The footage of nematode mating is strangely mesmerising and surprisingly elegant. The male presses the front side of his tail against the hermaphrodite, while he backs along and searches for the vulva. The tail, controlled by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, embraces the ...Read More
The enveloping and violently red installation of Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, immediately caught my eye to The Hayward Gallery's newly opened exhibition, Walking in My Mind: Adventure into the artist imagination. As the naming aptly conceived, this collection reflects the ...Read More
Look around you. Look around you. Just look around you. Have you worked out what we're looking for? Correct, the answer is friggin' genius! I am utterly broken again by Look Around You, a BBC spoof on educational programmes of ...Read More
Cows + Flax = 18% less CH4 = Greener environment The cows are doing their bid in saving the environment by changing their diet, eating flax, which reduces methane release of 18%. Go, cattle farmers! But let propose an idea to ...Read More
The results in this article are not far from common sense. The downfalls of early risers …A reduction in brain activity in areas associated with attention was observed among the early birds. In addition, they felt sleepy and demonstrated slow performance on ...Read More
"The memories are not like flashlights that get progressively weaker as the battery runs low," Luck said. "They are more like a laptop computer that continues working at the same speed until it suddenly shuts down." This could be important ...Read More
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As our politician keeps on smiling, it's a whopping 35°C (95°F) today in Melbourne CBD today and it's only the second week of October. Where has the gentle breeze of spring gone? Has more ice shelves in melted Antarctica? Hello ...Read More
The first operation by a robot has been carried out in Australia! Source: The Daily Telegraph Read More
Life without music would be a mistake. —Friedrich Nietzsche Maestro Daniel Barenboim philosophised the music relationship with life, the universe and everything at this year's Reith Lectures. Neuroscientist confirmed when performing music emotional responses which are excited when listening to music ...Read More
NEC System Technologies and Mie University have designed a wine-tasting robot. It fires a beam of infrared light and the reflected light determines the object's chemical composition. When a reporter's hand was placed against the robot's taste sensor, it was ...Read More
Image: Cabel Maxfield Sasser Three new Mac ad ideas by Tom Batten. He has eloquently summarised the endless contention between Macs and PCs. Methinks that Tom has a Titanium, which are notorious for their fragile casing, video cable and LCD. 1. The effortlessly ...Read More