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It looks like spiders are getting bigger now and webs are getting bigger too.This is not good becuse it changes the ecosystem if spiders become more of predator .

The prospect of mind-reading technology has moved a step closer after scientists established the first brain-to-brain connection. Using electrodes implanted in the brains of two rats, one rodent was able to pass information to another in a cage thousands of miles away – albeit without knowing it was doing so. The experiment, by researchers from Duke University in North Carolina, is the first direct communication link between two minds. Previous studies had shown that visual and tactile information could be transferred between a brain and a computer, for example allowing amputees to control prosthetic limbs, but the latest research represents a significant advance. A…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22148141 Happy birthday Kim II-sung. Now blow out your candle!!!

Why isn't this in use worldwide?

"Apr. 3, 2013 A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost, environmentally friendly fuel source to the world." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130403104104.htm

The long awaited and trailed announcement from the AMS Collaboration is imminent SPECIAL CERN-EP Seminar on Wednesday 3rd of April 2013 "Recent results from the AMS experiment" by Prof. Samuel TING (Massachusetts Inst. Of Technology (US)) https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=244334 NASA TV BRIEFING DISCUSSES ALPHA MAGNETIC SPECTROMETER RESULTS NASA will hold a news conference at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 3, to discuss the first results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment. For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv AMS Draft Press Announcement (cannot find final …

Did anyone see the remarkable paper in Nature by Inokuma etal, entitled X-Ray analysis on the nanogram to microgram scale using porous complexes; Nature 2013, 495, 461-466 doi:10.1038/nature11990. Apparently all you have to do is dip your sample in a solution of the porous material, slowly evaporate the solvent and place the solid material in the X-ray diffractometer, you know the one, it's been gathering dust in the corner of the lab. Out pops a single crystal structure showing the guest/host complex in which the guest can clearly be observed. The authors have also combined this with HPLC methodology. This is an amazing piece of work. I wish it had been around ear…

A comet is headed for Mars in 2014, newly found comet C/2013 A1 seems to be headed for a close encounter with the planet Mars. Calculations at this time indicate the comet has less than a 1/2000 chance of actually impacting Mars but even a close encounter should have significant effects on Mars and some of the space craft currently investigating the Red Planet. An actual impact of the comet on Mars would release about 1/3 the energy thought to have been released by the impact that caused the extinction of the Dinosaurs on Earth. Unless the impact was close by the Curiosity Rover should survive since it is nuclear powered but the Solar powered Opportunity Rover would…

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/blog/2012/07/thanks-mom/ All that effort and I still can't say what "mass" actually is, I thought higg's bosons were suppose to explain what mass was because their coupling caused it in other particles, they have imaginary mass on their own which can be shown in decay processes with W bosons, so I suppose some kind of complex conjugate interaction would sort of explain it, but not really. Not only that but it seems that because of the properties of higg's particles that they have limited range properties individual but form some kind of medium. What type of interaction allows them to be held together to create a single field? Bes…

Recently found super dense planets about the size of the Earth but denser than iron could the remnants of Neptune like ice giants that migrated too close to their home stars. Theories about planet formation do not adequately explain these super dense planets.. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=puzzling-super-dense-space-objects-could-be-a-new-type-of-planet&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20130314

Microbes have been found living deep in the crust under the Earths oceans, this is the largest habitat on Earth. Fueled by chemosynthesis, these microbes may be part of the largest ecosystem on earth. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=life-found-deep-inside-earths-oceanic-crust&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20130315

A twin star system of brown dwarves was found at only 6.5 lightyears away, meaning it is the 3rd closest star to our sun, after the Alpha Centauri system, and Bernard's Star. I think it's really exciting that such large bodies can still be found so close to our own solar system. What else is out there? Amazingly, someone has already made a wikipedia page on these brown dwarves... and I bet it will grow over the next couple of days. At the moment, it only has a bit of info on the type of brown drarves.

The comet PanSTARRS can be seen from now until around the end of the month, but you will most likely need a telescope to see it. Here is a nice pic of the comet.

Today registered a decline metiarita! Flash seen for 300 miles! Does not work mobile. There are wounded from cuts of broken glass! The evening will fly folder, NASA will be broadcast live! Here is video:

Could this be the breakthrough that wins a Nobel prize and allows us to peek ahead at the future. http://www.tgdaily.com/general-science-brief/69893-schr-dingers-cat-could-be-visible-after-all http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/04/canadian-researchers-take-a-sneak-peek-at-schrodingers-cat-and-a-step-toward-a-quantum-computer/

University of Chicago physicists have succeeding in creating a vortex knot, a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, but creating them in the laboratory had previously eluded scientists. http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/03/04/vortex-loops-could-untie-knotty-physics-problems

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9902223/Facebook-Google-and-Amazon-join-fight-against-cancer.html To help scientists analyse masses of data which would otherwise take years to go through, a 'game' is being made that civilians can use on their smartphones to contribute help.

Is evidence of a new force carrying particle lurking inside the Earth? A new fundamental force is being explored this force the "long-range spin-spin interaction" could explain some of the processes inside our own planet. http://www.livescience.com/27324-earth-mantle-new-unparticle.html

NASA is studying a nuclear reaction that is reminiscent of cold fusion but different than it and backed up by at least some theory. http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-lenr-nuclear-reactor/26309/

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-heisenberg-uncertainty-principle-macro.html http://www.livescience.com/27137-uncertainty-principle-measured-macro-scale.html If you have access to the online version of Science Magazine: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6121/801.full Here is the abstract from the actual scientific paper: Here is the description for the illustration from the actual paper: (A) Canonical picture of continuous position measurement. RPSN (black), thermal motion (brown), and zero point motion (orange) combine to give the expected measurement result (blue). The dashed line represents the effective displacement noise from the shot noise–li…

February 19, 2013 ---> Curves in spacetime violate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle----> http://phys.org/news/2013-02-spacetime-violate-heisenberg-uncertainty-principle.html

Is this Dark Matter? The meteor that hit Russia yesterday appeared to explode sending out a massive arc of white light. It appeared to be lighting up the air around it progressively and in increasing phases until the air around it was completely white. Conversely, the colour of buildings appear almost unaltered. This suggests that extreme energy such as that witnessed yesterday from the meteor hitting our atmosphere could turn dark matter momentarily luminous or cause dark matter to react in a manner to make it visible. It certainly seemed that "everything" within this arc was lit up as with nuclear explosions. Could this mean that dark matter is free moving (water, a…

Are scientists on to something that we are all part of a computer simulation? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/universe-computer-simulation_n_2339109.html

CERN will make a two-year hiatus. Renovation and improvement of the LHC ---> http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2013/02/14/97001-20130214FILWWW00665-le-cern-fait-une-pause-de-deux-ans.php

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