The Cool Science Stuff Thread

[Bacigalupo]

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hom...lly-exist-how-gigantopithecus-became-extinct/

 

[Bacigalupo]

Karen Kraft Karen Kraft Karen Kraft!!!!

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/13jan_rethink/

 

[islandman]

Ancient Jewish scrolls found in north Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - A cache of ancient Jewish scrolls from northern Afghanistan that has only recently come to light is creating a storm among scholars who say the landmark find could reveal an undiscovered side of medieval Jewry.

The 150 or so documents, dated from the 11th century, were found in Afghanistan's Samangan province and most likely smuggled out -- a sorry but common fate for the impoverished and war-torn country's antiquities.

 

[Bacigalupo]

Saturn: A different kind of planet.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20091209.html


Or a gigantic cosmic Fleshlight.

 

[Bacigalupo]

http://www.livescience.com/18066-oldest-dinosaur-nests-eggs.html

 

[Peregrinator]

http://the-scientist.com/2012/02/03/color-explosion/

A fluorescence microscopy image competition straddles the boundary of science and art.

 

[Angellica1612]

http://the-scientist.com/2012/02/03/color-explosion/

A fluorescence microscopy image competition straddles the boundary of science and art.

Way cool! I went to the link and viewed more, very interesting and beautiful.

 

[islandman]

Put another supergiant shrimp on the barbie...

 

[Saint Peter]

Jumbo shrimp!

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Jumbo shrimp!

misanthropic humanitarian!

 

[Bacigalupo]

From the Gardens just below the foothills of the Mountains of Madness.

http://www.earthtimes.org/scitech/gregarious-cambrians/1774/

 

[Peregrinator]

From the Gardens just below the foothills of the Mountains of Madness.

http://www.earthtimes.org/scitech/gregarious-cambrians/1774/

That's really, really cool:

 

[Bacigalupo]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.ne...81454_290934287628460_783270_1616046506_n.jpg

 

[Bacigalupo]

Enceladus just being itself.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120208.html

 

[Soulen]

i'm not sure if this clip is in this thread yet or not, but here it is.

http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/0...eoId=229776925&videoChannel=2602&refresh=true

 

[islandman]

Flowering Plant Revived After 30,000 Years in Russian Permafrost

 

[phrodeau]

Flowering Plant Revived After 30,000 Years in Russian Permafrost

I wonder if any insects will pollinate it.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I wonder if any insects will pollinate it.

I wonder what it would taste like in a salad

 

[Sean]

I wonder if any insects will pollinate it.

The same plants exist today, so probably. The interesting thing is the proof of concept that it actually was viable. The previous record was some date palms from Israel from about 2000 years ago.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The same plants exist today, so probably. The interesting thing is the proof of concept that it actually was viable. The previous record was some date palms from Israel from about 2000 years ago.

Because the jews didn't want to buy new palm trees

 

[Freija]

Flowering Plant Revived After 30,000 Years in Russian Permafrost

Yeah right, so they haven't seen Jurassic Park then. :/

 

[thør]

Flowering Plant Revived After 30,000 Years in Russian Permafrost

 

[neci]

Flowering Plant Revived After 30,000 Years in Russian Permafrost

it bore fruit and dropped seed.

 

[rosco rathbone]

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.co...olecules-electrical-charge.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

First ever image of a molecule's electrical charge

 

[Sean]

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.co...olecules-electrical-charge.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

First ever image of a molecule's electrical charge

Coolness. But this would be earth shattering:

But in the future, IBM hopes that it will be able to get images of molecules undergoing changes in the distribution of their electrical charges when forming chemical bonds and interacting with other substances.