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My news to you is great; all the world is watching CERN or Tevatron to find Higgs boson by the end of 2012 or in 3 years from now, but imagine that a person comes and tell you " I found Higgs boson ", it is unbelievable but it's true. We all know that Higgs boson is in Nature and we have just to find it and this is what I did. Please visit my blog for more information

My Chemistry teacher told me that screening effect is the ability of the atom to prevent the valence electrons from being pulled towards the nucleus. The screening effect depends only on the number of electron orbits inside the valence shell. For instance, the atoms crossways Period 3 have 3 shells occupied by electrons. So, the screening effect remains unchanged. But I thought that when going across Period 3 from left to right, the number of electrons increases and so does the electrostatic force. This causes the valence shells to be pulled closer to the nucleus. So, my opinion is, the ability of the atoms to prevent the valence shells from being pulled towards the n…

Watching TV for an average of six hours a day could shorten the viewer's life expectancy by almost five years, indicates research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The impact rivals that of other well known behavioural risk factors, such as smoking and lack of exercise, the study suggests. Sedentary behaviour -- as distinct from too little exercise -- is associated with a higher risk of death, particularly from heart attack or stroke. Watching TV accounts for a substantial amount of sedentary activity, but its impact on life expectancy has not been assessed, say the authors. They used previously published data on the relationship betw…

It’s true, the loudest animal in the world (relatively speaking), as described by BBC News ‘Singing penis’ sets noise record for water insect, is a fresh water insect (Micronecta scholtzi) that plays “music” by rubbing its penis on its abdomen. This music reaches levels up to 99.7 decibels. Relating this to a sounds we may all understand, that is equivalent to a listening to a very loud orchestra or music act from the front row. It should also be noted that this tiny bug, in the grand scheme of things is not much quieter than much larger animals such as blue whales. The reason these little bugs don’t completely cause our heads to cave in, is because they li…

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetically-modified-crop I saw these researchers speak at the ESA meeting. Meredith Schafer (the Masters student) stated that 86% of canola sampled in transects (away from farmers fields) contained transgenes that allow the plant to resist herbicides glyphosate and/or glufosinate. Farmers are seeing these feral transgenic canola plants growing in fields in which canola has not been planted. So Monsanto, since it's YOUR genes that have escaped, are you going to be responsible for the extra cost to farmers caused by weedy pesticide-resistant canola growing in their fields? mmmm probably not.

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The farther that human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains, according to a new study by Oxford University. But it turns out that this is not because they are smarter, but because they need bigger vision areas in the brain to cope with the low light levels experienced at high latitudes. Scientists have found that people living in countries with dull, grey, cloudy skies and long winters have evolved bigger eyes and brains so they can visually process what they see, reports the journal Biology Letters. The researchers measured the eye socket and brain volumes of 55 skulls, dating from the 1800s, from museum collections. The skulls represented 1…

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nuclear-reactor-hobby-project,news-12067.html http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fkvp.expressen.se%2Fnyheter%2F1.2515723%2F31-aring-greps-for-bygge-av-karnreaktor-i-koket&act=url Welcome to Sweden! The second link leads to a translated page of a Swedish magazine. I personally think it's kind of cool that he was self-educated, and still managed to do what he did.

Call for Papers INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION “NATURAL CATACLYSMS AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN CIVILIZATION” GEOCATACLYSM - 2011 Background During the last few years, scientists around the world have been witnessing alarming changes in the environment; these changes are of global significance for the entire planet. Global changes can now be observed throughout all of the Earth, including its core, mantle, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. Based on data analysis for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and other geological and geophysical processes, it demonstrates that the Earth’s geodynamical ac…

A milestone has been reached in China, but not the kind the Chinese Communist Party is celebrating. For the past seven years, a peaceful movement has been steadily growing—a movement that encourages Chinese people to renounce all affiliations with the Communist Party. This week, that movement reached the momentous milestone of 100 million participants. Read more at : http://bit.ly/n8gGHu

Call for Papers INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION “NATURAL CATACLYSMS AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN CIVILIZATION” GEOCATACLYSM - 2011 Background During the last few years, scientists around the world have been witnessing alarming changes in the environment; these changes are of global significance for the entire planet. Global changes can now be observed throughout all of the Earth, including its core, mantle, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. Based on data analysis for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and other geological and geophysical processes, it demonstrates that the Earth’s geodynamical ac…

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MIT generates photovoltaic power without sunlight http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/mit-generates-photovoltaic-power-without-sunlight/7823 The silicon chip micro-reactors are shown above without PV cells attached to their sides. According to Celanovic, the devices are three times as efficient as lithium-ion batteries of similar size and weight. Yet the research team isn’t stopping there. They hope to one day triple even that. Here's the article / abstract: http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v83/i3/e033810

HUMAN EAR MOUSE THE Confrontation with a potential Fellow Candidate with the Challengers " In the past 10 years, China's "973", "863" projects had injected enormous sum of 60 Million into the research team led by Prof Cao Yi Lin, and with other additional items, the total investment into the research projects is up to 300 Millions. " This level of importance and scale of investment is very rarely seen both inside China and Overseas. Reporter of Oriental Outlook Li Wei in Shanghai. Consultant Doctor Shanghai Jiao Tong University Cao Yi Lin "If I were going after fame and fortune, I would not have come back to China. My return is based on a patriotic mind a…

Quantum Physics First: Physicists Measure Without Distorting http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110602143159.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

The fast-moving field of mixing animal and human DNA may need new ethical or regulatory boundaries for some experiments, a British panel says. Read about it here http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/07/22/animal-human-experiments-uk.html Note can some one explain to me at grade 5 level what the controversy is and what they are scared nay happen.

The Sunny Side of Smut For most people, pornography use has no negative effects—and it may even deter sexual violence By Melinda Wenner Moyer | July 22, 2011 | It used to be tough to get porn. Renting an X-rated movie required sneaking into a roped-off room in the back of a video store, and eyeing a centerfold meant facing down a store clerk to buy a pornographic magazine. Now pornography is just one Google search away, and much of it is free. Age restrictions have become meaningless, too, with the advent of social media—one teenager in five has sent or posted naked pictures of themselves online, according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pre…

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For those who missed Prof Hans Rosling's excellent programme on statistics a few years ago it has been repeated and will be available til wednesday for those able to access iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk...e_Joy_of_Stats/

Just a few minutes ago, the space shuttle Atlantis was launched and reached (preliminary) orbit safely. This is the final flight of the space shuttle. Some more information is available all over the internet, but here are two links: BBC and NASA.

Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have built optical nanostructures that enable them to engineer the index of refraction and fully control light dispersion. They have shown that it is possible for light (electromagnetic waves) to propagate from point A to point B without accumulating any phase, spreading through the artificial medium as if the medium is completely missing in space. This is the first time simultaneous phase and zero-index observations have been made on the chip-scale and at the infrared wavelength. The study, to be published in Nature Photonics, was led by Chee Wei Wong, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Serdar Kocaman, el…

This is why experiments are checked and rechecked. Good work. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/331050/title/No_new_particle_from_second_detector

Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way for the first time to create successful "CIGS" solar devices with inkjet printing, in work that reduces raw material waste by 90 percent and will significantly lower the cost of producing solar energy cells with some very promising compounds. High performing, rapidly produced, ultra-low cost, thin film solar electronics should be possible, scientists said. The findings have been published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, a professional journal, and a patent applied for on the discovery. Further research is needed to increase the efficiency of the cell, but the work could lead to a whole new gener…