Fascinating scientific stuff

[Cosimah2o]

Where is that pesky Swede anyway?

Here, on the map ! Beergood is on Mars during Spring break with Curiosity, Opportunity and other spacecraft friends circling overhead...
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1449
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-mars-missions-scaled-april-sun.html

 

[Robert]

From the New York Post

Researchers find treatment that kills every kind of cancer tumor

 

[Meadow337]

hmm forgive my cynicism but lets see if this makes it past clinical trials. Seems to me there are a lot of pharmaceutical companies with a lot to lose if a simple solution like this came to market

 

[Robert]

hmm forgive my cynicism but lets see if this makes it past clinical trials. Seems to me there are a lot of pharmaceutical companies with a lot to lose if a simple solution like this came to market

Right you are, Meadows337.

 

[Robert]

This story really catches the eye of this old retired sailor.

Navy Deploying Laser Weapon Prototype Near Iran


I would like to have had one of these onboard my last ship.

 

[Cosimah2o]

Oldest Dinosaur Embryo Fossils Discovered in China !!

Paleontologists working in China recently unearthed what could be the earliest collection of fossilized dinosaur embryos to date, and it has provided the researchers with a new opportunity to study ongoing growth patterns and development of the prehistoric species.

“ We are opening a New Window into the lives of Dinosaurs” said Mr. Robert Reisz- Palaeontologist at the University of Toronto / Dr Roberts ( geologist ) said the significant find would allow researchers to better understand the dinosaur's lifecycle, particularly how quickly they gained size .

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[sparkchaser]

Very cool!

I want one!

 

[sparkchaser]

Well now, this is interesting:

As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.

I don't know if comparing transistor density and academic journals to life is valid or not :/

 

[Cosimah2o]

Well now, this is interesting:
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.
I don't know if comparing transistor density and academic journals to life is valid or not :/

Well, The Mathematical biology or Biomathematics has been a great tool, for example, in the genetic drift or the Neutral theory of molecular evolution ( Motoo Kimura) . However, I am so surprised with this question:

What happens if you extrapolate backwards to the point of no complexity–the origin of life?

What ??? The RNA's world, the first form of life, is in itself a complexity . I've a basic knowledges in Micorbial Ecology/Genetic of Microorganism and I am still looking for the origin of LUCA .

 

[sparkchaser]

We need a time machine. Can we use yours? Mine got tossed off a cliff by cave bear.

 

[Cosimah2o]

Chimpanzees use Botanical skills to discover fruit !​

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Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now investigated which strategies chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, use in order to find fruit in the rain forest. The result: Chimpanzees know that trees of certain species produce fruit simultaneously and use this botanical knowledge during their daily search for fruit.

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[sparkchaser]

That's pretty cool.

 

[Cosimah2o]

We need a time machine. Can we use yours? Mine got tossed off a cliff by cave bear.

Yes, but besides we need the return of Beergood because he speaks French and he was teaching me old Swedish (fornsvenska)

 

[sparkchaser]

Beer good speaks French? I am not surprised I guess.

I speak American English, Spanglish, and gibberish.

 

[Cosimah2o]

But we need to Beergood, anyway...

 

[Cosimah2o]

13 + 9 = ???​

Baboons Show Brain's Ability to Understand Numbers !​

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-monkey-math-zoo-baboons-brain.html

Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait—the ability to understand numbers—also is shared by man and his primate cousins

 

[Meadow337]

hey listen 'numerical' ability starts when you notice dat guy over dere got more nuts than me!

 

[Meadow337]

Ever tried to give a dog 4 out of the 5 treats you have in your hand?

 

[Cosimah2o]

Rather, I've tried it with crumbs and wild birds ... It was a kind of << experiment >> in memory of Konrad Lorenz .

 

[Meadow337]

and let me guess birds can count bread crumbs?