Here's an interesting way to think about the spread of religion. Intuitively, it spreads like an infectious disease, so it could be modeled mathematically as a process of contagion, such as influenza or plague. Now some physicists have proposed modeling...
Announcement of Philosophia Naturalis #6
Philosophia Naturalis #6 will be published on Thursday, February 1 right here at Science and Reason.Don't miss this literally once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have your favorite article included in Philosophia Naturalis #6. Remember, Philosophia Naturalis...
Mantle plumes
Here's a "hot" controversy (in more ways than one) that you don't hear about often, unless you're a geophysicist. Geophysics doesn't get as much attention as many other topics in science, such as black holes, evolution, etc. But there are nevertheless...
New stars shed light on the past
New stars shed light on the past (1/8/07)A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows N90, one of the star-forming regions in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The rich populations of infant stars found here enable astronomers to examine star forming...
Ngakalin DeepFreeze V.6
Kalo Deepfreeze-deepfreeze versi seblumnya dah banyak software buat ngakalin tu DF, tapi untuk DF terbaru belum setau saya belum ada. Disini ada sedikit akal-akalan yang bisa kita pake buat ngakalain DF di kompi orang lain agar dan supaya sesuai dengan...
T cells
I'm seeing a number of interesting stories coming along about research into the immune system. Since this is a rather mysterious subject for most people, and it touches upon many other topics in health, medicine, and biotechnology, perhaps it's an appropriate...
Gamma-ray burst surprises in 2006
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been puzzling astrophysicists for a long time. A little over a year ago, the picture seemed to be getting clearer. But during the past year, it seems to have become rather more complicated. And the year saved the best surprise...
Exercise and cancer
We all know that exercise is a Good Thing – for cardiovascular health, for weight control, to reduce risks of diabetes and metabolic syndrome, and even to ward off Alzheimer's disease and dementia (see here, here, here, here, here).Now there is recent...
Portrait of a Dramatic Stellar Crib
Portrait of a Dramatic Stellar Crib (12/21/06)Known as the Tarantula Nebula for its spidery appearance, the 30 Doradus complex is a monstrous stellar factory. It is the largest emission nebula in the sky, and can be seen far down in the southern sky...
Art, fractal and otherwise
Need a little visual diversion? How about some art with a scientific and mathematical angle – fractal art?Painting by numbers[N]ature abounds with examples of fractals: branching rivers and blood vessels, swirling cloud systems, the repeating patterns...
Philosophia Naturalis #5 has been published
Chris Rowan at Highly Allocthonous has posted the 5th edition of Philosophia Naturalis. It's in the form of a great essay about the functions of science blogging. Don't miss ...
Virtual reality to get its own network?
This could be very interesting if it's not, as some suggest, a scam:Virtual reality to get its own network?A nonprofit group says it plans to build a network called Neuronet purely to support virtual-reality game and business applications.Neuronet, which...
Top five nanotech breakthroughs of 2006
Here's an interesting top-something list, from Forbes – nanotechnology:Top Five Nanotech Breakthroughs Of 2006This year saw a slew of remarkable nanotech breakthroughs, and narrowing down the top five was no easy task. One major theme of 2006 was the...
Clues to the origins of life
The question of how life originated on Earth is one of the really big open questions for science. Right up there with questions like how the universe itself started and how the human mind works.Questions about how life began have been asked for a long...
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