We could be on the brink of natural disaster and even the gloomiest predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report are underestimating the current severity of climate change, Professor James Lovelock will say at a public lecture at the Royal Society (1) the UK National Academy of Science today (Monday 29 October 2007).Read More…Humans At War With Earth On Climate Change Says James Lovelock
A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken. They were acquired using a new “adaptive optics” system which sharpens pictures taken from the Mount Palomar Observatory in California. The images are twice as sharp as those from Hubble Space Telescope.
IBM researchers claim to have created the first molecular switch with the potential to be built into larger-scale systems and, on the same day, published results that could lead to magnetic storage at the level of single atoms.
“I call it the dark side of the universe,” said Michael Turner, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, referring to the great mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. In fact, only 4 percent of the matter and energy in the universe has been found. The other 96 percent remains elusive…
Science Daily — Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from norganic substances in space have been revealed in the New Journal of Physics. The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a possible new explanation for the origin of life on earth.
ScienceDaily: Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chemical elements observed around a burned-out star known as a white dwarf offer evidence Earth-like planets once orbited it, suggesting that worlds like our own may not be rare in the cosmos, scientists said on Thursday.
Astronomers at the University of California, Los Angeles and University of Kiel in Germany studied a white dwarf called GD 362 located 150 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy.
Burned-out star harbors signs of Earthlike planets | Science | Reuters
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