News Briefs 05-11-2010

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were... but without it we go nowhere.”

• LHC set to recreate mini-big bang. More here.
• Meanwhile, black hole plasma created in lab.
• A close encounter with Comet Hartley. More photos.
• Spotting invisible galaxies.
• Easing the laws of gravity.
• The fossils of Mars, in a volcano?
• Was the Vredefort Dome created by a meteor or…
• J.R.R. Tolkien killed a Beatles-Kubrick Lord of the Rings movie back in the 60’s.
• Cassini space probe shifts into 'safe mode' for second time in 6 years.
• Cloaking effect in atoms has scientists scratching their heads.
• Need help with math? Just shock your brain.
• The syntax of actions.
• Holographic messaging will be arriving shortly. Help me Obi Wan…
• Good dolphin mothers determined by social factors vs. genes.
• Boa reproduces asexually.
• Will the circulation in the Atlantic reverse?
• Will algae biofuel solve our energy problems?
• ...Or will it be wirelessly charged electric cars?
• From New York to Sydney in two hours.
• Did heat kill the people of Pompeii (instead of ash)?
• The coolest Star Wars game thus far?
• A sinking boat that isn’t.
• World’s oldest axe unearthed on Aboriginal land.
• This week’s evidence of the looming ‘bot revolution… wall-scaling robots.

Thanks to GT!

Quote of the Day:

“We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.”

Carl Sagan