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It's worth watching the video on that article as well, the [acr=Royal Society For the Protection of Brids]RSPB[/acr] spokesperson clarifies that the feeding tables are secondary and it's a change in climate that caused the initial change in this behaviour and that bird tables may have caused further changes in the birds physiology. The really interesting thing is that because of the different distances between Germany and Britain versus Germany and Spain mean that the two groups of Blackcaps now have a different mating season which could allow for greater genetic drift and two different species could eventually emerge (the spokesperson says thousands of years but consider…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24collide.html?ref=global-home According to this article, LHC appears to produce its first collisions Monday.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/ibm-makes-supercomputer-significantly-smarter-than-cat.ars It appears IBM has constructed and programmed a supercomputer to simulate the neurons in the cerebral cortex the size of a cat's. It's not fully real-time yet, but it simulates 1.6 billion neurons, and has the ability to save its state at any time so you can rewind and see just what's happening inside. Freaking awesome. The article points out that with a supercomputer just two or three orders of magnitude bigger you could simulate a human's cerebral cortex -- and imagine what we could learn from that.

I just got my copy of Time today that has an article about the 50 greatest inventions of the year. The one that caught my eye was entitled "The Electric Microbe". According to the article, a microbe known as Geobacter uses pili to generate electricity from mud and waste water. Engineering has been done at the University of Amherst in Massachusetts by Professor Derek Lovley and his team to increase the productivity of Geobacter eightfold. Any more information on this subject will be appreciated as alternative energy is a side interest of mine. Thanks Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedBefore I forget, Creds for the info: Time, November 23 2009 issue.…

It looks like the moon rocket mission was a sauces. The NASA team was not only able to gather the necessary data, but also they say they found large quantities of water on the moon. The moon rocket supposedly displaced roughly 2 gallons of water. National Geographic Here are the news from Popular Mechanics and from NASA themselves.

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A new electron beam device uses metal feed stock to create parts without molding or cutting. From the article: "The beam melts the wires and applies them carefully on top of a rotating plate to build an object up slowly, layer by layer." This is a huge step for space travel, but it also gives us a great short-term reason to invest in space stations and moon bases for manufacturing satellite and rocket parts. Very exciting!

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/813/3 http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRLTAO000103000011113601000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes Take a look at these links, this may lead to technology that will change the world of communication as we know it. Any thoughts?

Scientists have finally uncovered the genetics that allow spiders to create their ultra-fine and strong silk that could one day replace current surgical adhesives. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427325.200-sticky-future-for-the-spider-suture.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427316.400-industrial-robot-hones-virtual-autopsies.html A new approach to autopsies that isn't so invasive and destructive is being pioneered in a university in Switzerland. This new robot could help make future autopsies a lot simpler and less destructive.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427314.400-rethinking-relativity-is-time-out-of-joint.html After doing a preliminary study there either the dark energy theory or general relativity may need some adjusting. More research still needs to be done but it was an interesting read all the same.

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Hey, I'm new to this forum just thought i could start contributing by providing this article i've been through. http://scienceray.com/philosophy-of-science/the-importance-of-science/ Happy Reading

Brain Enhancement In this episode Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the contents of the October issue of Scientific American, including articles on brain enhancement, lost cities of the Amazon and a century-old plan to make subway rides more entertaining http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=brain-enhancement-october-issue-of-09-10-14 thanks, Jamie Hale

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6265599/Japanese-suit-that-fights-flu.html What's the next thing they'll come up with? By the way, can anyone confirm the "titanium dioxide reacts with light and kills the virus" part?

http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=63638555 "HIV vaccine regimen demonstrates modest preventive effect in Thailand clinical study. In an encouraging development, an investigational vaccine regimen has been shown to be well-tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection in a clinical trial involving more than 16,000 adult participants in Thailand. Following a final analysis of the trial data, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, the trial sponsor, announced today that the prime-boost investigational vaccine regimen was safe and 31 percent effective in preventing HIV infection. (more)"

National Geographic Ardipithecus http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091001-oldest-human-skeleton-ardi-missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html Ardipithecus- Carl Zimmer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/10/01/ardipithecus-we-meet-at-last/ John Hawk’s webblog- long article on Ardi http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/ardipithecus/ardipithecus-faq-2009.html thanks, Jamie Hale jhale

Anyone in the right place with the right 'scope going to watch this? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091008-nasa-moon-bombing-lcross-water-crash.html

Culture mag interview with the reader in nano materials chemistry at Imperial College on carbon nanotubes and their applications. http://glassmagazine.co.uk/forum/feature.asp?tid=561 thoughts?

This clearly cannot compete with threads about melons, but for those involved or interested in science careers this is a nice viewpoint regarding funding situations. The interesting thing is that it is almost universally valid. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000197 One of the many nice quotes in the text: Edit: shoot. I meant science careers in the title, of course.

There is an experiment in its infancy that needs scientists of all fields to contribute. Drawn from the works of the late Carl Sagan, the State of the Species Experiment asks the question, “How should society be structured to facilitate the peaceful and rapid advancement of the species?” Check it out at http://www.stateofthespecies.org

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113139754 " When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drawing on years of experience warned: "Be careful." The 51-year-old Sparkman was found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery and had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment..."

Now who of you just ran out to get some watermelon? Yes? Yes? show of hands? Eating watermelon has a similar effect on the body to Viagra, according to researchers in the US. It's down to a chemical called citrulline which is found in the juicy fruit. ... Citrulline is an organic compound which affects the body's blood vessels in the same way as the sex enhancement pills. http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7498000/7498061.stm

http://libwww.freelibrary.org/closing/ I have no idea what to say.