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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

The BICEP2/Planck joint analysis is out. Evidence for "B-mode" polarized light in the Cosmic Microwave Background NOT confirmed. Too much interstellar dust in our galaxy - which can produce the same effect. Too bad. I don't know if there is a way around this dust problem with future instruments. (As I understand it, inflation -- the extreme expansion of the very early universe -- is theorized to produced gravitational waves. These in turn would produce a swirling B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background. This is what the BICEP2 telescope in the South Pole was looking for.) Link: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck/Planck_gravitati…

Scientific American blog says Earth is still getting hotter but not at the same rate. Per the article, the slowdown is caused by "the timing of two large ocean cycles, known as the Pacific multidecadal oscillation and the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation." This slowdown is predicted to end in the next few decades. If true, this is good and bad news. Good news because it gives us more time to put carbon-free energy sources in place before the worst of global warming hits us. Bad news because it could be an excuse to slow carbon reduction actions and give deniers more fuel (no pun intended) to argue against global warming. Link: http://blogs.scientificamerican.co…

The author of the Science Daily article seemed to say this work might be important. Any comments? There are two articles that may be the source of this report. The Nexus graviton: A quantum of Dark Energy and Dark Matter Stuart Marongwe International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics Vol. 11, No. 06, 1450059 (2014) 1450059 The Schwarzschild solution to the Nexus graviton field Stuart Marongwe International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics Online Ready 1550042

Using a new technique scientists managed to photograph wave particle duality. http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-first-ever-photograph-of-light-as-both-a-parti/ If anyone comes across the arxiv article for this I would enjoy studying it.

Full article The real issue is not that he received funding from corporations, but that he did not declare conflict of interest in his published articles. That being said, it should be noted that the researcher in question was a part-time employee and had to secure funding for his job himself. It is obvious that people in that position are most vulnerable to financial incentives from the private sector (if only to keep their job), which is one of the reason why tenure was implemented in the first place.

Head transplants now possible? Is the ultimate way to fight the aging of your body or a deranged bid to fight the inevitable? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530103.700-first-human-head-transplant-could-happen-in-two-years.html#.VO9oR3zF-uJ

(Phys.org) —Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-06-all-solid-sulfur-based-battery-outperforms-lithium-ion.html#jCp

Hello! Mysterious clouds on the Mars can reach 250 km and remain 10 days visible http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mystery_Mars_plume_baffles_scientists http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2955902/The-mysterious-giant-clouds-spotted-Mars-Scientists-left-baffled-150-mile-high-plumes-coming-red-planet.html Best Regards!

http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html Now just include the forgotten instrument between the ears and bang.

Amazing! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150212141449.htm

Finding gravity waves, if that's what they really are, is cool but determining or interpreting their cause or meaning is another matter. Although Einstein predicted gravity waves so did many past and present aether models. As to these "waves" being produced by an Inflation epoch, I think is highly speculative since It would seem they could have had many other causes and explanations. This is good news for supporters of General Relativity and for those supporting other models and hypothesis that have predicted such waves.

There is an announcement happening right now regarding the latest set of results from BICEP2. It has already be hyped and those in the blogosphere are hoping for an earth-shattering announcement regarding gravitational waves. Here is Sean Carroll's take http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/16/gravitational-waves-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background/ Will keep the thread updated. Here is the original press release http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=42751 As you can see it is as understated as most press releases now days And here now is today's press release (I have pasted a fair chunk as the source site keeps crashing and…

Hello! Cosmic inflation: BICEP 'underestimated' dust problem http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29305985 It's half year old, but I don't see it being mentioned in some thread (at least searching for BICEP). "But what can be said now, adds Prof Coles, is that BICEP's March claim "was premature, to say the least"." Best Regards!

Steven Weinberg looks back at rise of scientific method "Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg is a legend of 20th century physics, one of the chief architects of the mathematical structure that describes nature’s particles and forces. It’s the confluence of predictions based on that math and the experimental observations confirming them that gives modern physics its preeminence as a way of knowing how the world works. Science wasn’t always like that. In ancient and medieval times, philosophical reasoning attempted to explain the heavens and the Earth, but the connection to experimental method was missing, Weinberg relates in To Explain the World. " https://www.sciencen…

Now detected the first suns after the Big Bang at 600,million years . Stars are 1 million times brighter than our Sun and 1000 more massive than our Sun Light and heat for first 380,000 years . Then at the recombination ( atoms formed) Darkness up to 600 million years after big bang . Then at this time the super massive stars formed. BBC News Thursday 5th Feb 2015 6 oclock evening News link :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0511d0t/bbc-news-at-six-05022015 See following simulation of one of these Stars shown in Bulletin. James Webb telescope now currently to follow the research up ,to give us more insights to this period, taking measure…