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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Facebook concept used by 16th century scholars

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:14 AM PST

Our obsession with social networking is not exclusive to the 21st century, according to researchers.

Flexible, nanoscale 'bed of nails' created for possible drug delivery

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 07:15 AM PST

Researchers have come up with a technique to embed needle-like carbon nanofibers in an elastic membrane, creating a flexible "bed of nails" on the nanoscale that opens the door to development of new drug-delivery systems.

Growing food on walls? Robotic nutritional advice? What does the future kitchen hold?

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:58 AM PST

By 2050 people the world over could be growing food on the walls of their homes and have eco-kitchens - complete with robots to provide nutritional advice, if one group's projections come true.

Scientists find 'bipolar' marine bacteria, refuting 'everything is everywhere' idea

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 12:34 PM PST

In another blow to the "Everything is Everywhere" tenet of bacterial distribution in the ocean, scientists have found "bipolar" species of bacteria that occur in the Arctic and Antarctic, but nowhere else.

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