Thursday, December 8, 2011

Dark Side of Matter Post NASA Rover finds Evidence of Water Flowing on Mars









NASA's famous robot rover Opportunity, still prowling the haematite steppes of the Meridiani Planum on Mars seven years after setting down, appears to have discovered concrete evidence that liquid water once
flowed across the surface of the red planet.

A bright vein of what scientists believe to be gypsum has been found by the rover, which could only realistically have been formed by flowing water.

According to NASA:

    The vein examined most closely by Opportunity is about the width of a human thumb (0.4 to 0.8 inch), 16 to 20 inches long, and protrudes slightly higher than the bedrock on either side of it. Observations by the rover
reveal this vein and others like it within an apron surrounding a segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. None like it were seen in the 20 miles (33 kilometers) of crater-pocked plains that Opportunity explored for 90 months before it reached Endeavour, nor in the higher ground of the rim.







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Thursday, November 24, 2011

DSOM Post NOVA's Very Excellent and Elegant Universe on PBS







Last night's excursions into the very intricate and convoluted physics world of String Theory was a Tour De Force.  Reminisent of the Ease and Splendor of Carl Sagan's  Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.  

String Theory still boggles the mind, even to our most brilliant mathematicians, it appears an enigma, full of promise and hope, 
yet still out of reach of our most powerful Colliders.





  

And numbers that don't Add-Up in a single dimensional universe.  

Brian Greene, the Host and Guide, is a worthy successor 
to the charm and grace that was Carl Sagan.

It was a Very Excellent Program.


Link:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/sqpy

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Friday, November 18, 2011

DSOM Post Neutrinos STILL Faster than Light


From:  http://www.newscientist.com


It Seems You Just Can't Slow Those 

 
Little Neutrinos Down







One of the most staggering results in physics – that neutrinos may go faster than light – has not gone away with two further weeks of observations. The researchers behind the jaw-dropping finding are now confident enough in the result that they are submitting it to a peer-reviewed journal.








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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

DSoM Post New Lightning-Fast, Efficient Nanoscale Data Transmission



From:  http://www.sciencedaily.com



 



ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2011) — A team at Stanford's School of Engineering has demonstrated an ultrafast nanoscale light-emitting diode (LED) that is orders of magnitude lower in power consumption than today's laser-based systems and is able to transmit data at the very rapid rate of 10 billion bits per second.

The researchers say it is a major step forward in providing a practical ultrafast, low-power light source for on-chip data transmission.







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Monday, November 14, 2011

Dark Side of Matter Post: What in the World Is Superhydrophobic Coating







A New Superhydrophobic Coating

is Truly Stunning


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Link:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57323425-1/this-superhydrophobic-coating-is-truly-stunning/?tag=rtcol

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7s4sxhc



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Sunday, October 2, 2011

DSoM Post More Details on the "faster than the speed of light" Neutrinos






From:  http://arstechnica.com

Last night, in response to a worldwide surge in interest, the OPERA experiment released a paper that describes the experiments that appear to show neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. And today, CERN broadcast a live seminar in which one of the work's authors described the content of the paper. Both of those emphasized the point of our initial coverage: figuring out whether anything is traveling beyond the speed of light requires incredibly accurate measurements of time and distance, and the OPERA team has made an extensive effort to make its work as accurate as possible.

 

216 freakin' characters.  Try typing that into a portable device.  We Don't just Live on the Desktop Anymore...



TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3e3p8c6

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

DSOM Post Is the "The Higgs" Science Fiction?


From:  http://www.physorg.com


Endgame for the Higgs Boson




The last missing piece of scientists’ fundamental model of particle physics is running out of places to hide.


The Final Answer should come by December...





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Sunday, August 21, 2011

DSOM Post Darkest Planet Found


From:  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news



Coal-Black, It Reflects Almost No Light

 
Illustration of TrES-2b
About the size of Jupiter.

The newfound gas-giant planet TrES-2b is black with a slight red glow, 
experts estimate.


Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet, dubbed TrES-2b, is heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit 
(980 degrees Celsius).
 


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Thursday, August 18, 2011

DSOM Post Texas and Antarctica Were Attached, Rocks Hint






About 1.1 billion years ago, what are now El Paso, Texas, and Antarctica appear to have existed side by side, scientists say.

The find is part of a decades-long effort to piece together fragments of an ancient supercontinent that existed before Pangaea.

 
 
 
 

 
 
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

MC2's DSOM Post We Don't Need No Stinkin Soil?




From:  http://news.cnet.com 

Someone Must have read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.


Tomatoes, Melons, Cucumbers Grown 
on Thin Films

Who needs soil when you can grow crops on film? Japan's Mebiol is growing a Garden of Eden of sorts on its thin hydro-membranes, which are only microns thick.

As the vid below shows, the firm's Integrated Membrane Culture, or IMEC (PDF), is a technology for farming using a substrate that's made from hydrogels. No soil is needed, as the plants absorb water and nutrients from the film.










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Saturday, April 16, 2011

DSoM Post Nasa Sky-Map Data's Stellar Spectacular









Nasa has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with internet access to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects.

Nasa launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which carried an infrared telescope, in December 2009 to scan the cosmos in finer detail than previous missions. The spacecraft, known as WISE, mapped the sky one and a half times during its 14-month mission, snapping more than 2.5 million images from its polar orbit.



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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

DSOM Post Engineered Mice Make Better Choices

From:  http://www.technologyreview.com

 
 
A study links the creation of new neurons with improved cognitive abilities.




 
 

 
 

 
 
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

DSoM Post Seeing Earth's Gravity in Unprecedented Detail

Best View Yet of Global Gravity

Link;  http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1AK6UPLG_index_0.html


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Saturday, March 12, 2011

DSoM Post Is Fusion Generation Just Around The Corner and UpState

From:  http://physicsworld.com

Laser Heats Up Fusion Quest



The Target Chamber at the National Ignition Facility


Physicists at the $3.5bn National Ignition Facility (NIF) say they have taken an important step in the bid to generate fusion energy using ultra-powerful lasers. By focusing NIF's 192 laser beams onto a tiny gold container, researchers have achieved the temperature and compression conditions that are needed for a self-sustaining fusion reaction – a milestone that they hope to pass next year



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From:  http://physicsworld.com

Phase-Change Memory Becomes More Portable



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From:  http://physicsworld.com

PAMELA Data Challenge Cosmic-Ray Theory



Scientists in the European collaboration PAMELA say they have evidence that challenges the current theory of how cosmic rays are accelerated through the universe.





Link:  http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/45322




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Friday, March 11, 2011

DSoM Post 'Supermoon' Moves Closer to Earth: Rock The Week




The moon will pass within just 221,567 miles of the earth next week.

'Supermoon' Moves Closer to Earth

Will Arrive Next Week and be the Closest to the Earth 
in Decades.



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Thursday, March 3, 2011

DSoM Post: Where's Tyche, the 9th Planet?





"Looking Through the Clouds of Information, Wingman 
probes the pundits questions:"



On February 14th, the UK's Daily Mail reported the possible discovery of a planet four times bigger than Jupiter and lurking in the outer solar system. From there, the story quickly spread like a wildfire on the Internet, seeing coverage by mainstream outlets including the Huffington Post and TIME online. The tone of various news stories varied from “Tyche, Giant Hidden Planet, May Exist In Our Solar System” (The Huffington Post) to “Astronomers Question Existence of Solar System's Mystery Planet Tyche” (Fox News). 

 
So, is there Really a New Planet Lying Out There?

 
 

 
168 Characters....Use the 26:

 
 



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Monday, February 28, 2011

DSoM Post: NASA Goes to the Cloud with Ubuntu's Help

From:  http://www.linuxfordevices.com





NASA Backed Open Cloud Platform rev'd, 
Tapped by Ubuntu








Open source cloud computing platform OpenStack -- backed by NASA and Rackspace -- announced a second release codenamed "Bexar," offering stability enhancements, IPv6 support, internationalization, and more hypervisors. Meanwhile, Canonical will bundle OpenStack in its upcoming Ubuntu Linux 11.04, and announced a separate cloud-related deal with OpenStack partner Dell.

Canonical also publicly announced it will support OpenStack, another open-source cloud operating system, backed by Rackspace and NASA, in Ubuntu 11.04, Server Edition, expected in April.



Smarter Heads are in the Clouds
 

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

DSoM Post Listening to the Universe with LOFAR

From:  http://science.slashdot.org
 
 
LOFAR Is the Largest Telescope on Earth




 
There lives a brand new piece of Europe's already-massive Low Frequency Radio Array radio telescope: a clever EU-wide installation that uses low-tech antennas and supercomputer-power data processing to transform into a giant mega-telescope, absorbing cosmic radio waves from the full sky.

 

From:  http://www.motherboard.tv





 
 

 
 

 
 
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Saturday, February 5, 2011

DSOM Post NASA Spots 54 Potentially Life-Friendly Planets

From:  http://abcnews.go.com



54 Life-Friendly Planets ???



 
 



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Friday, January 28, 2011

DSOM Post Going Into A Controlled Spin

From :  http://www.newscientist.com




Spinning Seeds Inspire 

Single-Bladed Helicopters




127 Characters vs 26.  Do the Math.


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