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New: Malaysia Flooding2014 link removed by mod ! Moderator Note Not News and just a link to youtube video

https://www.facebook.com/?sk=nf These toys are great for kids, and kids at heart. They include a motor and generator, but most are very simple, and all can are inexpensive enough for any child.

This discovery seems to change the proportion of normal and dark matter in the Universe, and perhaps double the total number of planets. I wonder if the number of rogue planets is also similar; in other words, are there as many planets between stars are there are around stars?

Devon UK. Farmer - Richard Pratt ( on his Farm at Plymtree , Cullompton, North of Exeter ), bread live animals which consisted of beef ' of an Unsaturated Fat nature . ' In today's health climate this is a major break through ! He reports eaters of the beef , arise from their meal and 'walk on air ' , whereas other diners eating a meal of beef containing saturated fat , feel ' drowsy ' and ' dose easily ' ! . If this attribute could be introduced ' he says ', into the main herds . . . " Eating beef could take on , new heathy wakeful aspects ! " Mike

Hi everyone, I have recently started [a website] and the whole idea behind the site is to redirect and host articles with permission from the source websites on the latest research studies on various fields within science out there. I really need input from you guys on the site all together, if it holds your interest and attention, things I can change, add, remove, or anything else. Please be honest. Thank you!!

New observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed alignments over the largest structures ever discovered in the Universe. A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. The team has also found that the rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web in which they reside....Read More>>> Arxiv: Alignment of quasar polarizations with large-scale structures

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2014/11/cern-makes-public-first-data-lhc-experiments

Last night there was a great debate on Intelligence Squared over Genetically Modified Food. The science came out on top with audience overwhelmingly voting in favor of GMOs. Great information, very civil debate, well worth a watch. http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/upcoming-debates/item/1161-genetically-modify-food

Warning: the link is R-rated In a recent thread, the topic of predatory journals came up. Here's an example of why scientists don't trust the material they publish "Get Me Off Your F***ing Mailing List" is an actual science paper accepted by a [predatory] journal The journal claims to peer-review their submissions, but the evidence here shows that they don't. The link also points to other examples of intentionally poor papers submitted to multiple vanity journals, and getting frighteningly high acceptance rates — around half.

I see a video showing a sub station explosion at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Kursk, Russia which immediately knocked out power throughout the surrounding area on December, 1st, 2014 https://mx.screen.yahoo.com/must-see-videos/power-plant-explosion-leaves-russian-152807079.html

synthetic biology - a science which marries disciplines such as biotechnology, molecular biology and evolutionary biology. Synthetic biology offers hope with incurables http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=11367827 That sounds really exciting. I could imagine huge fortunes could be made from exploring this technology.

NASA plans to launch a new unmanned spacecraft called "Orion" Thursday morning There is a live chat feed at youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaaKoySLK8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gaaKoySLK8w http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#.VIBhqtKsWmw Close, but no cigar, delayed valve/weather problems, 24hr delay, tomorrow is another day.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1611410447/rosetta-an-orchestral-album What do you guys think of the idea? It's getting a little traction but not much. You know what they say - use inspiration from wherever you find it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30191584 It would be nice if anyone had a link to the (sea)horse's mouth on this.

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/physics-hendo-hoverboard/ Have we fulfilled the Back to the Future dream of hoverboards? Or is this simply another ploy?

Brian Cox visits the world's biggest vacuum chamber and performing experiment.

After ten years of flight, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft now flying alongside a comet. This is an amazing feat. I can't wait to see what we learn from this. http://annesastronomynews.com/rosetta-arrives-at-comet-destination/

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/nano-sub-co2-scrub/ I wish we had this back when I was still onboard a sub. Amine has to be one of the most noxious substances in existence. Ideally we would have a means of splitting off the oxygen from the CO2, but this is at least a step in the right direction.

Lack of water will limit fossil fuel power plants. Will their proponents continue to build them as people who buy no power die from lack of water?

Lockheed-Martin, the aerospace and defence giant, has promised a working fusion reactor of the high Beta type, using cylindrical magnetic containment and radio waves to heat deuterium and tritium. They say thy'll have the capability to meet global baseload energy demands by 2050. Any opinions or information as to where they are currently in their project would be appreciated. Is this another example of capitalism solving the world's problems because there's profit in it ?

I am sure most of you are informed that the Antares incident in Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia that happened 6:22 p.m. EDT. I am wondering why no one start a topic about this sad incident. It appears to be very serious. Usually, when any rocket fails during launch, newspaper in Malaysia will only show the news as a small paragraph in some small column that isn`t easily identified. But this time, it appears to be a full page with detailed explanation. To prevent this thread to be regarded as off topic, I posted a link-related conference by NASA. There are many links if you Google NASA or Antares in the News section. The main reason I posted this topic i…

http://www.universetoday.com/114802/there-are-no-such-things-as-black-holes/ I have my own thoughts on black holes, but in the past my ideas have been put down for no math, But one minute math says black holes exist and how they are formed, Then next math is saying they cannot exist. It seems that sometimes math can be made to say what ever it wants.

http://digg.com/video/this-man-made-leaf-could-let-humans-colonize-space http://www.cnet.com/news/this-man-made-breathing-leaf-is-an-oxygen-factory-for-space-travel/ I personally think this is one of the best things we have yet to do.

The Rossi reactor, which generates slow neutrons in the transmutation of hydrogen-loaded nickel into copper under THz radiation, has produced 1.5 MWh of energy over 32 days. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reactor-verified-by-third-party-researchers-seems-to-have-1-million-times-the-energy-density-of-gasoline