Archive for tag: science
16 July, 2010 (10:00) | 3. Wed, 5. Sat or Sun | By: nileshbabu
This will probably have no impact to your day job but, it is interesting though. NYTimes reports a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, offers a new light on gravity. But what if it’s (gravity) all an illusion, a sort of cosmic frill, or a side effect of something else [...]
Tags: gravity, illusion, nytimes, science |
15 July, 2010 (13:00) | 5. Sat or Sun | By: nileshbabu
Answer: The Chicken. The scientists found that a protein found only in a chicken’s ovaries is necessary for the formation of the egg, according to the paper Wednesday. The egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken. One mystery solved – at least until someone else finds another protein that [...]
Tags: british, chicken, egg, science |
14 July, 2010 (15:32) | 5. Sat or Sun | By: nileshbabu
Why aren’t we inundated with time travelers from the future? They should be here right now, knowing full well that we’re interested in such topics as time travel to explain just how they accomplish it from a future tens of thousands of years in the future. – Stephen Hawking via: ListVerse.com. Why aren’t we inundated [...]
Tags: listverse, science, stephen hawking, time travel |
22 March, 2010 (10:00) | 5. Sat or Sun | By: nileshbabu
photo credit: bug138 Robert Birge (Syracuse University) who studies the storage of data in proteins, estimated in 1996 that the memory capacity of the brain was between one and ten terabytes, with a most likely value of 3 terabytes. Such estimates are generally based on counting neurons and assuming each neuron holds 1 bit. Bear [...]
Tags: human brain, science, terabytes |
29 January, 2010 (10:00) | 1. Mon, 4. Fri | By: nileshbabu
First, watch this greatest movie scene ever from Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.
Tags: 1. Mon, Funny, infographic, mega shark, movie, science |