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Ways for the World to End
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Posted by M. Farbman from Popular Science - SciTech.
Posted by M. Farbman from Popular Science - SciTech.
Veggies May Be the Key to Fighting Cancer
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When your mother says eat your greens, you just might want to listen. It’s been known since the 1970’s that cruciferous vegetables, or cabbage family vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and kale, have anti-cancer benefits. But researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, who have studied the benefits of anti-cancer vegetables for 15 years, are the first to explain how an anti-cancer compound, indole-3-carbinol (I3C), found in broccoli and cabbage, works to slow down the activity of an enzyme linked to rapidly developing breast cancer.
More Periodic Table Awesomeness
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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Posted by Popular Science - SciTech from Popular Science - SciTech.
Shopping Cart Science
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Here we have a beautifully illustrated example of Newton’s First Law of motion involving shopping carts. Did some force push those carts out the back end of the trailer? Not at all.
Animal Magnetism
Posted by M. Farbman from Popular Science - SciTech.
It’s Wildlife Wednesday at Missing Links. Today, animals find their way home, find a new home, and more.
Looking Inside a Mummy’s Stomach
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
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Posted by Popular Science - SciTech from Popular Science - SciTech.
Whether it was a quarter as a kid, some mean-looking peppers or that worm at the bottom of your shot glass, you’ve probably swallowed some weird things over the years. But six kinds of moss? Well then Oetzi, the famous, 5,300 year old frozen mummy found in the Alps nearly two decades ago, has got you beat. What’s more, a new anthology of research on Oetzi highlights those mosses, along with some other associated plants, to challenge theories about how he lived and how he died.
Baby Steps Going Out of Style
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Common wisdom dictates that in order to learn a complicated skill, it is best to break the skill down into parts, conquer simpler steps first, and then incrementally move forward, eventually getting to the hard stuff. For example, you don’t just tackle a multivariable equation, you start with easier examples. First, you learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Then, you learn how to solve 2x=8, then x + y = 7, and so on and so forth until you are aptly equipped to solve 2(5x + z) = 30x + 3y + 10.
Not Quite Superman, But Maybe Superdrugs
Monday, December 1st, 2008
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Posted by Popular Science - SciTech from Popular Science - SciTech.
Weeks before President-Elect Obama’s choice for Secretary of Defense was finalized, the U.S. Department of Defense was blazing full speed ahead. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (a division of the D.O.D.) recently awarded a contract to GE Global Research, the technology development branch of the mammoth General Electric Company, for a two-year, $1.1 million project to develop a Biotic Man.
Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack and Armies of Robots)?
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Just Two Years Away! Honest!:
The future wasn’t supposed to look like this. Here we are, one month from the very futuristic-sounding 2009, still waiting for robot armies to do our bidding, nuclear fusion to power our homes and a space elevator to zip us up through the atmosphere. Decades, even centuries ago scientists were promising that certain life changing technologies would be ready to go any day.
It might seem that the future is running a little behind schedule. But never fear! It is, indeed, only a matter of time.
So today, allow us to present to you eight technologies that were supposed to be up and running by now, but still haven’t become part of daily life; along with info on when we can expect the technologies to actually arrive.