raspuma: Scientists examine a 15-year-old girl who lived in the Inca Empire, then was sacrificed and remained frozen for 500 years …Unearthed in 1999 from the 22,000-foot summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano 300 miles west of here near the Chilean border, their frozen bodies were among the best preserved mummies ever found, with internal organs intact, blood still present in the heart and lungs, and skin and facial features mostly unscathed. No special effort had been made to preserve them. The cold and the dry, thin air did all the work. They froze to death as they slept, and 500 years later still looked like sleeping children, not mummies. Half a millennium later Incredible—who needs ‘forces beyond all comprehension’ to preserve a body for 500 years?
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Scientists examine a 15-year-old girl who lived in the Inca Empire, then was sacrificed and remained frozen for 500 years …
Unearthed in 1999 from the 22,000-foot summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano 300 miles west of here near the Chilean border, their frozen bodies were among the best preserved mummies ever found, with internal organs intact, blood still present in the heart and lungs, and skin and facial features mostly unscathed. No special effort had been made to preserve them. The cold and the dry, thin air did all the work. They froze to death as they slept, and 500 years later still looked like sleeping children, not mummies.

Half a millennium later Incredible—who needs ‘forces beyond all comprehension’ to preserve a body for 500 years?

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ikenbot: A Hole in Mars Credit: NASA, JPL, U. Arizona Back in 2007, black spots were discovered on Mars that are so dark that nothing inside can be seen. Quite possibly, the spots are entrances to deep underground caves capable of protecting Martian life, were it to exist. The unusual hole pictured above was found on the slopes of the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons. The above image was captured three weeks ago by the HiRISE instrument onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars. The holes were originally identified on lower resolution images from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, The above hole is about the size of a football field and is so deep that it is completely unilluminated by the Sun. Such holes and underground caves might be prime targets for future spacecraft, robots, and even the next generation of human interplanetary explorers. Life on Mars The other kind.
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A Hole in Mars

Credit: NASA, JPL, U. Arizona

Back in 2007, black spots were discovered on Mars that are so dark that nothing inside can be seen. Quite possibly, the spots are entrances to deep underground caves capable of protecting Martian life, were it to exist.

The unusual hole pictured above was found on the slopes of the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons. The above image was captured three weeks ago by the HiRISE instrument onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars.

The holes were originally identified on lower resolution images from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, The above hole is about the size of a football field and is so deep that it is completely unilluminated by the Sun. Such holes and underground caves might be prime targets for future spacecraft, robots, and even the next generation of human interplanetary explorers.

Life on Mars The other kind.

pedroelrey:

Heatmaps Reveal Where People Look on Social Media Sites [Research]

Where the eye goes Interesting research here, for Facebook (wall, not Timeline), Google Plus, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Health care in 2011 Welcome to the 21st century. Even some aliens have to do anal probes, and they figured out how to fly around at the speed of light and through wormholes. (Via chelfyn.)
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Health care in 2011 Welcome to the 21st century. Even some aliens have to do anal probes, and they figured out how to fly around at the speed of light and through wormholes. (Via chelfyn.)

Faster-than-light neutrino puzzle claimed solved by special relativity

chelfyn:

The flaw in the data came from the motion of the GPS sats used to keep the clocks in sync.

Relativity wins again Einstein 1, OPERA 0? Oh poo.

It appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light at CERN

Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists—because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.

The result—which threatens to upend a century of physics—will be put online for scrutiny by other scientists.

Fascinating stuff. No time machines yet, but science is progressing considerably this year.

nevver: Science and Religion Humanity Sounds about right.
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Science and Religion

Humanity Sounds about right.

cwnl: jtotheizzoe: James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested [on Saturday] as part of the ongoing protests against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. That’s what I call putting your money where your scientific mouth is. (via Discovery News) God speed. Leave it to this country to either shut the scientists up or put them in jail in favor of company. I’m surprised not as much people are raging over this. First Amendment I still have yet to read anything saying that these were not peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, so why are they being arrested? So much for Sec. Chu being the scientists’ ally.
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cwnl:

jtotheizzoe:

James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested [on Saturday] as part of the ongoing protests against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

That’s what I call putting your money where your scientific mouth is.

(via Discovery News)

God speed. Leave it to this country to either shut the scientists up or put them in jail in favor of company. I’m surprised not as much people are raging over this.

First Amendment I still have yet to read anything saying that these were not peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, so why are they being arrested?

So much for Sec. Chu being the scientists’ ally.

(via fromsoiltoflight)

Source: news.discovery.com

People are biased against creative ideas

Based on a science journal study: ‘Fresh research indicates people don’t even know what a creative idea looks like and that creativity, hailed as a positive change agent, actually makes people squirm.’

ilovecharts: Further studies about western diets, go here. Life Not too hard to figure out why I don’t like foreign food.
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Further studies about western diets, go here.

Life Not too hard to figure out why I don’t like foreign food.

(via rockrodgers)

Source: ilovecharts