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Science and Reason

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Science and reason is all about... science and reason. News and explanations of recent developments in the most intriguing branches of science. Philosophical and political issues of relevance are also discussed.

• Added on: Dec 19th, 2005
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Charles Daney
• Listed in: Science Politics Philosophy
• Tags: cosmology readings neuroscience inflammation health and medicine molecular biology

Recent Posts

• Most Distant Known Object In The Universe

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 00:26 in early universe, gamma-ray bursts, astrophysics and cosmology

  On April 23 of this year the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Telescope detected, just as it was designed to do, a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Within less than a day two of the most powerful Earth-based telescopes had begun studying the quickly fading light of the o...

• A surprisingly compact early galaxy

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 01:22 in galaxy evolution, astrophysics and cosmology

  Astronomers are beginning to learn significant details of the structure of galaxies in the early universe. And what they're learning is rather surprising: at least some early galaxies are almost as massive as otherwise similar galaxies in the present...

• NGC 4945: The Milky Way’s not-so-distant Cousin

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 23:06 in galaxies

  NGC 4945: The Milky Way’s not-so-distant Cousin (9/2/09)ESO has released a striking new image of a nearby galaxy that many astronomers think closely resembles our own Milky Way. Though the galaxy is seen edge-on, observations of NGC 4945 suggest th...

• Telomerase and Wnt signaling

  Posted on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 04:08 in Cancer, stem cells, wnt signaling, cell biology, cancer biology, molecular and cell biology, cancer stem cells, telomeres, telomerase

  Now that research into telomeres and telomerase has (finally) garnered a Nobel Prize, it's a good time to write about recent research on the subject.Seminal work on telomeres by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel winners, was published way back in...

• Pygmalion

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 02:50 in Robotics, artificial intelligence

  Inventor Demonstrates Humanoid Robot's Latest AI Abilities (8/25/09)In August 2007, Le Trung invented Aiko, a Yumecom, or "Dream Computer Robot." Although it took only a month and a half to build Aiko's exterior, the artificial intelligence softw...

• A Look into the Hellish Cradles of Suns and Solar Systems

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 00:02 in nebulae, star formation

  A Look into the Hellish Cradles of Suns and Solar Systems (8/19/09)New images released today by ESO delve into the heart of a cosmic cloud, called RCW 38, crowded with budding stars and planetary systems. There, young stars bombard fledgling suns and...

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