Science!!!

[FishMonger]

Interesting. If they could find a medical marker of a concussion, staff could probably keep guys off the ice (or field) until it clears.

...not that the players will like it short-term.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016...od-test-can-detect-injury-up-to-a-week-after/

 

[JWR]

Rouge Immune Cells may be the real cause of most brain disorders

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/...e-cells-that-wreck-the-brain/#/set/id/601184/

 

[JWR]

Mysterious pull on the Cassini probe may help pinpoint Planet 9

http://www.universetoday.com/128273/mysterious-pull-cassini-probe-may-help-find-planet-nine/

 

[jammer06]

[MENTION=14232]geogirl[/MENTION] may want to download this one

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3058435/how-a-geologist-designed-the-perfect-app-for-the-window-seat

 

[JWR]

Space X successfully lands rocket on an ocean barge

[video]http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/07/tech/nasa-spacex-launch-experiments-space-station-irpt/index.html[/video]

 

[geogirl]

[MENTION=14232]geogirl[/MENTION] may want to download this one

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3058435/how-a-geologist-designed-the-perfect-app-for-the-window-seat

Done! Already downloaded the map for my next trip. Thanks, jammer!

 

[notbob]

Shape-Shifting Drones Could Be Made from Metal-Foam Hybrid

 

[jammer06]

Shape-Shifting Drones Could Be Made from Metal-Foam Hybrid

I thought we already had aluminum foil though?

 

[notbob]

I thought we already had aluminum foil though?

Not sure how effective an aluminum foil drone would be

This is just the pre cursor to the T-1000

 

[notbob]

Watch a Terrifying Snake Use Its Phony Spider Tail To Lure in Prey

 

[ChilledAgua]

100,000,000 mph to Alpha Centauri (if Moore's Law continues to be applicable, and nanotechnology continues to advance).

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/stephen-hawking-wants-to-use-lasers-to-propel-a-tiny-spaceship-to-alpha-centauri/ar-BBrFFrt?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp

 

[VF]

If there are any welders reading this, take a number 12 or greater shade and go look at the sun, you should be able to see a pretty large sunspot. I don't ever recall being able to see a sunspot without magnification, but I'm not often in my backyard welding and happen a chance look up at the sun.

http://www.solarham.net/latest_imagery/hmi1.htm
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

[ChilledAgua]

Does the fridge light come on when black holes collide?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/weather/possible-light-flash-from-black-hole-collision-spotted/ar-BBs187s?form=PRHPTP&ocid=iehp

 

[orpheus]

How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/0...mind-clearing-magic-of-running.html?mid=wired

 

[Nyssa42]

Spiders and a Slovenian named Matjaz...and s e x.

Scientists Discover Oral Sexual Encounters in Spiders

 

[ChilledAgua]

Pop! goes the weasel (literally), and down goes the LHC.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pop-went-the-weasel-and-down-went-the-large-hadron-collider/ar-BBsqDtB?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp

 

[LetTigerIn]

Okay, not very science-y, but consider this a &$*#(&@! follow-up post.

 

[notbob]

Okay, not very science-y, but consider this a &$*#(&@! follow-up post.

You notice Kevin hasn't been seen since the original video?

 

[mrm55]

The two brothers have come to be known as the ?solar kids?. Aged nine and 13, the boys are normal active children during the day. But once the sun goes down, they both lapse into a vegetative state ? unable to move or talk.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/w...nt-move-or-talk-after-sundown?__lsa=f7db-8df8

 

[jammer06]

So theres another emdrive article up on yahoo

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explaining-emdrive-physics-defying-thruster-162741826.html

One thing i want to point out is all the dancing about peer reviewed information has been lacking. Its a dirty portion of the scientific world that the process of peer review can be strickingly political.
Basically all journals have an editorial board made up of scientists and engineers, any publisher worth his salt is going to run a quick pass to their contact to be sure the journal would be interested in sending their article out for review. This is where it gets sticky, no board is made up of altrustic guardians of true science, they are made up of fellow professors or program managers who are all vested in seeing their versions of whatever field they represent advance. They are not the least bit interested in revolutionizing a new field based on science they cannot build on and most certainly don't want to take the time to understand. Remember folks publishing are pushing the boundaries of most things and even things that are very close to a layman are distinctly different in the view of how a lab could reproduce the work. Nobody is going to reproduce the original work to verify it, they are going to reproduce it because they have an idea on how to take the original idea and do something else with it. Effectively what happens is there needs to be enough money floating around a concept that multiple labs chase the idea creating the peer review community, or you are going to have the equivalent of a jet mechanic reviewing how you think its better to drive a submarine by penguin **** and they quite frankly cant be bothered and they certainly dont want people getting excited enough to stop offering dollars for jet research and instead allocating some money into penguin **** or submarines.