Create! Evolute?: August 2008

Wind-powered 'Ventomobile' Places First in Race
succeeded in racing at 64% of the wind speed directly against the wind.

Do galaxies have a minimum mass? - space - 27 August 2008 - New Scientist Space
the team found that the galaxies all weigh the same – roughly 10 million times the mass of the Sun. Most of this mass seems to be dark matter, and the dimmest galaxies appear to contain 10,000 times more dark matter than visible matter.

Dark matter and normal matter 'divorce' in cosmic clash - space - 27 August 2008 - New Scientist
isolated clouds of dark matter have been observed in a collision between two massive clusters of galaxies lying 5.7 billion light years away.

Wiggling Plastic at River Bottom to Generate Electric : Discovery News
That sustainable power will most likely come from a grid of undulating strips made of polyvinylidene fluoride or PVDF, a material that generates a slight electrical current when it is moved,

BBC NEWS : Science/Nature : First light for space telescope
During its first 95 hours of operation, the telescope generated a gamma-ray map of the sky similar to the one obtained by Nasa's now-defunct Compton Gamma-ray Observatory, which took years of observations to produce.

Scientists Building a DNA Library of Entire Planet -a Vast Index of Everything Alive
The International Barcode of Life is a proposal to index every singe organism utterly and unequivocally (they've got nearly half a million already) - instead of depending on ornithologist's arguments about exactly what constitutes a certain type of beak, every lifeform would be indexed according to a specified section of DNA.

Pangea Conundrum
many geoscientists agree that repeated cycles of supercontinent amalgamation and dispersal have had a profound effect on the evolution of Earth's crust, atmosphere, climate, and life.

BBC NEWS : Science/Nature : Black hole star mystery 'solved'
computer simulations of giant gas clouds being sucked into black holes like water spiralling down a plughole.

BBC NEWS : Asia-Pacific : Stem cells 'created from teeth'

BBC NEWS : Science/Nature : Snail hides from march of history

BBC NEWS : Science/Nature : World heading towards cooler 2008

BBC NEWS : Science/Nature : Black holes 'dodge middle ground'

NASA's Solar Sentinels -Predicting Future Behavior of the Sun
We live inside the atmosphere of the sun

God's revenge on Darwin? Dawkins - Times Online

Earliest Known Human Had Neanderthal Qualities : Discovery Channel

Gentle approach could cripple drug-resistant bugs - health - 22 August 2008 - New Scientist

Smoothest surface ever is a mirror for atoms - tech - 22 August 2008 - New Scientist Tech

Some solar flares may be caused by dark matter - space - 22 August 2008 - New Scientist Space
Some solar flares may be caused by dark matter particles called axions spewing out from the centre of the Sun, new calculations suggest.

Robot aircraft will ride thermals to save fuel - tech - 22 August 2008 - New Scientist Tech

Did Rumbling Give Rise to Rome? -- Malakoff 2008 (822): 3 -- ScienceNOW
Earthquake-prone areas along the edges of tectonic plates were far more likely to give birth to great ancient civilizations than less dynamic landscapes, according to a new study.

Did Intelligence & Cooperation Evolve from Attempts of Early Man to Out-Smart Predators?
"Our intelligence, cooperation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator," says Robert W. Sussman, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Are Eleventh-Dimension Exploding Black Holes Possible?
With the backlash starting to surface and scientific journals serving "Prove it or lose it" eviction notices, string theorists are searching high and low for evidence.

The Black Hole that Never Was -A Rocketboom Report

Scandalous behaviour : Article : Nature
The academic community in Austria often seems to be a closed, elite set, especially in the sphere of medicine. The power and influence wielded by a professor are hard to understand from the outside, and the rigid hierarchy of the academic system has been hard to dismantle from the inside, despite reformers' best efforts. The upper echelons of that community also seem to know how to close ranks. Witness an example now threatening to emerge from the Medical University of Innsbruck, where there are worrying signs that investigations into a scandal of unprecedented dimensions in this small country may be thwarted.

'Iceman' Oetzi's Clothes Suggest Shepherd Life
The research, based on a hi-tech method of analyzing proteins, established that the famous Neolithic man did not dress like a hunter, but like a herdsman -- in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair.

Some Cells Self-destruct For The Greater Common Good
how random molecular processes during cell division allow some cells to engage in a self-destructive act to generate a greater common good, thereby improving the situation of the surviving siblings.

With Skate Eyes, Scientists Peer Into Human Disease

Why do people believe weird things? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Spend 10 minutes online and you can catalog many other highly questionable beliefs that aren't related to the paranormal, such as that space aliens landed at Roswell, New Mexico, that the earth was created less than 10,000 years ago, that the Holocaust never occurred, and that 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government to galvanise America for war.

Palm Vein ID Scan Makes U.S. Debut : Discovery News

Hefty Dinosaurs Trampled Denmark : Discovery Channel

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