Microsoft's New Lens Promises 3-D TVs Sans Glasses
• Space.comEarly adopters will always exist, but this current wave of next-gen home-theater gear has more standing in its way than price. Who wants to wear those glasses?
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Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests
• Space.comThe moon's interior may harbor 100 times more water than previous estimates, according to a new study that took a fresh look at samples of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts nearly 40 years ago.
Video: Scientists Watch Grass Grow, at the Cellular Scale
• PopSciWatching grass grow is way more interesting than you think. In an effort to understand cellular development in plants, a team of French scientists made a surprisingly exciting video animation of grass growing at the cellular scale.
Did Exploding Stars Shatter Life's Mirror?
• arcleinAs a result, Boyd suggests, when the magnetic field of a supernova remnant starts up, amino acids of one chirality end up with their nitrogen spins pointing along the magnetic field lines, away from the star at the north pole and towards it at the so
Deeper Impact
• arcleinON THE west coast of India, near the city of Mumbai, lies a tortured landscape. Faults score the ground, earthquakes are rife, and boiling water oozes up from below forming countless hot springs.
Entire Feb 2010 Issue of "American Behavioral Scientist" Devoted to State Crimes Against D
• coto2.wordpress.comThe prestigious 50-yr-old scholarly journal claims 9/11 was a State Crime Against Democracy (SCAD) typical of an ongoing, scientifically demonstrable pattern of many other such crimes. The entire issue lays out a new framework for further investigati
Hubble Catches Star's Motion
• arcleinBy exploiting the exquisite image quality of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and comparing two observations made ten years apart astronomers have, for the first time, managed to measure the tiny motions of several hundred young stars within the
Chupacabras History
• arclein-variously described by witnesses as standing between 4 and 5 feet tall; covered in greenish brown or blackish grey fur; spindly arms ending in claws; powerful hind legs enabling it to jump over fences; a
Sun May Soon Plunge Into Hot Cloud of Interstellar Gas
• arcleinA new analysis suggests that in about 100 years the sun could plunge into a hot cloud of interstellar gas. The change should have no impact on our planet, but it could boost the amount of deadly radiation in space, making missions more challenging f
EL Chupacabras
• arcleinOriginally reported in Puerto Rico, the news of this strange and scary creature spread like wildfire through the Americas. As the Spanish speaking media started to disseminate the first reports and detailed description of the creature, the reports ca
One in Three Chance of Quake in Fifty Years in NorthWest
• arclein"Perhaps more striking than the probability numbers is that we can now say that we have already gone longer without an earthquake than 75 percent of the known times between earthquakes in the last 10,000 years," Goldfinger said. "And 50 years from
General Ocean Warming Confirmed
• arcleinCombining multiple estimates of heat in the upper ocean - from the surface to about 610 meters (2,000 feet) down - the team found a strong multi-year warming trend throughout the world's ocean.
Katla, Oh Katla!
• arcleinThe earthquakes at the Katla volcano site appear to possibly be increasing in frequency as of this moment (time will tell however). Since May 17 there have been four earthquakes at or very near Katla, while a 5th just on the edge of the Myrdalsjokull
Video: An Artificial Butterfly Takes Flight
• WiredEngineers Hiroto Tanaka and Isao Shimoyama of Harvard University and University of Tokyo, respectively, created the tiny butterfly to try to understand the biomechanics of butterfly flight.
Katla Warms Up
• arcleinHistorically, Katla has erupted after the eruption of it’s close neighbor, Eyjafjallajokull, which first erupted on April 14, 2010 and is ongoing at this moment. Magma channels beneath to the two volcanoes are thought to be interconnected. A Katla er
Evolution Creation Revisit
• arclein: "George, nobody I know in my profession believes it evolved. It was engineered by genius beyond genius, and such information could not have been written any other way. The paper and ink did not write the book! Knowing what we know, it is ridiculou
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Brain
• LiveScienceWomen aren't from Venus after all
Project aims to measure gravitational waves with giant lasers, free-falling cubes of gold
• News LinkIn Largest Science Experiment Ever, Three Spacecraft Will Swap Laser Fire Across 3 Million Miles
Limitless, Cheap Chips Made Out of DNA Could Replace Silicon
• PopSciRather than running computers and electrical circuits on electricity, light-sensitive DNA switches could be used to move signals through a device at much higher speeds.
Two Problems Solved For Low Cost Solar Cells
• arcleinFor the electrolyte, entirely new molecules have been created in the laboratory whose concentration has been increased through the contribution of Professor Livain Breau, also of the Chemistry Department. The resulting liquid or gel is transparent an
Huge Asteroid Pallas Visible From Earth
• Space.comThis week, the huge asteroid Pallas reaches opposition, being opposite to the sun in Earth's sky, making it a prime target for avid skywatchers.
New Madrid Downgraded
• arcleinIn making this stepwise reduction, Hough questioned the accuracy of the report that the largest of the earthquakes rang church bells in Boston, Mass., more than 1,700 kilometers away. Boston newspapers carried no mention of such an occurrence, says H
Woolly Mammoth Ran Cold
• arcleinThe extinct beasts had a form of antifreeze blood that kept their bodies supplied with oxygen in the sub-zero temperatures, according to a study of DNA extracted from 43,000-year-old mammoth remains.
Historical Super Volcanoes
• arcleinWe are not saying that it wasn't difficult for humans after Toba," says Mike Petraglia at the University of Oxford, who has led the investigations. "We are just saying that we don't think it was a catastrophic change."
Reverse-Engineering a Quantum Compass
• WiredIf the weird rules of atomic physics do help birds find their way around the globe — as some scientists suspect — a new study has identified ways of finding out how.
Well Blow Out gets Ugly
• arcleinIn what may soon be the worst oil spill in U.S. history, crude is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and bleeding into Louisiana wetlands. The situation is so dire that ourbest environmental option is to set it ablaze. Eleven workers died when the rig b
Greece Sized Mat of Microbes
• arcleinThis genetic data has revealed that there might be as many as 100 times more microbe genera than researchers had assumed. One study conducted in the English Channel landed 7,000 new genera alone. Current estimates place the number of marine microbial
Concentrated Solar Set to Shine
• Technology ReviewLarge investment could jump-start concentrated photovoltaic deployments.
Stephan Hawking Eyes ET
• arcleinHe considers it an extremely unwise move for primitive present-day humanity to attract the attention of such voyagers - by such efforts as the controversial practice of beaming out "Active SETI" signals
Starry Starry Night
• arcleinNASA is releasing a new Hubble photo of a small portion of one of the largest known star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Three light-year-tall towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. The scene is remi
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