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Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (29) | comments 12




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Meet Microsoft's guru of 'design matters'

Bill Buxton is multiplatform the way Leonardo da Vinci was multiplatform. The Microsoft researcher is a technologist, a designer, a musician, an author, outdoorsman and a nationally ranked equestrian.

Technology / Software

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (38) | comments 72 | with audio podcast

Seeing the forest through the trees

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona researcher Brian Enquist and his colleagues have discovered the secret of patterns within individual trees that can be used to describe the structure and functioning ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Did Michelangelo Include a Brain Stem in the Sistine Chapel?

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has yet to write a book on the hidden pictures in Michelangelo's artwork, but maybe he can start working on a thriller that takes Robert Langdon on a journey through the Renaissance ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (16) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' reveals more secrets

The Last Supper - relentlessly studied, scrutinized, satirized and one the world's most famous paintings - is still revealing secrets. Researchers Olivier Bauer, Nancy Labonté, Jonas Saint-Martin and ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (26) | comments 84 | with audio podcast

Sony chief executive outlines turnaround plan

(AP) -- Sony said it aims to be profitable in gaming and flat-panel TVs by the fiscal year ending March 2011, pushing 3-D technology as a way to showcase its strength in entertainment and surface from deep ...

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robotic prostate surgery may mean big trade-off

(AP) -- A new study suggests less-invasive keyhole surgery for prostate cancer may mean a higher risk for lasting incontinence and impotence when compared with traditional surgery.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fighting tomorrow's hackers

One of the themes of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is the need to keep vital and sensitive information secure. Today, we take it for granted that most of our information is safe because it's encrypted. Every time we use a ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet

The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Fibonacci sequence fronts new nanoscience building at Bristol University

A famous mathematical pattern has inspired the stunning curved sail façade of Bristol University’s new £11 million Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 05, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1


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