]
Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived
Source: NY Times. Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay […]