Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
About six months ago new evidence came to light that drinking coffee may help prevent diabetes (you can read about that here). Past studies had suggested that regular coffee drinking may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, it was not new then, so to verify they fed either water or coffee to a group … Read more
Science should be all about transparency, but apparently that’s not always the case. Why does it matter? Well basically because folks need to have the opportunity to review the details of studies that have been done and to criticize and rip them to pieces if the study is in any way dubious or simply wrong. … Read more
According to the UK government “Nearly one in five people living in the UK today will survive to see their 100th birthday” (or to be more specific, The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said its figures suggested 10 million people – 17% of the population – would become centenarians)… hummm, now those are not … Read more
Marc G. Millis, NASA’s leading expert on Breakthrough Propulsion Physics, has published a paper that speculates about when we can expect to make our first trip to another star. You can find the paper here. Sanity Warning: Its speculation, please digest with a few grains of salt. OK, so what he has done is to … Read more
Wow, now this is truly exciting … a team of Princeton University scientists led by professor Michael Hecht have constructed for the first time artificial proteins that enable the growth of living cells. The team have actually created genetic sequences never before seen in nature, and so they have now shown that they can produce … Read more
A new paper has just appeared in Science dated 7th Jan (wow, its still only 6th, have I just fallen into a time rift?). Anyway, they appear to have unraveled a mystery. For quite some time it has been known that the solar corona is far hotter than the sun’s surface by millions of degrees, … Read more