Don't Exhale: EPA Expected to Declare Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant - Political News - FOXNews.com

Don't Exhale: EPA Expected to Declare Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant - Political News - FOXNews.com:

"The Environmental Protection Agency is expected in the next few weeks to declare that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are pollutants, a move that would require the federal government to regulate them -- even without legislation. "

American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins

American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins:

"We're gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). Christian clergy, likely noting the Bible Belt's status as Wrath Central, question the 'science.' Valid point—or maybe it's just the pride talking."

Bizarre theory suggests time may be running out

Bizarre theory suggests time may be running out | BreakingNews.ie:

"If time has been slowing down, and clocks are now running more slowly than they did long ago, it would appear from our perspective as if things have been speeding up. Looking back over billions of years, galaxies would seem to be travelling away from each other faster and faster at various intervals since the Big Bang. "

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD

Mayan Majix - Articles - Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD:

"FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago."

Australian scientists may have worked out the mystery of teleportation | The Daily Telegraph

Australian scientists may have worked out the mystery of teleportation | The Daily Telegraph:

"The research team from the Australian National University developed a new approach to generating quantum entanglement in beams of light using only two parts. Quantum entanglement is a process in which two objects are linked together in such a way that any changes to the properties of one can be measured from the other regardless of the distance between them."

Dinosaur mummy yields organic molecules

Dinosaur mummy yields organic molecules - Discovery.com- msnbc.com:

"The extremely well-preserved remains of a 66-million-year-old hadrosaur, known as a 'dinosaur mummy,' have just yielded soft-tissue skin structures and organic molecules, according to a new study. "

Bug resurrected after 120,000 years: Scientific American

Bug resurrected after 120,000 years: Scientific American:

"Scientists have brought a newly-discovered bug back to life after more than 120,000 years in hibernation. It raises hopes that dormant life might be revived on Mars. The tiny purple microbe, dubbed called Herminiimonas glaciei, lay trapped beneath nearly two miles of ice in Greenland. It took 11 months to revive it by gently warming it in an incubator. Finally the bug sprang back to life and began producing fresh colonies of purple brown bacteria."

ADHD treatment causes young boys to develop female sex organs

3 News > World > Story > ADHD treatment causes young boys to develop female sex organs:

"A drug used to treat ADHD children is causing concern in the United States. It is called Risperdal and it is supposed to be used primarily for adults with sever psychological problems. But last year it was prescribed more than 6.5 million times. The side effects include young males developing female sex organs."

FOXNews.com - Scientists Not So Sure 'Doomsday Machine' Won't Destroy World - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

FOXNews.com - Scientists Not So Sure 'Doomsday Machine' Won't Destroy World - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News:

"Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world's largest particle collider, and determined that they won't simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted. Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama say mini black holes could exist for much longer"

GM crops found to affect reproduction in mice: Austrian study

GM crops found to affect reproduction in mice: Austrian study - Technology News - SINA English:

"VIENNA – Genetically-modified maize can affect reproduction in mice, an Austrian study has found, although its authors have dismissed warnings by environmental groups that it could also harm humans.

The long-term study, which was commissioned by the Austrian health ministry, found that female mice that had been given a diet consisting of 33 percent genetically-modified (GM) maize had fewer babies and fewer litters than those fed on non-GM food after a few generations."

Males of All Species Are Becoming More Female

Males of All Species Are Becoming More Female:

"Thousands of chemicals released into the environment are interfering with animal and human endocrine systems, resulting in physical changes. Comprehensive research indicates that these chemicals, nicknamed ‘gender-benders,’ are causing the males in many species to become feminized."

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The ill effects of these chemicals have in fact been documented for the human male populations as well. A study led by the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester examined baby boys from three different regions of the United States whose mothers had been exposed to substances containing phthalates. Researchers tested expectant mothers for the presence of these chemicals in their urine. Mothers with higher levels of the chemical tended to give birth to baby boys with smaller penises and in some cases, incompletely descended testicles.

LANL scientist makes radio waves travel faster than light

LANL scientist makes radio waves
travel faster than light - SantaFeNewMexican.com:

"Scientist John Singleton insists that Albert Einstein wouldn't be mad at him, even though at first blush Singleton appears to have twisted the famous physicist's theories about light into a pretzel.

Most people think Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but that's not really the case, Singleton said.

Einstein predicted that particles and information can't travel faster than the speed of light — but phenomenon like radio waves? That's a different story, said Singleton, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.

Singleton has created a gadget that abuses radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light. "

Sunspots Are Fewest Since 1954, but Significance Is Unclear

Sunspots Are Fewest Since 1954, but Significance Is Unclear - NYTimes.com:

"The Sun has been strangely unblemished this year. On more than 200 days so far this year, no sunspots were spotted. That makes the Sun blanker this year than in any year since 1954, when it was spotless for 241 days."

What is the Singularity?

What is the Singularity?: Nested Universe - Singularity Blog, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cosmology, Science and Technology:

"The Singularity refers to the predicted accelerating progress of science and technology in coming years and the changes that will result. Several technologies will play key roles in this, including artificial intelligence software, computer hardware, nanotechnology, genetic engineering and robotics. A key principal in the theory is a demonstrated history, and predicted continuation of, accelerating progress in these areas that is measured not on linear scales, but exponential ones. "

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

There is a scientist somewhere who thinks we may really be living in the Matrix.

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?:

" ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a ‘posthuman’ stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed."

Have Scientists Discovered Intuition?

This article discusses the discovery of the means to possibly scientifically explain what some of us already know.

Error Detection in the Gray Matter: Have Scientists Discovered Intuition? - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News:

"Whenever humans recognize a mistake, a mysterious wave of electricity passes through the brain. Researchers think the signal could explain addiction, error correction and even the sixth sense."

Wired Science . Video: Body Builders | PBS

Wired Science . Video: Body Builders | PBS:



Making body parts.

5 Really Weird Things About Water

5 Really Weird Things About Water | The Best Article Every day:

"In 1963, a Tanzanian high-school student named Erasto B. Mpemba was freezing hot ice cream mix in a cooking class when he noticed that a hot mix actually froze faster than a cold mix. When he asked his teacher about this phenomenon, his teacher ridiculed him by saying ‘All I can say is that is Mpemba’s physics and not universal physics.’

Thankfully, Mpemba didn’t back down - he convinced a physics professor to conduct an experiment which eventually confirmed his observations: in certain conditions, hot water indeed freezes before cold water*.

Actually, Mpemba was in good company. The phenomenon of hot water freezing first, now called the ‘Mpemba effect’ was noted by none other than Aristotle, Francis Bacon and René Descartes."

Robot spyplanes get new role as medical couriers

Robot spyplanes get new role as medical couriers - tech - 12 September 2008 - New Scientist Tech:

"Technology developed for war has been turned to the saving of lives. Engineers have converted uncrewed military aircraft into robotic carrier pigeons that could ferry medical samples from remote regions to labs for testing, or deliver snake antivenom to stricken victims.

Clinics in remote areas of South Africa can only be reached on unpaved roads that are impassable in rain. Even in good weather, the trip to the nearest lab is a long one for the couriers, taxis, or ambulances transporting samples, producing long delays in diagnosing and treating diseases like tuberculosis."

The Perfect place for a Giant BSL-4 Bio-Defense Lab

The Perfect place for a Giant BSL-4 Bio-Defense Lab THE PERFECT PLACE FOR A GIANT BSL-4 LAB:

"Here at the Biodefense Barbeque, we tip our hats to the visionaries in Washington and at the University of Texas System that decided to put a huge lab handling the most dangerous and exotic diseases in the world on a barrier island known for periodically being cataclysmically obliterated by hurricanes."