lots of people are working on light extraction methods from LEDs .... lots of people ....

Wow - there are idiots all over this bbs.

We constantly live in a soup of bacteria and viruses.
Only a big nuke will get rid if these, temporarly.
Cancer is a genetic mutation which produces blood-greedy over-growth of normal cells in the wrong places at the wrong times.

Fight cancer with viruses:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/health/research/viruses-are-recruited-and-flipped-as-cancer-killers.html
"Unlike chemotherapy, which can diminish in effectiveness over time, oncolytic viruses multiply in the body and gain strength as the infection becomes established. In addition to attacking cancer cells directly, some also produce an immune response that targets tumors."

Good summary of life.

Bacteria processes compose and control most of our GI tract inside the thorasic peritoneum(food-->energy-->action).
They might influence through feedback mechanisms what the brain decides it wants to consume next.
They might influence future DNA reproduction based on intake.

Star Trek, eat your heart out.

While not exactly a cool science story - this is still interesting....

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Cheers
JB

Wow, he stuck it...

Looks like Bond may have a new option for his martini. Levitated... not stirred...

BBC News - Acoustic levitation: Chemical reaction lifted by sound

Nasa has released photos of the Earth and the Moon taken by a spacecraft orbiting Saturn - nearly a billion miles away

BBC News - Cassini probe takes image of Earth from Saturn orbit

Swedish men told to beware testicle-munching fish - Telegraph

This is not cool at all, but it is a science story.

Just to stir up the pot: global warming vis-à-vis climate change

BBC News - Esa's Cryosat mission observes continuing Arctic winter ice decline

Cheers
JB

INTERACTING GEARS SYNCHRONIZE PROPULSIVE LEG MOVEMENTS IN A JUMPING INSECT

Gears are found rarely in animals and have never been reported to intermesh and rotate functionally like mechanical gears. We now demonstrate functional gears in the ballistic jumping movements of the flightless planthopper insect Issus. The nymphs, but not adults, have a row of cuticular gear (cog) teeth around the More

Science 13 September 2013:
Vol. 341 no. 6151 pp. 1254-1256

Even cooler (literally and figuratively)...

Voyager now officially first man made interstellar object.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/index.html?c=homepage-t

+1 on that.
WAAAY COOL

You could use that for Star Treks "agony" booth.

I think a few minutes of network TV resonates at about the same frequency for me...

Researchers create lightsaber-like ‘photonic molecules’ | Science Recorder

A consortium of researchers from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, led by Harvard physics professor Mikhail Lukin and his MIT counterpart Vladan Vuletic, forced photons to bind together and form molecules into a state of matter that, until recently, had been purely theoretical.

“Most of the properties of light we know about originate from the fact that photons are massless, and that they do not interact with each other,” Lukin said. ”What we have done is create a special type of medium in which photons interact with each other so strongly that they begin to act as though they have mass, and they bind together to form molecules. This type of photonic bound state has been discussed theoretically for quite a while, but until now it hadn’t been observed.”

When the researchers fired two photons into the cloud, they were observed exiting together, as a single molecule

Strange Super-Earth Planet Has 'Plasma' Water Atmosphere
Strange Super-Earth Planet Has 'Plasma' Water Atmosphere