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.
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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

Traveling-Wave Reactor

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22114/

NASA announcement: Arsenic-based life form discovered on Earth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR201012
0204183.html

UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8025832/UN-to-appoint-space-ambassador-to-greet-alien-visitors.html

How many stars are there? More than you thought

http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B053U20101201?ca=rdt