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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.

Australian researchers recently have made a significant discovery about how the human body's immune system fights the infection. The discovery could help in the global battle to develop a vaccine for malaria, one of the world's leading killers. Read more this article http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/australian-researchers-identify-the-bodys-malariablocking-response-20150317-1m1drs.html I replaced your link with one that works - and one that is an original news story rather than a copy of that story appearing on a commercial website

Heres something new color changing flowers from Revolution Bioengineering. link removed

A group of Swiss scientists has developed a technique of printing cartilage using a 3D printer. Not only that they can print transplants but they print those from a mix of bio-polymers and living cells of the person who this transplant is tailored for. So now if something goes wrong with your nose, for example, they can re-create a 3D model of it using your medical records and them print with your actual living cells being embedded into the transplant which is supposed to greatly reduce the chances of transplant rejection. They have yet to test transplantation on animals which is going to happen sometime this year. Here's the article about them.

Half an hour ago , looking out of my back door at 9:25 am u.k Mike Image taken from a plane flying above Faroe Islands by BBC in the sea above UK. Actual shot out over next door rooftop , sun behind slight cloud . Last viewing of Solar eclipse in UK , was 16 years ago in 1999 , next viewing in uk in another 14 or so years . Mike

http://www.arcurrent.com/news/2015/03/16/nobel-laureate-speaks-to-packed-audience-at-arc/ Dr. Carol Greider, who won the 2009 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering telomerase, talked at my college yesterday about her discoveries and how they relate to research on cancers and other diseases.

Evidence in heavy water ratio seems to prove much of the water on earth came from a different source than our Sun . Link :- http://rt.com/news/190832-water-earth-older-sun-system/ Mike

Anyone else following the use of social swarms to make predictions? I'm looking for additional information. Some good info here on swarms (and cool videos): link removed