When fusion hits, what will the fuel supply-chain most likely be like?
Will we mine He3 on the moon?...
BOINC 8.0.2 major release is available for Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows
BOINC is a platform for volunteer computing. Scientists at universities around the world use it to process computationally intensive datasets (sky surveys, protein folding, etc) for FREE using the computers of volunteers. Volunteers get to contribute to cutting-edge research and put their hardware to good use. This is a major...
Crisis in cosmology? Or just tweaking models?
I have read several articles like this one....
Science & Computing Competition for High Schools Aims to Donate 50,000 hours of computation to medical research
The Computation Moonshot is a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about data science, computer science, distributed computing, and a wide array of fields in science by having them contribute to real, useful outcomes for researchers in an exciting competitive atmosphere. We utilize the Berkeley Open...
Milkshake neuroscience: how the brain nudges us toward fatty foods
Rich, high-fat foods such as ice cream are loved not only for their taste, but also for the physical sensations they produce in the mouth — their ‘mouthfeel’. Now scientists have identified a brain area that both responds to the smooth texture of fatty foods and uses that information to rate the morsel’s allure, guiding...