Born To Run | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine.
Did humans evolve to be endurance runners?
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Awesome, perhaps. But what does it actually do?
Paralympics opens with a big bang
A glowing, celestial sphere descended into the middle of a giant central umbrella structure, igniting the ‘big bang’, of which Hawking has written extensively.
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies have created an Arepo simulation that has created the most accurate re-enactment of the universe to date.
Writing the Book in DNA | Harvard Medical School
700 terabtyes of data storage in 1 gram. George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a founding core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University, and his team encoded the book, Continue reading
India is heading for Mars: it doesn’t need British aid money to pay the bills – Telegraph.
Foreign aid doesn’t help any poor countries – it just corrupts their governments
Fortune Magazine published this map of undersea internet data infrastructure around the globe. Continue reading
A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion
Nature Biotechnology (2012) doi:10.1038/nbt.2269
Henri Poincaré
29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912
Henri Jules Poincaré, dubbed “the last universalist”, died one hundred years ago, on 17 July 1912.
One word: symmetry.