Cambridge University wants to know about your coincidences!

The Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge has a call for you to submit to them your stories of coincidences. Why are they doing this? By recording your coincidence stories, you can help them build a picture of what kinds of coincidences are … Read more

Research has determined the atomic limits of magnetic memory

IBM Research scientists have successfully demonstrated the ability to store one bit of information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms. Now that is truly impressive, because today’s disk drives use about one million atoms to store a single bit of information – so yes, there is indeed a considerable degree of scope to leverage … Read more

Scam Alert: If Facebook offers you different colours – Avoid, it is a con.

The Inquirer reports … THE SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook has been hit by a scam tempting users to change the colour of the web site. The scam involves inviting users to change the colour of their Facebook to pink, red or black for a limited time only. A link within the post then prompts the user … Read more

Pareidolia: Why does our brain see Jesus on a tortilla? – New Research has some answers

As you can see from the picture here, we naturally tend to see objects that resemble faces everywhere. Be it clouds, tortilla’s, bits of toast or odd-shaped hills on Mars, the pattern recognition engine between your ears does an amazing job. Now, what is interesting is that it is just a resemblance, you can also … Read more

Imaging inside a single cell – Nanotechnology

An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring or damaging the cell, has been developed by researchers from Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley. The researchers  attached a tin-oxide nanowire waveguide to the tapered end of … Read more

Higgs

Well come on, its “The” news today, so what else should I be blogging about, but then what can I actually add? Not much, except perhaos to point you at a few good links. First we have Jon Butterworth in The Guardian. He is a physics professor at University College London and is a member … Read more