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"Dark Flow" of Billions of Stars Racing Away from Earth Towards Edge of Observable Universe (New JPL Research)

Tom McFay — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:30:00 +0000

“Dark Flow” sounds like a new SciFi Channel series. It’s not! Back in the Middle Ages, maps showed terrifying images of sea dragons at the boundaries of the known world. Today, scientists have observed strange new motion at the very…

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600-Million-Year-Old Origins of Human Vision Discovered

Tom McFay — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:58:00 +0000

Our eyes that scan the farthest reaches of the universe had their origin in the simple hydra, a members ancient group of sea creatures that along with jellyfish, belong to the phylum cnidaria that first emerged 600 million years ago…

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Antimatter Supernova -The Biggest Bomb in the Cosmos

Tom McFay — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:52:00 +0000

We’ve recently seen the largest explosion ever recorded: a supergiant star two hundred times bigger than the sun utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray-driven antimatter production. The resulting blast was visible for months because it unleashed…

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Future Tech: Mind-Powered Computers

Tom McFay — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:44:00 +0000

Patients in Jacksonville’s Mayo Clinic campus have become the world’s first cyborg spellers, conjuring computerized letters using nothing but the power of the mind using the power of the electrodes surgically implanted through their skull onto the very surface of…

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Billions of Tons of Methane Beneath Frozen Arctic Destablizing, Scientists Warn

Tom McFay — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:26:00 +0000

A region of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of…

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Billions of Tons of Methane Beneath Frozen Arctic Destablizing, Scientists Warn

Is the1st Human to Live to 1,000 Alive Today? (A Galaxy Classic)

Tom McFay — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:14:00 +0000

Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger…

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Will "Intelligence" be an Evolutionary Constant Throughout the Universe?

Tom McFay — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:00 +0000

Charley Lineweaver, a cosmologist with The Australian National University, believes the “Planet of the Apes Hypothesis” -a theory subscribed to by Carl Sagan and the astronomers involved with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), that human-like intelligence is a convergent…

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The Galaxies of Observable Universe Validate General Relativity & Existence of Dark Matter

Tom McFay — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:12:00 +0000

An analysis of more than 70,000 of the estimated one trillion galaxies in the universe demonstrates that the universe – at least up to a distance of 3.5 billion light years from Earth – validate the rules set out 95…

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The Galaxies of Observable Universe Validate General Relativity & Existence of Dark Matter

On the Brink of Detecting Space-Time Distortions —A Galaxy Interview

Tom McFay — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:02:00 +0000

The universe’s smallest known binary, with by far the shortest known orbital period, has been confirmed by an international team of astronomers, and they likely hold the key to directly detecting space-time distortion for the first time ever. The two…

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Earth’s "Alien" Atmosphere: What You’re Breathing May Not Have Originated Here

Tom McFay — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000

Some scientists say that there really is something Kryptonian among us, brought to Earth by impacting objects from outer space – only it’s the noble gas, not a noble hero, because there’s nothing more Kryptonian than Krypton itself. A new…

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