(Author Michael Brooks has investigated some of the most puzzling anomalies of modern science, those intractable problems that refuse to conform to the theories. Here he counts down the 13 strangest.)
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 11:40 am in Science.
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(The argument over whether an outcrop of rock in South West Greenland contains the earliest known traces of life on Earth has been reignited, in a study published in the Journal of the Geological Society.)
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 8:44 am in Nature.
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(Breaking discovery of a new method to generate stem cells without the use of embryonic tissue.)
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 8:44 am in Medicine.
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(Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men's shoe.)
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:46 am in Humanity.
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(The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars.)
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:28 am in Astronomy.
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(Scientists claim they can fight global warming by firing trillions of mirrors into space to deflect the sun's rays forming a 100,000 square mile "sun shade". )
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:27 am in Make A Difference.
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(Tactile devices, which translate sound waves into vibrations that can be felt by the skin, can help overcome the obstacles of lip reading by conveying nuances of speech that can't be gleaned from lip reading.)
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:27 am in Medicine.
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(Believing that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists is one thing. Believing that they have visited Earth in our short time on the planet is another. Astronomer, author and blogger Phil Plait explains.)
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 6:53 am in Astronomy.
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(David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, wrote that beauty "exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." Scientists have found some truth in that quote and can add that the sex of the mind also matters a great deal.)
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 6:48 am in Humanity.
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(Space flight is a tough business. In the 52 years since the beginning of American efforts to reach space, more than 160 launches, including that of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory on February 24, have failed.)
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 6:47 am in Astronomy.
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(A statue, almost life-size at 149cm (five feet) tall, was found by maintenance workers north of the smallest of Giza's three main pyramids, the tomb of the fourth dynasty Pharaoh Mycerinus, who ruled in the 26th century BC.)
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 10:43 am in Humanity.
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(Times magazine's top 10 scientific discoveries/achievements of last year.)
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 10:34 am in Science.
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(Newly published study, investigating laypeople's interpretation of their dreams from a variety of cultures.)
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 10:31 am in Humanity.
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(Join NASA scientists for a rare opportunity to go behind-the-scenes at JPL to see engineers and technicians as they work on the Mars Science Laboratory which is scheduled to launch in 2011.)
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 8:25 am in Astronomy.
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(A groundbreaking £190million Nasa satellite designed to measure carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere ditched into the sea after suffering severe technical difficulties following its launch this morning.)
Posted on February 24, 2009 at 6:39 am in Astronomy.
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