Prions may hold key to stem cell function

New Scientist Breaking News - Prions may hold key to stem cell function

Unbelieveable ....

Earwax tied to genes, underarm odor

United Press International - NewsTrack - Earwax tied to genes, underarm odor

When I studied genetics I could have sworn I was told there were 3 or 4 types of earwax .... Oh Well .... :)
NYT version HERE.

Torn Cartilage? Stem Cells May Be Future Therapy

Torn Cartilage? Stem Cells May Be Future Therapy - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today

>>> "glossy white, well-integrated, repaired tissue" <<< ... Now THAT's What I'm Talkin' 'Bout !! .... :)

Study Strengthens Link between Virus and Weight Gain

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Study Strengthens Link between Virus and Weight Gain

The thing that frightens me at the moment about this ... is that somebody might get the *bright* idea to fatten farm animals up with these various viruses ... thus increasing the worldwide viral load of these specific pathogens, plus exposure to humans.

Ethanol More Energy Efficient Than Thought, Study Says

Ethanol More Energy Efficient Than Thought, Study Says

This LINK shows the E85 fuel I saw on TV today. I wasn't aware you could burn ethanol in vehicles, at up to 85% ethanol. The typical blends available today, are much lower percentage.

Challenger's lessons prove elusive

USATODAY.com - Challenger's lessons prove elusive

Tragic .... Saturday marks 20 years .....

Russian Rocket Builder Aims for Moon Base by 2015, Reports Say

SPACE.com -- Russian Rocket Builder Aims for Moon Base by 2015, Reports Say

Helium-3 miners ... I'm not going to hold my breath, on this one ....

Scientists Find Black Hole's 'Point of No Return'

Scientists Find Black Hole's 'Point of No Return'

Evidence for an event horizon, ..... comes from not seeing something .... :)

Physicists Discover an Atomic Oddity

Physicists Discover an Atomic Oddity

Yeah .. the Oddity is NOT the guy in the picture ...... ;-)

He helped discover a new form of radiation ... OR Ra - Di - A - TION ... as Scotty might put it ... ;-)

South Pole Neutrino Detector Could Yield Evidences of String Theory

South Pole Neutrino Detector Could Yield Evidences of String Theory

Probing possible hidden dimensions ... Cool ....

Mystery of metallic glass is cracked

Mystery of metallic glass is cracked

It's glass ...it's metal .. it's ..

Sony to stop producing AIBO, the robot dog

Sony to stop producing AIBO, the robot dog

Sad ...

Bird Flu Genes Decoded; New Clue to How It Kills

Bird Flu Genes Decoded; New Clue to How It Kills

Based on this study, scientists have found a molecular pathway in avian viruses that doesn't appear in human viruses. It is a protein that bonds to human cell proteins. This theoretically, may allow them to shut down chemical pathways in human cells, in order to inflict their damage and replicate.

Crocodile ancestor found in New York museum storage

Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk

Two-legged crocodile ancestor ... hmmm ...

Scientists 'microlens' Earth-like exoplanet

Scientists 'microlens' Earth-like exoplanet | The Register

It has 5.5 times as much mass, as the Earth .... not 5 X bigger than ....
And if were a TWIN to Earth .. it is a COLD twin, at about -200 Celsius.

Medieval graves found during dig

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Leicestershire | Medieval graves found during dig

(Thanks K-Man for this one ...)
... 1300 medieval skeletons found in the abandoned cemetery ....

A grisly secret about the church in the article (snipped):
Mr Buckley added: "In the 14th Century, a bell-ringer turned up late for Christmas Eve and he was murdered by the vicar.

"He stabbed him in the head with a knife and killed him."

Black Hole Puts Dent In Space-time

Black Hole Puts Dent In Space-time - Yahoo! News

This is the kind of anomaly that can cause great leaps in scientific thinking, when they are figured out.

This black hole, was caught emanating stable x-ray emissions at 450 Hz and also 300 Hz ... NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE .... Once in 1996, and again in 2005. Both frequencies! Black holes typically chug down material, in a spasmodic and chaotic manner, and that is exactly how they emit x-rays. The frequency and luminosity of the x-rays vary widely, over short periods of time.
The stable frequencies are probably caused by bent spacetime, known as "frame dragging", and will tell us things about the black hole's mass and rate of spin.
I don't think however, that this explains how the accretion disk gets gobbled up, in only a few months time.

Why Features Don't Matter Any More

Why Features Don't Matter Any More

Brilliant article .....

Mars rovers' next stop: IMAX

USATODAY.com - Mars rovers' next stop: IMAX

For those of you with New York Times free registration .... HERE.

I didn't know that Steve Squyres' brother edited the film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which he got an Oscar nomination.

World's smallest fish discovered in peat bog

Scotsman.com News - International - World's smallest fish discovered in peat bog

The tiny fish is only 31% of an inch long (female, that is).

Google, Sun, others band to fight spyware, adware

Google, Sun, others band to fight spyware, adware | CNET News.com

MY HEROES !!!!!!!!!!!! ...... :)

My Heroes hang out here ....... and CRUSH BADWARE !!
http://www.stopbadware.org/

Users react to IBM instant messaging plans, give it a :-)

Users react to IBM instant messaging plans, give it a :-) - Computerworld

Sounds like a Good Thing ...

Hurricanes help stop West Nile virus

Hurricanes help stop West Nile virus

A small positive at last ....

Blood stem cell discovery is announced

Blood stem cell discovery is announced

A Boost Indeed .....

British wireless technology rocks Russia

British wireless technology rocks Russia

Oh that last line .... :)

Snow on Mars Created Glaciers Near Equator

SPACE.com -- Snow on Mars Created Glaciers Near Equator

Yes ... but WHY did Mars axis have a 45-degree axial tilt, several million years ago .... and WHAT caused it to change to it's present tilt? ....

AMD looks to quintuple CPU cache capacity

AMD looks to quintuple CPU cache capacity | Channel Register

More Cache for basically same Cash ... Sounds Good.. :)

Spacecraft heads for Pluto, taking along its discoverer's ashes

Spacecraft heads for Pluto, taking along its discoverer's ashes - World

Wasn't aware of that little tidbit ...

Critical space junk threshold approaching

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Critical space junk threshold approaching

Computers aren't the only things that ping each other ..... :-/

Satugo the worlds first Bouncing ball camera

:::: Satugo the worlds first Bouncing ball camera ::::

I luv it !! .......... :)

Konica Minolta Exits Camera Market

ABC News: Konica Minolta Exits Camera Market

I was shocked when I heard about this on TV today ... didn't see it coming ...

Planetary Society Pays Close Attention to Pluto Mission

VOA News - Planetary Society Pays Close Attention to Pluto Mission

I'm still amazed that this thing streaked past the Moon in 9 hours --- 8 times faster than the Apollo astronauts made it to the Moon .....

Keene's police computers clash with Dunkin' Donuts system

Keene's police computers clash with Dunkin' Donuts system - Boston.com

NO DONUTS FOR YOU !! .............. :)

Stardust Canister Opened: 'A Huge Success'

SPACE.com -- Stardust Canister Opened: 'A Huge Success'

They even have one speck of comet dust, that is about 1mm. I think the recovery FAR exceeds expectations.

California home to 27 new species

CNN.com - California home to 27 new species - Jan 18, 2006

Orange harvestman is this article ....

Click for Scorpion pix HERE.

Super-powerful new ion engine revealed

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Super-powerful new ion engine revealed

If the article is not mistaken about the 210 Kilometers per SECOND .... then this means the ions leave this engine at close to 470,000 mph ......... Whoosh !! .......... :)

Eon of dust storms traced to asteroid smash

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Eon of dust storms traced to asteroid smash

Amazing! ... Scientists determine that a family of 300 asteroids, called the Veritas, were formed by a collision with another asteroid 8.2 million years ago. They did this by running a computer model that calculated the gravitational orbits ..... only they ran it in reverse, until the 300 objects coalesced into a single object.
The date was verified by taking ocean sediment samples, and finding a layer of sediment 8.2 million years old, that was laden with Helium-3, an isotope that is extremely rare on Earth. It is 100 million times more common in interplanetary dust, because it is generated by the solar wind coming from the sun.
This dust shower, created by the Veritas origination, rained down on Earth, and Earth's oceans, for 1.5 million years.
Scientists found another Helium-3 rich layer in the sediments, that was 35 million years old. They have yet to home in on the origin of this layer.

Exercise linked to big drop in dementia risk

New Scientist Breaking News - Exercise linked to big drop in dementia risk

Good reason to get regular exercise ...........

Gigantic ancient pyramid in Europe managed to escape experts’ notice

The Columbus Dispatch - Science

Well, I guess it's easy to see how a 2,120 foot tall pyramid, four times as tall as the Great Pyramid of Egypt could go undetected in Europe .... What? ...Huh?

More Here. Picture Here.

Tokyo to get world's first 'maglev' elevator

CNN.com - Tokyo to get world's first 'maglev' elevator - Jan 17, 2006

Yeah ... but can it move sideways? ... ;-)

SlashDot analysis HERE.

Crater Drilling Declared Major Success: More Than A Mile-long Core Retrieved

Crater Drilling Declared Major Success: More Than A Mile-long Core Retrieved

This isn't boring at all .... OR IS IT?? ..... :)

Stardust releases capsule

CNN.com - Stardust releases capsule - Jan 15, 2006

Only a few hours now ......

Mini-galaxies may reveal dark matter stream

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Mini-galaxies may reveal dark matter stream


The alignment of these other satellite galaxies, in a plane perpendicular to that of our Milky Way galaxy's disk, is freaky-strange.

Same thing is happening in the Andromeda galaxy ...........

And how and why do galaxies move along dark matter filaments ??

Fast-spinning neutron star smashes speed limit

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Fast-spinning neutron star smashes speed limit

Spins faster than the law allows ....

Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

Too bad .. it appears a South African website beat me to the .....

GREEN HAM & EGGS

punchline .....

IBM, Sony, Toshiba start work on 32nm Cell

IBM, Sony, Toshiba start work on 32nm Cell | The Register

Time marches on ..... :)

Best Orion Nebula Image Ever Taken

Universe Today - Best Orion Nebula Image Ever Taken

Awesome Picture .... but somehow the math doesn't work out for this to be a GigaPixel image ... 18,000 X 18,000 .... is the size of the largest file available for download. You would need more like 31, 622 X 31,622 for GigaPixel resolution.

Milky Way Galaxy is warped and vibrating like a drum

Milky Way Galaxy is warped and vibrating like a drum

Nice graphic HERE with this other article to show the shape of the Milky Way.

'Mild' collision spawned Earth's moon

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - 'Mild' collision spawned Earth's moon

Hopefully, nobody will ever give me a "mild" whack to the head ... ;-)

North Star's Unseen Companion Photographed

SPACE.com -- North Star's Unseen Companion Photographed

Wonderful, the things we can see, that the Ancients had no idea about ......

Hasselblad Launches World's First 39 Megapixel DSLR Camera & Camera Backs

Hasselblad Launches World's First 39 Megapixel DSLR Camera & Camera Backs | Digital Camera Review

Amazing Camera! ...

Tried to post this two days ago .... oh well ....

Earliest Maya Writing Found in Guatemala, Researchers Say

Earliest Maya Writing Found in Guatemala, Researchers Say

Most Interesting ...

Study: Cats have more than 9 lives, and plenty of cousins

USATODAY.com - Study: Cats have more than 9 lives, and plenty of cousins

So ... all cats had a common ancestor 10 million years ago. Puurrfect ....... :)

$11 billion judgment awarded in spam case

$11 billion judgment awarded in spam case - Security - MSNBC.com

Too little and too late .... but it's a good start!! .... ;-)