News Briefs 06-04-2012

“It's much more interesting to live not knowing than have answers which might be wrong.”

• Venusian aurora minus magnetic field.
• Samarium redefines solar system.
• Stop reading, start daydreaming.
• Want to buy Mars?
• Anthropocene epoch, visualized.
• CO2 linked to ancient climate change.
• Earth’s axis and orbit linked to ancient climate change.
• Ice shelf disintegration recorded over ten year orbit.
• Light at the end of the quantum tunnel.
• The singular mutation from bacteria to species.
• The LHC returns.
• A mathematical journey to infinity.
• Feathered Tyrannosaur, unearthed.
• Understanding how you sleep.
• First of four NRO spy satellites lifts off.
• Lunar colonization stays grounded.
• Quantum computers are... forever?
• Malaria just got smarter. Blame the sharks.
• Hackers get hacked, so to speak.
• Vintage photos find new GIFterlife.
• Jim Henson’s forgotten robot film from ’63 almost provides counterpoint to…
• This week’s evidence of the looming robo-pocalypse… Bass ‘Bot.

Thanks to Rick Starr & G. Lee…

Quote of the Day:

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

R. P. Feynman