Cool Science Story Of The Day [Continuing Thread]

[rfloz]

I ran across this site while looking for a specific science article -
ScienceDaily: Latest Science News

It's free and covers material form a very wide array of scientific publications.

Essentially, it gives an abstract of a given article in lay terms, but also gives a link to the complete article. Some of the latter have restricted access, but many seem to be open to all and free.

[Rusty Heap]

Originally Posted by Aragorn

reminds me of this movie:

Fantastic Voyage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yup, good science right there and as a kid of the 60's, that was COOL special effects..........especially the antibodies on the tight wetsuit.


raquel welch fantastic voyage - Google Search

[Rusty Heap]

Our Sun in time lapse, 3 years filmed, into a short 3 minute video...


NASA | SDO: Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes - YouTube

[Aragorn]

Mars by 2030?

It's Time to Get Serious About Going to Mars, NASA Says

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Re: the 'nanobots' thing - a book by K. Eric Drexler -"Engines of Creation - The Coming Era of Nanotechnology" is/was a very interesting read for those interested in the field. A hard copy might prove a little tough to find as it was written 1986. I should re-read my paperback copy to see if & how some of his thoughts, ideas, & predictions have relevance & are in use today 27 years later.

Cheers
JB

[john70t]

thin film fexible solar - Google Search
Stick it anywhere. Vehicle panels. Roofs. Poles. Yard.
(But not where the sun don't shine.)

[onlycafe]

i like the idea of this.



Injectable Oxygen Keeps People Alive Without Breathing - PSFK

[Aragorn]

Originally Posted by onlycafe

i like the idea of this.



Injectable Oxygen Keeps People Alive Without Breathing - PSFK

There was a movie called The Abyss which featured a technique called liquid breathing.

Liquid breathing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not quite as cool as injectable oxygen though.

[scottmandue]

A tremendous explosion has occurred in the nearby universe and major telescopes across Earth and space are investigating. Dubbed GRB 130427A, the gamma-ray burst was first detected by the Earth-orbiting Fermi and Swift satellites observing at high energies and quickly reported down to Earth.

APOD: 2013 May 8 - Earth's Major Telescopes Investigate GRB 130427A

[jyl]

Treating cancer with radioactive bacteria: Three wrongs make a right | The Economist

Your body's immune system eliminates foreign cells including viruses and bacteria.

Cancer cells have immune-suppressing features, which allows them to grow and metastasize despite your immune system.

So, scientists thought, maybe the immune system won't eliminate bacteria around cancer cells.

Suppose that bacteria also attacked the cancer cells?

[Hawkeye's-911T]

BBC News - Monster radiation burst from Sun - Things could get kinda interesting with the solar max approaching.
Cheers
JB

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by onlycafe

i like the idea of this.

SCIENCE NEWS:

Raquel Welch Cloned and She Want to Take You on a Fantastic Sex Voyage!

fixed

[john70t]

7 man made substances that say **** physics - Imgur
Ferrofluids
Aerogel
Perfluorocarbons
Elastic Conductors
non-Newtonian liquid
Transparent Alumina
Carbon Nanotubes

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Bose–Einstein condensate - though it may not necessarily fit the definition of 'man-made' substances - it sure is something different. Webby should be weighing in on this.
Cheers
JB

[tharbert]

NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft in Jeopardy After Malfunction, Astronomers Say
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has been crippled by the failure of one of the reaction wheels that keep it pointed, the space agency is announcing this afternoon, according to astronomers close to the situation.
If engineers cannot restore the wheel or find some other way to keep the spacecraft’s telescope pointed, it could spell a premature end to one of the most romantic and successful of NASA’s missions: the search for Earth-like planets in habitable orbits around other stars. Just last month, astronomers reported that Kepler had found two planets only slightly larger than Earth orbiting in the “Goldilocks” zone, where liquid water is possible, of a star 1,200 light-years from here. More planet candidates, even smaller and closer to being Earth-like, lurk in the pipeline, astronomers say, but they have not yet been confirmed.

[RWebb]

here is a BIG one: Scientists used a cloning technique to reprogram an ordinary human skin cell to become an embryonic stem cell.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

BBC News - Rover radiation data poses manned Mars mission dilemma

This seems to confirm radiation dosage problem for future space travelers that has been often discussed.
Cheers
JB

[RWebb]

Dead squirrel found on Mars

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Careful Webby - Fox may just run with that!

[kiwiokie]

Originally Posted by RWebb

Dead squirrel found on Mars

Bloody squirrels get in everywhere.