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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

I'm not sure there is an appropriate comment on this...

It seems the LHC is consistently narrowing the range in which SUSY particles might exist (apart from some frantic goal-post maneuvering) - and failing to find any of the decay pathways that the theory predicts. http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-20300100 http://www.math.colu...woit/wordpress/

Not sure how to take this one but it looks like human females have been cheating... http://news.yahoo.com/bigfoot-part-human-dna-study-claims-142909433.html

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/21/doubling-down-four-stranded-quadruple-helix-dna-discovered/ 60 years after scientists first described the “double helix” shape of human DNA, the chemical code of life, scientists have discovered the first quadruple helix -- and it may help them prevent the runaway cell proliferation at the root of cancer. "It's been sixty years since its structure was solved but work like this shows us that the story of DNA continues to twist and turn," said Julie Sharp, senior science information manager at Cancer Research UK. 'The story of DNA continues to twist and turn.' - Julie Sharp, senior science information manager a…

Researchers have achieved temperatures below absolute zero and may have opened up a new realm of possibilities in heat engines.. http://www.livescience.com/25959-atoms-colder-than-absolute-zero.html

Horizontal gene transfer between higher animals has been thought to be rare, i remember reading someplace many years ago about turtle and rabbit genes being mixed by gene transfer, the kicker was of course the tale of the race between the tortoise and the hare. This article would at least seem to indicate that such gene transfer is not quite as rare as first assumed. i thought the transfer between cow and snake genomes was particularly interesting since one of the tales i grew up with involved snakes milking cows. http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/33829/title/DNA-Jumps-Between-Vertebrates/

Hello all, This my first post on this forum. I'd like to alert you to something which I think is unfortunate in the UK and I'd like to see changed. Transport companies such as ferry operators and airlines have begun to refuse to transport animals for medical research. This is because they have been threatened with bad publicity by animal rights activists. Now no mainstream hauliers will bring animals for medical research into the UK (which is an island). This means they have to be taken by specialist companies on longer more arduous journeys. This ironically has actually meant things have become worse as far as animal welfare is concerned. This is obviou…

The Largest structure in the universe has been discovered, but the authors say it should not exist according to our present theories of how the universe began and formed. http://www.space.com/19220-universe-largest-structure-discovered.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/largest-structure-in-universe-large-quasar-group_n_2455552.html

Stumbled upon something quite interesting while browsing on my phone today. Anyway, I'm not here to explain it... Just to diffuse information, so here you go! Wired - Galactic Pile-Up May Point to Mysterious New Dark Force in the Universe (note: fully a "pop sci" layman article, not for everyone) Background info on Musket Ball Cluster and the related: Chandra Observatory (NASA) - Discovery of Musket Ball Cluster I've never felt "pop science" news to be a reliable source, but since this marks a potential (major) discovery in physics, I've decided to share this. Of course, this is beyond tetantive as of now, so we'll likely have to wait a while to see what comes…