News tagged with insignificance

Overcoming the 'fear of Insignificance'

In the not-too-distant past, young people aspired to become lawyers and doctors. Now they yearn to achieve the celebrity of a Mark Zuckerberg or Oprah Winfrey -- and these goals extend to adults as well. This ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Converting cars to all-electric is catching on, but slowly

Does that old Honda in your driveway need a valve job? Transform it with an electric conversion. A team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has come up with a kit to make your 2001-2005 Civic a zero-emission battery ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Discovery of Indian artifacts complicates Genesis solar project

The Feb. 27 letter from the chairman of the Colorado River Indian Tribes was pleading and tough. It asked President Barack Obama to slow the federal government's "frantic pursuit" of massive solar energy projects in the Mojave ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Exploding dinosaur hypothesis implodes

Exploding carcasses through putrefaction gases - this is how science explained the mysterious bone arrangements in almost fully preserved dinosaur skeletons for decades. Now a Swiss-German research team has ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new layer of genetic information that helps determine how fast proteins are produced

A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Looking at quantum gravity in a mirror

Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Weathering of rocks impacts climate change

Chemical weathering of rocks by carbon dioxide dissolved in rainwater has never been taken into account in models of future climate change so far. However, researchers from the Laboratoire Géosciences ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Saving fuel on the buses

Bus and truck companies could cut their fuel bills by more than 7% simply by training their drivers on more efficient driving techniques and offering a financial reward to those who improve fuel economy. A study published ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Quantum physicist explains $100K offer for proof scaled-up quantum computing is impossible

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researcher Scott Aaronson has certainly riled the physics community with his offer this past Friday, of $100,000 to anyone who can prove that scaled-up quantum computing is impossible. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 39 | with audio podcast weblog

Hand counts of votes may cause errors, says new study

Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to 2 percent, according to a new study from Rice University and Clemson University.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find pet kidney injuries are similar to human kidney injuries

When evaluating early kidney injuries in people, doctors monitor blood level increases of creatinine, a waste product of muscle breakdown, to understand the severity of the injury. Creatinine is filtered by the kidneys, and ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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