Science Innovations

1). For Medicine and Physiology: John O’Keefe, May-Britt Monser and Edvard I. Monser Prize Share - 1/3 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was divided, one half awarded to John O’Keefe, the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Monser “for the discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.” 2). For Physics: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji Nakamura Prize Share - 1/3 They were jointly awarded the prize for the invention of "efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.” 3). For Chemistry: Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, William E. Moerner Prize Share - 1/3 The Nobel Prize was awarded to them “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy” 4). For Literature: Patrick Modiano The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 was awarede to Patrick Modiano “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most u...

Interesting facts Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees. Neurons multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy. Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months. The longest human pregnancy on record is 17 months, 11 days. A female oyster produces 100 million young in her lifetime, the typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year, and it is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years. Michelle Druggar holds the record for largest human family, having given birth to 17 children. 750ml of blood pumps through your brain every minute which is 15-20% of blood flow from the heart. The human brain is about 75% water. Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour, making them one of the fastest insects. This is good since they are in a big hurry, as they only live about twenty-four hours. Flies jump backwards during takeoff. A housefly w...

Cobbe portrait of William Shakespeare 1. Shakespeare’s father held a lot of different jobs, and at one point got paid to drink beer. The son of a tenant farmer, John Shakespeare was nothing if not upwardly mobile. He arrived in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1551 and began dabbling in various trades, selling leather goods, wool, malt and corn. In 1556 he was appointed the borough’s official “ale taster,” meaning he was responsible for inspecting bread and malt liquors. The next year he took another big step up the social ladder by marrying Mary Arden, the daughter of an aristocratic farmer who happened to be his father’s former boss. John later became a moneylender and held a series of municipal positions, serving for some time as the mayor of Stratford. In the 1570s he fell into debt and ran into legal problems for reasons that remain unclear. 2. Shakespeare married an older woman who was three months pregnant at the time. In November 1582,...

The automated, fact-harvesting bot will build up a collection of all human knowledge. Google has decided to create the largest store of knowledge in human history and it is going to create it without using human brainpower. Google's Knowledge Vault is a massive database of facts, built up by an algorithm that autonomously trawls the web and transforms data into useable, bite-sized pieces of information. The predecessor of Knowlege Vault, known as Knowledge Graph, used crowdsourcing techniques but Google realised that humans could only take the project so far; computers could drastically speed up the process. To date the Knowledge Vault contains over 1.6 billion facts. This huge fact reservoir will be the basis of future search engines. Google is currently racing Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and IBM, who are all attempting to build the same kind of database. The Knowledge Vault will be the foundation for smartphone and robot intelligence. Siri is going to get a...

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Top 10 Amazing Science Studies   By: Dr. Deepak Kumar (Admin. & Pharmacologist) Believe it or not, there are amazing scientific studies going on right now—and not in a mad scientist lab with an Igor in tow. From medicinal marijuana to vaccines, Viagra to journaling, see just what is going on behind closed lab doors … beginning with No. 10 1: Can medicinal marijuana actually be ... medicinal? That's right, studies are just now beginning to show that a small daily dosage of the ganja can actually prevent Alzheimer's. Never mind that the stuff is known to cause memory loss (short term, anyway)—this study is shattering your entire belief system. And also giving you even more excuses to give your parents when you get caught. In an initial study, half a group of rats were given a dose, while the other half were not; surprisingly, it proved to reverse memory loss. And we're guessing those rats learned real quick how to use the pellet lever. Over. And ov...

Top Science Stories A carbon threshold breached, commitments to brain science made, mystery neutrinos found and human evolution revised—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as picked by the blogger of Amazing Facts. July 25, 2014 |By Deepak Kumar Recovery of Oldest Human DNA For all the  astonishing advances in ancient DNA research  in recent years, scientists have maintained that they would never be able to sequence DNA from human fossils more than about 100,000 years old. But in December a team reported that it had managed to recover  well-preserved DNA from a 400,000-year-old thighbone  belonging to an extinct member of the human family. The thighbone comes from an important site in northern Spain known as the Sima de los Huesos. Previously researchers had obtained DNA from similarly ancient cave bear remains found at the site, raising hopes that recovering DNA from the fossil humans might be next. The ne...

  Top Science Stories A carbon threshold breached, commitments to brain science made, mystery neutrinos found and human evolution revised—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as picked by the blogger of Amazing Facts. July 25, 2014 |By Deepak Kumar 1. Moon Shot to the Head: Global Initiatives Target the Brain Big Science in 2013 embraced not a search, but a quest to elicit the fundamental workings of mind and brain. Large-scale endeavors worldwide embarked on extended sojourns to decode the signals coursing along the 100 trillion connections that tie together 86 billion neurons of the human brain. Hacking the 1.36-kilogram organ that resides underneath the skull may take decades, perhaps centuries. Still, one giant leap for neuroscience—or at least one small step—came as the Obama administration announced that its second-term showpiece science project would target the brain. Earlier this year   Pres. Obama announc...