Science 'n Shtein

[hbionic]

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2013/05/01/2126425/

World's smallest movie. (Made)

[General_Failure]

Hoping to give new meaning to the term "natural light," a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started a project to develop plants that glow, potentially leading the way for trees that can replace electric streetlamps and potted flowers luminous enough to read by.

[rjs246]

So, Avatar?

[General_Failure]

Yes, but you still can't plug your ponytail into people to farg them. Well you can, but I don't know how good that's going to feel for anyone involved.

[Eagaholic]

So it wasn't too much green beer after all


http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57585318-1/boom-nasa-captures-massive-moon-explosion-on-video/

[Diomedes]

Though a third of amphibian species worldwide are thought to be imperiled, existing assessments simply categorize extinction risk, providing little information on the rate of population losses. We conducted the first analysis of the rate of change in the probability that amphibians occupy ponds and other comparable habitat features across the United States. We found that overall occupancy by amphibians declined 3.7% annually from 2002 to 2011. Species that are Red-listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declined an average of 11.6% annually. All subsets of data examined had a declining trend including species in the IUCN Least Concern category. This analysis suggests that amphibian declines may be more widespread and severe than previously realized.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0064347


Pretty f'n terrifying.  All the guns in the world won't help when the ecosystem collapses.

[phattymatty]

cool

http://rt.com/news/mammoth-blood-ice-siberia-908/

[hbionic]

That's pretty dope.

Clone them, breed them, then slaughter them for burgers.

[General_Failure]

Harvard creates cyborg flesh that's half man, half machine

[General_Failure]

Astronomers Find First Evidence Of Other Universes

There's something exciting afoot in the world of cosmology. Last month, Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and Vahe Gurzadyan at Yerevan State University in Armenia announced that they had found patterns of concentric circles in the cosmic microwave background, the echo of the Big Bang.
This, they say, is exactly what you'd expect if the universe were eternally cyclical. By that, they mean that each cycle ends with a big bang that starts the next cycle. In this model, the universe is a kind of cosmic Russian Doll, with all previous universes contained within the current one.

[Diomedes]

This is the kind of thing I need to remember more often. 

My life is utterly insignificant, so maybe I should stress so goddamn much.

[General_Failure]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmfAyK6CeIg

[MDS]

god is such an easier answer than any of this actually fascinating breathtaking scientific discovery

its all part of gods plan. all of it.

[hbionic]

And if you question god....then...god created god exactly for that reason.

Wow, that was easy. I didn't even have to use my head, it just came out instinctively.

Before I accept this new 'God' method of explaining things, can I praise God after he creates a really farged up situation in which things will get even more farged up but have a small statistical chance of getting better and when those odds actually do hit, can I just say how great God is? Is that allowed?

[hbionic]

http://www.nature.com/news/temporal-cloak-erases-data-from-history-1.13141