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TUBERCULOSIS in cattle could be eliminated within 20 to 25 years in Britain if tactics used in Scotland and Wales - which don’t involve badger culling – were adopted nationwide, new research shows. https://www.the-newshub.com/science/tb-in-cattle-can-be-wiped-out-by-more-testing-say-scientists What do you think of these latest findings?

The first in 30 years! With Discovery, 3 Scientists Chip Away At An Unsolvable Math Problem Pentagon tilings @Wikipedia: >>Pentagon tilings The new tiling @Wiki.

Not new news, but first time I have seen this process. http://www.sciencealert.com/holy-crap-watch-this-guy-turn-plastic-back-into-oil Surely this can be adapted to work with another process that has waste heat energy, maybe somewhere like a foundry that as a lot of waste heat energy that could perhaps be adapted to use this tech? maybe even incorporated into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant Edit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2727285/Waste-not-want-not-New-technology-turn-plastic-petrol-diesel.html I believe anything like this is going to be good for the environment, We all hear of the amount of plastics in…

There was recent talk here of solar plants in deserts. Looks like the Chinese are building one in the Gobi. I hope the project is a great success! - 25 square kilometers - 200 megawatts http://www.iflscience.com/environment/first-large-scale-solar-power-be-built-chinas-gobi-desert

Recently I have been told that Science has been able to produce effect in the body that will allow light to pass through and do not return back may be through some clothes or any thing else. Is this really true. I am not able to came with some recent results by Googling.

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-17-year-old-invented-vetigel-stops-bleeding-instantly-2015-6 I think this is revolutionary. It will dramatically change how Healthcare is done.

There have been other threads on EM drive here before. This is the latest asserted confirmation of the technology, an article based upon a recent German paper. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11769030/Impossible-rocket-drive-works-and-could-get-to-Moon-in-four-hours.html

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/has-nasa-spotted-earths-twin-watch-live-announcement-here/54694/ Looks like we are getting closer and closer to finding exoplanets like Earth

The Chinese seem to be on top of this 3d printing. Cheap sturdy homes, worlds largest potential housing market, perhaps worth a few shares in "zhuoda group" . I just looked at Zhuoda's site, from what I can gather this is on the verge of taking of big time http://www.zhuoda.com/content/details12_6164.html

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have unravelled one of the mysteries of electromagnetism, which could enable the design of antennas small enough to be integrated into an electronic chip. These ultra-small antennas – the so-called ‘last frontier’ of semiconductor design – would be a massive leap forward for wireless communications. The researchers have proposed that electromagnetic waves are generated not only from the acceleration of electrons, but also from a phenomenon known as symmetry breaking. These new observations of radiation resulting from broken symmetry of the electric field may provide some link between the two fields. Team used thin fi…

The July 12 Science magazine has an article (p 1185, unfortunately I think it's behind a paywall) describing some results obtained by Wang Chengshan's team's sediment core drilling in the Songliao Basin. The drill samples have crossed the KT boundary and much of the Cretaceous below it, including the Deccan Traps eruptions. Their findings are startling - the Deccan Traps huge episodes of volcanism put the climate of the planet on a roller coaster leading into the KT asteroid event. The boost of CO2 from the most severe of the Deccan Trap volcanism episodes (there were several) apparently doubled atmospheric CO2 in less than 10,000 years, more than 1/20th of the cur…

Epilepsy is defined as various disorders characterized by recurrent seizures. These seizures can differ from short to long periods of strong shakings. Scientists haven’t identified the real cause of epilepsy, but it is mostly caused as a result of brain injury, stroke, brain tumor, and drug and alcohol abuse. To control epileptic seizures, doctors prescribe epilepsy drugs. The quality of life is one of the evaluations performed in different medical areas including epilepsy. To treat an epileptic patient, it is so important to assess how the disease impacts the patient’s life. Scientists have always investigated factors affecting epilepsy patient’s quality of life.…

An exoplanet study by MIT suggests that rocky Earth sized worlds are likely to be in stable circular orbits similar to the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Many larger exoplanets have orbits wildly out of sync with the regular orbits of our own solar system. This study suggest that more Earth sized planets with regular circular orbits maybe closer to the norm for planets in that size range. http://www.gizmag.com/earth-sized-exoplanets-circular-orbits/37815/

Just in case anyone missed it: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_s_lander_Philae_wakes_up_from_hibernation

We use them in communication, medical treatment, medical test, and many others ways.I believe that our technology has to change drastically or we the people whom develop it and use it will pay.

Or, as Phil Plait said it on his blog Bad Astronomy: What the heck are those spots on Ceres? It appears that NASA also has no clue, as they put up a poll (yes, really) where you can vote what you think this is. Can I say what everybody is thinking, but everybody is afraid to say? Wouldn't it be cool if these are artificial, i.e. made by some life form? I know it is very unrealistic, but all other explanations have their problems too. The funny thing is that at this stage, it cannot be ruled out (yet). Hopefully we'll get better pictures as the Dawn spacecraft goes into lower and lower orbits in the next weeks/months.

Lasers are finally coming of age, directed energy weapons small enough and powerful enough to be practical are finally coming of age. The ability to shoot down incoming artillery rounds and other targets from a small mobile platform is going to start a new chapter in defensive warfare.. http://www.scientifi...apons-get-real/ Quote

I’m a computer scientist and mathematician. Over the last few years I’ve been applying these developing skills to attack problems in physics. My research adviser and collaborator, Christian Corda of Italy, is a world renowned, award winning physicist and has contributed almost 200 scientific articles. He is an honest, hardworking, family man. He is being threatened by an international group of physicists with connections to new synthetic fuel and nuclear energy tech. For example, see here: http://www.scientificethics.org/denunciation-christian-corda.htm. Additional madness against other scientific individuals and organizations located here: http://scientificethics.org/ …

NASA's Messenger mission to Mercury has ended. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/30/space-mercury-crash-idUSL1N0XR34V20150430 I just can't wait till they send another craft up there and land on those craters that contain organic material! Was there once life on Mercury?

A new study has identified the gene involved in a mutation that allows humans to tolerate high levels of arsenic in Andean villagers exposed for thousands of years to very high arsenic levels. http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/43019/title/Adapting-to-Arsenic/ By Ashley P. Taylor June 1, 2015

The world wide , one Man journey in a solar powered aeroplane , commences it's long Pacific Ocean hop. From China . To. Hawaii . People take pictures as the Swiss-made solar-powered plane Solar Impluse 2 takes off from Nanjing's Lukou International Airport in Nanjing, China on Sunday, May 31. Link : to CNN : http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/30/asia/solar-impulse-plane-pacific-crossing/ Mike

. See twitter @CERN The LHC successfully circulated a beam at the record energy of 6.5 TeV last night cern.ch/go/kmG7 #RestartLHC Mike

Mathematician John Nash, wife killed in car crash http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/24/us/feat-john-nash-wife-killed/index.html Such a sad tragedy..

Is invisibility closer than we thought? What if all we had to do was make a device that changes the color that we see into a color that isn't on our visible spectum? If there is a baseball that's colors aren't on the visible spectrum, it would be there, yet it would be invisible. I could still hit someone with it, but they couldn't see it, just feel it. Using that logic, we just need a device that changes the average person's/item's color/shade. If it could change the visible spectrum of colors into a spectrum that is invisible to the human eye, like an infrared spectrum, then it would theoretically make you invisible to the human eye, and only come up on infrared scanner…

Researches from the University of Georgia, Princeton University and Oxford University report a new method for nanofiber production using a permanent magnet and ferrofluid – magnetospinning. Results of this research are published in Advanced Materials journal - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201500374/abstract A ferrofluid is a colloidal dispersion of stabilized magnetic nanoparticles that responds to an external magnetic field: above a critical value for a uniform field the surface of the ferrofluid deforms and a liquid spike is formed on the surface. In addition, as a magnet approaches an interface, the field is nonuniform, the interface always defor…