Gamma-Ray Burst Leads Scientists to See Supernova in Action

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Gamma-Ray Burst Leads Scientists to See Supernova in Action

Really Cool when you KNOW a star is just about to go Supernova .... and you are waiting and watching for it!! ...

More HERE.

Google Offers Free Book Downloads

Google Offers Free Book Downloads - News by InformationWeek

Some pretty amazing stuff is to be found in these out-of-copyright books. I have already found books by Albert Einstein and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle .... :)
Sweet! ....


More HERE.

Cassiopeia A The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death

Cassiopeia A The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death

Absolutely Stunning new picture created from Hubble Space Telescope images ....

Bigger .. up to Enormous versions HERE.

Rare high-altitude clouds found on Mars

Rare highaltitude clouds found on Mars

Perhaps this could help explain some spectacular probe failures ...

NEC starts shipping image detection chips for cars

NEC starts shipping image detection chips for cars | TG Daily

Impressive ...

Reawakened 'executioner' makes cancer self-destruct

Reawakened 'executioner' makes cancer self-destruct - health - 27 August 2006 - New Scientist

Shortcut to apoptosis ... turns out some cancers have many times, more "bombs" inside them, than normal cells ...

More HERE and HERE.

New hope for treating obesity-related diabetes

New hope for treating obesity-related diabetes - health - 24 August 2006 - New Scientist

Good News on the Diabetes front ......

New treatment 'rescues' brains of Alzheimer's mice

New treatment 'rescues' brains of Alzheimer�s mice - health - 24 August 2006 - New Scientist

Good News on the Alzheimer's front ......

Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi

Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi: Digital Photography Review

Aha! NOW it is out! ... :)

More HERE.

Canon's 400D 10.1 megapixel DSLR

Canon's 400D 10.1 megapixel DSLR - Engadget

I was thinking the next step, would probably be to 10 Megapixels .... Oops! ... Looks like China has already pulled the webpage ... :)

Oh well, hours later ... and still not here ... so I guess we wait ...

Self-assembling nano-boxes show chemical control

Self-assembling nano-boxes show chemical control - tech - 21 August 2006 - New Scientist Tech

UNBELIEVEABLE .... Microscopic metal boxes that fold themselves up, when heated ....

Doctors test ways to spur knee cartilage to grow

Doctors test ways to spur knee cartilage to grow

Growing replacement cartilage for damaged knees .. Great News ...

Cosmic smash-up provides proof of dark matter

Cosmic smash-up provides proof of dark matter - space - 21 August 2006 - New Scientist Space

SO ... Long story short .. 100 Million years ago ... two galaxies smash into each other at 10.49 MILLION miles per hour .... Unleashing enough energy to vaporize the Earth ... ten trillion trillion times ..... the gas in each of these two galaxies (which exists in about a 10 X surplus to the star-matter in them) exerts a drag on each other, and is separated out ... while the stars and Dark Matter keep on moving their merry way.
Reason being ...... Electromagnetism doesn't affect Dark Matter AT ALL .
It does affect and slow gas.
Normal Baryonic matter only interacts with Dark Matter through exchanges mediated by gravitons, i.e. Gravity. This would tend to make sense. Photons are the mediators of electromagnetic force ... and Dark Matter seems not to emit or interact with photons.

More HERE ... and HERE.

Plant seeks to make landfills obsolete producing power from trash

AP Wire | 08/19/2006 | Plant seeks to make landfills obsolete producing power from trash

Melting and gassifying .... 6,000,000 lbs of garbage, a day ... Hope it works ... :)

Radical 'Ballistic Computing' Chip Bounces Electrons Around Like Billiards

Radical 'Ballistic Computing' Chip Bounces Electrons Around Like Billiards

I have seen the Future ... :) ..
............... Terahertz Computing ...

Xena's now a planet

Xena's now a planet - Science - Specials - smh.com.au

I sure hope Brown sticks with the name Xena ... :)

Xena ... Warrior Pluton .... ;-)

The IAU Draft Definition Of Planets And Plutons

Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years

Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years - Britain - Times Online

An UnExtinction Event, I suppose .. :)

Do you think we would do any better, the second time around? .....

This East Side tree does its own watering

MySA.com: Metro | State

Most Peculiar ... A tree in San Antonio, that waters itself ...

Backup Link.

Former TV talk show host Mike Douglas dies at 81

CTV.ca | Former TV talk show host Mike Douglas dies at 81

Sad news ... The passing of Mike Douglas on his 81st birthday ....


Mike Douglas was the best music/talk-show host, ever ...

He was my favorite ...

He taught me how to pronounce "Schwarzenegger" back in 1970. For the longest time, my father kept asking me ... "How do you say that name, again? ..." .. :) .

There were a lot of laughs, and entertainment ....

.......... "and that's not exactly chopped liver ..."

Riddle of infectious dog cancer solved

New Scientist Breaking News - Riddle of infectious dog cancer solved

The scientists say this cancer originated in a wolf, husky, or Shih Tzu, anywhere from 250 to 1000 years ago. Then it spread the DNA from the original dog, all over the face of the planet, like a wildfire.

These findings contradict current thinking about cancers. In most cancers, the cancer cells continue to mutate, and the chromosomes become more and more fragmented. However, in this case, the greatly disrupted chromosomes have reached a kind of steady-state which allows them to pass from generation to generation of dogs.

When I spotted this article, I knew I was going to mention the plight of the Tasmanian devils, and the spread, through their ranks of the facial cancers that are decimating their populations, but I see it was mentioned in the article.

Ancient Fossilized Embryos Imaged in 3D

LiveScience.com - Ancient Fossilized Embryos Imaged in 3D

Synchroton-radiation x-ray tomographic microscopy or SRXTM, looks to be an extremely exciting new method for imaging tiny fossils in 3D.
It has the capabilities of a medical CT scan, with about 3000 times the resolution! Details of less than one micron are illuminated. That's one millionth of a meter, or a thousandth of a millimeter, folks.... :)

Telescope to answer big questions with 42

Telescope to answer big questions with 42 | World Wide Weird | The Australian

This "Extremely Large Telescope" is really, my kind of telescope! ....

More HERE.

Reuters Pulls Doctored Photo

Reuters Pulls Doctored Photo - PopPhoto - August�2006

It begins ...

Reuters Suspends Photog, 2nd Employee Suspended for Death Threat

The Jawa Report: Reuters Suspends Photog, 2nd Employee Suspended for Death Threat

... THEN it gets worse ....

Reuters says second Lebanon picture was faked

Reuters says second Lebanon picture was faked - Press Gazette

... And THEN more is exposed ....


We here .... err ... Me here at the Deep Hal Bloggerific Bloggification Weblog, strive to ONLY use 100% doctored images in our news coverage ...... ;-)

Moon's odd bulge may betray a turbulent history

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Moon's odd bulge may betray a turbulent history

I especially like the line in the article, about how scary-clever Laplace was, in analysing the subtle wobbles in the Moon's spin and orbit, in 1799, and determining that there were variations in the Moon's gravity field.

Supernovae make dark matter bloat

New Scientist News - Supernovae make dark matter bloat

So the question IS: WHAT in a Supernova explosion, is pushing Dark Matter around? ....

Sensory illusions dazzle at graphics conference

New Scientist Tech - Breaking News - Sensory illusions dazzle at graphics conference

That "Morphovision" display really looks like a one-trick-pony, to me ...
Microsoft's Photosynth however ... I can't wait to see ... I really don't think it will be as well received as it could be ... simply because of it's concentration on being web-based. I don't think people will be eager to migrate a lot of their personal photos to the Internet, when it would be much better, to use the computing-power of your own computer, on locally-held files ...

Contour captures faces, avoids Uncanny Valley

Contour captures faces, avoids Uncanny Valley - Joystiq

An Amazing Breakthru! ...

More HERE.

Bees Can Predict Temperature in Flowers

LiveScience.com - Bees Can Predict Temperature in Flowers

Yesterday, ... when I was going to post this originally ... there was a LARGER picture of Shakira in one of the ads, off to the side ... and I WAS going to make a crack, about HOT .. and BEES .. and Shakira ... but not now ... ;-)

THIS does make perfect survival sense ... why burn energy to heat yourself, when you can consume the heat ...