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1961, Soviet surgeon removes his own Appendix In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica. The 12 men inside were cut off from the outside world by the polar winter by March of that year. In April, the 27-year-old Rogozov began to feel ill, very ill.
Scientists in the US produced a clutch of antihelium particles, the antimatter equivalents of the helium nucleus, after smashing gold ions together nearly 1bn times at close to the speed of light. The discovery of antihelium at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven national laboratory in New York will aid the search for exotic phenomena in the distant universe, including antimatter versions of stars and even galaxies. Antimatter looks and behaves like normal matter but has one crucial difference: particles of antimatter have an equal and opposite charge to those that make up the world around us. When antimatter meets matter, the two annihilate one another, leaving nothing but a burst of energy. Researchers at the US laboratory recorded 18 antihelium particles that survived for about 10 billionths of a second before they crashed into the collider's detector and vanished in the tiniest of fireballs.
US scientists get glimpse of antihelium | Science | The Guardian
Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? - Global One TV
In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them.
UK scientists invent artificial petrol - Business News - Manufacturing Digital
Boffins at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Oxford have invented an ‘artificial’ petrol, which costs just 90 pence per gallon and could run in existing cars. Professor Stephen Bennington, the project’s lead scientist, said: “In some senses, hydrogen is the perfect fuel. It has three times more energy than petrol per unit of weight, and when it burns, it produces nothing but water. It says: "Storing hydrogen up to now has required either high-pressure storage cylinders at up to 700 times atmospheric pressure or super-cooled liquids at -253 degree Celsius. “Neither is practical on a large scale as these hydrogen storage methods both require large amounts of energy to either pressurise or cool the hydrogen, and present significant safety risks." Stephen Voller, of Cellar Energy, which is developing the technology, said: “We have developed micro-beads that can be used in an existing gasoline or petrol vehicle to replace oil-based fuels.What does our home galaxy look like? Since we are located inside our galaxy, no one has ever been far enough away from it to see or photograph it. In this interesting video, Professor Merrifield, astronomer at the University of Nottingham , discusses a recent ESO press release (note that you can read it in a number of European languages) of what our galactic home, the Milky Way galaxy, looks like (probably), and its presumed galactic twin, NGC 6744. Professor Merrifield mentions another similarity between the Milky Way and NGC 6744; both galaxies have companions -- clumps of stars located near to the galaxy that are not part of it.
Milky Way's twin | Science | guardian.co.uk
A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory
Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see. A group of Spanish researchers reported today in Science that they may have stumbled upon a substance that could become the ultimate memory-enhancer. The group was studying a poorly-understood region of the visual cortex. They found that if they boosted production of a protein called RGS-14 (pictured) in that area of the visual cortex in mice, it dramatically affected the animals' ability to remember objects they had seen.
Researchers Discover the First Known Virus That Preys on Other Viruses | 80beats | Discover Magazine
Plitvice, a watery paradise in Croatia
In recent years, Croatia has changed from a relative unknown to one of the trendiest destinations in Europe . To a great extent this is due to the country's rocky littoral, which, washed by the Adriatic, is considered one of the most beautiful of the Mediterranean coastlines. Then there is the rich history and cultural heritage of medieval towns such as Dubrovnik, Split and Sibenik. But the well-deserved popularity also depends on the protected natural areas, which make up some ten per cent of the country's area . Eight areas enjoy national park status – a very high number for a relatively small country. Of these, Plitvice is the best known.
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Philosophy Bro: Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave": A Summary
"In fact, you get pretty good at understanding how the patterns in the show work, and everyone else chained up is like, 'Holy shit bro, how did you know that that tree was going to fall on that guy?' and you're like, 'It's because I fucking pay attention and I'm smart as shit.' You're the smartest of the chained, and they all revere you." "So eventually, someone comes and unchains you and drags you out of the cave. At first you'd say, 'Seriously, what the fuck is going on?!'
If there is one thing that is a great big pain in the ass when it comes to either setting up a new machine or rebuilding an existing computer it is having to (re)install all of your favorite applications. Well thanks to Tim Heuer I can offer you up a possible solution to that time consuming and watch the paint boring process. I was reading a post of Tim’s very early this morning , or perhaps very late last night, where he was talking about getting a laptop that he had just put a new drive into and the list of programs he considers to be the must have installed on any of his systems. As I looked over the list I saw an entry for something called Ninite and being the curious type I clicked through to have a look. Now it isn’t very often that something comes along that re-awakens the computer tech in me to the point where I have a .. well .. a nerdgasm but I gotta admit when I saw the Ninite page that is almost what happened.
If Windows users want to give themselves some lovin’ then you need Ninite : WinExtra
The Person and the Fighter; Inextricably Linked or Mutually Exclusive? | Bleacher Report
They say it requires a certain type of person to enter the cage. Or more specifically, it necessitates a certain type of psyche to be a fighter. Some scrappers suspect they are born with it (nature), others opine they develop it (nurture). Some state they were destined to be a fighter, while others offer different rationales for fighting.Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent when compared with conventional combustion engines. The engine has a rotor that's equipped with wave-like channels that trap and mix oxygen and fuel as the rotor spins. These central inlets are blocked off, building pressure within the chamber, causing a shock wave that ignites the compressed air and fuel to transmit energy. The Wave Disk Generator uses 60 percent of its fuel for propulsion; standard car engines use just 15 percent.