Kepler Discovers A Tiny Solar System - A wee star with tiny planets around it.
Re-thinking an Alien World - Thinking about the rather extreme conditions on one of the other worlds found by Kepler. Hot temperatures? Rocks oozing supercritical fluids? And a year that is less than our day?? Nothing like that in our neighbourhood!
Is Nanotechnology Going To Send Us All To Hell? - From the Guardian, thoughts on the acceptance or not of transhumanism and confusions of what it involves by the religious.
Test tube Yeast Evolve Multicellularity - Scientific American reports on a set of experiments showing that the 'leap' from single celled organisms to multicelled ones may not have been such a big step as previous thought.
Controversial Cyborg Rat Tests Target Brain Treatments - The BBC reports on progress in experiments designed to replace defective neuroarchitecture in brains with microchips. Labelled 'controversial' apparently to create some form of 'balance' in the article because groups completely opposed to all animal experiments on principal are upset by it.
Herschel Telescope Revisits Cosmic Classic - The famous Eagle Nebula (of Hubble Space Telescope fame) now viewed in the infra-red by the Herschel Space Observatory and in x-rays by the XMM-Newton telescope.
And to end with mind your head if catching the train in Indonesia...
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