"What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?"

"A Wiki-style site [..] intended to develop into a large store of useful mathematical problem-solving technique."

By replacing warm blood with a cold saline solution, patients will be cooled down to 10-15 degrees C. Surgeon about existing techniques that cool down to 20 degrees C: "The body is essentially in real life suspended animation with no pulse, no blood pressure, no electrical waves in the brain. We didn't find any evidence of functional impairment after the surgery."

"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"

Learning, inference, prediction, complex systems, evolution, ... – feels like Christmas!

"PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics."

A small coat made out of living mouse stem cells had to be "killed" because the cells were multiplying too fast.

On incremental vs. paradigm change both in science and in evolution.

Thought movement opposed to entropic contemporary economies. Electromysticism replaces transparency, code-driven art liberates software from the machinic.

Automating science, step n: Provide an entropy-based measure of usefulness for proposed experimental programs before they are performed.

Rice University's Smalley takes issue with mechanosynthesis and molecular manufacturing as set forth by Foresight Institute's Drexler.

"The viability of our initial design suggests that the genomes encoding natural biological systems can be systematically redesigned and built anew in service of scientific understanding or human intention."

This year's question: What have you changed your mind about? Why?

A comprehensive introduction to the theory of relativity and its historical development.

"An international expert group was brought together for a workshop to define and produce a new vision and roadmap of the evolution, challenges and potential of computer science and computing in scientific research in the next fifteen years."

A superseded, or obsolete, scientific theory is a scientific theory that was once commonly accepted but is no longer considered the most complete description of reality by mainstream science; or a falsifiable theory which has been shown to be false.

If you recall that modern science is only about 400 years old, and that there have been from 3 to 5 generations per century, then there have been at most 20 generations since Newton and Galileo.

Work on important problems, be emotionally involved, change what is difficult, don't make excuses.

Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics tries to provide a local deterministic objective description that resolves many of the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, such as Schrödinger's cat, the measurement problem and the collapse of the wavefunction.

A kind of meta-journal or review of scientific articles. The idea is to dig up really exciting pieces of research from any field — the kind of science that has serious implications for the way we should all understand the world we live in.

The experiment essentially involves looking at the Schroedinger's cat experiment from the point of view of the cat.

In any given research field there are usually only a tiny number of papers that are really worth reading. You are almost certainly better off reading deeply in the ten most important papers of a research field than you are skimming the top five hundred.

Variieren Naturkonstanten? Was ist Sedna? Was ist der Sachs-Wolfe-Effekt? Was sind Myonen? Welche Bedeutung hat die Unschärferelation? Ist Schrödingers Katze tot?

Unsolved problems in biology, chemistry, cognitive science, computer science, economics, Egyptiology, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, philosophy and physics.

Martin Rees, professor of cosmology: "I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead — for our planet, and for life itself."

"... dass diese Furcht zu irren schon der Irrtum selbst ist."

A collection of essays by 160 leading thinkers telling what they are optimistic about in 2007.

How good scientists reach bad conclusions.

Competition, especially market competition, isn't the only way to encourage experimentation.

"What will be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years? As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations we asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists for their ideas."

(Very) short science fiction stories on AI, space, science and related topics.

In this talk, titled, "Queerer Than We Suppose: The strangeness of science," Dawkins suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved to understand the "middle-sized" world we can observe.

"The nuclear waste markers will be our society's largest conscious attempt to communicate across the abyss of deep time."

Good summary by Shane Legg. The main points: Disinterest, lack of funding, pressure to publish, visibility.

It has been suggested that consciousness is merely a side-effect of neuronal functions, an epiphenomenon of brain states. On the face of it, Libet's experiments offer support to this theory [..].

Complex systems are (complex) networks of some kind that are held to have behavioural and structural features in common.

Researchers explain how enzymes use quantum tunneling to speed up reactions.

If I found myself waking up in a world where magic worked - a world where a few people could, by virtue of their knowledge, heal the sick or build castles in the air - I would study sorcery. Finding themselves in this world, why do so few study science?

The super well funded research project has continued to be an important model for scientific development, despite both the warnings of such illustrious figures as F. Dyson and N. Werner and the visible fact that it has lacked any noteworthy success.

Popular overviews and scholarly material on everything related to observation selection effects, the anthropic principle, self-locating belief, and associated applications and paradoxes in science and philosophy.

The table below was prepared in response to frequent inquiries, especially from the media, asking questions such as, "What are the odds of being killed by lightning?" or "What are the chances of dying in a plane crash?"

The digital revolution has already occurred in communications and computation, argues Gershenfeld; now it's time for the fabrication revolution.

1. The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.

The Numenta technology, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), is based on a theory of the neocortex described in Jeff Hawkins' book entitled On Intelligence.

Voyager 1 logs yet another milestone in space history August 17 when it crosses an invisible boundary that marks 100 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun -- farther away than any human-made object has ever gone in space.