TAG | Science
So no one knows for sure, however recently some scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provided compelling evidence that oceans made of diamond, complete with icebergs (diamondbergs?) may exist in our own solar system. The pressure near the more solid part of Uranus and Neptune is millions of times stronger than our own atmosphere [...]
Back in the 1950′s the then Soviet Union embarked on an ambitious project. No not the space race or the arms race of the cold war era, but on a noble quest to domesticate the silver fox. The Russian scientists selectively bred for tameness by measuring how close a wild fox would allow a human [...]
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First plant animal hybrid discovered, no mad scientists required.
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The green sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, has been known to feed on algae and reuse the chloroplasts for its own malevolent intent. Now scientists have presented preliminary evidence that this slug has actually incorporated a whole biochemical pathway into its genome to produce chlorophyll. Once the chlorotica has fed on algae its able to go [...]
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Bacteria pass the martian test. Hope for life on Mars lives on.
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Italian researchers have put a number of bacteria through rigorous testing in a Mars like environment. Low atmospheric pressure and low temperatures were conditions of choice. Some of the bacteria was still recoverable after 28 hours. This has been heralded as a major achievement to show that life could survive on Mars and that bacteria [...]
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5 Forms of Black Magic That Science Is Making Possible
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From Cracked: Magicians, psychics and other sparkly frauds have been scamming the gullible and dim-witted for centuries using elaborate trickery to simulate fantastic powers. But now science is finally here, and it’s going to follow through on all of their broken promises. Here are the technologies that, if you could take them back in time, [...]
From the BBC: The growth of British trees appears to follow a cosmic pattern, with trees growing faster when high levels of cosmic radiation arrive from space. The first idea is that cosmic rays ionise gases in the atmosphere, creating molecules around which clouds condense, therefore increasing cloud over. “Or there is some direct effect,” [...]
From Yahoo News: European astronomers announced they had found 32 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system and said on Monday they believe their find means that 40 percent or more of Sun-like stars have such planets. The planets range in size from about five times the size of Earth to about five times [...]
From the BBC Laser-controlled flies may be the latest addition to the neuroscientist’s tool kit, thanks to a new technique. Researchers have devised a way to write memories onto the brains of flies, revealing which brain cells are involved in making bad memories. Forget Pavlov and all the manual work needed to condition a subject. [...]
From National Geographic In a discovery that took astronomers by surprise, the first full-sky map of the solar system‘s edge—more than 9 billion miles (15 billion kilometers) away—has revealed a bright “ribbon” of atoms called ENAs.
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LHC sabotaged by the future? or just wishful thinking?
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Could the LHC be sabotaged by the future? Or are the scientists only making excuses? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
