Seemingly ‘Duh!’ Scientific Studies Often Hold Value – WSJ.com
Seemingly ‘Duh!’ Scientific Studies Often Hold Value – WSJ.com. A nice article on how serious research is often simplified in the press releases to make it seem either obvious or meaningless. It just goes to show that to appreciate the importance of most research one needs to know its context. A lot of the time, […]
Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems | Science | guardian.co.uk
Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems | Science | guardian.co.uk Very cool research in the journal of bioengineering (http://www.jbioleng.org/content/3/1/11/abstract), using bacteria to solve the Hamiltonian Path problem (finding the shortest route to travel between several different cities). Computers have to compare each possible path to find out the shortest. Bacteria solved a simplified version involving […]