Archive for the ‘science’ category
Dec 2, 2019
How suspicions of spying threaten cross-border science
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: military, quantum physics, science
An intelligence startup warns that China is exploiting Western quantum scientists for military ends. The evidence is thin, but tensions are rising.
Nov 27, 2019
Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: cosmology, science
New books by a physicist and science journalist mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses.
Nov 22, 2019
Integrating Science And Religion To Uncover New Ideas And Truths
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, health, quantum physics, science
Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sister Ilia Delio PhD. OSF, a Franciscan Sister (Order of St Francis of Washington, DC) who holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University.
Ira Pastor Comments:
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Nov 21, 2019
Is There Actually Science Behind ‘Dopamine Fasting’?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: neuroscience, science
The trendy concept of “dopamine fasting” actually finds its roots in established addiction therapies.
Nov 18, 2019
What Happens When We Die? Insights from Resuscitation Science, Sessions 1 & 2
Posted by Paul Battista in category: science
Nov 17, 2019
RNA Therapies — Professor Dr. Lorna Harries, PhD — University of Exeter Medical School — ideaXme — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biotech/medical, chemistry, DNA, genetics, health, life extension, posthumanism, science, transhumanism
Nov 16, 2019
Filipina High School Student Discovered ‘Aratiles’ Fruit as Potential Cure for Diabetes, Wins Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, education, engineering, science
This 16-year-old high school student from Iloilo went viral after discovering the properties of Aratiles fruit or Sarisa that can cure diabetes.
The young Filipina scientist was identified as Maria Isabel Layson, was one of the winners of the 2019 National Science and Technology Fair (NSTF), that was held last February.
She was also one of the 12 candidates sent to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona USA to represent the Philippines in one of the biggest pre-college science research competition in the world and was the first in her batch to receive Gokongwei Brothers Foundation Young Scientist Award.
Nov 14, 2019
The Search for Life in the Universe Documentary — The Science of Exoplanets Discovery
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: alien life, science
How do we find other planets?
For life in the universe to be abundant, planets must be abundant. But planets are hard to detect because they are small, and much fainter than the stars they orbit.
How does life begin?
Scientists do not yet know how the first living things arose on Earth. The geological record shows that life appeared on Earth almost as soon as the young planet was cool and stable enough for living things to survive. This suggests that life may exist wherever conditions allow it.
Nov 14, 2019
Ejected Star: How fast is fast?
Posted by Philip Raymond in categories: astronomy, science, space
Earlier today, Genevieve O’Hagan updated Lifeboat readers on this week’s momentous event in Astronomy. At least, I find it fascinating—and so, I wish to add perspective…
30 years ago, astronomer Jack Hills demonstrated the math behind what has become known as the “Hills Mechanism”. Until this week, the event that he described had never been observed.* But his peer astronomers agreed that the physics and math should make it possible…
Hills explained that under these conditions, a star might be accelerated to incredible speeds — and might be even flung out of its galaxy:
- Suppose that a binary star passes close to a black hole, like the one at the center of our galaxy
- The pair of self-orbiting stars is caught up in the gravity well of a black hole, but not sucked in
If conditions are right, one star ends up orbiting the back hole while the other is jettisoned at incredible speed, yet holding onto its mass and shape. All that energy comes from the gravity of the black hole and the former momentum of the captured star. [20 sec animation] [continue below]
