Category: Science

The Best Designed Data Center in the World- Pionen

The Best Designed Data Center in the World- Pionen

admin1 | December 1, 2010 | Comments (0)

Pionen is an underground data center that belongs to the biggest Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof. It is located 30 meters under the granite rocks. It was built in a former bomb shelter, thus it can withstand a direct attack with a hydrogen bomb. Two Maybach MTU diesel engines from a submarine are responsible for [...]

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Gene Patents Are Unlawful but Why

Gene Patents Are Unlawful but Why

admin1 | September 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

Last week the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s practice of granting patents on human genes – specifically, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are associated with breast and ovarian cancer. In the last 20 or so years the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has issued patents [...]

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Blue M&M food dye turns you blue - but reduces paralysis from spinal injuries

Blue M&M food dye turns you blue – but reduces paralysis from spinal injuries

admin1 | September 13, 2009 | Comments (1)

One of the experimental rats, before and after injection with the blue food dye Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

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Pictures from Mars

Pictures from Mars

admin | August 18, 2009 | Comments (1)

Beautiful photos from the red planet Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

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Quantum Measurements: Common Sense Is Not Enough, Physicists Show

Quantum Measurements: Common Sense Is Not Enough, Physicists Show

admin | July 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

The scientists report on their findings in the current issue of Nature. Quantum mechanics describes the physical state of light and matter and formulates concepts that totally contradict the classical conception we have of nature. Thus, physicists have tried to explain non-causal phenomena in quantum mechanics by classical models of hidden variables, thereby excluding randomness, [...]

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