Wired Science News for Your Neurons Isaac Newton’s Personal Notebooks Go Digital
• wired.comThe largest collection of Isaac Newton's papers has gone digital, committing to open-access posterity the works of one of history's greatest scientist.
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Early Earth Earth Like?
• arcleine the first direct evidence of what the ancient atmosphere of the planet was like soon after its formation and directly challenge years of research on the type of atmosphere out of which life arose on the planet. The scientists show that the atmos
Chupacabra a Giant Pleistocene Vampire Bat
• arcleinStill, there was once a true giant vampire bat and some experts think that creature of the late Pleistocene, the Desmodus draculae, may still be alive today in some remote corner of the world. Nicaragua perhaps? Unlikely, Schutt says, but not impossi
Vesta is a Differentiated Planetoid
• arcleins is a world with a rich geochemical history. It has quite a story to tell!" Like Earth and other terrestrial planets, Vesta has ancient basaltic lava flows on the surface and a large iron core.
Healing Lemon
• arcleinThey are unusually charged with a purer concentration of negatively charged ions, or anions, than any other fruit. Some scientists think this might be why lemons are so good for your digestion. Lemons balance the other foods and help your body extrac
Cannonballs: Size Matters
• www.wired.comThe fence and the dirt from the cannon picture sure seem to look like the spot marked on the map. So, from Google Maps the distance from the cannon shot to the first house is about 800 meters.
Katla Awakening and Dangerous
• arclein"The 9 July event seems to mark the beginning of a new period of unrest for Katla, the fourth we know in the last half century," says Professor Pall Einarsson, who has been studying volcanoes for 40 years and works at the Iceland University Institu
Scientists could use toads to predict earthquakes
• Terrence AymHistorically, witches have used toads in spells and shamans have used toads for magical rites…now some scientists believe the lowly toad can help predict killer earthquakes.
Focus Fusion Repeating Pulses
• arcleinFF-1 demonstrates shot-to-shot fusion yield repeatability within 3% LPP presents at Rutgers, and is granted first foreign patent—in Australia MSNBC website mentions Focus Fusion project
Are Homo Sapiens Part Alien?
• arcleinA team of daring Chinese researchers, digging into the ancient mysteries of the origin of their country, has come to the inescapable conclusion that an interstellar, supreme alien race used much of the northern and western Chinese regions as massiv
Rossi Suggests Electrical Generation is Part of Next Phase
• arcleinin particular I am learning from the person who made the test of the plant on October 28th. This person, now retired, is an engineer who used to test for military concerns thermic plants and missiles, so that he has a tremendous experience in thermo
Bathtub Shaped Marine Sponge Rediscovered
• arclein"Basically, little is known about the Neptune’s Cup, as it was never found alive," adds Tun. "Now we have the opportunity to study the biology and ecology of this impressive sponge and learn about its life cycle. [...] We've already had the first
Brinicle Formation Filmed in Antarctic
• arcleinThe result is the brine sinks in a descending plume. But as this extremely cold brine leaves the sea ice, it freezes the relatively fresh seawater it comes in contact with. This forms a fragile tube of ice around the descending plume, which grows int
Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
• TED TalksWhat controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans.
Microsoft Announces "Kinect Accelerator" to Turn Hacks into Businesses
• www.technologyreview.comThe Kinect is a product famous for the ingenuity it has inspired in third parties; it's a product almost synonymous with the word "hack." According to some sources, Kinect was initially wary of non-sanctioned Kinect tinkering.
In Search of the Ideal Grid Battery
• www.technologyreview.comResearchers at Stanford make an electrode that can be recharged 40,000 times without losing much capacity.
Sea-Gliding Robots Embark on Ambitious Pacific Crossing
• popsci.comTwo pairs of self-propelled oceangoing robots have begun slowly making their way across the Pacific Ocean, setting off Nov. 17 from San Francisco on an epic journey covering 33,000 nautical miles.
New Glow-in-the-Dark Material Charges In One Minute, Glows Infrared for Two Weeks
• popsci.comGlow-in-the-dark devices, which emit visible light after exposure to sunlight, are as commonplace as a wristwatch. But these are not that great when you want to see and not be seen — say you’re a special ops soldier checking the time while tracking a
Graphene Foam Sensors Cheaply Detect Trace Particles in Air Ten Times Better Than Current Tech
• popsci.comNanotechnology as a discipline is bleeding-edge cool, but so often we hear more about its amazing potential than its practical application.
Permian Extinction Dating Refined
• arcleinAbout 95 percent of marine life and 70 percent of terrestrial life became extinct during what is known as the end-Permian, a time when continents were all one land mass called Pangea. The environment ranged from desert to lush forest. Four-limbed ver
The physics behind
• quantumlevitation.comSuperconductivity and magnetic field do not like each other. When possible, the superconductor will expel all the magnetic field from inside. This is the Meissner effect. In our case, since the superconductor is extremely thin, the magnetic field DOE
Cooling Ulan Bator With Naleds
• arcleinMongolian engineering firm ECOS & EMI will try to recreate this process by drilling bore holes into the ice that has started to form on the Tuul river. The water will be discharged across the surface, where it will freeze. This process – effectively
GPS Saves the World — But Who’ll Save GPS?
• www.wired.comAbout 150 of the world’s best GPS engineers have gathered here this week, and the subject is war.
The World’s Lightest Material: Micro-Lattice
• worldsbiggests.comResearchers have created a new metallic material that they claim is the world's lightest solid material.
Faster Than Light Neutrinos Confirms Arclein Metric
• arcleinThe collaboration has also checked its original statistical analysis, but today's decision to submit the results to a journal was not unanimous. "About four people" among the group of around 15 who did not sign the preprint have signed the journal
Psychopathy as a Physical Disease
• arclein"He struggles to try and understand why people even care about what he did," says Kiehl, describing his time interviewing Dugan. "Clinically, it is fascinating." I tend to see psychopaths as someone suffering from a disorder, so I wouldn't us
Jumping Jupiters!!
• arcleinSome small bodies moved into the Kuiper Belt and others traveled inward, producing impacts on the terrestrial planets and the Moon. The giant planets moved as well. Jupiter, for example, scattered most small bodies outward and moved inward.
Weird Water Becomes Weirder
• arcleinBut, when they lowered the temperature to about 54 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, the liquid water started to conduct heat even better in the simulation.
A Star With Spiral Arms
• arcleinThis image, acquired by the Subaru Telescope and its HiCIAO instrument, is the first to show spiral arms in a circumstellar disk. The disk itself is some 14 billion miles across, or about twice the size of Pluto's orbit in our own solar system. (Cre
Sirius Cluster Contracts?
• arcleinOne would think that with the huge advances in imaging technology, that we would have a superior grasp of the relative positions of our stellar neighbors. Most folks do not know we are part of a supergroup of some sort and plenty of support suggests
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