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Scientists have discovered India's first ever Ichthyosaur according to this AFP article. It's believe that this "groundbreaking discovery" could "shed light on a possible marine seaway between India and South America when the ancient continents were fused together millions of years ago". Enjoy!

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/press-release-gw170817

I know this question refers to another site that is similar in function to ScienceForums for diseminating information and understanding though they follow a different format and cover a broader scope of topics. I imagine that many who post here also post as experts at the other site. I just now discovered that all links to threads on their server are timing out and wanted to confirm that their site is down to others as well and if there is any news about this? Sorry if this is not an appropriate topic, but I think such an outage would qualify as news. Update: it seems to be running again after being down from 30-60 minutes in California. One…

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-heavy-chemical-elements-theory-quantum.html A series of complicated experiments involving one of the least understood elements of the Periodic Table has turned some long-held tenets of the scientific world upside down. Florida State University researchers found that the theory of quantum mechanics does not adequately explain how the heaviest and rarest elements found at the end of the table function. Instead, another well-known scientific theory—Albert Einstein's famous Theory of Relativity—helps govern the behavior of the last 21 elements of the Periodic Table. This new research is published in the Journal of the American Chem…

Good summary of five popular physics hypotheses that just haven't panned out https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/10/06/five-brilliant-ideas-for-new-physics-that-need-to-die-already/#13d3f59357b7 Plus the kicker at the end

Today I saw a documentary program on television proposing politicians to be robots running artificial intelligence. It left me thinking...

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-gravitational-detectors-dark.html Gravitational wave detectors could shed light on dark matter October 3, 2017 Schematic illustration of the cloud formed around a spinning black hole. The black hole loses energy E_S and angular momentum L_S through the growth of the cloud and emission of gravitational waves. Accretion of gas from the disk transports energy E_ACC and angular momentum L_ACC. The balance between these phenomena depends on the mass of the particles forming the cloud, and it determines whether the cloud can grow. Credit: University of Mississippi A global team of scientists, including two University of Mississi…

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientists-elusive-giant-black-hole.html Astronomers have identified a bumper crop of dual supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. This discovery could help astronomers better understand how giant black holes grow and how they may produce the strongest gravitational wave signals in the Universe. The new evidence reveals five pairs of supermassive black holes, each containing millions of times the mass of the Sun. These black hole couples formed when two galaxies collided and merged with each other, forcing their supermassive black holes close together. The black hole pairs were uncovered by combining data from a su…

This includes the results from VIRGO in Italy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/09/27/ligo-virgo-detects-the-first-three-detector-gravitational-wave/#5e570c387f8f

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-gravitational-oscillate-neutrinos.html Gravitational waves may oscillate, just like neutrinos: (Phys.org)—Using data from the first-ever gravitational waves detected last year, along with a theoretical analysis, physicists have shown that gravitational waves may oscillate between two different forms called "g" and "f"-type gravitational waves. The physicists explain that this phenomenon is analogous to the way that neutrinos oscillate between three distinct flavors—electron, muon, and tau. The oscillating gravitational waves arise in a modified theory of gravity called bimetric gravity, or "bigravity," and the physicists show that t…

It may sound pompous, and I totally got lost in my imagination with this. The Wits biomedical engineers have connected a human brain to the internet. Long story short, it streams brainwaves to the web, by converting the brain into an Internet of Things (IoT) node on the World Wide Web. (more, here: http://insaneclopedia.com/1468/brainternet-project-first-human-brain-linked-internet-real-time/) I feel like this is a huge step for machine learning and it will start getting a lot of interest.

CNN Money: China is capitalizing on mistakes made by the fossil fuel feudalists who reign over both parties in the US. It puts China on moral high ground compared to the US. It signals the demise of the fossil fuel industry. And, the effects on climate change are good.

The genetic basis of individual differences in attitudes, including personality traits, physical characteristics, and academic achievement. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11414369 Wow....... So this study and claim are saying the person IQ , education achievement and academic achievement is base on genetics? If person dos really bad in school vs some one has PHD or tow PHD's is base on genetics? In others words if you smart or dumb is base on genetics? Or how well you do at school or your job?

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-supraballs-put-new-spin-creating-long-lasting-color?tgt=more by the way an awesome site for science related news, anyway I thought this was cool and wanted to hear your thoughts on this. Nano paintings? It would have much more important uses I'm sure

"The new hydrogel is more than 50 times stronger than comparable squishy self-healing materials, researchers led by Takuzo Aida of the University of Tokyo report in the Jan. 21 Nature. Such substances are well suited for the body; they are 95 percent water. Hydrogels may one day serve as scaffolding for growing new tissue, as matrices for keeping drugs in their targeted area or as replacements for damaged cartilage. The new gel, unlike similar materials, is quick and relatively simple to make." http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55483/title/Break_up_doesn%E2%80%99t_keep_hydrogel_down

As I'm sure many of you know, Bill Gates has received a lot of criticism regarding his philosophy of depopulation. The CEO of Microsoft believes, counterintuitively, that as the childhood mortality rate decreases, the population size will naturally decrease as they parents have no need to reproduce again in order to ensure they have surviving offspring. My question is this; Why do so may people disagree so strongly with his logic and philosophy?

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-interstellar-ice-birth-dna.html Could interstellar ice provide the answer to birth of DNA? September 14, 2017 Researchers at the University of York have shown that molecules brought to earth in meteorite strikes could potentially be converted into the building blocks of DNA. They found that organic compounds, called amino nitriles, the molecular precursors to amino acids, were able to use molecules present in interstellar ice to trigger the formation of the backbone molecule, 2-deoxy-D-ribose, of DNA. https://phys.org/news/2017-09-interstellar-ice-birth-dna.html http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/S…

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-hubble-captures-blistering-pitch-black-planet.html Hubble captures blistering pitch-black planet September 14, 2017 This artist’s impression shows the exoplanet WASP-12b — an alien world as black as fresh asphalt, orbiting a star like our Sun. Scientists were able to measure its albedo: the amount of light the planet reflects. The results showed that the planet is extremely dark at optical wavelengths. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospher…

Hello forum, I found this interesting so I wanted to share last year's paper about the possibility for some form of life to exist on brown dwarfs. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.09074v1.pdf

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-physicists-negative-mass.html

Just found the following "TED" video: It's just 18 minutes long and well worth watching. Any errors, alterations or corrections? Any other comment/s? ( I believe it should be shown at all schools starting at primary aged children). A great little explanatory talk in the most basic lay person's language.

A Chinese Company cooperated with Suzhou Canfuo Nanotechnology Co., Ltd, using acrylic fibers, dacron, chinlon and polypropylene fiber mixed respectively with superfine copper powder to make master batch which can be generated into fibers by melting in high temperature and then through Spinneret hole with high pressure. The fibers are woven to fabrics. So far, it has been already tested repeatedly and turned out that it can kill 90% bacteria. A new kind of antibacterial fabrics was invented. The principle of killing bacteria is that the tiny amount of super copper powder added in the fabrics has excellent function killing and anti-bacteria ability. …

http://newatlas.com/fossil-footprints-human-evolution/51163/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=68dc0ecfb0-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-68dc0ecfb0-92533145 Mysterious fossil footprints may cast doubt on human evolution timeline: We share plenty of features with apes, but the shape of our feet isn't one of them. So that makes the discovery of human-like footprints dating back 5.7 million years – a time when our ancestors were thought to still be getting around on ape-like feet – a surprising one. Further confounding the mystery is the fact that these prints were found in the Greek islands, implying hominins left Africa …

According to this article: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-entanglement-inevitable-feature-reality.html

are u guys affiliated with the rude crooks at physics forum? if so I will share nothing with you ether.