|
|
When robots attack, researchers turn skin cells into beating heart cells, and creating a Hubble galaxy in two minutes.
• Video: When Robots Attack! Should We Fear a Singularity?
Science comedian Brian Malow analyzes our fears of a day when machines are smarter than we are. [time.com]  Watch »
• Video: Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Cells.
 Dr. Sheng Ding pioneered a method by which skin cells are converted to heart cells without going through an induced pluripotent stem cell state. It's faster, more powerful, and user-friendly. No, I'm not talking about the latest generation tablet.
[singularityhub.com] Watch »
• Video: Creating a Hubble Galaxy in Two Minutes.
Hubble images are made, not born. Images must be woven together from the incoming data from the cameras, cleaned up and given colors that bring out features that eyes would otherwise miss. In this video from HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope, a Hubble-imaged galaxy comes together on the screen at super-fast speed. [youtube.com] Watch »
Author: Asterisk, for AZ10.com ~ 18 Feb 2011
|
Interesting Stories for the Science Channel |
 |
|
• Video - Woman attacked by her hand »
Alien Hand Syndrome - 'Death ray' satellite dish that has the intensity of 5000 suns, alien hand syndrome, and preparing Watson for the Jeopardy! stage. Video: Alien Hand Syndrome sees woman attacked by her own ...
|
|
|
 |
|
• Video - Cold fusion? »
Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion - Deepest-ever ocean expedition, Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion, and are we seeing the last lions? Video: Video: Explorer Rec ...
|
|
|
 |
|
• Video - Gorgeous eclipses »
On Mars! - Watch the larger of Mars's two moons, Phobos, slip quietly in front of the sun, a border collie with a vocabulary of 1022 items, and our pale blue dot. A border collie called Chaser has been taught t ...
|
|
|
 |
|
• Video - Why is the other line faster? »
Better NOT jump from a building, and waterdrops at MIT - Kids, if I EVER catch you doing this you will be grounded for like 2 months. That means no Wii and no internet. GROUNDED : [Video] Can you survive a jum ...
|
|
|
 |
|
• Video - 1 brain, all computers on Earth »
Digital creatures evolving, and 10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil - A typical healthy one, houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Each synapse ...
|
|
|
 |
|
• Video - All Aliens go to Heaven »
Pope's astronomer would baptize aliens - An official astronomer for the pope, Guy Consolmagno, told The Guardian that he would be willing to baptize space aliens, but "only if they asked" to be baptized. "Any e ...
|
|
|
 |
|
• Video - Will it expand forever? »
600 Pillows, Mr. Nobody and the Big Crunch - Will the universe expand forever, or will gravity eventually stop its expansion and cause it to collapse? Is there matter enough to do that? And does "forever" make ...
|
|
|
|
