Planck

The Problem with Picture Books

a sampler of things (Free subscription) | yesterday

This was from the letters to the Editor in the New Yorker and written by Nina Planck. I can't agree anymore.

Next Gen Flight Simulators to use advanced brain mapping

Gizmowatch (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Aviation safety will get a huge fillip if researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics get these simulation experiments up to speed. Presently they are embarking upon a project called the SUPRA which is an acronym for Simulation...

• Studying Brain Reaction to Develop Next Generation of Flight Simulators - Medgadget

For Healthy Aging Dietary Restrictions are Beneficial

Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009

Researchers from Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, have tried to explore in a study on fruit flies, how benefi

Astronomers detect coldest ever companion of a Sun-like star

Sify (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758, which at a temperature of around 330 degrees Celsius,

• Have astronomers found the coolest exoplanet yet? - David Scanlan - Paranormal Investigator

Quantum black holes with charge, colour, and spin at the LHC. (arXiv:0912.0826v1 [hep-ph] CROSS LISTED)

Arxiv (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

In low-scale gravity scenarios, quantum black holes could be produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provided the Planck scale is not higher than a few TeV. Based on fundamental principles and a few basic assumptions, we have constructed a model for quantum black hole production and decay in proton-proton collisions. By performing a detailed particle-level simulation at LHC energies, we...

Studying Brain Reaction to Develop Next Generation of Flight Simulators

Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday

... extreme conditions. The scientists, under the direction of Heinrich H. Bülthoff at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, hope to discover how pilots perceive aircraft motion during the extreme situations and why they can become spatially disoriented. They are particularly interested in the interaction of vision and signals the brain receives from the balance organs in...

Getting Closer to Decoding Brain Activity from EEG

Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday

... how the signal changes when it passes through that thick skull of ours. Now researchers from Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany have a better handle on how EEG waveforms from the scalp relate to what the brain is producing. By combining recordings of both EEG and individual neurons in trained monkeys, [Kevin] Whittingstall and [Nikos] Logothetis found...

How nutrition affects healthy aging

Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

A new study of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing could help to understand the positive effect of dietary restriction on healthy ageing. Previous evidence from different organisms (fruit flies and mice) have shown that dietary restriction increases longevity, but with a potential negative side effect of diminished fertility. So the female fruit [...]

• The Correct Combination Of Proteins Is Decisive For Healthy Aging, Not Reducing The Calories In Our Diet - Medical News Today

The first portrait of a cool planet

Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Max Planck astronomers have succeeded in directly imaging a faint object that orbits a sun-like star.

• Have astronomers found the coolest exoplanet yet? - David Scanlan - Paranormal Investigator

Search for Earth's Twin Heats Up with Discovery of a Cold Planet

The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758. Its mass is estimated to be between 10 and 40 Jupiter masses. Accordingly, it is either a...

The Correct Combination Of Proteins Is Decisive For Healthy Aging, Not Reducing The Calories In Our Diet

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

A new study of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing could help to understand the positive effect of dietary restriction on healthy ageing. Previous evidence from different organisms (fruit flies and mice) have shown that dietary restriction increases longevity, but with a potential negative side effect of diminished fertility. So the female fruit fly reproduces less frequently with...

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The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden opened as the Theatre Royal in 1732. The first production was William Congreve's The Way of the World . Delaware became the first state to ratify the US Constitution in 1787. Max Planck discovered the law of black body emissions in 1900. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale shook Spitak, Armenia, in...

Have astronomers found the coolest exoplanet yet?

David Scanlan - Paranormal Investigator (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

... In two observations in May and August, an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy focused the telescope on GJ758, a star about 50 light-years away. They found a so-called gas giant planet of a mass somewhere between 10 and 40 times that of Jupiter, in an oval-shaped orbit around the star. Exoplanets are tough to picture directly, but methods are being...

A Cosmic Peek at Spacetime Foam. (arXiv:0912.0535v1 [astro-ph.CO] CROSS LISTED)

Arxiv (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

... of distant compact sources puts severe constraints on theories of quantized spacetime foam at the Planckian level. We discuss the geometry of foamy spacetime, and the appropriate distance measure for calculating the expected angular broadening. We then deal with recent data and the constraints they put on spacetime foam models. Thus far, images of high-redshift quasars from the Hubble Ultra-Deep...

Zidovudine or AZT

THE NICEGUIDELINES BLOG (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

... it proved insufficiently effective against tumors in mice.[3] In 1974 W. Ostertag from the Max Planck Institute in Germany provided some evidence that AZT was active in a mouse retrovirus culture system . The time between the first demonstration that AZT was active against HIV in the laboratory and its approval was only 25 months, which is one of the shortest periods of drug development...