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26 December 2009 by Anil Ananthaswamy The world's biggest experiment is primed to answer one of the universe's biggest questions: what is the origin of mass? But an unexpected particle could yet steal the show. In CERN's 27-kilometre tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider will start smashing high-energy protons head-on in 2010. The shrapnel is expected to reveal the presence of the one missing member of the...

Edited on Tue Dec-22-09 08:38 PM by Indenturedebtor http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers I'm certain that it's mushrooms! It could also be bacteria: ISRO finds ‘alien’ life in upper atmosphere 2009-03-17 09:13:28 Bangalore: Indian scientists have discovered three new species of bacteria in the upper atmosphere. The bacteria, highly resistant to ultra-violet radiation, are not found elsewhere on Earth, leading to...

Here's a screen capture at 1:28, it says "Thorium's no good for nuclear weapons." That's a false statement.

That does not mean that such a mechanism of escape is effective or wise. I think your view of the system is highly negative. That the system was designed to destroy. I can think of a few sources for that negativity, one where you have negative experiences with the system because of choices you have made.

If I am not mistaken I believe birds use the magnetic field for navigation. I don't think a gradual change in the magnetic field would screw too much with the birds while they are in their current location, the real issue becomes when they need to migrate south for the winter. ...but here is the great ironic accident. Since humans have been feeding birds, they are causing evolutionary splits in bird species. The split is causing birds to...

thanks for posting!

Those fields aren't enough to prevent solar wind sheering. However, if you replenished the atmosphere (with comets) it would take tens of millions of years for the solar wind to have an effect.

Deep inside an abandoned iron mine in northern Minnesota, physicists may have spotted the clearest signal yet of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that is thought to make up 90 per cent of the mass of the universe. The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration has announced that its experiment has seen tantalising glimpses of what could be dark matter. The CDMS-II experiment operates nearly three-quarters of a kilometre underground in...

A reminder that Earth is a world in an ice age...