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The top 20 scientific data visualisation tools scientists and teachers should...
From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda's round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life. A common question is how to get...
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Single-celled amoebae can remember, make decisions and anticipate change -...
Gardeners sometimes encounter them in their backyards—spongy yellow masses squatting in the dirt or slowly swallowing wood chips. Hikers often spot them clinging to the sides of rotting logs like...
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Argonne wins Manhattan Project for car batteries
Federally funded center will aim to transform batteries for electric vehicles.See it on Scoop.it, via Daily Science Clips
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Fully 3D Printable Gun ('Wiki Weapon') Waiting on Firearms License
Prototypes of what would be the world's first fully 3D-printable plastic weapon could go into testing before the end of the year, the organization behind the controversial project has claimed. "We're...
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Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissues - New design technique for...
Borrowing from microfabrication techniques used in the semiconductor industry, MIT and Harvard Medical School (HMS) engineers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to create three-dimensional...
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Rules devised for building artificial protein molecules from scratch
By following certain rules, scientists can prepare architectural plans for building artificial protein molecules not found in the real world. Based on these computer renditions, previously non-existent...
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Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains: Scientific...
The connection between mother and child is ever deeper than thought...See it on Scoop.it, via Daily Science Clips
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Why Too Much Data Disables Your Decision Making
Quick, think back to a major decision. You know, the kind that compelled you to read everything on a topic and lead you to spend hours devouring every last scrap of data. How'd that work out for...
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How Large Is Your Network? The Power of 2nd and 3rd Degree Connections
Imagine you receive a digital camera with a built-in memory card for your birthday. You bring it on a six-month trip to Africa where you won’t have access to a computer—so all the photos you want to...
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Surgeons implant first brain ‘pacemaker’ for Alzheimer’s disease in US
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have surgically implanted a pacemaker-like device into the brain of a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the first such operation in the United...
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Hacking the Human Brain: The Next Domain of Warfare
t’s been fashionable in military circles to talk about cyberspace as a “fifth domain” for warfare, along with land, space, air and sea. But there’s a sixth and arguably more important warfighting...
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Turing Pattern Fingered for Digit Formation
Sixty years ago, noted mathematician Alan Turing described how two interacting chemicals diffusing through space could form interacting wave patterns. Recently, experiments have suggested that Turing's...
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NIH Offers to Help Universities Improve Training, Boost Diversity
Although some social scientists and biomedical researchers have complained that U.S. universities are training far more graduate students and postdocs than will ever find jobs in academic research, and...
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Rapid Folding of DNA into Nanoscale Shapes at Constant Temperature
We demonstrate that, at constant temperature, hundreds of DNA strands can cooperatively fold a long template DNA strand within minutes into complex nanoscale objects. Folding occurred out of...
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MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism | ExtremeTech
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new state of matter with a new kind of magnetism. This new state, called a quantum spin liquid (QSL), could lead to significant advances in data storage.See it on...
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Chinese medicine yields secrets: Atomic mechanism of two-headed molecule...
The mysterious inner workings of Chang Shan -- a Chinese herbal medicine used for thousands of years to treat fevers associated with malaria -- have been uncovered thanks to a high-resolution...
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X-ray imaging detectors | Print Edition - Physics Today
Advances in detector technology, in concert with new synchrotron sources, x-ray optics, and computational methods, are opening new ways to probe the structure and dynamics of matter.See it on Scoop.it,...
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Musicology :: Cymascope Research
Shannon Novak, a New Zealand-born fine artist, commissioned us to image 12 piano notes as inspiration for a series of 12 musical canvases. We decided to image the notes in video mode because when we...
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Fructose has different effect than glucose on brain regions that regulate...
In a study examining possible factors regarding the associations between fructose consumption and weight gain, brain magnetic resonance imaging of study participants indicated that ingestion of...
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Computer scientists find vulnerabilities in Cisco VoIP phones
Researchers have found vulnerabilities in Cisco VoIP telephones, recently demonstrating how they can insert malicious code into a Cisco VoIP phone (any of the 14 Cisco Unified IP Phone models) and...
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