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Has anybody looked at the news release by The Wall Street Journal and quoted papers? http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130610-903915.html Technical comments without trash would be appreciated. Eureka321

Viewpoint: New Particle Hints at Four-Quark Matter http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/69 Eric Swanson, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Published June 17, 2013 | Physics 6, 69 (2013) | DOI: 10.1103/Physics.6.69 interesting.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/13/travel/airbus-fly-your-ideas-future-of-flight/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 Hmm... Some sort of chip.. I wanna make one REVEAL THE WAY OF MAKING IT CNN!

http://rt.com/usa/growing-oregon-wheat-monsanto-968/ The issues with it are mentioned in the article - apparently 2/3 of Oregon's wheat crop is exported to countries that do not accept GMO imports. Now what? News report: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/unapproved-genetically-modified-wheat-from-monsanto-found-in-oregon-field/2013/05/30/93fe7abe-c95e-11e2-8da7-d274bc611a47_story.html Background anecdotal: http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-whistleblower-says-genetically-engineered-crops-may-cause-disease/3912

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I'm not sure if this counts as science news, but I live in Norman, OK (it's just 7 miles south of Moore), and my best friend, Dustin, lives right behind the Warren theater where the tornado hit. I went to see the new Star Trek movie at that very same theater last night. *Edit* I just found out that my friend, Amanda, was seeing the movie, Mud, at the Warren theater today. The tornado hit right before the end of the movie. If it hit 10 minutes later, she might not be alive tonight! The following image was taken by her. According to KOMO News, there are at least 51 people confirmed dead. Today's tornado was comparable to the May 3, 1999 tornado that al…

Wow, nanotech is here at an affordable price, well affordable is a matter of opinion. http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/mEH6tDLKcVU/mqdefault.jpg

Not groundbreaking, but something I observed, almost scientifically. I saw a huge ant that was bigger than any I ever saw in the region before (except queen ants of course) and I got it into a very smooth ceramic container to study it. At first, it had much trouble doing even basic climbing. But, I noticed it stopped and did something with it's front two or four legs like running them through its mouth. I assumed at first that the ant was just cleaning its legs due to residual water from rain, but I noticed that it stuck a little better. It stopped another time and repeated this process, it stuck to the sides even better. When I looked to see what it was doing each time i…

Hi all, read an article in New scientist , issue dated 18.05.2013. The article is entitled The deep, Dark lake frozen in time on page 10. Now i cannot be bothered typing it all out by i highly suggest you all read it online somewhere. The main points however i will state. The ;lake is 2.5 kilometers below earth's surface and circulates through fractures of rocks of a Canadian copper mine. Dating techniques indicate it has been isolated from the the rest of the planet for 2.64 billion years making it a time capsule for life on the early days of earth. Sherwood lollar a microbiologist from the univerity of Toronto Says the conditions are perfect for life. "What is uni…

I have started this thread to avoid a huge branch in a topic on orbital motion. The press release is here (I would really like to hear the views of the press-hype puncturer-general please) because many of the claims, at least to scientific diletente like myself, seem to be contrary to the academic mainstream or wikipedia as I call it. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/gu-mpf052813.php For those with access the paper itself is here http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i22/e220402 and for those without the preprint is here http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0370 Despite mispelling Podolsky - which I suppose can be almost forgiven - I th…

On the Talk Talk News Page . Astronomers hoping to get a glimpse of a giant asteroid will need a powerful telescope Published: 3:30am, 31st May 2013 Updated: 5:49am, 31st May 2013 An asteroid more than one and a half miles long is due to zoom past Earth later - from a far-off distance. The big rock called Asteroid 1998 QE2 will keep a safe distance of 3.6 million miles, or 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. You will not be able to see it without a powerful telescope. It is believed to be about 1.7 miles long, or about nine times the length of the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship. But that has nothing to do with its name. The letters and number in …

Today is a very exciting day for space enthusiasts. That’s because Planetary Resources (the asteroid mining company) is offering the public an opportunity to control an ARKYD space telescope and use it for science, education and fun. This isn’t like any telescope that’s come before. That’s because this ARKYD will be both funded and controlled by everyday folks like you and me who are passionate about space technology and the thrill of discovery. We all get to take control and decide what this telescope looks at. We can also support future scientists by gifting research time to schools where students will have the opportunity to learn about the space industry and give …

I didn't think the movie would be too accurate, but apparently http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/researchers-western-iqs-dropped-14-points-over-last-180634194.html That means this forum is in trouble! Just as a personal oddity, I have more than twice the reaction time of an average person (which I measured in a physics experiment with three different senses), but it takes me twice as long to do moderately complex arithmetic problems even though I practice it in all sorts of calculus problems I do involving expanding or shrinking polynomials, how accurate is this exactly? There has to be different components of what is called "intelligence".

D-Wave Systems recently released their D-Wave Two quantum computer, purchased for use by Google and NASA. The machine is designed to run only certain types of algorithms and is therefore limited in its problem solving abilities, but for those problems which it can be applied, it processes approximately 3200x faster than any classical computer and runs on a 512 qubit register. Of course, this costs many millions of dollars to develop, as stated it can only process certain types of algorithms, and it must be kept cooled to very low temperatures making it of very limited use. What do you think will be the implications of the D-Wave Two, as well as what it may mean for the fu…

Hello friends, Milky way galaxy and Andromeda galaxy is going to collide after 4 billion years which may or may not destroy the solar system. I haven't got much information about this.So how did NASA predict this??

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This is old news, but my search did not find any hits. IMO this is the most exciting development in artificial general intelligence (AGi) ever. It may be the software breakthru necessary for AGI, and they are working on special hardware. See the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory https://www.groksolutions.com/ Search youtube for more videos by jeff hawkins.

There are many advances taking place in the field of genetics, more precisely, gene therapy. I am fairly confident that everybody here has a basic understanding of what gene therapy is. I had a few questions when it comes to gene therapy. First, How far along are we in this field? Second, will we reach a point where we can transform ourselves a la E.O wilsons shape shifting man? I would like to see in the very near future, a man getting an injection and in a matter of days he goes from being 5'9" to 6'3". Or a man being 300 pounds, gets an injection, and in a matter of days shrinks down to 160 pounds, changing your race, your facial features etc. etc. etc. Third…

After conducting his own analysis, skeptic physicist Richard Muller now convinced "global warming is real and humans are causing it." http://www.scientifi...=SA_WR_20120801

From Space.com http://www.space.com/19845-dark-matter-found-nasa-experiment.html My predictions is that whatever the results, the arguments will continue.

published article http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6131/1233232 pre-print http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6875 podcast including discussion http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6131/499.2.full Not sure yet how this differs from previous observation of decay of orbit fitting with general relativity's prediction of energy being radiated through gravitational wave - but will update if/when I realise what the new bit is. http://phys.org/news/2013-04-einstein-gravity-theory-toughest-bizarre.html

I Noticed this article when it was first published probably a lot like many of you On the site. It states that warp speed may well be not just possible but practical in our lifetime , also that the paper itself was written 10+ years ago, and was just not possible at the time, but Now due to technological advances it may well be possible. One of the most interesting things is it is still possible while not breaking the laws of physics and even parts of the theory of relativity. . Just google - when will warp speed be possible, you'l notice that all the press releases were over the same 2 days. heres a few links to get you started. http://www.complex.com/tech/2012/…

News combining Plank Telescope and Higgs field research via CERN work reveals likely changes may be required for infant universe model. link data could spell trouble for leading Big Bang theory : Nature News & Comment

This is the first time a light beam has been used to draw objects towards the light source. What current law of physics would explain this phenomenon? http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2013/title,97477,en.php http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2013/04/15/video-tractor-beam/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-21187598