"Ethical Hacker (CEH) Training & Lab ISO v3" in forum "MiSC".Panduan menjadi seorang Hacker, lengkap dengan tools Hacker, tutorialterdiri dari 21 module :¤ Module I : Introduction to Ethical Hacking¤ Module II: Footprinting¤ Module III: Scanning¤...
Missouri will vote on Stem Cell Research - The Importance of Scientific Literacy
Science can seem like a very intimidating field. It is loaded with jargon and language most lay people seldom use. But What is Science? What do Scientists do? Simply put, science is a principled or methodological way of learning about ourselves and...
Thanks for the memories
We're all pretty concerned about how well our memory works, right? There's now evidence that the quantity of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine present in the brains of test animals (rats, of course) is directly related to the level of detail of new...
Evidence that quasars are powered by black holes
Astronomers see inside a quasar for the first timeFor the first time, astronomers have looked inside quasars -- the brightest objects in the universe -- and have seen evidence of black holes.The study lends further confirmation to what scientists have...
Stellar birth control by supermassive black holes
This news item, which was mentioned in our article on black holes, suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of the relatively nearby galaxy M87 might be responsible for a low rate of star birth in the galaxy.There is also new evidence...
Black holes in the news
No, this isn't metaphorically about censorship in the news media. It's about real black holes.There's been a lot of new information coming out about black holes recently – some of which we're already discussed, such as this and this. (There's more if...
Intrinsically unstructured proteins
It's long been the conventional wisdom that proteins have rigidly fixed shapes which are crucial to their function – at least those proteins which actually have important functions. But now, apparently, not so much:First Major Study Of Mammalian 'Disorderly'...
A Cosmology Calculator for the World Wide Web
Have you ever been frustrated, while reading a news article or scientific paper dealing with cosmology or extragalactic astronomy, to find some object (like a quasar) described as having a certain redshift, but without any indication as to the age of...
Researchers Find Smallest Cellular Genome
Here's another thing to remember in case you're at a party and running our of conversational ideas. The living creature (other than viruses) with the smallest number of genes is the bacterium Carsonella ruddii – just 182 genes and 159,662 base-pairs...
Scholarship to attend Conservation Conference
There is a conference scholarship for persons from under represented groups to attend a Conference on the perservation of parks, protected areas, and cultural sites.Sponsored by the George Wright Societyhttp://www.georgewright.org/Information and online...
Fertile women dress to impress
And as long as I'm writing about aspects of gender and sexuality, this is interesting:Fertile women dress to impress, U.S. study findsWomen dress to impress when they are at their most fertile, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study they say shows...
Women become sexually aroused as quickly as men
Let's hear it for gender equality...And let it not be said that most scientific research has little practical application. The following might be very useful to know in "real life" situations...Women become sexually aroused as quickly as menWomen may...
NASA Performs Headcount of Local Black Holes
File this one under interesting facts to mention if you run out of things to say at a cocktail party:NASA Performs Headcount of Local Black HolesNearly every massive galaxy seems to have a supermassive black hole, but only a few percent appear to be...
Caffeine
We just mentioned caffeine here, in relation to the mood-enhancing effects of fast thinking.So along comes a little more information about the connections.Probing Question: Is caffeine harmful to your health?The basic answer seems to be "no", when the...
Philosophia Naturalis #2 is published
The second edition of Philosophia Naturalis is now up at Nonoscience. Happy reading!And thanks to Arunn for putting it all togeth...
Science blog trek
I need to get out more. There's so much interesting stuff out there. Here are some finds from a recent trek around the science blogosphere:Sex in an MRI MachineThis piece from Stuart Coleman at Daily Irreverence is to get your attention so you keep reading....
Asymmetry of the cosmic microwave background
One of these days I need to do a series of posts on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It's seriously interesting stuff. If you're not into astrophysics that much, you've still heard of it recently, because it helped a couple of guys win this year's...
Scientists and Engineers for America
This seems like a great idea to me. If you think that science is being distorted or misrepresented politically in the U. S., this is something you ought to look into.Scientists and Engineers for AmericaToday a group of scientists and concerned citizens...
How fast thinking makes us happy, energized and self-confident
Recent psychological research claims to have found evidence for what the title of this piece says: merely speeding up our thought processes is enough to make us feel better mentally.I don't know about you, but I don't find this very surprising. I feel...
No Extra Gravity for Dark Matter
Considering that there's no way to actually "see" dark matter directly, it's impressive that more is being learned about it all the time. Now we've found that it experiences the force of gravity to the same degree as ordinary matter, with an error of...
Self-resurrecting bacteria
Who said resurrection is impossible? One species of bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans, can do it — but it's the only case known.Cheating DNA Death: How an Extremophile Repairs Shattered ChromosomesFifty years ago, scientists uncovered a microbe capable...
Announcement of Philosophia Naturalis #2
Philosophia Naturalis #2 will be published on Thursday, October 12 at Nonoscience -- check there for any further information.Make it easy on yourself -- don't put off sending your suggestions till the last minute. Submitting an article to the carnival...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)