Could ancient life be living today? Locked miles beneath the Antarctic surface, these lakes have not touched our atmosphere for millions of years. What will we find there?http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/ancient-buried.html#more” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
Check out this screen shot from the world’s first Web site, http://info.cern.ch/, which went live 15 years ago. Note the multicolored diagram in the background. That’s an early schematic of ATLAS, one of two enormous particle detectors recently installed at the Large Hadron Collider, set to fire up later this year at CERN.http://science-community.sciam.com/blog-entry/Sciam-Observations/Plans-Large-Hadron-Collider-Visible/580000875″ rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
It seems like a peculiar case of genomic overkill: a single-celled bacterium has been found that keeps tens of thousands of copies of its genome.http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080508/full/news.2008.806.html” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen — they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday.http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080508/od_nm/orchids_deception_dc” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
Why would Mars appear to move backwards? Most of the time, the apparent motion of Mars in Earth’s sky is in one direction, slow but steady in front of the far distant stars. About every two years, however, the Earth passes Mars as they orbit around the Sun.http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080511.html” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
A picture taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satelliteon shows dust blowing northward out of the Sahara Desert and over the Mediterranean Sea. The Sahara became the world’s biggest hot desert some 2,700 years ago after a very slow fade from green.http://www.physorg.com/news129617309.html” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
A new outpatient laser procedure could eliminate the need for radiation treatment for cancer of the larynx if the tumors are detected early.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/health/06canc.html?ex=1367812800&en=7402dd8d8d271462&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
Cyborg Animals, psychotropics and Flying Lasershttp://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-05/worlds-spookiest-weapons” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title
The fact they don’t — despite spending more time looking at the sky than anyone — is what Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait calls *his* favorite reason for not believing that UFOs are alien spacecraft. Plait also shares another writer’s “snarky” list of Top 10 reasons not to believe. Tin-foil brigade howling in 4, 3, […]
Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes.http://www.spaceandtechnology.com/Data_recovered_from_Columbia_disaster.htm” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title