SCIENCE!: Things that make me say "wow"!

[dr_tectonic]

I've been spending the day wading through my inbox. I found a bunch of science news articles that make me say "wow!" (Read 'em quick, before the links rot...)

The universe is a "string-net liquid" aka, noodle soup.

There's enough water in the Martian ice caps to cover the planet 36 feet deep.

Caves on Mars, too.

You have a lot more than five senses.

Bee noises identify toxins.

Cassini has found seas on Titan.

Polymers that detect bacteria by glowing.

Microfluidic bubble computing.

Researchers in Israel are growing a date palm from a 2,000-year old seed

An ancient solar observatory in Peru.

We might have found a Higgs boson.

Superconducting materials may be heading towards the mainstream.

There's a chunk of crust missing on the ocean floor.

Louse genetics tells you when clothes were invented.

The YORP effect makes asteroids spin! (Worth it just for the name.)

Russian pogo boots!

Comments

[beartech420.livejournal.com]

thank you for the link on high temp superconductors looks like we are finally going to see real applications, that motor for the navy has been talked about for 10 years!
best regards,
pete

[nehrlich.livejournal.com]

Man, that's cool about the Higgs boson, but I'm bummed that it may support supersymmetry. Those theorist punks are going to be crowing about this, and I just won't be able to resist popping them one in the nose. Well, if I worked with any theorists, at least.

[(Anonymous)]

Are there really any theorists out there anyway? I thought they were just theoretical.

--G

[zalena.livejournal.com]

SCIENCE! Cool articles. Thanks for the links, even though it will take some time to read them.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Did you see the one where a guy illustrated one facet of the theory of relativity by taking his 3 kids and 3 of his cesium clocks up to the
top of a local mountain? Said it was the best 22 nanoseconds he'd
spent with his kids.