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Here you go. You can now scrap Lisa altogether. Who's going to tell Pacome?

Awesome and exciting stuff indeed! The data pinpoint the time when inflation occurred - about 10E-37 seconds into the Universe's life - and its temperature at the time, corresponding to energies of about 10E16 gigaelectronvolts, says cosmologist Michael Turner of the University of Chicago. That is the same energy at which three of the four fundamental forces of nature - the weak, strong and electromagnetic force - are expected to become indistinguishable from one another in a model known as the grand unified theory. I expect more fundamental physics insights to come out of this in the future. A full-sky survey from space may still be an interesting addition to the measurement capabilities, so I would not rule out LISA all together I guess...

theoretical physicists... :) Read the last sentence of the paper...in this way anyone can publish in nature...just make a good story with little evidence Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs? The Solar System's periodic passage through a 'dark disk' on the galactic plane could trigger comet bombardments that would cause mass extinctions.

Hmm.. right.. then again, this is not an actual journal publication but a news broadcast. But you are right that the name Nature is attached to it so the journal is definitely banking on their acquired status.

Using little more than a few perforated sheets of plastic and a staggering amount of number crunching, Duke engineers have demonstrated the world's first three-dimensional acoustic cloak. The new device reroutes sound waves to create the impression that both the cloak and anything beneath it are not there.

And http://www.diyspaceexploration.com/what-are-cubesats/ Do It Yourself satellites!

Think it's a really interesting project!

There's also http://www.nanosatisfi.com started by some Austrian guy it seems

Short range chemical analysis methods exist already, but using new high power lasers one could extend the operation length to e.g aircraft.

Isabelle?

The optical setup is very simple and lightweight: a compact semi-conductor DFB laser source and an all optical fiber system for amplification and supercontinuum generation. Interesting for space applications!

Not very new, but interesting stuff, maybe related to space suits or unfolding techniques of solar panels (which unfold as they are irradiated?)

Using random nanostructuring highly absorptive materials were made which are of interest for photovoltaic or thermovoltaic applications

Yes! Black Metal... definitely something the ACT should look into

Black Metal...sounds like something for the ACT Magic Cards. But apart from that - is it possible to shift the PV type of absorption into gamma ray spectrum?

Bacterial networks communicating via thread-like membranes. Especially the video is pretty cool

NASA (WPMI) Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered GJ 504b, a Jupiter-sized planet with four times the mass, is posing a challenge to scientist on how giant planets are formed.

German non-profit group Definetz wants to make defibrillators readily available across its country so that any time someone has a heart attack, the life saving devices are within arms reach.

High energy gamma rays are shown to be bent slightly by specialized lenses. The effect is likely due to pair-creation close to the atomic nuclei in the material.

We discussed this today during coffee. The inventor claims that he claims that a pressure differential can push hydrogen through a proton conductive membrane (thereby stripping off the electrons) which flow through an electric circuit and provide electric power. The type of membrane is fairly similar to that found in a hydrogen fuel cell. If the pressure differential is cause by selective heating this is in essence a heat engine that directly produces electricity. The inventor claims that this could be a high efficiency alternative to thermoelectric devices and could even outperform PV and Sterling engines with an efficiency close to that of fuel cells (e.g., ~60% @ dT=600K). I could not find any scientific publications as the inventor is not affiliated to any University - he has however an impressive number of patents from a very wide field (e.g., the "Super Soaker" squirt gun) and has worked on several NASA and US military projects. His current research seams to be funded by the latter as well. Here are some more links that I found: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/shooting-for-the-sun/308268/ http://www.johnsonems.com/?q=node/13 http://scholar.google.nl/scholar?q=%22lonnie+g+johnson%22+&btnG=&hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5

The telepathic cyborg lives, sort of. University of Washington scientists Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco claim that they are the first to demonstrate human brain-to-brain communication. Rao sent a signal into a Stocco's brain via the Internet that caused him to move his right hand.

Amazing what evolution can lead to!

see my post from the 12th below Interacting Gears Synchronize Propulsive Leg Movements in a Jumping Insect http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6151/1254

Video shows how easy the process is and how cool the results look. Does anybody know a potential scientific application for such image processing?

this is very impressive indeed ... looks like the manual steps they are doing could be automatised, can't they?

Looks fantastic!

Sounds like a great tool for calculation and may provide some deeper understanding. But: I think their comments about space and time are misleading. Often you can ignore space and time when you just want the probability of an event (and it makes your calculations easier) but especially in the low-energy regime an event is clearly localized.

where is Luzi? where is Anna? where is Sante? when you need them?

The researchers are busy working on a feasibility study assigned to them by the ESA. The idea is that by combining a rover that can navigate over large distances with a snake robot that can crawl along the ground and can get into inaccessible places, so many more possibilities could be opened up, e.g. collecting samples from tight spots that the rovers cannot reach.

This December, NASA plans to launch a set of packs, filled with a material akin to kitty litter, functioning as planters for six romaine lettuce plants. The lettuce will be grown under bright-pink LED lights, ready to harvest after just 28 days. Once harvested, it will be frozen and stored away for testing back on Earth. No one is allowed to eat anything before the plants are thoroughly vetted for cosmic microbes.

At least we don't come up with this kind of crap!

OMG ... its coming ... the future we all have dreaded where in perfectly flat caribbean beaches underwater mines are growing like flowers