A Thousand Oaks, Calif., doctor won the Ig Nobel medicine prize for his firsthand research into arthritis in fingers. As a child and in adulthood, Donald Unger's mother, several aunts, and mother-in-law warned him that cracking his knuckles would lead to arthritis in his fingers. To test that theory, he cracked the knuckles of his left hand, but not the right hand, every day for more than 60 years.
His conclusion? The cracking has no effect. (A chiropractor in San Francisco previously agreed with that notion in a very unscientific survey conducted by me.)
PASADENA, Calif. -- Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.
The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields. The new data were documented by near-Earth object scientists Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They will present their updated findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in Puerto Rico on Oct. 8.
"Apophis has been one of those celestial bodies that has captured the public's interest since it was discovered in 2004," said Chesley. "Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million."
The first is a well preserved find of suaropod footprints. This is the group of dinosaurs that include brachiosaurus and diplodocus...the giant 75 foot guys. Love dinosaurs even though I don't know much about them.
I always wonder how Noah got those guys on the ark.
Speaking of the Bible...Scientists apparently recreated the Shroud of Turin. The vatican doesn't claim it's authentic and I'm sure those that think it's authentic will still do so. Just find it interesting thet they may have figured out how it was made.
But the breakthrough didn't stop there. Once all of the tumour mutations of the developed cancer were identified – a total of 32 were found – scientists had the information to look back and see which of those mutations were present in the patient's original, primary tumour.
They discovered that only 11 of the 32 mutations were present in the original tumour, with only five of those present in all of the original cancer cells, meaning that even in the early stages, cancer cells aren't uniform. That's significant because it proves even from the outset, cancer cells contain different mutations which change over time.
A physicist at the facility that houses the world's largest particle collider in Switzerland has been arrested on suspicion of terror links, according to officials. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known by the French acronym CERN, said French officials arrested the man on Thursday in south-east France for suspected al-Qaeda links.
Is this proof that al-Qaeda is trying to have the earth swallowed by a black hole?
How could we possibly defend against this new weapon?
Holy crap, seriously run for your lives. Or hook me up.
Seriously creepy, using rat brain tissue no less. I guess the use would be to be hooked up as the brain that pilots a starship after your body is worn out, like in SciFi or would it be better to be a hologram.
