Thursday, September 24, 2009

"Unambiguous" Evidence of Water on the Moon

Flowing fountains of pure and shinning water with magical healing properties have been discovered on the moon!

Joking.

But....evidence of water has been found on the moon, our best yet! Probes from India's first space mission (Chandrayaan 1) have sent back "unambiguous" evidence of water on the moon. They haven't exactly found it in complete H2O format though, just the trace signatures that water leaves behind.

The trace signatures have been found mostly near the poles in the colder areas of the moon. Scientists have already started gingerly estimating the amount of water that might be found on the moon, and some say that they might find some beneath the crust.

Needless to say, the scientific community and the Indian scientists who sent this out are rejoicing.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

No New Brain Cells For You!

Or not...

One thing that your teachers and parents are always telling you is that when you're born, you've got all the brain cells you will ever have in your life, and that's it. They use this to discourage kids from things like drugs and alchohol, and to make them value what brains they have. Your mentors stand looming over you, slowly raise a finger to point at your skull, and tell you that you can do nothing but wait as all the cells in there waste away and die.

Not so!

Researches in Sweden have used the brains of cancer victims to prove that the human brain can infact regenerate nerve connections. Other science over the recent years has shown that mail songbirds loose brain cells then re-gain them next season. This research prompted others to do some delving into the secrets of the brain, and discovered that many other adult animals can also regenerate brain cells, including rats, monkeys, and tree shrews.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Facebook Pleases the Developer Gods....

Facebook has been ordered again by the developer gods to surrender their full source code to Leader Technologies over a patent infringement, and this time, they must comply. By the end of this month they have to hand over their full source code to the company, + related technical documents.

The funny part here is that Facebook actually is now releasing an open source web server called Tornado that will let developers to create apps that will allow the user to post updates in real time. It's written in Python and is designed to be able to process thousands of simultaneous connections efficiently. Basically they want to be more like the Twitter system of updates.

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