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The Pioneer Anomaly
Why are spacecraft Pioneers' 10 and 11 slowing down? Save the data, solve the mystery.
:: STARTED BY Papess
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:21 21.05.05
Rocket Engines- the way to go for space travel?
A thread for discussing rocket engines and related subjects. How useful are they? Are they sustainable?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:11 19.05.05
Pheromones turn on straight women, gay men.
Brain chemistry and homosexuality - A study shows that certain pheromones have the same effect on straight women and gay men.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:53 18.05.05
Science Heroes
In which we discuss exemplary thinking persons, from the real world or fiction.
Them what make science *cool*.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:07 17.05.05
BBC Backstage
The BBC take the public information act to new levels. British lead info-renaissance or cynical ideas-mining?
:: STARTED BY delta
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:19 16.05.05
Impactful technologies of the near future...
what are the technologies that are emerging now that we think will have the most impact over the next few years (let's say ten). Is it ludicrous to say that it's going to be biotech related? Is this the decade where networked appliances in the home really come into their own, or is the web just getting going?
:: STARTED BY Tom Coates
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:55 11.05.05
E-mails and texts 'more damaging than cannabis'
Scientists find information overload causes greater drop in IQ than smoking dope...
:: STARTED BY Bill Posters
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:35 10.05.05
How Will The World End?
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a Guardian article.
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:43 08.05.05
Baby, Baby, Baby, Where Did Our Privacy Go?
You ever feel like just mailing your personal information to criminals, and thereby cut out the middle-man when it comes to identity theft.
:: STARTED BY funkaoshi
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:23 05.05.05
Exploding Frogs of DOOM!!!!!!!
Ummm... what the hell?
:: STARTED BY Spyder Todd 2008
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:57 04.05.05
The Girl With The X-Ray Eyes.
girl with superpowers being tested.
:: STARTED BY panthergod
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:16 30.04.05
Wake me up before you go go...
Hydrogen sulfide causes suspended animation in mice. Do they have a charming prince with a kiss at the end? who'd wake *him* up before touchdown??
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:28 30.04.05
The Nature of Scientific Debate
Wherein we discuss what science does, whom science does it to, whether debate is applicable to science, and the relationship of science to both the polity and nature.
:: STARTED BY alterity
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:56 21.04.05
The early universe was like a liquid...
Scientist find that the early universe behaves like a 'perfect fluid'...
:: STARTED BY the Fool
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:14 21.04.05
Report-back from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference?
Would people be interested in me giving an overview of the kinds of things that people were talking about at this year's O'Reilly conference on Emerging Technologies? I went about three weeks ago.
:: STARTED BY Tom Coates
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:35 20.04.05
Mind reading machines
I thought it might be useful to have a topic encompassing all the new developments in cerebral / neural scanning technology. Machines that read minds.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:47 20.04.05
2005 Aventis Prize
Discussing the Aventis Prize and the books nominated for the 2005 award.
:: STARTED BY El Directo
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:23 17.04.05
Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin and the legalization of MDMA
Sasha Shulgin, psychedelic chemistry, and the legalization of MDMA. Y'know, ecstasy -- E -- dancing medicine....
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:58 01.04.05
Is there life on mars?
i got methane, i got methane all on my mind
little girl little girl... i got methane all on my mind
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:54 30.03.05
The NASA thread
A thread about NASA and space exploration, but mainly about NASA.
:: STARTED BY sleazenation
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:19 28.03.05
Sensation and Perception Questions
I have a test tomorrow. Let this be my begging plea for help with some things I don't know.
:: STARTED BY xenosss
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:30 22.03.05
Hypnotism
What is its extent? How easy is it to perform, or to resist? Do you even believe in it?
:: STARTED BY JOY NO WRY
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:28 19.03.05
Cold Fusion
Lionheart decides to talk about cod fusion. eh... cold fusion. Less fish, more energy.
:: STARTED BY Lionheart
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:14 08.03.05
Rat Neurons learn how to pilot an F-22
It's like they've never even seen Terminator
:: STARTED BY sine
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:09 02.03.05
World Jump Day
An attempt to drive Earth into a new orbit to lower the impact of global heating.
:: STARTED BY Simulacra
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:10 25.02.05
Vampires live longer: official
Scientists at Stanford University have confirmed what Vlad Dracul knew all along: a refreshing dose of young blood can put the spring back into your step.
keywords: longevity, vampires, stem cell
:: STARTED BY unheimlich manoeuvre
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:19 23.02.05
Fetal Brainstates
A question about alpha/beta/theta/delta brainstates and the fetus.
:: STARTED BY nidu713
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:01 21.02.05
Random Number Generator Predicted Attacks
The Global Consciousness Project not only detects the effects of human thought processes on "random" number generation -- it also appears to detect future global events.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 32 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:39 16.02.05
Our Reaction To Deep Sea Creatures
Why do we get bad vibes off those crazy fish in the deep oceans?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:16 14.02.05
Skydiving ants
Explorer finds a weird trait among ants in the Amazon -- although wingless, they glide like flying squirrels.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:37 11.02.05
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