Northport Middle Schooler Aidan Dwyer has accomplished more in his life than most people three times his age. He sails, he golfs...and he is a patented innovator of solar panel arrangements.Dwyer applied the Fibonacci sequence to solar panel arrays in a months-long backyard experiment. He found that small solar panels arranged according to the Fibonacci sequence found in tree branches produced 20...
read moreLast week, Science Exchange launched a website allowing scientists to outsource their research to 'providers' — other researchers and institutions that have the facilities and equipment to meet requesting scientists' needs. Zoë Corbyn at Nature asked the company's co-founder, researcher-turned-entrepreneur Elizabeth Iorns, how the website works, and what an online marketplace for experiments...
read moreYou likely know what Billboard is but maybe not the ‘Bubbling Under The Hot 100’ listing – it was for groups that had not broken though yet and was published from 1959-1985. Given the prominence of Billboard, how can a song be on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart and simply disappear? This is America. This can’t happen. Well, it did. In 1979. The...
read moremore than 65 years, and it is finally on the verge of creating a true electronic brain.Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information.IBM’s so-called cognitive computing chips could one day simulate...
read moreNational Geographic, which nows runs Scienceblogs.com, has put the hammer down on anonymous blogs.Really, that whole thing was always a little sketchy. Supposedly the rationale was that these people were going to be edgy insiders revealing things too explosive for mainstream media and maybe damaging to their careers but it mostly ended up being a way to rant about politics without...
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