Married Couples Needed for Trip to Mars
Married Couples Needed for Trip to Mars (via NewsLook)Planning on honeymooning in space? A billionaire is financing a trip to Mars set to take off in 2018. He's teaming up with NASA and they're looking for married couples to take the 501 day journey.
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Comparing online gaming between tablets and mobile phones
If there is one thing that never stops moving it is technology, with innovations happening every day that make our lives easier and more enjoyable. For the casino industry this is a great thing as it gives them more ways in which they can create and distribute fun casino games to more people than ever before.
One of the main additions that online casino games companies have jumped on is the mobile phone and tablet markets, this allows people to play casino games, at http://www.luckynuggetcasino.com/au/online-blackjack/, no matter where they are. But are there any differences in the experience for the...
Privacy Concerns Peak as Facebook Introduces Graph Search
The popular social networking site Facebook has once again come under fire. As little as a month ago, the company released its new search software called Graph Search. This new form of searching via the site allows users to type in phrases like, "friends in New York who like jazz music," and the results displayed are actually relevant. While this new method of searching for people with similar tastes as you is a great advancement, it has others concerned about privacy.
Facebook itself prepared for these concerns before releasing the application. As it stands, Graph Search has access only to information...
Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down
The Large Hadron Collider or LHC, best known for identifying a particle that could be the Higgs boson. If the particle is it, this would confirm the existence of the Higgs field to explain why some fundamental particles have mass although other theories say they shouldn't. Although it is still not certain whether the particle is the Higgs boson, the discovery of the particle has been a hot topic of conversation. Unfortunately, the LHC is being shut down.
Try not to worry too much! This shut down of the machine will last two years and is necessary to get it working...
Bacteria Producing Nitric Oxide Could Prolong Human Life
Scientists have recently conducted research using nitric oxide on roundworms in the lab. They fed the organism bacteria that could manufacture nitric oxide and found that the round worm lived for a significantly longer period of time. This news has scientists wondering about the impact of the molecule on humans and how the multitude of microbial cells within our bodies all help to contribute to our overall health.
According to Dr. Evgeny Nudler, a professor of biochemistry at NYU Langone Medical Center, humans see a decrease in their own nitric oxide levels as they age. He goes so far as to...
Solar Storms Vs. Snow Storms - Space Has Us Beat
No longer are humans condemned to worry about snowstorms or floods in their area. For NASA, this year's newest hot topic is space weather, which can present even more of a hassle than regional weather problems would. Consider that in comparison to snow and wind, we are talking about solar wind and flares, coronal mass ejections, and even radiation storms. Thinking about the weather of the cosmos in relation to Earth's own weather almost makes you hate snowstorms less. Almost.
The problem is that this weather doesn't only affect distant planets or orbiting comets. A strong enough solar storm has the...
Is the Heat Making You Do Stupid Things? Researchers Have an Idea Why
Have you ever found it unbelievably hard to concentrate in warm weather? Well, researchers believe that warm weather impairs this ability. The warmer the climate, the harder it is for us to make complex decisions. Conversely, cooler weather seems not to have much of an affect on decision-making skills. An individual will have a harder time choosing what to do in Florida's heat than in Alaska's cold.
One of the reasons for this is based on the fact that our bodies require glucose to function. Glucose is an energy source that powers physical and mental processes. Our bodies work to regulate...
$900 Million Spent Yearly to Treat Deadly Chagas Disease
It turns out that a rather obscure disease is responsible for costing the American economy more than other common illnesses each year. This disease is called "Chagas." An illness like Lyme disease, which is rather well-known in the US, costs the economy $2.5 billion a year according to a study done in 1998. Not lagging far behind is Chagas, costing the economy $900 million a year. Chagas is also responsible for about $7 billion a year being spent throughout the world on treatment, while less than $5 billion is spent on cervical cancer.
Just what is Chagas disease to begin with?...
Facebook Being Sued Yet Again
For anyone up to date on the current trends of the Internet, it may be hard to believe that the social networking website Facebook is being challenged. In fact, the site has recently been sued over the use of its "like" button, along with other features that have made it the most popular place on the web for social media. The company has no comments to share in regard to the lawsuit.
Rembrandt Social Media, a company whose sole purpose is to hold patents, is responsible for taking up this case. The company is acting on behalf of a now deceased...
Egypt Bans YouTube Services for a Month
The film "Innocence of Muslims," a video mocking Islamic beliefs, continues to bring upset to the Islamic community. An Egyptian court recently decided to ban use of YouTube in the country. This rule was based on the fact that the video was uploaded and distributed through the popular video sharing website.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the video, it runs for a total of 13 minutes. In it, the prophet Mohammed is shown as being a sexual deviant who is neither enlightened nor respectable. This is particularly a problem because Islamic peoples believe any depiction of Mohammed to...
App Turns Boring Newspaper Articles into Fun & Interactive Stories
Another application has been released that uses augmented reality to translate newspapers for children. This app, developed in Japan by Tokyo Shimbun, can be used on a smartphone and held over the adult newspaper text.
The smartphone then displays a version of the text that is more friendly to children. Basically, this app allows children to turn a boring old regular newspaper into one that targets their age group and is much more interactive. Tokyo Shimbun worked with the advertising firm Dentsu to create the software. Augmented reality technology is used by the app in order to make the pages of...
Researchers Produce a Model Spaceship Using a 3D Printer
The power of 3D printers is once again put on display as Nanoscribe GmbH has released photographs of the tiny spaceship they've created. This spaceship, with a mere length of 70 microns, is a model of the Wing Commander Hellcat. The organization that was able to print this tiny model is part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), which means that KIT campuses everywhere are now using this technology.
This printer uses a 3D laser lithography system that was developed by Nanoscribe. As for how the printer actually works, it uses two-photon polymerization. Photosensitive materials are activated by short laser...
Discovery of Gene Potentially Involved in Depression Therapy
According to a study published in the February 7 edition of Cell Stem Cell, scientists at Johns Hopkins University have identified a common mechanism underlying the therapeutic effects of antidepressants and electroconvulsive (also known as “electroshock”) therapy (ECT). Professor Hongjun Song, Ph.D., and his team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Institute for Cell Engineering identified reductions in the activity of a specific gene as the underlying factor in the efficacy of both sets of treatments.
The sFRP3 (“secreted frizzled-related protein 3”) gene is responsible for producing a protein that inhibits a chemical reaction that results in...
Text Messaging Company Offers to Pay Customers
A new mobile phone service for texting has become popular in Spain. This service, called Chad2Win, is free for its customers and actually pays them. The only condition is that the users will have to deal with ads regularly. They can earn up to $34 a month by viewing these ads or clicking on them. The company pays a cent for every advertisement the person views and three cents for every advertisement that they click on.
The company operates out of Barcelona currently and has gotten quite a few people interested. Free messaging services have become all the rage, with one...
Study Claims UV-B Radiation Can Prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis
New research that suggests a link between arthritis and lack of sunlight has come out. U.S. researchers published their study in "Annals of the Rheumatic Disease" recently. In the study, over 200,000 women were followed. These women were split into two different groups. The first group's monitoring began in 1976, while the second's began in 1989. Harvard Medical School headed this research, which compared levels of UV-B radiation of the groups based on where they lived, i.e. participants living in sunnier areas vs. those living in climates with less sun exposure.
The results of the first group were that those living...
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