Biomedical scientists have used stem cells to create a naturally developing mini-human brain the size of a pea. This is the best living model yet developed. Jüergen Knoblich of the Austrian Academy of Molecular Biotechnology and Sciences in Vienna noted that testing the mini-brains on animals is not feasible, saying, “The mouse brain does not offer a good model system for the human brain… The system we developed […]
Astronomers working with ESO's very large telescopes in Brazil have discovered the oldest twin of the sun. Located 250 million light-years away, HIP 102152 is the star most similar to the sun, but it is 4 billion years older. Astronomers have only been studying the sun for 400 years, a tiny fraction of the sun's 4.6 billion-year lifetime. In such a short time, our sun […]
Scientists have detected magmatic water originating from within the Moon. The first detection of this was published in Nature Geoscience on August 25th. These findings could lead to dramatic changes in our understanding of the Moon's geological structure. While the Moon was until recently thought to be a dry satellite, this is no longer the case. However, this does not mean that the magmatic water discovered in Bullialdus crater lies at greater depths. […]
The normal part of the brain is thought to be in the hippocampus. However, Mazahir T. Hasan of the Max Planck Institute for Health Research and José Maria Delgado-Garcìa of the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, Spain, have obtained data indicating that this is not recorded in that area, but in the cerebral cortex. The reason for this is that people with damage to these areas of the brain are able to recall newly learned information […]
Information technologies are evolving so rapidly today that it's difficult to stay informed, let alone follow them. Because by the time we're aware of a new technology, a superior version or a technology that could replace it may have already emerged. Now, the concept of Big Data has emerged, a topic of discussion among many IT experts. While not yet widespread, it's already being used by many […]
Cloud computing is something we've heard a lot about in recent years. While some of us have detailed knowledge about it, most of us don't actually understand much about it. So, what is cloud computing? Cloud computing, or Online Information Distribution (Source) in its functional sense, is the general name given to services that enable collaborative information sharing between computing devices. In this respect, it's not a product, […]
