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Terrible, this ocean acidification is huge! Life underwater will be in serious danger if it keeps growing and growing! “When Earth started to warm 17,000 years ago, terminating the last glacial period, atmospheric CO2 levels rose from 190 parts per million (ppm) to 280 ppm over 6,000 years. Marine ecosystems had ample time to adjust. Now, for a similar rise in CO2 concentration to the present level of 392 ppm, the adjustment time is reduced to only 100 – 200 years.” From United Academics

Breakthrough?

Professor Steven Rawlings of Oxford University was found dead at the home of Dr Devinder Sivia. Both men had co-authored books together. Read more details (Daily Mirror)here. The BBC news report can be found here.

Hi all, Some UCLA research group using LED, pinhole, and webcam to make microscope (from more videos in the same account). It feels easy to make, but it looks like it's the (some youtube how to video) + holographic microscope (wikipedia).I think the only difference to the home-made one is just the pinhole and CMOS resolution, UCLA one can see blood cells. If that is the only difference, feels like anyone can re-create it easily tho. Just that holographic shadows... even though it says "simple algorithm," it might be hard to do it still...

First of all, there's no real danger to people. The problems I describe below are minor. And the main problem is excess rainwater, which cannot drain away because we're below sea level. We've had a pretty wet december, and last week we've had strong winds and lots of rain on top of it. It's been wind force 8-9 for 3 days in a row now. Nothing really out of the ordinary, and the types of problems below are also something that will occur almost once every year in some form or another. But still, it's in the news all over the country, and I thought this would be entertaining to read. So, the situation is the following: we've had lots of rain. All that rainwater coll…

Found this via slashdot: http://peswiki.com/index.php/News:Real-Time_Updates_on_the_October_6%2C_2011_E-Cat_Test http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1430210/does-italian-demo-show-cold-fusion-or-snake-oil I've seen hydrogen-nickel fusion rolling around the crazier corners of the internet for a while, but this event and the commentary around it are merely ringing most of my crank alarms loudly. The others are only jangling. Anyone have anything more to say on the matter?

The Independent UK (emphasis is my own - jimmy) Some may ask: 'What is the bloody point?'

What's going on with these mysterious, ultra-red galaxies http://io9.com/58649...ra+red-galaxies From their appearance astronomers cannot explain such old appearing very red galaxies accordingly within the first ~700 million years of the universe, according to the Big Bang model. Discuss your mainstream ideas/ possibilities on this thread. If you have a non-mainstream alternative explanation, discuss them here in the speculation forum. //

I was listening to the news yesterday morning, and I heard a short mention that the gang down at the LHC had discovered a new particle, the Chib (3P) particle, as they call it, which is composed of a bottom - antibottom pair. It's is supposedly involved in the Nuclear Force, somehow, and I have always had an extremely deep interest in particle physics and fundamental forces, so I'd be excited to know how this particle is involved. If anyone knows anything about it, or has any links to experimental documents, I'd be very interest, and I'm sure the rest of the forum would be too.

In wissen.blog.com K. Muellen (Prof of MPIP) — T. Weil (Prof of Uni-Ulm & KM’s PhD student) — U. Ziener (TW’s associate & collaborator of KL) — K. Landfester (Prof of Uni-Ulm & MPIP) From G Lu Sent: 2011-05-19 14:56 To: E. P. K CC: Eagling Re: Accusation on paper b816751f Dear Prof. Kundig, I acknowledge you for your kind comfort and sincere counsel on the rules in scientific activities. As I told you before, I was actually kidnapped by the institute that I am currently staying in, so it is impossible for me to carry out research under such circumstances. I had also attempted twice to publish my paper b719277k to JACS and then Chem. Commu.. H…

. Read more here http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-eXC0s8-oqFHfZpGTu5Bp91m4_A?docId=aa2d83576c02480f84878b53aab593e6 wow interesting stuff !!

Did a giant octopus really make art? I have kept many and they do indeed seem to be obsessed with objects and their placement in the shelters they build but could it have been art? http://www.world-science.net/othernews/111010_ichthyosaur

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/mercury-ufo_n_1135855.html

http://www.guardian....article/9643229 For sanity, here's the abstract of the actual paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6031/862.abstract Admittedly the study is limited: it tracked one week of lectures and used a single quiz to evaluate learning. It's certainly not definitive. But a change in instructional technique that results in twice the learning? That's pretty impressive. (Incidentally, my university is adopting a "learning assistant" program in which undergraduate physics students who have already taken the introductory courses are paid to sit in and help out students in group discussions and interactive parts of class -- I'm try…

As usual with pop-media, the title is a tad bombastic; the effect seems to be that the brain takes less processing time with nude bodies than it does with clothed ones, which I guess makes a lot of sense. There's less to analyze. Still, it was too good not to share. http://cnews.canoe.c...3/19013771.html If anyone can find the original science study, I will be happy to stare at it.

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg21228403.300 I say creepy, it's too weird, imo.--You?

half in horror ten yrs ago finally begins to pay off.- http://www.alzinfo.org/08/alzheimers/reversing-nerve-cell-damage

So it seems more and more evidence points to Europa having large lakes of liquid water under the surface. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336186/title/Lakes_may_lurk_beneath_chaos_on_Europa Share your thoughts.

This just came up in another forum, so I wanted to share this article in response. As I'm new here, I wasn't sure whether this was the appropriate room, or if it's ok to tack it on to the previous thread. I'm planning on doing both, and hope that someone will tell me not to do it again, if it's considered to be forum flooding here. The comment I made in a different thread was about the presumptive origin of both chloroplasts and mitochondria: they're both hypothesized to have ultimately been bacteria, or have come from bacteria, back in the day. In other words, they were nested symbiants. As it hasn't connected to my work at all, I've found the idea intriguing, bu…

I read this news topic on Nature News (Article) As a medical scientist I find this particulary exciting, current histological methods are somewhat variable due the human analysis of slides, this kind of technique could provide a very valuable standard given more data and research into the technology.

I have recently become obsessed with the idea that a fungus can take control of an insect's brain and make it do "what the fungus wants" virtually taking it's free will away in order to propagate it's own species. Is it possible that this could have happened to mammals or even humans?

Many scientific theories have always remained ambiguous and every time apparent proofs are presented to remove that discrepancies. Now comes something new. What NASA and the astronomical fraternity believed has diverted a bit. What they thought that the Sun and planets were constructed of is under scrutiny again. Read more on the following link: http://www.scienceda...10623145430.htm This was the conclusion from the Genesis probe shot in 2004

Hi all, No introductions allowed, eh? Anyhow. A team led by Marco Lagi at New England Complex Systems Institute have noted the correlation between a high food price index and global unrest. I've written an article about it here. Not that hungry people being angry is anything new

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