News Briefs 25-11-2011

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

• 2011’s final eclipse.
• 200,000 year-long die-off.
• 42,000 year-old fish tale.
• The rocks of Gondwana?
• Life beyond Earth.
• Studying Mars’ methane.
• Nothingness.
• Rebuild your brain.
• History of the Western Wall-- rewritten?
• Artifacts on asteroid?
• The origin of asteroids.
• The icy finger of death-- w/ video.
• The Higgs Boson remains elusive... presuming it exists.
• CO2’s effect on climate change, examined.
• Oxygen and the mystery of the Earth's core.
• Invisible in a nano-tube forest.
• Planning the world’s largest marine reserve down under.
• Do cosmic rays come from superbubbles?
• Oil sands reveal nearly complete Pleiosaur.
• Nazis and UFOs.
• Were you an early adapter?
• This week’s proof of the coming robot uprising… ’bot-guards and bug’bot armies.

Quote of the Day:

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

C. Sagan