http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-cave-p...180821995.html

Spanish cave paintings older than French.

Immune System May Protect Against Alzheimer's
 

http://news.yahoo.com/archaeologist-...134339160.html

Oldest known rock art in Australia.

http://news.yahoo.com/moons-peculiar...101210873.html

Moons peculiar dust.

I'm seeing a theme to your current posts Corkey! I love art though my talents lie with stick figures lol

http://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/...pad-challenge/

Be interesting to see how successful this is against the ipad. Hope you clean your nails Corkey :D

http://news.yahoo.com/huge-moon-crat...170854680.html

Polar moon craters may contain ice.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...201621035.html

Mass grave of prehistoric wombats found.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...usaolp00000009

7,000 y/o DNA oldest to date of Human genomes discovered in Spain.

Higgs boson (so-called 'God' particle) may have been found
 

So this Wednesday, CERN is holding a big to-do where it is expected they will announce that the long sought Higgs boson (unfortunately named the 'God' particle in the popular press) has been found because of work done by the team at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider).

If it's true (and all the signs point toward that being the case) this would be the biggest piece of physics news in the best part of 100 years.

The Standard Model, which is the prevailing working explanation for why the particles exist and have the masses (energies) they do has had one piece of information missing: why do particles have mass at all? The Higgs boson (named after Peter Higgs who first proposed the existence of the particle four decades ago) is purported to be the particle that gives other particles their mass.

This is why it is called the 'God particle'. It has absolutely nothing to do with theism, it doesn't prove or disprove God, all it does is explain why particles have mass but that 'all' is a BIG deal because without that mass particles would never bind together to form atoms. No atoms, no anything else.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...Wednesday.html
Cheers
Aj

Here is an outstanding presentation on what the Higgs boson is and why it's a such a big deal:

http://vimeo.com/41038445

Cheers
Aj

It's Higgs!!!
 

So it appears that both the ATLAS and CMS experiments found a particle that has the properties hypothesized for the Higgs Boson! Well, that would just about wrap up the Nobel prize in Physics this year (or possibly next).

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-lhc-discovery

Cheers
Aj

http://news.yahoo.com/underwater-eru...155619656.html

Underwater eruption off Canary Islands helps scientists with climate change.

And to add some funny to it: http://minimumble.thebookofbiff.com/tag/hugs/

http://minimumble.thebookofbiff.com/...03-07-0058.png

http://news.yahoo.com/planet-found-s...news-tech.html

Planet found 33 light years from Earth.

http://io9.com/5927784/new-evidence-...-certain-foods

I don't know why this is surprising. To me it is common sense. Neanderthals using medicinal plants.

Hi all,

I don't know how to post a Vimeo video, so here is a link to a page where I saw an eff'n amazing bit of time-lapse footage from the international space station.

3 minutes well spent.

:balloon: