Observations: Faster-than-light electric currents could explain pulsars
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Jan 292010
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Jan 262010
Neanderthal woman could whup Schwarzenegger • The Register
An anthropologist has described modern man as “the sorriest cohort of
masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk the planet”, with even Arnold
Schwarzenegger at his muscular peak no match for a Neanderthal woman in
the arm-wrestling stakes.
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Scientists hope work with poison gas can be a lifesaver – CNN.com
…the sealed enclosure starts to fill with poison gas — hydrogen sulfide. An ounce could kill dozens of people.
The rat sniffs the air a few times, and within a minute, his naturally twitchy movements are almost still. …
At first glance, that looks bad. …[b]ut something else is going on inside this rat. He isn’t dead…
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Plutonium production site hosts radioactive rabbit poo – Short Sharp Science
The more we find out about the Hanford site in Washington, which the US used to make plutonium in the early stages of the cold war, the more it sounds like a 1950s sci-fi B-movie.
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Holographic principle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is fascinating, but a little hard to follow. If you’ve ever heard about the universe being a virtual representation of a brane interface or a boundary interface, this is the article that explains it. If you have no idea what im talking about, heres a teaser, in my own words:
>The information capacity of a black hole is equivalent to the surface area of the event horizon. In non degenerate (non-black-hole) space, information capacity is equivalent to volume. The event horizon is a third boundary that changes the capacity.
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A planet that rocks : Examiner.com
Imagine the following scenario:
You are preparing to leave for work, and shout down the hall to your significant other. “Honey, what’s the weather supposed to be like?”
And the reply: “50% chance of rock.”
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Oct 012009
KentuckyFC writes “The way radio signals vary in a wireless network can reveal the movement of people behind closed doors, say researchers who have developed a technique called variance-based radio tomographic imaging which processes wireless signals to peer through walls.
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A scientific scandal is casting a shadow over a number of recent peer-reviewed climate papers.
At least eight papers purporting to reconstruct the historical temperature record times may need to be revisited.
Treemometers: A new scientific scandal • The Register
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