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Weekly Science Picks

Kelly Burnes — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 08:05:01 +0000

Builder Bees – photo via Gizmodo.com

Welcome to Weekly Science Picks!

Here are some of the top science stories that caught my eye this past week. A smorgasbord of science stories, if you will. Topics include farming in the African desert, the publish or perish dilemma of academia, the wiring patterns of the male and female brains and skilled builder bees. Hope you enjoy.

Sudan hopes technology will transform farming by James Copnall

The idea is to produce hundreds of Sudanese “super cows” that will produce much more milk than local breeds.

Peter Higgs: I wouldn’t be productive enough for today’s academic system by Dekka Aitkenhead

Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today’s academic system because he would not be considered “productive” enough.

How Men’s Brains Are Wired Differently Than Women’s by Tanya Lewis and LiveScience

The research, which involved imaging the brains of nearly 1,000 adolescents, found that male brains had more connections within hemispheres, whereas female brains were more connected between hemispheres. The results, which apply to the population as a whole and not individuals, suggest that male brains may be optimized for motor skills, and female brains may be optimized for combining analytical and intuitive thinking.

These genetically-modified bees make concrete instead of honey – Original post by GEOFF MANAUGH on GIZMODO

For an ongoing collaborative project, New York-based architect John Becker and I have been looking at the possibility of using bees that have been genetically modified to print concrete as architectural printheads.

Until next time, stay thirsty for knowledge.

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Sonification of the Higgs Boson – the Sound of Particle

Editorial Board — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:43:33 +0000

The July 4 achievement and the discovery of Higgs Boson particle, created new possiblities for the researchers who have “sonified” the data from the Atlas experiment, by turning these scientific findings into music using data sonification. Working from results supplied by the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), researchers have created melodies that make the results easier to understand.

Sonification requires enormous amounts of networking and processing power to produce results, as the pan-European GÉANT network reports, it is the project coordinated by Domenico Vicinanza of DANTE (the UK-based organisation that operates the GÉANT network on behalf of European national research and education networks (NRENs)), in collaboration with Mariapaola Sorrentino of ASTRA Project, Cambridge, who contributed to the sonification process and Giuseppe La Rocca from INFN Catania, responsible for the computing framework.

“In the music the peak of high notes in the second bar is the appearance of the Higgs-like particle (about 3.5 seconds into the recording). The researchers created two versions, one as a piano solo, and the second with added bass, percussion, marimba and xylophone.”

Take a listen on a SoundCloud:

“The discovery of the Higgs-like particle is a major step forward in our knowledge of the world around us,

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The Higgs boson does exist: New particle observed at 125 GeV

Editorial Board — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:24:50 +0000

Australian researchers helped design and build parts of the ATLAS detector and helped analyse the results.

Researchers using two huge detectors at the Large Hadron Collider announced the results of their searches at a joint scientific seminar in Geneva and Melbourne, where the International Conference on High Energy Physics is being held.

In a joint seminar today at CERN and the “ICHEP 2012

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