Tag Archive: scientific research

Friday Link Roundup (on Monday): Scientific Advancement

As our Site of the Week last week was the Scientific American website, the link roundup will be focusing upon recent scientific advancements and progress. Rather than pointing to articles that are very conceptual or too hypothetical, I wanted to highlight some recent studies and events that point to solid findings or breakthroughs.

Site of the Week: Scientific American

This week, the site in question definitely comes with more mainstream awareness – so I do expect pretty much all of you to have heard of it – but I’m presuming that many of you don’t visit it on a regular basis, which is a shame. This week’s Site of the Week is a fantastic resource, so I present to you the Scientific American website.

Royal Society releases collection of pivotal articles

Today, the Royal Society have released a new website in order to start gearing up for this year of festivities called Trailblazing. Trailblazing is a timeline website that contains many groundbreaking scientific articles, papers and letters that have never before been published online in their original format.

Climate Research Unit hacked, leaked data brings out questions

One of Britain’s leading climate change research organisations, Climate Research Unit, has recently been hacked and had much of its private data and email conversations leaked onto the internet. What is perhaps most interesting about the data that has been leaked, is that in some cases it shows a very real and conscious effort to distort scientific findings in order to fit predetermined opinions.

7 ways to live longer so that you might live forever

There has been a lot of discussion amongst the futurist crowd recently about projections for longevity advancements over the next 50 years. So what are some ways that you can live longer in order to be able to benefit from these advancements?

Friday Link Roundup: Longevity and the Methuselarity

It is often thought that by the end of this century, medical advancements will have progressed to such a degree that we are literally gaining more than a year of life for every year that passes. Which means that we will, when speaking about natural lifespans, be technically immortal.