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£350,000 Iron Age neckband discovered by metal detector
dailymail.co.uk — For 40 years, Maurice Richardson has been braving all weathers to scour the countryside with his trusty metal detector, dreaming of buried treasure. But he almost ignored an unpromising-sounding beep as he searched for debris from a wartime air crash while being pelted with rain. However the 59-year-old is glad his curiosity got the better of him.More… (General Sciences)
Sun + Water = Fuel
technologyreview.com — Solar goes solo: Artificial photosynthesis could provide a practical way to store energy produced by solar power, freeing people’s homes from the electrical grid. In this scheme, electricity from solar panels powers an electrolyzer, which breaks water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is stored; at night or on cloudy days, it is fed into a ...More… (Environment)
Grave Of World's First Known Human Family Found
blogs.discovery.com — Analysis of a remarkable cluster of graves at a Stone Age burial site near Eulau, Germany, provides the oldest molecular genetic evidence for a nuclear family. The 13 graves, dating to 4,600 years ago, contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – hands interlinked in many cases. More… (General Sciences)
Why stop here on our evolution from the ape?
timesonline.co.uk — Suppose that scientists discovered an animal species with a genetic resistance to a killer virus. It might be possible to transfer these sequences into the human genome to confer resistance. If this sounds like science fiction, consider that many gene-transfer therapies have completed clinical trialsMore… (General Sciences)
Honda's New Fuel Cell Sports Car
jalopnik.com — Honda surprised the motoring world today with the release of the radical and futuristic Honda FC Sport, a three-seat Hydrogen-powered design study that hints at the future of Honda sports cars to come. Using the Honda V Flow fuel cell setup already found in the Honda FCX Clarity, the FC Sport is the supercar to the FCX's stately sedan. More… (General Sciences)
APOD: Endeavour in the Moon view!
Plumbing the Oceans Could Bring Limitless Clean Energy
newscientist.com — FOR a company whose business is rocket science Lockheed Martin has been paying unusual attention to plumbing of late. The aerospace giant has kept its engineers occupied for the past 12 months poring over designs for what amounts to a very long fibreglass pipe. of course, no ordinary pipe but an integral part of the technology.More… (Environment)
Big cat fossil found in North Sea
news.bbc.co.uk — The partial leg bone of a sabre-toothed cat has been dredged from the seabed by a trawler in the North Sea. The fossil, which is between one and two million years old and found near the UK coast, is from a type of sabre-tooth called a scimitar cat. According to palaeontologist Dick Mol, it belonged to a cat that was as heavy as a small horse. More… (General Sciences)
Frozen hair gives up first mammoth genome
newscientist.com — Tufts of frozen woolly mammoth hair have yielded a rough draft of its genome. It's the most successful attempt to sequence the DNA of an extinct ancient animal to date, and although we won't see resurrected mammoths grazing the tundra anytime soon, it could give us a peek into the reasons for their extinction.More… (General Sciences)
Further Evidence of King Herod's Grave Site Revealed
hunews.huji.ac.il — Analysis of newly revealed items found at the site of the mausoleum of King Herod at Herodium (Herodion in Greek) have provided Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeological researchers with further assurances that this was indeed the site of the famed ruler’s 1st century B.C.E. grave.More… (General Sciences)
Did An Asteroid Kill Mars' Magnetic Field?
msnbc.msn.com — Deep in Mars' past, an asteroid struck the planet with such titanic force that it could've killed off the planet's entire magnetic field. When the Red Planet formed, it is thought to have been much like a young Earth. Then, beginning around 4.2 billion years ago, it was suddenly pummeled with at least 20 asteroids, each leaving a crater.More… (Space)
Why the universe may be teeming with aliens
newscientist.com — As astronomers explore newly discovered planets and create computer simulations of virtual worlds, they are discovering that water, and life, might exist on all manner of weird worlds where conditions are very different from those on Earth. And that means there could be vastly more habitable planets out there than we thought possible. More… (Space)
Nike, Starbucks Demand Congress To Act On Climate Change
redgreenandblue.org — Five leading companies joined Ceres today to announce a business coalition demanding stronger U.S. climate and energy legislation as early as 2009. More… (Environment)
Cocaine Users Are Destroying The Rainforest
guardian.co.uk — Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday. Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the class A drug to consider the impact on the environment.More… (Environment)
Local Church Starts “Embryo Adoption” Service
seattleweekly.com — On Nov. 9, Lancaster launched a partnership with Cedar Park Church in Bothell to start an embryo adoption service, one of only a handful in the country. "Embryos are not simply human material to be used for medical experimentation, vaccine cultivation, or trash to be discarded," says Pastor Joe Fuiten, a prominent evangelical conservative.More… (General Sciences)
