In the lush forests of Brazil, researchers have found a glow-in-the-dark mushroom not seen since 1840. The long- forgotten fungus has been reclassified, but scientists are still trying to determine just what makes the mysterious mushroom glow — and why.
read more at: http://www.livescience.com/14939-glowing-mushrooms-discovered-brazil.html
The six-member crew of the International Space Station were forced to evacuate to two Russian Soyuz evacuation capsules after spotting incoming debris that threatened to flatten the fragile craft
The space junk missed the craft by 820ft, a Russian space industry source told the Interfax news agency
“The space junk was detected too late for a ducking manoeuvre,” the source told Interfax.
“The six ISS crew members received instructions to transfer to the Soyuz vehicles,” the Russian source said.
Some of us would be satisfied if our watch battery lasted for 10 years.
But Stuart Kendall, 66, is working on a fascinating project to construct a 200ft clock resting 500ft into a remote mountain in the Sierra Diablos, Texas, which will chime daily for a whopping 10,000 years.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, 47, has put $42million into the groundbreaking idea and wants the clock to become an ‘icon for long-term thinking’ and get people considering more about the future.
watch out with the sound volume of the next video:
U.S. scientists said Friday they have developed an on-off memory switch that helped laboratory rats remember a behavior that they had forgotten.
The brain prosthesis marks the first time that researchers have been able to duplicate the brain’s learning process, restoring memories that test rats were drugged to forget, and could offer hope for people with dementia.
“Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget,” said Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering…
read more at: http://news.discovery.com/human/brain-memory-on-off-switch-110617.html
This is the ‘official’ account of the Nuclear Disaster in Japan
uploaded by: http://www.youtube.com/user/Mr2tuff
Steady streams of smoke/steam out of the Reactors 3 and 4 suddenly started to engulf the entire reactor complex at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It is the TEPCO’s live camera footage after 12AM JST on June 14. Watch after 2:00. (h/t whomeco)
Something bad is happening there that we aren’t told of.
The sun’s magnetic field spins opposite directions on the north and south poles. These oppositely pointing magnetic fields are separated by a layer of current called the heliospheric current sheet. Due to the tilt of the magnetic axis in relation to the axis of rotation of the Sun, the heliospheric current sheet flaps like a flag in the wind. The flapping current sheet separates regions of oppositely pointing magnetic field, called sectors. As the solar wind speed decreases past the termination shock, the sectors squeeze together, bringing regions of opposite magnetic field closer to each other. The Voyager spacecraft have now found that when the separation of sectors becomes very small, the sectored magnetic field breaks up into a sea of nested “magnetic bubbles” in a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. The region of nested bubbles is carried by the solar wind to the north and south filling out the entire front region of the heliopause and the sector region in the heliosheath.
This discovery has prompted a complete revision of what the heliosheath region looks like. The smooth, streamlined look is gone, replaced with a bubbly, frothy outer layer.
This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10790
Topics discussed: magnetic fields, Plasma, the beginning of the technology development, radiation, plasma magnetic field, weapon technology, Iran’s flying saucer and more.
Source: Red Ice Creations.
