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We've had a few threads recently on our microbiota. I thought this might be of interest from the BBC site. Here's a more sciencey article on it from Science Daily.

Well, Duh! Actually, I ate quite a bit when I was a child back when it was packed with greater levels of lead emissions before emission standards changed. Here's an interesting DNews video on why you shouldn't let your child eat snow. Enjoy!

For those of us experiencing the latest North American Snowmaggedon, here's a link to a DNews YouTube video on the physiological effects of winter. Enjoy!

Not sure if this is the right place to post this link to a very interesting article on the current search for the origin of canine domestication. The article has a link to works suggesting that the relationship between human and ancient wolf may have been "parasitic" in nature rather than a result of wolf pup capture and breeding. The article also discusses evidence suggesting that this relationship may have began 30,000 years ago rather than 15,000 as many researchers believe. There is a collaborative effort now exploring all facets of canine evolution including its genome as a way of understanding its human impact. What do you think?

. This picture of a planet like disc , Appeared on BBC . TV . Last night 20/01/16 Suggestions of an object 10 times heavier than Earth, a gas giant , identified by an American University, Californian Institute of Technology , on the fringes of , yet within , the Solar system Mike

I already posted this before noticing there was already a thread about it (below). Moderators feel free to merge this with that thread. "The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system’s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet-forming region near the sun. Slowed down by gas, the planet settled into a distant elliptical orbit, where it still lurks today. "The claim is the strongest yet in the centuries-long search for a “Planet X” beyond Neptune. The quest …

No doubt you've already heard, but here is a link to the article. Enjoy!

Latest ambitions of one of the leading countries in space science is building bases on the moon high technology and turned the place into a living for humans. It has been over 45 years since the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20/7/1970, the world's only known American first nations people to set foot on the moon. But since the country shifted to explore Mars, birch powers to select lunar plans are based build future life for humanity. In 1969, the Russian (then Soviet Union) each autonomous robot car launched Lunokhod 1 name of the space program Lunokhod moon to explore the surface. Unfortunately the first attempt failed because the satellite does n…

European Space Agency (ESA) to build a space base on the moon. This base can replace the International Space Station (ISS) in the future. Russia, Japan to build bases on moon Europe built bases on the Moon ESA wants to build space base on the moon This radical idea by Professor Jan Woernerc of ESA proposals. Pursuant named Lunarville. Even scientists also intend to plant trees on the moon in the greenhouse. Over 370,000 km from Earth, it takes about 2 days to go from Earth to Lunarville. ESA wants to build bases on moon The illustration is based on the moon - (Screenshot ESA) "Building a space station on the moon may trigger wave of technological innovation…

Collectively Conscious I wonder if their partial explanation is hiding something besides a viable biological process. Moreover, this process pushes at the edges of law and ethics. Who will be the father and who is responsible if the child has serious and expensive medical problems. What happens to the baby if the mother dies is child birth. I think I am opposed to such a patent being issueds ; although, I haven't considered the issues fully. I think this will be hotly contested, more than Monsanto's GMO program.

Here I'll point out an aging research crowdfunding project by Harvard Scientists at Experiment, it focuses on carrying out a small project in developing functional metrics of age to help reversing aging. Harvard Medical School has reported successful aging reversal using genetic and biochemical methods in the labs of Dr. George Church and Dr. David Sinclair. These scientists are seeking support for their project here: url deleted by mod Any contribution will be highly appreciated, Thank you!

The extinction of Gigantopithecus probably isn't news but new evidence on the probable cause of that extinction was recently published. They stood about 9 feet and are cousin to the Asian orangutan. A group researching the remains of teeth found that during an Ice Age, about 100,000 years ago, they likely could not adapt to the diminishing supply of the vegetation that serve their huge dietary needs. The link above will take you to the article. I welcome your thoughts.

Want something to blow your mind?First thing you've ever heard off? A man that's been born,with an energy. Now the man is just like any other human being,but with energy. (First type.) The idea is that.His brain thought's/feeling's are the energy he's been born with,unlike a human being.It has all the tool's (everything) and can do everything for the human-being.That's the science with him.That's it!!He's a special kind of man born on this earth.Now the science (energy) that I'm talking about is there with him baby. Its everything,and it can literally do anything in/on a human being. Here's a few things of what it can do. -tactile hallucination -It can make him cl…

It's ALIENS! https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630153-600-is-this-et-mystery-of-strange-radio-bursts-from-space/

If anyone is interested in the ISS, an unscheduled spacewalk is likely on Monday, 21st December: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/12/18/unscheduled-spacewalk-possible-on-monday/

This is a nice review article / tutorial describing work to investigate magnetic monopole like behavior in crystals at very low temperatures. http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/the-hunt-for-the-magnetic-monopole

. Here is a link to a spectacular . - Mount Etna Picture of Lightning , Fire , smoke , in an Eruption - TheGuardian . Thur 3 Dec '15 Co. Exeter Geology U3A. Includes Photos , Video . Comments .. Utterly Spectacular ! Link :- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/sicily-mount-etna-voragine-crater-erupts-lightning My love of observations and thinking about things are having dire consequences to my life at the moment ! There is a ' moral ' in this story somewhere ? I think ! I am not 100 % sure , That I had got the direction that I was going with that idea, right ! Cannot win them all , I suppose ! Mike

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34963515

So does anyone remember the much mocked claims made by the hippies and whackos and anti-science victims of Dunning-Kruger, to the effect that one of the serious problems with the major GMOs currently marketed was their all but inevitable breeding of resistance to the relatively benign herbicides and pesticides they exploited (Bt and glyphosate), with various consequences all generally unfortunate (especially: the loss of the better chemicals to responsible use)? Among the expected consequences - expected by the Luddites etc - was to be an expansion of the GMs involved to include increasingly less benign chemicals (and of course an increasingly complex mixture of adjuvant…

UCLA researchers create new method that targets tumors with the same effectiveness but a significant reduction in both side effects and cost. Pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic cancer, a devastating disease with a five-year survival rate of 5 percent, is difficult to detect early and symptoms do not usually appear until the disease is advanced. As a result, many people are not diagnosed until their tumors are beyond the effective limits of surgery, leaving chemotherapy as the only viable treatment option. The chemotherapy drug most often used for pancreas cancer is gemcitabine, but its impact is often limited. Research: Recent research has found that combining gemcitabine wi…

See also: http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/82847-processed-meat-bad-for-health/ http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/82630-nutrition-beans-reduce-cholestorol/ More evidence that a vegan/vegetarian diet is more healthful.

I don't know about you guys but this just blew my mind so hard it made me twitch in the most bizarre of ways. http://www.iflscience.com/brain/first-brain-brain-interface-could-revolutinize-neuroscience Check out this post and share what you think of this, dawn of a new era in neuroscience?

Kepler my have found a mega structure around another star! http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/has-kepler-discovered-an-alien-megastructure-151014.htm

XENON1T could make history or spell the end for 'supersymmetric' dark matter. http://www.nature.com/news/largest-ever-dark-matter-experiment-poised-to-test-popular-theory-1.18772

The following article shows an economic application of centimeter resolution real time navigation using quasi zenith satellite positioning. This article is the result even with an initial limited number of available satellites. With the next generation of micro-satellites universities could collaborate to build a similar European system to provide safe automated driving, night-time agricultural activity and centimeter precision soil management to provide a major improvement to a wide range of different industrial activities. In short a clear economic advantage for Europe and a wealth of post graduate opportunity. Utilisation of the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite Syst…