Physicists discover "violation of a fundamental symmetry of the universe" @El Kabong: Not bunk, outdated. Think of each additional particle/force discovered as being a refinement. It happens all the time, in all aspects of science. The thing is, we just can't jump all the way to the last chapter and say "All that needs discovering has been discovered" — Like the a pile of rocks, science happens one pebble at a time. Sure, one can theorize as to what the end result *may* look like, but the details only reveal themselves step by step. TL;DR version: Science is a process, not a fixed step. @El Kabong: Physicists suspect this too. @El Kabong: Yeah, look at it this way: hundreds of years ago when geology was first getting started, geologists were going around the earth collecting rock after rock from mines, thinking each new stone was a completely different stone than the last, simply because each one was different. Right now, particle physics is so focused on going smaller and more fundamental, that they're basically in the same situation. @El Kabong:
Nature Publishing Group : science journals, jobs, and information All About Psychology: Free and comprehensive Information and resources Our Little Earth | Current Events for Kids; News for Kids; World News for Students Massive Jupiter-Sized Dark Object May Lurk at Edge of Solar System Comet data that has been collected for over a century suggests that a dark Jupiter sized object is lurking at the edge of the solar system, and may be hurling ice and dust chunks towards Earth. Planetary scientist John Matese of the University of Louisiana explained that 10 years worth of data were added to the initial research to test the hypothesis. “Only now should we be able to falsify or verify that you could have a Jupiter-mass object out there.” Matese, along with his colleague, Daniel Whitmire, think there is a hidden companion to the Sun in the Oort Cloud that is booting icy bodies into the inner solar system where they can be seen. New analysis of observations that have been made for the last hundred-plus years, tell Matese and Whitmire that their original idea can be confirmed. By analyzing patterns that comets make in space the researchers were able to concur that 20 percent of comets in the Oort Cloud would "need a nudge from a distant object about the size of Jupiter."
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100 Best (Free) Science Documentaries Online No matter how much you know, there is always something new to learn about science. While your college courses may cover the basics, you can get a more in-depth look at a wide variety of topics from Internet resources such as these great documentaries. These selections will help you explore everything from the inner reaches of the human mind to the outer areas of our universe and just about everything else in between. Better yet, they’re all free to watch online so you can learn more without spending a dime. Health and Medicine These documentaries cover topics like health care, diseases, nutrition, nursing, and more so you can get great insights into health and medicine. Super Size Me: In this movie, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock attempts to subsist on only a diet of McDonald’s for a full month. Drugs Learn how drugs impact the brain and the variety of legal restrictions imposed upon them from these documentaries. Genetics Evolution and Biological History Physics The Quantum Revolution: Dr. Geology
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Distant Star Enveloped By Ingredients for Fake Diamonds A faraway star sparkles with the largest amount of zirconium ? the stuff fake diamonds are made from ? ever seen, according to a new study. The star has about 10,000 times more zirconium than our sun, in a form never recorded by astronomers before, researchers said. "The huge excess of zirconium was a complete surprise," the study's lead author, Naslim Neelamkodan, from Northern Ireland's Armagh Observatory, said in a statement. The researchers estimate that the zirconium cloud layer on the star weighs about 4 billion tons, or 4,000 times the world's annual production of zirconium. A dying subdwarf The star, called LS IV-14 116, is found about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the border between the constellations Capricornus and Aquarius. Using measurements taken with the Anglo-Australian Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, the researchers analyzed the light thrown off by LS IV-14 116. And there was a lot of it. Stellar zirconium clouds