Searching for habitable Earth-size planets in the Milky Way - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/searching-for-habitable-earth-size-planets-in-the-milky-way/2011/12/05/gIQARuP4WO_story.html?tid=pm_pop

Setting the stage for life: Scientists make key discovery about the atmosphere of early Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111130141855.htm

Making a light-harvesting antenna from scratch: Biomimetic antenna for gathering sunlight may one day transform solar-powered devices

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111129142017.htm

What caused explosion that lit up Christmas? - Space

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45495704/ns/technology_and_science-space/

RE: Whale Fossils

It does not seem like news, except maybe for quantity.  Maybe some ancient seabed dried up.

 

 

From: Hebden, Daniel R

 

Check out this article about an archeological find in Chile

Whale fossils in the desert, Fascinating!!

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/19/whales-desert-fossil-_n_1102761.html?ref=green&ncid=webmail6

Enjoy,

 

Dan H.

 

Hormones Linked to Weight Gain After Dieting

http://www.healthnews.com/en/news/Hormones-Linked-to-Weight-Gain-After-Dieting/131qzCrvr5SOgG5wKNrtrD/

Life From Star Dust?

http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/191694.html

Corrigan Brothers And Pete Creighton... The Neutrino Song

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpMY84T8WY0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Pass it on!

T. Rex bigger than thought, and very hungry

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE79B78020111012?irpc=932

FTL Neutrino Research 'Almost Certainly Wrong'

http://news.discovery.com/space/faster-than-light-neutrino-theory-almost-certainly-wrong-111012.html

Sent from my iPhone

Ridiculed crystal work wins Nobel for Israeli

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7941EP20111006?irpc=932

Arctic ice cover at near-record low

http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-24321316195245/

Study: Oceans can level global warming

http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-62671316486260/

'Bionic' bacteria created in lab

http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-83201316647735/

Nobel laureate quits group over warming

http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-95941317076154/

Warmer world may mean smaller animals -

http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-91931317170848/

Another Satellite is Falling! With a 900-Pound Mirror!

http://www.impre.com/la-gente-dice/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978878918

Astronomer captures satellite falling to Earth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/astronomer-captures-satellite-falling-to-earth/2011/09/23/gIQAFm3GrK_video.html

Roll Over Einstein: Law of Physics Challenged

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=14585328

Future of Technology - Laser detects roadside bombs

http://futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/19/7841864-laser-detects-roadside-bombs

Immune System, Loaded With Remade T-cells, Vanquishes Cancer

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=general

Immune System, Loaded With Remade T-cells, Vanquishes Cancer

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=general

New Drug Cures Multiple Viruses in Human Cells

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/environment/?source=NavEnvHome

BBC News - 'Anti-cancer virus' shows promise

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14730608

Black Death bug which killed 100million in 14th century plague still exists in modern day Britain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2031776/Black-Death-bug-killed-100million-14th-century-plague-exists-modern-day-Britain.html

It really is in the genes! Skinny people have an 'overdose' of chromosomes that lead to being underweight

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2032519/It-really-genes-Skinny-people-overdose-chromosomes-lead-underweight.html

Genetic secret behind virus that turns caterpillars into zombies discovered

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2035531/Genetic-secret-virus-turns-caterpillars-zombies-discovered.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Beyond the Genome, Cancer’s Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/health/16cancer.html?_r=2

DNA building blocks can be made in space, NASA evidence suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808220659.htm

Re: Deadly Drug in our Water Supply Systems

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Dean McClain wrote:

Brethren

Did you know there's an "invisible" drug that a majority of Americans consume on a daily basis—a drug so harmful it's been proven to cause serious health issues, including damage to your bones and teeth, as well as your kidneys, thyroid, pineal gland, and even your brain. This drug is so pervasive that over 40 percent of all American teens between the ages of 12 and 15 show visible signs of having been overexposed to it, and, shockingly, recent international studies indicate that even small doses of this drug can lower the IQ in children.

What is this drug?

Fluoride.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/07/professional-perspectives-documentary.aspx?e_cid=20110807_SNL_Art_1

RESPONSE:

http://fluorideinfo.org/articles.html#Fluoridation: A Triumph of Science Over Propaganda

http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/feeding/fluoride_water.html#

http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/systematic.htm 

Fwd: Anti-Matter found in earth orbit

From: john.m.gardner

Antiquarks, two ups and a down.  You could also arrive at the necessary charge with three down quarks (charge -1/3), but then it wouldn't mass correctly and would not be an antimatter equivalent of the proton. 

 

Keep your dollar though, since I was reading about this stuff last night and it was fresh in mind. 

 

Collecting the stuff in orbit would be an interesting idea, though the cost to lift a penning trap into orbit would probably be prohibitive in terms of cost vs. benefit.  This does have interesting implications for space travel though, in terms of antimatter catalized fusion engines.  If antimatter is more common than previously thought, then it may be possible to scavange fuel en route per the old bussard ram-scoop idea.  Finding the stuff in orbit does tend to raise some eyebrows though. 

 

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/enginelist.php#id--Antiproton-initiated_Microfusion/Inertial_Confinement_Fusion

 

 

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From: Coston, Cory

I'll give you a dollar if you can tell me what quarks compose an anti-proton without looking it up.

_____________________________________________
From: Trout, Larry


'PAMELA Spacecraft Finds a Belt of Antimatter Around the Earth'

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/theres-belt-antiprotons-around-earth

I wonder if we could collect the anti-matter and create energy from it.

Moon Colony?

NASA finds 'significant' water on moon

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-13/tech/water.moon.nasa_1_lunar-crater-observation-anthony-colaprete-solar-system?_s=PM:TECH

 

Scientists Make Oxygen Out of Moon Rock

http://www.physorg.com/news169216598.html

 

The Moon may have the same proportion of water as Earth does

http://io9.com/5805307/the-moon-may-have-as-much-water-as-earth-does

 

 

 

Utah State University experimenting with in-road electric vehicle charging system

http://i.green.autoblog.com/2011/07/29/utah-state-university-experiments-with-in-road-electric-vehicle/

Observations: Water from a Saturnian Moon Rains Down on the Ringed Planet

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=water-from-a-saturnian-moon-rains-d-2011-07-26

New way to store sun's heat: Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely, then be recharged by exposure to the sun

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713121301.htm

NASA spacecraft Dawn's incredible journey

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dawn-20110624,0,6421064.story

New way to make lighter, stronger steel -- in a flash

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609173718.htm

Dreams of Fusion Power: I'm Not the Only One

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2011/05/16/dreams_of_fusion_power_im_not_the_only_one_106237.html

Lithium Battery Industry Keeps Going, And Going ...

http://m.npr.org/story/136029474?url=/2011/05/09/136029474/lithium-battery-industry-keeps-going-and-going

Fwd: Graphene paper composite

'By using a proprietary process, the UTS team claims to have made a material that, when compared to steel, is six times lighter, is five to six times less dense, is two times harder and has ten times the tensile strength and 13 times the bending rigidity.'

http://green.autoblog.com/2011/05/08/graphene-composite-material-is-thin-like-paper-10-to-13-times-s/

Radiation

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

What triggers mass extinctions? Study shows how invasive species stop new life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101230100050.htm

What's inside a Dalek?

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/3691

Chasing Immortality

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j30/kurzweil.asp

Life in 2060: A Futurizon Report by Ian Pearson

http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38267:life-in-2060-a-futurizon-report-by-ian-pearson&catid=291:technology&Itemid=1036

Leonardo Da Vinci Automovile (1495)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2qeZrejZp0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Scientists To Drill Deeper Than Ever Before, Hope To Sample Mantle

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/scientists-drill-into-mantle_n_840546.html

First permanent anti-fog coating developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316104117.htm

Big Minds Debate Theory of Everything | Physics, Cosmology & String Theory |

http://www.livescience.com/13129-physics-string-theory.html

8 Shocking Things We Learned From Stephen Hawking's Book

http://www.livescience.com/8869-8-shocking-learned-stephen-hawking-book.html

Could Atom Smasher be Used as a Time Machine?

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/16/atom-smasher-used-time-machine/?test=faces#

Geomagnetic reversal

At present, the overall geomagnetic field is becoming weaker; the present strong deterioration corresponds to a 10–15% decline over the last 150 years and has accelerated in the past several years...

The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate — 10 km per year at the beginning of the 20th century, up to 40 km per year in 2003,^[11] and since then has only accelerated ^[12]. In the last decade magnetic north was shifting roughly one degree every five years.^[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

Algae converted to butanol; Fuel can be used in automobiles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301200638.htm

Navy Breaks World Record With Futuristic Free-Electron Laser

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/18/navy-breaks-world-record-futuristic-laser-getting-real/#

Fountain of youth from the tap? Environmental lithium uptake promotes longevity, scientists demonstrate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110218111709.htm

Galileo and the Scientific Pose of the Left

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/17/galileo_and_the_scientific_pose_of_the_left_108934.html

New material provides 25 percent greater thermoelectric conversion efficiency

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110215164336.htm

A Nine-Planet Solar System Once More? NASA Telescope May Reveal New Planet, Tyche

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/15/a-nine-planet-solar-system-once-more-nasa-telescope-may-reveal-new-planet-tyche/

On my mind

A light year is a distance that is almost 6 trillion miles. The
nearest star to our sun is 4.3 light years away or roughly 25 trillion
miles. Our Milky Way Galaxy contains 200 to 400 billion stars and is
about 100,000 light years across. This alone is a staggering size
and at one time we thought that our galaxy was the entire Universe.
(Why would you need anything else?)

Then people began to discover other galaxies, the closest of which is
about 2.5 million light years away. We now know that there are at
least a hundred billion other galaxies, which makes for a Universe so
large that it defies comprehension, at least for my brain.

Nobody knows where the center of the Universe is. It appears as if we
are in the center, but this is thought to be an illusion caused by
space itself expanding. I haven't yet bought into the notion that
space is expanding, but many people smarter than me believe it.

The entire mass of our galaxy is about a trillion times the mass of
our sun. Like most galaxies, it has at least one black hole in the
center whose gravitational tug helps hold the galaxy together.
>>
>

Nanonets give rust a boost as agent in water splitting's hydrogen harvest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110209164007.htm

Fwd: Deja Vu

From: larry.r.trout

'For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.

"There's only a bit left to go," Alexei Turkeyev, chief of the Russian polar Vostok Station, told Reuters by satellite phone. His team has drilled for weeks in a race to reach the lake, 3,750 meters (12,000 ft) beneath the polar ice cap, before the end of the brief Antarctic summer.

It was here that the coldest temperature ever found on Earth -- minus 89.2 Celsius (minus 128.6 Fahrenheit) -- was recorded.

With the rapid onset of winter, scientists will be forced to leave on the last flight out for this season, on Feb 6.'

Isn't this how Clive Barker's "The Thing" Started…..

Adult skin cells converted directly to beating heart cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110130213901.htm

Cheap, clean ways to produce hydrogen for use in fuel cells? A dash of disorder yields a very efficient photocatalyst

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110128165212.htm

Italian Scientists Claim (Dubious) Cold Fusion Breakthrough

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/24/italian-scientists-claim-cold-fusion-breakthrough/?test=faces#

Re: battery-less hybrids

I like it!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:01 PM, larry.r.trout  wrote:

'When a driver is approaching a stop sign, some of the braking energy pumps fluid into the tank. When it's time to go again, the vehicle's gasoline engine shuts off completely and the pressure in the tank is released to drive. When it's needed, the gas engine takes over again.

The system increases fuel efficiency by about 30% to 35% in overall driving and up to 60% in city driving, according to the EPA.

0:00 /2:43The future inside your car

Among the benefits of the system, according to the EPA, is its low cost and simplicity. Once produced in high volumes, the system will pay for itself through fuel savings in less than three years, the EPA predicts. Battery-electric hybrid cars typically take much longer.'

http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/19/autos/chrysler_epa_hydraulic_hybrid/index.htm?hpt=T2

Woolly Mammoth Could Walk the Earth Again in 4 Years

http://www.dailytech.com/Woolly+Mammoth+Could+Walk+the+Earth+Again+in+4+Years+/article20666.htm

Breakthrough in converting heat waste to electricity: Automotive, chemical, brick and glass industries could benefit from discovery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110118143228.htm

New glass stronger and tougher than steel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110121709.htm

Thunderstorms proven to create antimatter

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/10/thunderstorms-proven-to-create-antimatter/

GM pigs: Green ham with your eggs?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12113859

Was Israel the birthplace of modern humans?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101230123554.htm

Alpha particle

"Most smoke detectors contain a small amount of the alpha emitter americium-241. The alpha particles ionize air between a small gap. A small current is passed through that ionized air. Smoke particles from fire that enter the air gap reduce the current flow, sounding the alarm. The isotope is extremely dangerous if inhaled or ingested, but the danger is minimal if the source is kept sealed. Many municipalities have established programs to collect and dispose of old smoke detectors, to keep them out of the general waste stream."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle