Interesting scientific stuff

It was quite reassuring to hear this news and such a simple reason.

Seems those neutrinos from CERN that were supposed to have travelled faster than light did not. It was a loose wire. Chuckle. Mind you, the physicists thought it was fishy all along, which is why they published early and asked other groups to try and replicate the experiment. Nice to see science being done as it should be done.

Wow! What I used to like about sailing along the Jurassic coast were the rock formations

Nature is stupendous. The scenery on the left of the photo reminds me of the Grand Canyon - awesome there,too!

This picture of folded layers of rock in Utah is awesome. At least, I think it is.

epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/02/san-juan-river-at-raplee-monocline.html

No, we don't have a telly. I'll check out your link though, jacey.

pity about typos!! Seems brain, eyes and fingers are not very well linked!!

Thank you flagging up this site Bagitha ...found this will there

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ForestCarbon/?src=features-hp

It made a good link to last night's programme on 'How to grow a planet' ...did you see it?

When you consider how long it took to build and then erode these sea stacks, the human timeline seems puny:

epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/02/sea-stacks-of-accreted-terranes-along-the-southern-oregon-coast.html

Indeed Jacey.

There JessM ...that just shows that "art is in the eye of the beholder"!

I find it particularly interesting that Kumar will be looking at group cohesion where long periods of time are spent in a place of such isolation that no outside interaction is available. Exploring the dynamics of this, through quality of sleep, activity and performance of skills must be very difficult, when one is right in the midsts of it.
Fascinating! I wonder how I'd manage.....

Fascinting images bagitha. A tad confusing at first as they are a mixture of imaging, artwork and half and half. e.g. the cancer cell one is purely imagined artwork and this is the one I liked least. The mouses retina cross section is beautiful. and the metal one looks like a cliff in the desert.

News about the remotest research station on earth (in (on?) Antarctica). It takes longer to get there than it does to get to the International Space Station:

www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMVGAI8RXG_index_0.html

Yes ...especially that cancer cell being attacked!!

Absolutely stunning pictures:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16852264

Fascinating!

Ice and salt triangles on Utah Lake:

epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/02/ice-on-utah-lake.html

Arachnophobes, steer clear of this beautiful and fascinating spider:

epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/01/spider-tension-turns-caustic.html

Quite. Why do they do that?

well the headline has very little to do with the content!

Not sure its ability to distil booze is its most important quality, but this looks interesting notwithstanding the fact that I am always wary of anything that claims to be a miracle! Mind you, that's just journo-speak, isn't it, so I guess we don't need to worry:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16747208

It used to be operated by his finger phoenix but was adapted to utilise his working facial muscles and he now has a device in his cheek that signals for the text being typed, which is then spoken.

I thought Prof Hawking had to type what he wanted to say, and it was then "spoken"? That's the impression I got a few weeks ago on the "Today" programme on Radio 4.

I love occam's razor, I keep quoting it and get funny looks!