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News Briefs 17-05-2011

Some new Star Trek out there for the fans, and the news.

  • Antarctic ozone layer bouncing back after the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons. Or maybe hysteria replaced common sense?
  • Scotland Yard is fighting a legal battle to withhold secret files on Jack the Ripper.
  • A new and somewhat moldy branch on the tree of life
  • Radioactive core encases dwarf planet in ice.
  • The latest on potential cancer drug dichoro-acetate.
  • Malaria prevents further super-infections.
  • Splitting water to create renewable energy simpler than first thought?
  • Countervailing powers: on John Kenneth Galbraith.
  • Japan evacuates residents beyond Fukushima no-go zone.
  • A military post’s secrets: espionage, not aliens.
  • Planetary double layers.
  • How did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right?
  • Theory of recycled universe called into question.
  • WHO to decide fate of smallpox stocks.
  • Ditched magnet could lead to space deflector and propulsion technology.
  • Sharing information corrupts wisdom of crowds.
  • Comet theory comes crashing to earth.
  • An infestation that begins in the mind.
  • Chimps mourn?

Quote of the Day:

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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