Category: Science & Spooky Bits
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Yes, it’s all true. After 55 years a woman gets the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Donna Strickland, from Canada, was awarded today the Prize for her outstanding contributions in the field of laser physics. In case you wonder, Mrs.…
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The Voynich manuscript – have we really found the key?
One of the most interesting news of the last days is the claim, by the University of Alberta, that researchers have used one AI…
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From hard-drive to DNA – the future of IT?
Otherwise said: how to store your (terabyte) data on a DNA string. Amazing, isn’t it? The first time I’ve heard about this deceptively simple…
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A busy year for bacteria
This is definitively the year of bacteria in terms of scientific discovery and ground-breaking experiments. It was only a few months ago that a new strand…
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Utopia, dystopia and other monsters
“Where in fucktopia are you, Dexter?” Yells Debra Morgan, obviously searching in vain for her brother. Sure thing, Debra did not hint at anything…
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Alien Life and E. Coli
In what seems more the plot of a SF novel than a scientific discovery, a new strand of DNA has recently been engineered in…
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Villa Diodati – birthplace of Sci-Fi (and modern Fantasy)
That old villas are spooky places is known to everybody. All of us remember creepy stories from our childhood, and there is an entire…
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How alien is nature?
If there is an endless debate in SF, it’s about the capability of humans to imagine an alien world, with alien species. At least…
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Crowdsourcing, planet hunting and missing planes
There is no doubt that crowdsourcing is the buzzword these days, and its recent use in tracking down the mysteriously disappeared MH 370 plane…