I'll get to Nobels tomorrow when last of the science ones gets announced. Today I'm talking about some newer science.

There is a chance that world's first malaria vaccine - called RTS,S - will be available pretty soon. Right now it's on its way to the European Medicines Agency to be filed in 2014. If everything goes well, it can be approved in ( Read more... )

The Google Doodle today is for Rosalind Franklin's 96th birthday. She's the physicist who took x-ray photos of DNA molecule that allowed Watson and Crick to deduce the DNA structure. She died years before the Nobel award for DNA structure discovery so she wasn't eligible but the way her achievements were marginalised meant she probably wouldn't get ( Read more... )

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is most common leukaemia in adults and is incurable. The medicines used right now can only prolong the life (luckily the sickness itself is pretty slow) but not cure the disease. However, Polish scientist Ida Franiak-Pietryga from Łodż's Copernicus Hospital has discovered a substance that specifically targets the sick ( Read more... )

So I concentrated on body augmentation but other things happened in science recently, too.

We learned last years that dolphins introduce themselves by name (their signature whistle) but it turns out they also call friends and family members by their names (copy their signature whistles) when they look for them. That's makes them the only other ( Read more... )

So it looks like there will be no announcement of "for history books" discovery on Mars. No organics, life, aliens or even twinkies. I'm not really disappointed because I didn't expect much. He said they need to confirm the results and they were probably unable to. Happens all the time in science. The mission just got started I'm sure it will find ( Read more... )

I have to give a presentation tomorrow so I just wanted to post this nice explanation of this year's Physics Nobel

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Today it's time for the Physics Nobel and it's quantum. Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US got the prize for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

Serge Haroche at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and David Wineland at the US National Institute of ( Read more... )

Kelly Thompson wrote a book about two superheroines (and already funded its publication) and decided to do 30 Days Of Superheroines to celebrate that. She posts collections of art for chosen superheroine everyday and it's so pretty. I also learned that there exists a version of Psylocke costume that doesn't suck. Why, oh why can't she wear this in ( Read more... )

Here, where I an it's a holiday today - the Independence Day - however, in this year, today is a different day for the whole world. Today is the Higgs boson day. CERN announced it officially today - the Higgs boson has been discovered (or it is almost completely sure that they found a particle and that particles fits the theoretically predicted ( Read more... )

Did you ever do something stupid? Something you realised was a mistake the moment you finished doing it. You should've known better but somehow you did it anyway. I just did that. It's not life threatening or even changing but it can make my life annoying for a while. I feel so stupid because I'm usually so careful. I suppose it was just the amount ( Read more... )