Basically, they use the same process that some animals use to regenerate limbs to regenerate their entire bodies from adult to juvenile stages. Weird. Maybe one day they can genetically engineer humans to do this.
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This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe.
The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the "oldest light" in the cosmos.
It took the 600m-euro observatory just over six months to assemble the map.
It shows what is visible beyond the Earth to instruments that are sensitive to light at very long wavelengths - much longer than what we can sense with our eyes.
Researchers say it is a remarkable dataset that will help them understand better how the Universe came to look the way it does now.
"It's a spectacular picture; it's a thing of beauty," Dr Jan Tauber, the European Space Agency's (Esa) Planck project scientist, told BBC News.
Dominating the foreground are large segments of our Milky Way Galaxy.
The bright horizontal line running the full length of the image is the galaxy's main disc - the plane in which the Sun and the Earth also reside.
Wow that's crazy high resolution compared to the last survey:
Hopefully they find something interesting once they take out all the interference from the galaxy, galaxy's rotation, solar system's movement, earth's rotation and revolution, etc.
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LONDON – Ancient man ventured into northern Europe far earlier than previously thought, settling on England's east coast more than 800,000 years ago, scientists said. It had been assumed that humans — thought to have emerged from Africa around 1.75 million years ago — kept mostly to relatively warm tropical forests, steppes and Mediterranean areas as they spread across Eurasia.
But the discovery of a collection of flint tools some 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of London shows that quite early on man braved colder climes. "What we found really undermines traditional views about how humans spread and reacted to climate change," said Simon Parfitt, a University College London researcher. "It just shows how little we know about the movement out of Africa."
For some reason that article made me think of this..
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The following is not a futuristic scenario. It is not science fiction. It is a demonstration of the capabilities of GIS to model the results of an extremely unlikely, yet intellectually fascinating query: What would happen if the earth stopped spinning? ArcGIS was used to perform complex raster analysis and volumetric computations and generate maps that visualize these results.
Not really science, but neat.
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I was going back and forth with this one, since its science but does take some comments against religious belief. But then again, its Carl and listening to him is soothing for some reason.
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The simple procedure causes the modified mice to reject the advances of their male counterparts and attempt to mate with fellow females.
Researchers found that disabling the FucM gene – which influences the levels of oestrogen to which the brain is exposed – caused the mice to behave as if they were male as they grew up.
What I don't understand is why all these gay mice would CHOOSE to disable their FucM gene like that.
Don't they realize that doing so is IMMORAL?!?
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I was going back and forth with this one, since its science but does take some comments against religious belief. But then again, its Carl and listening to him is soothing for some reason.
Thank God for Carl Sagan.
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So, science finally found the god particle, eh? Now that science has proved that god exists in particle form, I guess that settles all those silly religious debates. Checkmate, athiests!
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So... what would discovering the Higgs boson mean?
Would it revolutionize anything? Or just confirm what has been predicted?
I'm a moron when it comes to physics.
It would answer a lot of questions, and probably lead to even more questions. It will prove some scientific theories correct and make other ones obsolete.
I hope that answers your question.
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So... what would discovering the Higgs boson mean?
Would it revolutionize anything? Or just confirm what has been predicted?
I'm a moron when it comes to physics.
from Wikipedia, pretty good explanation:
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The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalarelementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model in particle physics. At present there are no known elementary scalar (spin-0) particles in nature, although many composite spin-0 particles are known. The existence of the particle is postulated as a means of resolving inconsistencies in current theoretical physics, and attempts are being made to confirm the existence of the particle by experimentation, using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Other theories exist that do not anticipate the Higgs boson, described elsewhere as the Higgsless model.
The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle that has not been observed and is thought to be the mediator of mass.Experimental detection of the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass in the universe. The Higgs boson would explain the difference between the masslessphoton, which mediates electromagnetism, and the massive W and Z bosons, which mediate the weak force. If the Higgs boson exists, it is an integral and pervasive component of the material world.
Arguments based on the Standard Model suggest the mass of the Higgs is below 1.4 TeV. Therefore the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which became operational on November 20, 2009,[1] is expected to provide experimental evidence of the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson. Experiments at Fermilab also continue previous attempts at detection, albeit hindered by the lower energy of the Fermilab Tevatron accelerator, although it theoretically has the necessary energy to produce the Higgs boson. It has been reported that Fermilab physicists suggest that the odds of the Tevatron detecting the Higgs boson, if indeed it exists, are between 50% and 96%, depending on its mass.[2]
Finding the Higgs as predicted would actually be about the most boring outcome of all of this.. it wouldn't help advance the current models at all, it would just confirm another puzzle piece. But we know the current models aren't sufficient to explain other things so a more exciting result would be to not find the Higgs at all, or find it but find something not quite the same, something that would upset the apple cart a bit and give an idea of where to look to find the next big advance.
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