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A common biological basis for male homosexuality and male-to-female transsexuality?
Birth-order and sibling studies indicate common findings for male homosexuals and male-to-female transsexuals. If a common biological mechanism underpins both conditions, what are the implications?
:: STARTED BY Ganesh
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:10 09.04.07
Plasma Converter
A machine that can, apparently, turn almost any kind of waste matter into free energy. Is this sci-fi made reality, or something far too good to be true? And, er, how does the science behind it actually work?
:: STARTED BY Hydra vs Leviathan
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:52 08.04.07
Diet and behavior
How the food you eat could be affecting the way you behave -- and how junk food could be linked to aggressive behavior (or behaviour), and how fish oil could fix it.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:54 06.04.07
Teaching as a scientific path
A discussion of teaching and similar paths, as well as possible alternatives.
:: STARTED BY The Llama Cascade
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:05 06.04.07
Brave new Filesharing
For a long time, Copyright law has terrorised the filesharing community. Now, in the 21st century, a handful of OS programmers resist the invading Copyright Empire by building tools of intraceable invincibility!
But is anonymous filesharing a good idea anyway? Is virtual absolute freedom of data equivalent to giving child molesters a safe platform?
:: STARTED BY evade-this-post
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:39 02.04.07
Earth Hour
Unplug it or switch it off for an hour.
Just an hour.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:51 31.03.07
Solar Storm 2012
NASA says new "solar max" is due on a significant date.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:43 23.03.07
Society-wide health controls vrs the individual.
A thread to explore views on the ethics of controlling inherited illness.
:: STARTED BY Evil Science Holiday
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:43 23.03.07
Life-like systems
Apparently some people are beginning to treat life as a phase of life-like complex systems. What are your opinions? Discussions welcome!
:: STARTED BY locusSolus
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:09 16.03.07
Science and Politics
When scientists and engineers collide with politics -- and, especially, politicians who don't like empirical evidence or who don't understand research.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:09 10.03.07
The Military's "psychic warrior"
Well, we all have some ideas about MKultra, remote viewing and the like...
is the military Really exploring the psychic possibilities?
curious...
:: STARTED BY Mr Tricks
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:48 01.03.07
Science is Bad for Food. And Health.
Michael Pollan asserts that the scientific approach to food and nutrition actually currently does more harm than good because of the necessary reductionism and isolationist approach required by the scientific method--particularly as it operates under the ideology he calls "nutritionism." Any science-types here want to disagree?
:: STARTED BY alas
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:09 28.02.07
Vaccine for Cervical Cancer!
Scientists appear to have created a vaccine to the virus which causes cervical cancer...
:: STARTED BY Fist of Fun
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:00 23.02.07
Scientists freeze beam of light
Physicists say they have brought light to a complete halt for a fraction of a second and then sent it on its way.
:: STARTED BY XK
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:19 09.02.07
FMRI scans to read people's intentions
fMRI scans developed to read people's intentions. Debate about ethical, political and social consequences encouraged.
:: STARTED BY Notes from Boris-town
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:28 09.02.07
Giant Space Mirrors
The US's new suggestion to reverse the effects of global warming. Said by the IPCC to be "speculative, uncosted and with potential unknown side-effects". However, on the positive side the US seems to be coming closer to recognising that anthropogenic climate change exists...
:: STARTED BY Hydra vs Leviathan
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:11 05.02.07
IPhone
"iPhone is like having your life in your pocket, it's the ultimate digital device" - Steve Jobs
:: STARTED BY The Paschal Lamb
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:02 25.01.07
Big Brother In Your Pocket
Tiny Transmitters in your.....Pennies???
:: STARTED BY Tim Tempest
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:50 24.01.07
World's first womb transplant perfomed in Saudi Arabia
Womb transplant, fertility advances, medical advances, medical world-firsts.
:: STARTED BY Mordant
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:59 18.01.07
Moore's Law Exceeded
New Computer chip prototype from IBM exceedes Moore's Law.
:: STARTED BY Pool Ball Incident
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:30 17.01.07
Enhanced Perceptual Functioning in Autism
A paper by autism researchers suggesting that rather than a core deficit, autistic people have a core strength in the area of particular kinds of perception.
:: STARTED BY quercia
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:03 14.01.07
How Does a Calculator Work?
Wikipedia has failed me, don't you do the same?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:49 13.01.07
Parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home. Someone finally got it to work.
:: STARTED BY cusm
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:07 10.01.07
Apophis the Destroyer
Design an mission to rendezvous with an asteroid that might destroy Earth...
:: STARTED BY calgodot
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:18 09.01.07
Robocop prototype built
Verheiden's man-machine masterpiece, real?! How long before the 'suits' try and stuff an unfortunate 'Murphy' in one? "Can you fly, Bobby?" etc.
:: STARTED BY Molly Shortcake
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:57 09.01.07
Luck Survey
From the first post: "Bristol University scientists have started a major study to figure out whether or not luck really exists."
:: STARTED BY Wyrd
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:06 27.12.06
Invisibility coming soon...
Boffins in the labs have been theorising over whether they can make a 'Harry Potter' style cloak with new 'Meta Materials'. What would you do with one? Have a bit of fun with it's implications, or maybe get scared, real scared.
:: STARTED BY Pool Ball Incident
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:30 19.12.06
Soy Controversy
Is soy a healthy meat alternative or "the next asbestos?"
:: STARTED BY ibis the being
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:21 18.12.06
Reaping the whirlwind
Global weather catastrophe and climate change hits the news at last.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:27 09.12.06
Water on Mars
Water on Mars, China going to the moon, space is sexy again.
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:41 07.12.06
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