This is pretty cool. An NC State scientist managed to extract soft tissue from a T rex fossil.
It was big news indeed last year when [Mary] Schweitzer announced she had discovered blood vessels and structures that looked like whole cells inside that T. rex bone—the first observation of its kind. The finding amazed colleagues, who [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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If this holds up, it could be huge.
Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could help physicists to make a significant step towards [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2006 by pwyll
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Recently there has been a spate of popular articles concerning counterfactual quantum computation. If you want to dig a little deeper, A Neighborhood of Infinity has a nice article.
Posted on March 2nd, 2006 by pwyll
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Several of my daughter’s doctors are at UNC; I have been favorably impressed by their professionalism. It is gratifying to know that UNC is doing important medical research.
CHAPEL HILL — Working half a world away from each other, two teams of medical scientists have identified what they believe is a simple, effective and inexpensive [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2006 by pwyll
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American Scientist has a cool article on the High-speed Imaging of Shock Waves, Explosions and Gunshots.
Posted on January 12th, 2006 by pwyll
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Great article called 13 things that do not make sense in New Scientist. Here’s my favorite thing that does not make sense:
OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you’ll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2005 by pwyll
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