Nature eases chafing on a tectonic level:
Researchers drilling deep into the San Andreas fault in California report in today’s Nature the presence of talc inside a relatively sedate section of the famous fault. This seems to explain why this region of the fault typically creeps slowly to relieve stress, rather than experiencing the abrupt slips that cause [...]
Researchers Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz have told New Scientist (and other sources) that they’ve broken the light barrier, sending photons faster than the speed of light.
They say:
We have reported about superluminal signal velocities in photonic tunnelling. It was observed that the superluminal photonic tunnelling time data measured in [...]
There’s been some press lately about studies that show a correlation between marijuana smoking and psychosis – as in, smoke dope, increase your risk of developing psychotic symptoms.
But there hasn’t been much mention that cigarettes can be worse.
Apparently, it could be something to do with the act of smoking moreso than what’s being smoked.
PhysOrg blows our minds with the discovery that our skeletons are actually endocrine glands:
Karsenty and his colleagues had previously shown that leptin, a hormone released by fat cells, acts upon and ultimately controls bone mass. They reasoned that bones must in turn communicate with fat, so they searched bone-forming cells for molecules that could potentially send signals back [...]
Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis… is a 1783 edition of a book of anatomical poses written by Bartolomeo Eustachi and illustrated by Giulio de’Musi in 1552.
from the National Institutes of Health’s “Dream Anatomy” exhibition.
I think this fellow looks somewhat dapper, even without his skin.
From New Scientist comes a fun story about prehistoric bacteria being brought back to life by meddling scientists:
Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, and his colleagues extracted DNA and bacteria from ice found between 3 and 5 metres beneath the surface of a glacier in the Beacon and Mullins valleys of Antarctica. The ice gets [...]
Moller International, a company that’s been trying to market flying cars for a long while now, has finally made its breakthrough, reports LiveScience:
[I]t looks like flying saucer but it’s really a car-sized hovercraft intended to fly no higher than 10 feet.
Called the M200G from Moller International of Davis, CA, the craft is supported by the [...]
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