Hyper123.net » Biological http://hyper123.net Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:47:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Old rockets are carrying bacteria out to the stars http://hyper123.net/2007/05/10/old-rockets-are-carrying-bacteria-out-to-the-stars/ http://hyper123.net/2007/05/10/old-rockets-are-carrying-bacteria-out-to-the-stars/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 19:18:34 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2007/05/10/old-rockets-are-carrying-bacteria-out-to-the-stars/ Derelict rocket stages that propelled four spacecraft toward the edges of our solar system and beyond are likely carrying Earthly bacteria out into the galaxy. “The upper stages were not required to be sterilized,” said John Rummel, senior scientist for astrobiology at NASA. There was just one big directive:

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2007/05/10/old-rockets-are-carrying-bacteria-out-to-the-stars/feed/ 0 Learning During Sleep: Study of Communication Between Memory Areas http://hyper123.net/2006/12/07/learning-during-sleep-study-of-communication-between-memory-areas/ http://hyper123.net/2006/12/07/learning-during-sleep-study-of-communication-between-memory-areas/#comments Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:54:17 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/12/07/learning-during-sleep-study-of-communication-between-memory-areas/ Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have been investigating how memories might be consolidated. Their new study offers the hitherto strongest proof that new information is transferred between the hippocampus, the short term memory area, and the cerebral cortex during sleep.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/12/07/learning-during-sleep-study-of-communication-between-memory-areas/feed/ 0 Do humans explode in the vacuum of space? http://hyper123.net/2006/11/27/do-humans-explode-in-the-vacuum-of-space/ http://hyper123.net/2006/11/27/do-humans-explode-in-the-vacuum-of-space/#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:04:51 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/11/27/do-humans-explode-in-the-vacuum-of-space/ In scores of science fiction stories, hapless adventurers find themselves unwittingly introduced to the vacuum of space without proper protection. The ill-fated adventurers rapidly swell like over-inflated balloons, ultimately bursting in a gruesome spray of blood. Neat. But what REALLY happens if the human body is exposed to the vacuum of space?

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/11/27/do-humans-explode-in-the-vacuum-of-space/feed/ 0 Pick Your Nose & Eat It – It’s Good For You. http://hyper123.net/2006/11/25/pick-your-nose-eat-it-its-good-for-you/ http://hyper123.net/2006/11/25/pick-your-nose-eat-it-its-good-for-you/#comments Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:59:28 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/11/25/pick-your-nose-eat-it-its-good-for-you/ “Dr. Friedrich Bischinger would have us believe that people who pick their noses with their fingers are healthier, happier, and more in tune with their bodies. He believes that exposing the body to the dried germ corpses helps to reinforce the immune system. The good doctor feels that society should adopt a new approach to nose-picking.”

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/11/25/pick-your-nose-eat-it-its-good-for-you/feed/ 0 Human species ‘may split in two’ http://hyper123.net/2006/10/17/human-species-may-split-in-two/ http://hyper123.net/2006/10/17/human-species-may-split-in-two/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:16:36 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/10/17/human-species-may-split-in-two/ The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the “underclass” humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/10/17/human-species-may-split-in-two/feed/ 0 Smallest Genome of Living Creature Discovered http://hyper123.net/2006/10/13/smallest-genome-of-living-creature-discovered/ http://hyper123.net/2006/10/13/smallest-genome-of-living-creature-discovered/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:29:52 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/10/13/smallest-genome-of-living-creature-discovered/ A bacterium living in special cells inside an insect has the smallest genome of any known cellular lifeform, a new study finds. With only about 160,000 base pairs of DNA, the genome of Carsonella ruddi is less than half the size thought to be the minimum necessary for life.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/10/13/smallest-genome-of-living-creature-discovered/feed/ 0 How Sleep Works http://hyper123.net/2006/10/12/how-sleep-works/ http://hyper123.net/2006/10/12/how-sleep-works/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:21:16 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/10/12/how-sleep-works/ “Why Sleep? No one really knows why we sleep. But, there are all kinds of theories, including these: Sleep gives the body a chance to repair muscles and other tissues, replace aging or dead cells, etc. Sleep gives the brain a chance to organize and archive memories. Dreams are thought by some to be part of this process.”

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/10/12/how-sleep-works/feed/ 0 Phones implanted in your skull http://hyper123.net/2006/10/06/phones-implanted-in-your-skull/ http://hyper123.net/2006/10/06/phones-implanted-in-your-skull/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:45:52 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/10/06/phones-implanted-in-your-skull/ Wrap your head around this: As technology gets smaller, faster, more futuristic, imagine yourself connected to a device that doesn’t just lamely hang on your ear but invades your skull. Not yet. Soon.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/10/06/phones-implanted-in-your-skull/feed/ 0 Part of Human Brain Functions Like A Digital Computer http://hyper123.net/2006/10/06/part-of-human-brain-functions-like-a-digital-computer/ http://hyper123.net/2006/10/06/part-of-human-brain-functions-like-a-digital-computer/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:45:38 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/10/06/part-of-human-brain-functions-like-a-digital-computer/ A region of the human brain that scientists believe is critical to human intellectual abilities surprisingly functions much like a digital computer, according to psychology Professor Randall O’Reilly.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/10/06/part-of-human-brain-functions-like-a-digital-computer/feed/ 0 Intact Soft Tissue Recovered From Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil http://hyper123.net/2006/10/02/intact-soft-tissue-recovered-from-tyrannosaurus-rex-fossil/ http://hyper123.net/2006/10/02/intact-soft-tissue-recovered-from-tyrannosaurus-rex-fossil/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:05:11 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/10/02/intact-soft-tissue-recovered-from-tyrannosaurus-rex-fossil/ When scientists found a massive Tyrannosaurus Rex thigh bone in a remote region of Montana a few months ago, they were forced to break the bone in two in order to fit it into the transport helicopter. This act of necessity revealed a startling surprise: soft tissue that had seemingly resisted fossilization still existed inside the bone.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/10/02/intact-soft-tissue-recovered-from-tyrannosaurus-rex-fossil/feed/ 0 Resurrected virus shows how 1918 flu strain committed mass murder http://hyper123.net/2006/09/28/resurrected-virus-shows-how-1918-flu-strain-committed-mass-murder/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/28/resurrected-virus-shows-how-1918-flu-strain-committed-mass-murder/#comments Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:04:07 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/28/resurrected-virus-shows-how-1918-flu-strain-committed-mass-murder/ In an experiment never seen before in medicine, US researchers went to Alaska to recover tissue samples from a woman victim of Spanish flu whose body had been preserved in permafrost. Teasing out fragments of the virus, they painstakingly recreated the H1N1′s eight genes. They brought back to life a killer last seen more than three generations ago.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/09/28/resurrected-virus-shows-how-1918-flu-strain-committed-mass-murder/feed/ 0 Doctors Have Performed First Zero Gravity Surgery http://hyper123.net/2006/09/27/doctors-have-performed-first-zero-gravity-surgery/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/27/doctors-have-performed-first-zero-gravity-surgery/#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:55:56 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/27/doctors-have-performed-first-zero-gravity-surgery/ French doctors carried out the world’s first ever operation on a human in zero gravity today, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
During a 3-hour flight from Bordeaux in southwest France, the team of surgeons and anaesthetists successfully removed a benign tumour from the forearm of a 46-year-old volunteer.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/09/27/doctors-have-performed-first-zero-gravity-surgery/feed/ 0 Poland Saved Thousand, by Fooling Nazis With Bacteria http://hyper123.net/2006/09/25/poland-saved-thousand-by-fooling-nazis-with-bacteria/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/25/poland-saved-thousand-by-fooling-nazis-with-bacteria/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:21:21 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/25/poland-saved-thousand-by-fooling-nazis-with-bacteria/ Polish doctors during World War 2 fooled Nazis into thinking that there were Typhus outbreaks, by using a harmless bacteria that gave false positives. The Nazis feared that they would contract the disease, and left the area.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/09/25/poland-saved-thousand-by-fooling-nazis-with-bacteria/feed/ 0 Space plane in test run for zerogravity surgery http://hyper123.net/2006/09/24/space-plane-in-test-run-for-zerogravity-surgery/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/24/space-plane-in-test-run-for-zerogravity-surgery/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:46:18 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/24/space-plane-in-test-run-for-zerogravity-surgery/ Harnessed to the walls, their surgical tools moored down with magnets, a team of French doctors are Wednesday to attempt the world’s first human operation in zero-gravity, as a test run for performing surgery in space.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/09/24/space-plane-in-test-run-for-zerogravity-surgery/feed/ 0 Grow Your Own Limbs http://hyper123.net/2006/09/22/grow-your-own-limbs/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/22/grow-your-own-limbs/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:39:01 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/22/grow-your-own-limbs/ In response to the hundreds of soldiers coming home from war with missing arms or legs, Darpa is spending millions of dollars to help scientists learn how people might one day regenerate their own limbs.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/09/22/grow-your-own-limbs/feed/ 0 Trouble waking up in the morning? Blame genetics. http://hyper123.net/2006/09/20/trouble-waking-up-in-the-morning-blame-genetics/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/20/trouble-waking-up-in-the-morning-blame-genetics/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:18:13 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/20/trouble-waking-up-in-the-morning-blame-genetics/ “Being a morning lark or a night owl is something encoded in people’s genes and we here made substantial progress to uncover the molecular basis for that,” explains Dr. Kramer.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/09/20/trouble-waking-up-in-the-morning-blame-genetics/feed/ 0 Damn Interesting: The Seventh Sense http://hyper123.net/2006/09/17/damn-interesting-the-seventh-sense/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/17/damn-interesting-the-seventh-sense/#comments Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:12:53 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/17/damn-interesting-the-seventh-sense/ From childhood, we are taught that the human body has five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. However, ask a neurologist how many senses the human body has, and you might get a surprising answer.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/09/17/damn-interesting-the-seventh-sense/feed/ 0 Eye Floaters and Spots in your vision. What are they? http://hyper123.net/2006/09/15/eye-floaters-and-spots-in-your-vision-what-are-they/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/15/eye-floaters-and-spots-in-your-vision-what-are-they/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:01:50 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/15/eye-floaters-and-spots-in-your-vision-what-are-they/ You may sometimes see small specks or clouds moving in your field of vision. They are called floaters. You can often see them when looking at a plain background, like a blank wall or blue sky. Floaters are actually tiny clumps of gel or cells inside the vitreous, the clear jelly-like fluid that fills the inside of your eye.

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]]> http://hyper123.net/2006/09/15/eye-floaters-and-spots-in-your-vision-what-are-they/feed/ 1 Rock Music Boosts Your Brain Power http://hyper123.net/2006/09/05/rock-music-boosts-your-brain-power/ http://hyper123.net/2006/09/05/rock-music-boosts-your-brain-power/#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:44:34 +0000 Jordan http://hyper123.net/2006/09/05/rock-music-boosts-your-brain-power/ Scientists claim that listening to rock music can boost your brain power. Researchers at a Scottish university believe that contrary to received wisdom, children who listen to loud rock or pop music while studying for exams are probably improving their chances of success.

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