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 msnbc.com | Glitch found in faster-than-light setup msnbc.com The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso experiment sends muon neutrinos through a tunnel at the French-Swiss border in the direction of a detector in Italy, more than 450 miles away. By Alan Boyle Months after researchers reported that they measured neutrinos ... Not so fast: Loose wire led to stunning, faster-than-light particle finding OPERA grabs spanner, fixes kit, and slows down neutrinos Einstein Was Right All Along: 'Faster-Than-Light' Neutrino Was Product of Error |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 10:05 pm
 Scientific American | New Family of Limbless Amphibians Discovered in India Scientific American By Daniel Cressey and Nature magazine | February 22, 2012 An entirely new family of amphibians has been discovered hiding in the soils of northeastern India. In total, seven new species of these limbless, soil-dwelling and rather ugly creatures were ... Chikilidae, new family of legless, underground amphibians, found in India Holy crap, does this worm-like amphibian lay terrifying eggs New Family of Creepy Worm-Like Amphibians Discovered in India |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:56 pm
 BBC News | Scientist Admits Taking, Leaking Think-Tank Papers ABC News In the field of climate science, when someone — especially skeptics — did something ethically questionable or misrepresented facts, scientist Peter Gleick was usually among the first and loudest to cry foul. He chaired a prominent scientific society's ... Fakegate Illustrates Global Warming Alarmists' Deceit and Desperation Climate Scientist Admits To Lying, Leaking Documents Fresh scandal embroils US climate science debate |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:47 pm
 New York Daily News | Super-hot 'waterworld' is an entirely new class of planet DVICE By Kevin Hall According to astronomer Zachory Berta, "GJ1214b is like no planet we know of." That's because a "huge fraction" of the planet is made up of water — a concept that's hard to drink in when one considers the fact that GJ1214b is a scant 1.3 ... Distant 'water-world' confirmed Hubble's 'waterworld' discovery: A new type of planet Scientists find an alien world 'like no planet we know of' |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:04 pm
 msnbc.com | Hope they packed a trunk: 7-million-year-old elephant footprints found in ... Alaska Dispatch The world's oldest elephant tracks have now been revealed, 7-million-year-old footprints in the Arabian Desert, researchers say. These prehistoric footsteps, likely the work of some 13 four-tusked elephant ancestors, are the earliest direct evidence of ... Scientists discover vast field of footprints from 8-million-year-old elephant herd In the Steps of Ancient Elephants Elephants in Arabia? Scientists find prehistoric footprints. |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:04 pm
 TG Daily | Spitzer spots first solid buckyballs in stellar disc Register The first solid “buckyball” Carbon-60 molecules have been spotted forming a ring around a star 6500 light-years away, according to data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. A new paper reports a pair of stars called "XX Ophiuchi," with what looks like ... NASA finds space buckyballs in solid form Tiny 'Soccer Ball' Space Molecules Could Equal 10000 Mount Everests Researchers Discover Solid-State Buckyballs In Space |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 9:03 pm
 UPI.com | Study: Tsunami debris not radioactive risk UPI.com Debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan won't present a radiation threat when it reaches US shores this year, researchers say. April 15 file photo. UPI/Keizo Mori CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Debris from the March ... Path of tsunami debris mapped out Tsunami debris is nuke free Radioactive or Not, Tsunami Debris Could Seriously Impact US's, Canada's West ... |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 8:55 pm
 BBC News | Local man reflects on love of space, current job at Space X WNDU-TV It was fifty years ago this week that John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American in space. Today, the manned space program is idle, the shuttle program is over, and the only ride into space for American astronauts is with the Russians. Godspeed John Glenn: 50 Years Since First US Orbit Video: 50th Anniversary of Friendship 7 Orbit Fifty years after John Glenn's flight, US needs a new space ride |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 8:40 pm
 Christian Science Monitor | NASA's dazzling northern lights launch aims to study 'space weather' Christian Science Monitor The two-stage suborbital rocket was part of a NASA-funded study into how the northern lights can affect signals from GPS satellites and other spacecraft. By SPACE.com Staff / February 22, 2012 A fisheye photo taken by an automated camera near the ... Studying northern lights, solar storms are focus of latest NASA mission Best photos: Rocket explores northern lights over Alaska Rocket sent into northern lights for GPS research |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 8:07 pm
 BBC News | Male Y chromosome extinction theory challenged BBC News By Neil Bowdler Science and health reporter, BBC News Previous research has suggested the Y sex chromosome, which only men carry, is decaying genetically so fast that it will be extinct in five million years' time. A gene within the chromosome is the ... Genetic Maker of Men, Though Diminished, Is Holding Its Ground Reports of Looming Male Extinction Exaggerated Genes and gender: new shots fired on the Y front |
Posted: February 22, 2012, 6:41 pm