This is an article I originally wrote for Wikinews here.
Researchers have found a crucial genetic difference between humans and chimps that could help explain our language and speech abilities. The difference lies in a gene called FOXP2 which encodes for a protein of the same name. This acts as a transcription factor, controlling the activity [...]
Category Archives: science
Scientists find key human language gene
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Parallel worlds
Thursday, May 7, 2009
I’ve been messing around on Yahoo! Answers recently. Someone asked the question “Why do some physicists think parallel worlds might exist?” I spent far too long on my answer (especially since the fun parts of quantum physics won’t be on my upcoming exams!) but am fairly pleased with it, and it took me back a [...]
Random article: Faddeev-Popov ghost
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Things like this make me wonder if quantum physics isn’t all a hugely elaborate practical joke by scientists on the rest of us mere mortals. Negative probabilities? Seriously?
In physics, Faddeev-Popov ghosts (also called ghost fields) are additional fields which need to be introduced in the realization of gauge theories as consistent quantum field theories.
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The Faddeev-Popov [...]