Exploding Stars Influence Climate Of Earth
A team at the Danish National Space Center has discovered how cosmic rays from exploding stars can help to make clouds in the atmosphere. The results support the theory that cosmic rays influence Earth’s climate.…
It is known that low-altitude clouds have an overall cooling effect on the Earth’s surface. Hence, […]
CNN
President Bush on Monday said North Korea’s claim that it has tested a nuclear weapon is a threat to international peace and said the world “will respond.””The transfer of nuclear weapons to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States,” Bush said. “And we would hold North Korea fully […]
Detroit Free Press
Pope Benedict XVI could announce as early as today that the Catholic Church is abandoning the ancient concept of limbo, a way station for babies barred from heaven because they were not baptized, according to unconfirmed reports circulating Thursday in Europe and elsewhere.
“It’s an idea whose time has passed,” the Rev. Thomas Reese, […]
As many of my readers know, the concept of Intelligent Design and how we could detect design as oppossed to random effects is one that fascinates me.
Earlier today, I was reading the about Lifeboat Foundation NanoShield (an interesting read, but not really important to this post) when the following scenario occurred to me (I make […]
Telegraph
Radical Muslims in France’s housing estates are waging an undeclared “intifada” against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were “in a state of civil war” with Muslims in […]
New Scientist Tech
Giving your digital camera a virus may not sound very smart, but a memory chip that incorporates millions of viruses may just be the fastest thing around.By coating 30-nanometre-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles, it’s possible to create a transistor with very fast switching speed. Millions of these transistors could […]
Sharon Begley presents an interesting hypothetical in Science Journal at WSJ.com:
You have 100 doses of a vaccine against a deadly strain of influenza that is sweeping the country, with no prospect of obtaining more. Standing in line are 100 schoolchildren and 100 elderly people.The elderly are more likely to die if they catch the flu. […]
Yahoo! News
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.
“Teleportation between two single atoms had been done two years ago by two teams but this was done at a […]
I have been trying to seperate the truth from the fiction in all of this, and decide how high the fault goes.
First, Rep. Foley deserves to be out of a job. Regardless of the legal status of what he did, it is plainly inappropriate to have that sort of relationship with a person that much […]
New York Times
North Korea announced today that it plans to conduct its first nuclear test, sharply escalating its standoff with the United States and setting off ripples of alarm in Japan and South Korea.Also today, an Iranian official proposed a new solution to the standoff over its nuclear program, suggesting that France create a consortium […]
