News Briefs 02-03-2012

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

• The Higgs Boson… Elusive or illusion?
• When Baghdad froze over.
• Matter and anti-matter.
• The blue dunes of Mars.
• Pace of ocean acidification on historic rise.
• Europa may be suffering a similar acidified fate.
• Eight consciousness conundrums worth answering.
• Is earthshine the key to detecting otherworldly life?
• Solid buckyballs found… in outer-space.
• Mind control, MKULTRA & UFOS, courtesy of Leah Haley.
• The final royal Incan tomb?
• Orions’s infrared rainbow.
• Biomaterial creates oxygen.
• Study suggests bacteria communicate via touch.
• The future of warp drives looks promising, except for one tiny detail…
• Enter the ghost dragon.
• Museum exhibits go 3-D, to a degree.
• Loss of Arctic ice leads to bromine explosion and mercury deposits.
• Rain, one drop at a time.
• UK nuclear plant goes dark.
• USAF’s gay vampire halitosis bomb, revealed.
• Long extinct ‘tree lobster’ insect, found.
• Trillion-dollar stealth fighter ready for training.
• Immortality… sort of.
• Vatican unveils historic documents from secret archive.
• In the year 2000.
• Interstellar travel, thanks to Project Icarus.
• This week’s proof of the looming automaton uprising… construction ‘bots.

Danke to GT and RPJ!

Quote of the Day:

“For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

C. Sagan