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In this article the authors provide evidence that tetratpod diversity is driven ecologically. So rather due to competition, the diversity was the result of conquering empty niches, a process known as adaptive radiation. Conversely habitat destruction is then likely to be the main element in destroying biodiversity. Sahney, Michael J. Benton, and Paul A. Ferry Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land Biol. Lett. August 23, 2010 6:544-547; published online before print …

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html How utterly fascinating. I think that finding the 33 day recurring pattern was possibly the oddest part of the whole thing. But how would Neutrinos change the rate anyway?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tools-for-life Interesting stuff

Tiny cancer-fighting agents are poised to play a big role in the future of chemotherapy. The breast cancer foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure has awarded a UC Davis researcher $450,000 for the development of nanoparticles capable of effectively targeting and destroying tumor cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed. The grant, given to Dr. Lorenzo Berti, is a part of $3.2 million the foundation plans to invest in California cancer research institutions beginning in 2010. The technology exploits a unique weakness in the blood vessels that feed malignant tumors – they leak. "These blood vessels, unlike normal blood vessels, have big holes in them," sai…

Nicola Cabibbo died on the 16th August 2010. The IOP news article can be found here. The ICTP In Memoriam can be found here.

I am a newly declared neurobiology major, but have profound love for Earth sciences. What kind of magazine subscriptions, online publications, journals, etc. do you recommend in order for me to just, well, keep up with the times? Cho Yung Tea

Dirac's birthday medal for 2010 has been given to Nicola Cabibbo and Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, both have made fundamental advances in our understanding of the weak force. The medal is given out annually by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Nicola Cabibbo (left) and Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan See the full Institute of Physics report here. The announcement by the ICTP can be found here.

During last 20-30 years the instruments that explore or probe the surface of ultra-small samples have steadily proliferated. Physicists, chemists, and molecular biologists working in nanoscience have had to familiarize themselves with microscopes that use thermal, magnetic, capacitive, and electrochemical properties. What is next for this amazing family of SPM? July 10th, 2010 Next step in nanotechnology instrumentation: Atomic Force Microscopy and X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis Integration Introduction Nanotechnology has received an enormous amount of attention in the past several years, but not much data exist to help make decisions about integration…

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/P%3DNP_math_problem_reported_solved?dpl_id=200299 Apparently P≠NP. Thoughts?

Unbelievable, but it is still known to happen in time of satellites and advanced technology... On the territory of former Yugoslavia, across Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Serbian Republic, and elsewhere, a new life form was discovered. Although this does not happen often, scientists have succeeded in holding this recent, sensational discovery in secret up until today, when the results of scientific research and analysis finally arrived and confirmed the expectations: various locations of the wider Balkans began to inhabit a new life form. In the professional scientific documentation, the new animal s…

Here is an interesting little piece of information, I'm not sure just how "independent" it is but it seems from the assertion in this article that Cannabis or at least the chemicals in Cannabis including THC suppress cancer... Who knew!? Our government knew and has known for 36 years! http://www.gsalternative.com/2010/05/cannabinoids-kill-cancer/

Mica, a layered mineral with unusual properties could have helped form the template for organic molecules to come together for the formation of life says Helen Hansma of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mica could have sheltered molecules that were the begining of cells, allowing the non living organic chemcials to come together in ways that helped form life. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100806093104.htm

A new combination of nano and solar technology has made it possible for solar electric generation to be cheaper than burning coal. Nanosolar, Inc. has developed a way to produce a type of ink that absorbs solar radiation and converts into electric current. Photovoltaic (PV) sheets are produced by a machine similar to a printing press, which rolls out the PV ink onto sheets approximately the width of aluminum foil. These PV sheets can be produced at a rate of hundreds of feet per minute. "It's 100 times thinner than existing solar panels, and we can deposit the semiconductors 100 times faster," said Nanosolar's cofounder and chief executive officer, R. Martin…

An interesting new study reported in NPR: http://www.npr.org/t...oryId=128490874 So perhaps Churchill's famous saying should be rewritten as "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on, but the lie is wearing a rather nice minidress and showing lots of cleavage."

In the Science World recently, scientists have discovered microneedls. Needles that are so small when put up against the skin it feels like sandpaper. This revolutionalizes the medicine industry and could began to be mailed out to people as early as in 5 years.

Check out this video. Try listening to the narrator and not notice some obvious scientific flaws, especially the last fifteen seconds of the video. However, it would seem nice if you were able to fill up your car with compressed air at home from a generator, and in the end it would be cheaper than my Jeep Cherokee. It is unfortunate though, that the car design visually is not what some in the ritz would call, "sweet" or "stunning". Anyways lets break this down, I'm curious as to what you guys notice.

cooler, wetter place because of flowering plants, according to new climate simulation results published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The effect is especially pronounced in the Amazon basin, where replacing flowering plants with non-flowering varieties would result in an 80 percent decrease in the area covered by ever-wet rainforest. The simulations demonstrate the importance of flowering-plant physiology to climate regulation in ever-wet rainforest, regions where the dry season is short or non-existent, and where biodiversity is greatest. "The vein density of leaves within the flowering plants is much, much higher than all other plants," said …

Date: October 15 – 25, 2009 Location: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and various venues in Uptown Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Description: For 10 exciting days this October, Perimeter Institute’s Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. All events will occur on-site in Waterloo, Ontario and online at q2cfestival.com. Q2C will transcend traditional festivals by streaming events live and on demand. All events will be recorded and will also be available online at a later date.

Surely, you've heard about the off-shore oil rig explosion that is now leaking hundreds of thousands of barrels crude into the gulf a day. At $75 a barrel, why isn't there a company out there outfitting a tanker right now to collect it? I'm envisioning a small skimmer, that then pumps the oil into the tanker...? I mean no one 'owns' this oil anymore right? Granted, it is spread out over an area as big as Delaware, in a layer only several millimeters thick, but it's free money just floating out there. --- While this has been a news story for days, there been no real sense of urgency attached to it. The Drill Baby Drill folks have ben awful quiet, bu…

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