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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…

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-astronomers-baffled-discovery-rare-quasar.html It would be interesting to me to known if these quasars have spin alignment with each other as some contiguous quasars have shown (if they could measure it).

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Apparently there's been an oil field found in Sussex in the vicinity of Gatwick airport. With some 100 bn barrels it's supposed to be one of the biggest onshore deposits in the world and while only 3-15% can be extracted it's still a lot of oil. Oh, yeah, and fracking will be required. Now I wonder whether common sense and community pressure will be able to hold off the development of deposit? EDIT: Sorry, forgot to add a link http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/09/west-sussex-oilfield-could-produce-50-to-100m-barrels-of-oil

Vast magma reservoir found hiding beneath Yellowstone park Abstract of paper by Fan-Chi Lin et al: The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust

The authors report to achieve a three-fold improvement over previous clocks. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150421/ncomms7896/full/ncomms7896.html

Perpetual motion is something that scientists have been attempting to perfect for hundreds of years. My new electric turbine uses perpetual motion to keep the rotor blades of the turbine spinning around; without relying on wind, water or steam. There is no need to burn any type of fuel to make the turbine work, my invention is 100% environmentally friendly. Imagine a world where electricity is not only cheap, it is in abundance making blackouts a thing of the past. Nobody will have to miss a meal to afford the luxury of having a warm home in the winter. Households will go from paying hundreds of pounds per year for gas and electricity, to paying less than £100 per…

There was a paper recently accepted into Physical Review Letters which describes about numerical simulation of merging black holes in binary black hole system and also shows the evolution of black hole spins. The paper itself is only available as an abstract <Flip-flopping black holes> the rest being hidden beyond the paywall but the video of the simulation is pretty cool and the music is awesome too. http://ccrgpages.rit.edu/~healy/Movies/ff_wf_v3_audio2.mp4

Brontosaurus was a sauropod dinosaur species originally identified in 1879 and was some 20 meters long, weighted 15 tonnes and was a nice and friendly herbivore. Later on in 1903 after more rigorous research it was decided that brontosaurus was the same as already known Apatosaurus and then the genus name was abandoned. Now, after even more research paleontologists have again changed their minds and decided that brontosaurus is in fact a different scecies and was different from apatosaurus in term of neck structure. Good to hear this but I wonder if that will last http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-is-back1/ http://www.theguardian.com/sci…

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Researchers proposed the application of egg white as the size-controlling agent in the production of oxide nanoparticles. Egg white is a natural biomaterial that contains high amount of amino acids and various proteins such as albumin and lysosome. Amino acids have a structure that can play the role of stabilizer and size-controller in the synthesis of nanoparticles.The aim of the group was to synthesize and evaluate the toxicity of cerium oxide (CeO2) nanoparticles through green chemistry method as a safe and novel approach. Non-toxic cerium oxide nanoparticles have been produced through this method with average particle size of about 24 nm. Egg white has been used di…

The article talks about trying to get the price below $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent. Given how the price of oil has been plunging lately, they may need to revise that downward. Interesting to see NASA involved though through their OMEGA project. Algal Biofuels: Closer to Sustainability

A new research was carried out on chocolate. Researchers have found a way to make chocolate more healthier and tastier with greater levels of anti-oxidants.They said that a pod-storage step before the beans were even fermented to see whether that would have an effect on the polyphenol content.Researchers 300 pods into four groups that were either not stored at all or stored for three, seven or 10 days before processing.This technique is called ‘pulp preconditioning’. After each storage period passed, fermentation and drying were done as usual. The seven-day storage resulted in the highest antioxidant activity after roasting. To assess the effects of roasting, the research…

CERN announced today the first unequivocal evidence for the Force, from the laboratory's latest experiment, the Thermodynamic Injection Energy (TIE) detector, recently installed at the LHC. But the research community is divided over the discovery, dark-matter researchers remain unimpressed and dismiss the cosmological implications of the Force. "The Force is what gives a particle physicist his powers," said CERN theorist Ben Kenobi of the University of Mos Eisley, Tatooine. "Its an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us; and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together." http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researchers-confirm-ex…

Moon's Iron Core May Reveal Solar System Secrets with X-Ray Scan http://www.space.com/28900-moon-iron-core-solar-system-secrets.html I am always finding the Moon formation interesting. Here this article talks about the size of the Inner Core (MIC) and Outer Core (MOC) of the Moon. (I didn't know there was such a thing as a liquid MOC.) Now with the Moon tidally locked to the Earth is there any suggestion that the MIC is displaced toward the Earth, making the Moon's mass lopsided, and hence "locked"?

Two senior engineering majors Seth Robertson (23) and Viet Tran (28) from George Mason University appear to have invented and built a way to use sound waves to put out fires in seconds . It looks to be successful in beginning testing.This extinguisher emits low-frequency sounds in the direction of the fire.This new design of extinguisher simply emits low-frequency sounds in the direction of the fire.They have constructed it using a power source, amplifier, sound generator, and focusing tube.It has currently cost around $600. See more.

Packing peanuts are used worldwide as a perfect solution for shipping, they are notoriously difficult to break down, and only about 10 percent are recycled. Due to their low density, huge containers are required for transportation and shipment to a recycler, which is expensive and does not provide much profit on investment.A team of chemical engineers at Purdue University have shown now how to convert waste packing peanuts into high-performance carbon electrodes for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that outperform conventional graphite electrodes, representing an environmentally friendly approach to reuse the waste. New approach: The new method is a very simple. Th…

<LINK REMOVED BY MOD> A recently published study has claimed that a new technique developed by scientists can help scientists to study the behavior of proteins in living cells. And it was said to be the first time to follow protein networks that drive a biological process in real time.