Large Hadron Collider (Video) BBC Horizons. The Six Billion Dollar Experiment. Physics research on the grandest scale.
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An X PRIZE is a multi-million dollar award given to the first team to achieve a specific goal, set by the X PRIZE Foundation, which has the potential to benefit humanity. Rather than awarding money to honor past achievements or directly funding research, an X PRIZE incites innovation by tapping into our competitive and entrepreneurial spirits. X PRIZE competitions capture the imagination of the public and speed radical breakthroughs that can ultimately change the way we see ourselves and how we live on this planet. Stay tuned as the X PRIZE Foundation unveils new X PRIZEs to spark revolutions in the space, medicine, energy, automotive, education, environmental, and social arenas.
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Time to Fuse Humans and Mice into "Humice"? Researchers in Japan have converted mouse skin cells into stem cells. It may be time for us to become more like our little friends. The recent news out of Japan is startling: researchers at Kyoto University have added four crucial genes to mouse skin cells in order to manipulate them into pluripotent stems cells. These genes trick the cell into thinking it's like an embryonic stem cell, which is capable of turning into any cell in the body. The breakthrough could make it easier to grow replacement parts for organs such as the heart and liver. That is, of course, if you are a mouse.
The $2 Million Genome James Watson, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, now has a copy of his very own genome. Will you be next? On Thursday, James Watson was handed a DVD containing his entire genome, sequenced in the past few months by 454, a company based in Branford, CT, that's developing next-generation technologies for efficiently reading the genome. At a cost of $2 million, 454 sequenced Watson's genome for roughly an order of magnitude less than it would have cost using traditional machines. While this is still too expensive for the average Joe, experts say that the advance marks a major milestone toward personal-genome sequencing--and more-personalized medicine--for all.
On Truth and Reality - Uniting Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics and Theology (Science and Art) from One Thing, Absolute Space and the Spherical Standing . Quantum Physics: Quantum Theory / Wave Mechanics: The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) and Spherical Standing Wave Interactions explains Discrete Energy..
Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions 18:00 16 April 2008 - NewScientist.com news service - Michael Le Page If you think you understand it, you don't know nearly enough about it It will soon be 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book ever written. In it, Darwin outlined an idea that many still find shocking – that all life on Earth, including human life, evolved through natural selection. Darwin presented compelling evidence for evolution in On the Origin and, since his time, the case has become overwhelming. Countless fossil discoveries allow us to trace the evolution of today's organisms from earlier forms. DNA sequencing has confirmed beyond any doubt that all living creatures share a common origin. Innumerable examples of evolution in action can be seen all around us, from the pollution-matching pepper moth to fast-changing viruses such as HIV and H5N1 bird flu. Evolution is as firmly established a scientific fact as the roundness of the Earth.
