Wednesday, December 22, 2010

DSoM Post Scientists Developing E.Coli Bacteria


That Stores, and Encrypts Data





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2011 Preview: Expect Earth's Twin planet


Link:  http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827923.600-2011-preview-expect-earths-twin-planet.html


TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2g9n6a5

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

DSoM Is That Worm Getting Older


From http://www.sciencedaily.com

Longevity Breakthrough: Scientists 'Activate' Life Extension in Worm, Discover Mitochondria's Metabolic State Controls Life Span

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Wingman aside:

Didn't I hear something about this in Kim Stanley Robinson's 1993 Nebula Winner: Red Mars?

Oh yeah, I Remember:
 
JOHN BOONE--Acheron with Maya--LONGEVITY TREATMENTS (new genetic breakthrough that repairs the DNA damage caused by both radiation and aging, creating indetirminate lifespans).


We may not have to wait for Mars Colonization after all.

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

DSOM Earth's Water Didn't Come From Outer Space



Earth Oceans Were Homegrown








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Sunday, November 21, 2010

DSOM Post The US Road To Rhodes Scholarship




LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Three Students from California Have Been Named Rhodes Scholars And Will Enter Oxford University Next Year.






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Way to Go California.


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32 US Students Named Rhodes Scholars 
 for 2011

The scholarships were announced early Sunday and provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the prestigious university in England. The winners were selected from 837 applicants endorsed by 309 different colleges and universities.

Rhodes Scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes. Winners are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential and physical vigor, among other attributes.

The value of the scholarships averages about $50,000 per year.

The American students will join an international group of scholars selected from 14 other jurisdictions around the world.

Approximately 80 scholars are selected each year.









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Thursday, November 18, 2010

DSOM Post Rare Earth Elements in US Not So Rare, Report Finds

From ScienceDaily

Rare Earth Elements Not So Rare



— Approximately 13 million metric tons of rare earth elements (REE) exist within known deposits in the United States, according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of these elements by the U.S. Geological Survey.


 



 
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Friday, November 5, 2010

DSOM Post Fourth Type Of Neutrino Suspected – Possible Link To Dark Matter


Nutrino Detector



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Solar Physics 101:

An Intermediate Introduction


A wonderful, detailed Site.
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Most of the notable work in the 
field of particle physics, of late,  
has been with hadrons, the heavier of the subatomic particles, with a great deal of notoriety going to the predicted, but as yet unidentified Higgs boson.

Now work with the leptons, the lighter subatomic particles is showing promise, and getting its own notice. 


Better than that news, the work is 
continuing at FermiLab, in Illinois.

Notable work coming from here in the U.S. is great news for the budding physicist hoping to get a 

job after college in the United States.









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Thursday, October 21, 2010

DSOM Post The Problem With Cooling Molecules


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 From http://www.physorg.com/

Cooling molecules with lasers is harder than cooling individual atoms with lasers. The very process of laser cooling, in which atoms are buffeted by thousands of photons, was thought by many to be impossible for molecules since photons, instead of slowing and cooling the molecules, could actually excite internal motions such as rotations and vibrations.


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From smh.com.au
The Sydney Morning Herald

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What a Gas! Hubble Takes a Snap of the Past

LOS ANGELES: Scientists have found the most distant space object yet observed: a galaxy born just 500 million years after the Big Bang.



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            NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have now measured the distance to the most distant galaxy so far, UDFy-38135539 (the faint object shown in the excerpt on the left).
It is seen here in a Hubble Space Telescope photo and is about 13.1 billion light-years away.

An ancient galaxy has broken the record for the most distant point in the sky known to date, with its light taking roughly 13.1 billion years to reach Earth --  -- also making it the oldest known thing in the universe.



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Friday, October 15, 2010

DSOM Post Physicists Eye Graphene-Based Spin Computer



Knowing that Tunneling Has Great Importance in the Big Bang Theory, 
I thought this study was intereting...

Graphene-Based Spin Computer 



 
Ugggh.....204 Character in the Link?  Really, Is That Necessary....

Even CNN, the biggest News delivery system in the World, 
doesn't have to fillet it's folder structure that much...
Try 26 characters please. Get Real.




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Monday, October 4, 2010

DSOM Post: Scratched Glasses Give Perfect Vision for Any Eyesight

From




DITCH Those Bifocals

You might soon be wearing spectacles whose lenses allow you to see clearly regardless of how long or short-sighted you are.


With age, the lenses in our eyes often lose the ability to change shape enough to focus light from near objects onto the retina - a condition called presbyopia. This leaves people who were already short-sighted unable to focus on either near or distant objects. Bifocals offer a solution by having two lenses in the same frame, but users must get used to tilting their head up or down to switch focus.

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Friday, October 1, 2010

MC2 DSOM Post "Goldilocks" Planet Found, Could Possibly Support Human Life






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China launches second lunar 
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

DSoM Post Quantum Tornado in the Electron Beam:


Manipulating Materials With 
Rotating Quantum Particles


ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2010)A team from the University of Antwerp

and TU Vienna (Professor Peter Schattschneider, Institute of Solid State

Physics) has succeeded in producing what are known as electron vortex

beams: rotating electron beams, which make it possible to investigate

the magnetic properties of materials.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

DSoM Post Why I Remember Boy, When We had Sunspots


Sunspots Could soon Disappear for Decades: 

study


From http:www.PhysOrg.com

 -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades. The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age.
 



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Thursday, September 9, 2010

DSOM Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe

Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe



Illustration of the dipolar variation in the fine-structure constant, alpha, across the sky, as seen by the two telescopes used in the work: the Keck telescope in Hawaii and the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. (Credit: Copyright Dr. Julian Berengut, UNSW, 2010)



ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2010) — A team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England has uncovered evidence that the laws of physics are different in different parts of the universe.



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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Tracing the Big Picture of Mars' Atmosphere


The Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter maps the vertical distribution of temperatures, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere as the orbiter flies a near-polar orbit. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

From ScienceDaily.com

ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2010) — One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere.





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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Supermassive Blackholes Spawned by Galactic Merger

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Lurking at the centre of nearly every galaxy and gobbling up stars in their vicinity, supermassive black holes are a truly menacing feature of the universe. Now, an international team of astronomers claims to have solved the mystery of how legions of these galactic monsters were born during the early history of the universe.


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A Number of Related Stories Are on the Linked Page:


    * Supermassive black hole struggles to swallow Milky Way
    * Stars born into Milky Way's violent centre
    * Milky Way in line for aggressive three-way merger
    * Massive young stars defy tidal forces
    * Supermassive black hole binary might lurk in nearby galaxy
    * Supermassive black holes reveal a surprising clue

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Friday, August 27, 2010

NASA spacecraft spots multiplanet solar system



NASA's Kepler spacecraft, hunting for distant worlds by measuring the slight dimming of starlight as planets pass in front of their parent suns, has found its first multiplanet solar system, researchers announced Thursday.

The Kepler-9 system includes two Saturn-class worlds orbiting in gravitational lockstep close to their star and a possible third planet just a bit larger than Earth that whirls through a hellish "year" in just 1.8 days.


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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

DSoM Post Jupiter Hit for Third Time in 13 Months



Jupiter Hit for Third Time 
in 13 Months

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From NewScientist:


At the time of the 1994 comet strike, astronomers thought that impacts on Jupiter might occur only once in several centuries. But the recent amateur observations suggest that estimate is wrong.

The sudden abundance of such observations is probably thanks to a technique for making very sharp still images by combining the clearest frames from a video recording, says Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.


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Saturday, August 21, 2010

MC2 DSoM Post Fault Lines Here and There

Fault Lines Here and There



California Overdue for 'the Big One,' 
Geologists Say



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Cameron Diaz Tops Malware Bait List

Don't Go There!

Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web, antivirus company McAfee said Thursday.

Search strings using Diaz's name have a one-in-ten chance of coming up with a site infected with or spreading malware, said Dave Marcus, McAfee's director of security research and communication. 

Search for "Cameron Diaz and screensavers," and the risk doubles, Marcus added.

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS348278274520100820


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Facebook Places Could Spark 
New Privacy Fire

With its new location-based Places feature, Facebook may have just lit the match that will ignite another round of privacy controversy.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

DSOM Post Bright Flashes and Heaps of Ashes:


Bright Flashes and Heaps of Ashes:

A New X-ray Laser Source

How The SLAC Can Do Some Work

SLAC: Stanford Linear ACcelerator.



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SLAC Diagram

Image and very detailed explanation
about Accelerators and Nobel Laureates


You need some Real Math Skills for this kind of research.
Calculus, of course IS a Must.
But even The Python Programming Language which is Open Source, 
has been used to good effect.


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 The Bleeding Edge and Colliders:

An Excellent Book on this Topic is: 

Anil Ananthaswamy's 

"The Edge of Physics".




Link: http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Physics-Journey-Extremes-Universe/dp/0618884688

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

DSOM: If you think you Understand Physics, You're Wrong.


 The Center of the Sun may be Dark Matter


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Supermassive Black Holes:
Hinting at the Nature of Dark Matter?


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Old Matterings...

How Fast Does Matter Fall?

ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2006) —



Black Holes Light Up

Astronomers Spot Black Holes Using NASA's 
Chandra X-Ray Observatory

September 1, 2006 —


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