Researchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.
The team made their discovery in the ancient rocks of Nili Fossae.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10790648
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A US “atom smasher” may get three more years of life in order to continue its hunt for the so-called God particle.
The Tevatron accelerator could now remain operational until 2014, as physicists there now think the Higgs boson is within their reach.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10733747
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Chances are good that if someone walked into your office right now and peeked over your shoulder, they would see a Windows operating system on your computer. But, did you know that you have a choice of something other than Windows for that computer on your desk, and that you have the same choice for the servers in your data center?
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Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.
Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems.
These “electro-chemical signals” are carried by cells that act as “nerves” of the plants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10598926
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Charley Boorman is an actor, adventurer and a writer. He is also dyslexic.
He says it was his father, the film director John Boorman, who spotted the signs – not his teachers, who wrote him off.
“At the time when I was going to school in Ireland people didn’t really have a clue about what it was, so I had to spend a lot of my time trying to explain to teachers what dyslexia meant.”
Frustrated in class, he played the clown he says.
“I found I was being pushed to one side and I was being ear-marked as being thick, which is a very damaging thing to be told as a young kid,” he says, laughing.
“(They said) you’re thick and you’ll not amount to much.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10553942
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A German zoo has turned down a “transfer request” from Spain for its star performer during the football World Cup – Paul the “psychic” octopus.
The cephalopod correctly predicted the outcome of all of Germany’s seven matches in the tournament, and also plumped for Spain to lift the trophy.
This made him an instant hero in Spain, and now Madrid’s Zoo says it wants to put Paul on display in its aquarium.
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Physicists have moved to quash rumours that the elusive Higgs boson – dubbed the God particle – has been detected by a US “atom smasher”.
A spokesman for the lab which operated the Tevatron accelerator denied scientists had made a discovery there.
The Tevatron, based at Fermilab in Illinois, is the US rival to Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The rumours were made public in a blog post by an Italian particle physicist.
But a spokesman for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) told BBC News: “There is no merit to the rumours of a Higgs discovery.”
On Tuesday, the laboratory’s Twitter feed said: “Let’s settle this: the rumours spread by one fame-seeking blogger are just rumours. That’s it.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10625172
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“Like it or not, this [demand for openness] indicates a transformation in the way science has to be conducted in this century.” That, say many, will be the lasting legacy of the independent review published last week into the controversial emails between climate scientists that were stolen from the University of East Anglia and posted online.
Scientists were cleared, as expected, of any fiddling of the figures to exaggerate the case for global warming. But the review heavily criticised them and the university for consistently blocking access to data and failing to recognise the risk such secrecy posed to the “credibility of UK climate science”.
True – enough – but is anyone really being open and real in this current situation? Lots of rhetoric and fine words, but the true nature of the situation is yet to be revealed… few have seen it from a far … some experience it from within… many see it coming to pass… ALL will see it in the end….
All I can say is read the article and keeping looking at the world around you- connect it with everything else you see.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/11/climategate-muir-russell-review
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