Feb 27
A team of researchers with Germany’s DESY have developed a way to x-ray living cells, something that provides a better look at the structure and function than traditionally used methods, … Continue reading
Feb 27
To get a super-detailed X-ray view inside a cell—right down to the individual molecules—scientists dunk the cell they’re looking at in preservative chemicals. That not only kills the cell, it changes its internal structure ever so slightly, meaning researchers aren’t getting an exact look at the cell’s natural state. Now, scientists at Germany’s DESY Research Center have found a way around that, with a technique that’s produced the world’s first X-ray of an individual living cell.
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Feb 27
The thing about mad scientists is that they’re both mad and good at science. It seems obvious, but the outcomes are always unexpected. Case and point: this team of Hungarian physicists who created a bunch of autonomous drones that flock like birds. The invasion begins now.
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Feb 27
They say that having too much of a good thing could be bad. Do you agree with that particular assessment? Apparently, there is a new research which was conducted to show that playing games (video games in this context) for long periods of time could end up in involuntary actions, which is the result of “automatic” impulses acted out. Apparently, there were some gamers who reported of involuntary movement of fingers and arms, with the possibility of verbal outbursts thrown into the mix. The scientists over at Nottingham Trent University’s International Gaming Research Unit worked with a bunch of respondents, of whom the latter claimed that they had experienced brief dissociations as well as felt sudden urges to perform in-game actions in selective bursts of time.
Excessive Gaming Could Result In Involuntary Actions original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 27
When you think of mummies, odds are you mind goes to Egypt automatically. The Egyptians weren’t the only people to mummify their dead in ancient times. A group of archaeologists … Continue reading
Feb 26
Robot Teaches One How To Pray
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Monkey see, monkey do – or so the saying goes, but when it comes to something as serious as prayer, an Iranian teacher figured out it would be cool if he could come up with a robot that actually teaches the Islamic way of praying. What you see above happens to be a class that is full of Iranian students who are intently watching a robot demonstrate prayer. The 27 year old teacher, Akbar Rezaie, did attend private robotics classes and figured out how to develop and assemble customized humanoid robots. Rezaie teaches the Koran to boys and girls at Alborz elementary school in Varamin, a town that remains 35 kilometers (20 miles) southeast of Tehran.
Robot Teaches One How To Pray original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 26
Last week, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics published the most exact value ever observed for the weight of a single electron—a value 13 times more accurate than the previous estimate. And the Penning trap, the kooky looking device shown above, was crucial in obtaining this measurement.
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Feb 26
SeaOrbiter hits crowdfunding goal
Posted in: Today's ChiliRecall the SeaOrbiter we detailed back in November? It has hit its crowdfunding goal of about $444,700 USD, and as such is destined to set sail for ocean parts unknown. … Continue reading
Feb 26
NASA’s Kepler mission has made an exciting discovery and subsequent announcement: the discovery of 715 new planets orbiting 305 stars. Says the space agency, about 95-percent of the newly discovered … Continue reading
Feb 26
We’re living smack dab in the middle of a golden age of data viz—or peak data viz, depending on your point of view. Beautiful Science, a new exhibition at the British Library, offers a glimpse at how complex info was presented before technology made infographics so inescapably ubiquitous.
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