biology
Lack of microbes in Antarctic permafrost dims hopes for life on Mars
Posted in Science on 22nd Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
The unsuccessful search for living microbes in the permafrost of Antarcticas University Valley could spell bad news for the search for Mars life.
CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Posted in Featured, Science on 22nd Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
The CRISPR/Cas9 technique is a massive discovery, that may already be on its way to being outdated and replaced with something even better.
Memory capacity of brain is 10 times more than previously thought
Posted in Science on 21st Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
'Our new measurements of the brain's memory capacity increase conservative estimates by a factor of 10 to at least a petabyte, in the same ballpark as the World Wide Web.'
IBM research thinks it's solved why the brain uses so much energy
Posted in Science on 20th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
About 90 percent of the energy consumed by the brain is unaccounted for, which is a considerable amount given that the brain takes 20 percent of the body's total energy.
Public contributions to science increasingly common
Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
Biology and ecology have a long tradition of citizen science. Researchers relied on the public to observe and classify animal and plant species for over 100 years.