Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
I just saw a piece on Wired about the discovery of a planet that's actually cool enough to have a composition and history similar to the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn in our own solar system. Not only that, it's orbit is such that it passes between it's star ...
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
I just saw a post on the University of California Irvine website that shows a possible link between people that have a genetic variant that causes their brains to produce less of a "brain-derived neurotrophic factor". Some 30 percent of Americans have this variant gene.
I guess that means that ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
That sounds like a really catchy headline doesn't it? In fact, it's even better than the one used on a recent slashdot article "Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over. In either case, on the surface they both look like the science boys have determined that life on ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
I guess it had to happen sooner or later. An article in The Register is now doing it's level best to make sure that people are now worried about the possibility of a solar radiation storm severe enough for them to call it a "Space Katrina".
The article starts right ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
I just read a news release from Lawrance Livermore Labs about how they're all exited about being able to create "billions" of Anti-Matter particles in a laboratory environment.
In terms of anti-matter research and moving our understanding of physics and the universe forward, this is pretty cool. In terms of ...
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