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Cern scientist expects early finding of Higgs boson
Head scientist from the Cern particle physics laboratory told the BBC he expects to see first glimpse of the Higgs boson by next week. The finding of the mysterious fundamental particle will be a significant milestone at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), that was built with the hunt for the Higgs boson as a key goal. The Higgs, notoriously difficult to define, helps us to understand why particles have mass.
Genetically modified food: Information and risk in the market.
Published by Sam under Bio-Sciences categories on November 8, 2011
The issue of GMOs in food market is closely related to the debate between liberalization and regulation, as demonstrated by the disputes in the WTO. Both asymmetry of information and perceived risk are two key assumptions for precaution in the EU. But, solutions at the US are quite different; as a figure, nine licenses have been approved in the EU while US has issued almost sixty.
By Tamara Guirao. Mgr: Dr. Sanja Pavlica. Read the rest of this entry »
Cognitive chip born to be AI
IBM unveiles a new generation of computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. This new technology may reach to full Artificial Intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »
Cannabinoid receptor CB1 is changing brain aging: hope for ‘elixir of life’
Our population is getting older. Recent findings from German researchers suggested a mechanism that is likely to protect the brain from aging: Switching off of the cannabinoid-1 receptor leads to faster aging of mouse brain. By Dr. S. Pavlica. Read the rest of this entry »
Nuclear phased-out, timed-out or not well understood
As well as Three Miles Island Nuclear Power Plant accident was a “before” and “after” in nuclear regulations, there are one pre Fukushima and other post Fukushima facts, in a world where other similar races run the same, or worse way. By Major L. Loureiro. Read the rest of this entry »
Advanced iPS technology to cure retinal degenerative diseases and restore visual function
Visual impairment is a big medical and public health problem that might be combated thanks to recent breakthrough in iPS technology to correct gene defect responsible for a blinding disorder in generated iPS produced from the patient’s own skin. By Dr. Pavlica. Read the rest of this entry »
2111 interstellar odyssey
DARPA and NASA recently convened a Strategic Planning Workshop, which brought together 29 visionaries discussing the requirements for seeding research that would enable interstellar flight: the 100-Year Starship project. Read the rest of this entry »
Source Code: how close are we to there?
“Source Code” story revolves around a U.S. army captain drafted to have his consciousness sent repeatedly via computer into the mind of a dead man, where he lives through the last eight minutes of the victim’s life before he was killed in a train bombing. Could something like that happen in the near future? by Amina Ahmed. Read the rest of this entry »
