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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

http://www.space.com/13416-intelligent-alien-life-extraterrestrials-signs.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_10272011

At least as much fun as a stack of old Scientific Americans. http://royalsociety.org/news/Royal-Society-journal-archive-made-permanently-free-to-access/ Ever wonder what Newton was up to during the black plague?

Apple Computers co-founder, Steve Jobs, died today from cancer. He was 56. Washington Post

I thought this was interesting.... It is called "Ununbium" which is Latin for 112 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090611/sc_nm/us_germany_element neat stuff

For those that can use bbc iplayer or are able to listen live there is a new series on BBC Radio 4 "The Life Scientific" in which Prof Jim al-Khalili talks to prominent scientists. The first episode was Sir Paul Nurse and a very good listen indeed http://www.bbc.co.uk...fic_Paul_Nurse/

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/09/23/NASA-looks-to-lasers-to-speed-data/UPI-60161316821572/#ixzz1Ytjx0aJA How can laser be faster or carry more information than say radio waves? Yes it looks like the next technology advancement than the old crude radio waves but how can it carry more information ?

Ontario pays its neighbors to take its surplus power. Battery technology is in its infancy. Considering the waste, I would have thought this would be a huge priority. Why is this technology difficult to achieve? Story about surplus power: http://www.enviralment.ca/2011/09/19/ontario-paying-others-to-take-surplus-power/ Story about battery technology: http://www.enviralment.ca/2011/08/19/the-1-2-megawatt-battery/

"Earth's oldest fossils have been found in Australia by a team from the University of Western Australia and Oxford University. The microscopic fossils show convincing evidence for cells and bacteria living in an oxygen-free world over 3.4 billion years ago. The team, led by Dr David Wacey of the University of Western Australia and including Professor Martin Brasier of Oxford University, report the finding in the journal Nature Geoscience. 'At last we have good solid evidence for life over 3.4 billion years ago. It confirms there were bacteria at this time, living without oxygen,' says Professor Brasier of the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford." http://www…

Following the failure of a wide range of attempts to solve the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral protease by molecular replacement, we challenged players of the protein folding game Foldit to produce accurate models of the protein. Remarkably, Foldit players were able to generate models of sufficient quality for successful molecular replacement and subsequent structure determination. The refined structure provides new insights for the design of antiretroviral drugs. http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nsmb.2119.html I don't kwon who are the game players though.