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Mars One is a scam.
http://www.iflscience.com/spac...

countries, the major ones anyway, gone completely mad? Well, I guess I shouldn't include Canada, or should I? This is in reaction to something, but I just don't understand what it is. This so-call fiscal conservative + anti-reason + racist + I've got mine so fuck you mind set really needs to go.

Actually Canada has gone mad too. Canadian weather forecasters forbidden discussing climate change. Basically Canada has enacted a bunch of laws preventing government funded scientists from speaking to the public without consent, especially on environmental issues. They never get consent. They've also defunded a bunch of environmental research.

It doesn't matter how they're cut, they just don't grow back.

Actually spinal cord nerves can regrow with appropriate treatment.

a quick search will find http://www.iflscience.com/heal...

By what possible 20th (or 21st) century definition of "life" have we "already created life"?????

We have already made synthetic life, in that we have stitched together DNA and formed it into cells that never existed in nature It of course isn't taking life the whole way back into emergence from mud, but it is indeed something manmade, just not the earliest steps.

http://www.iflscience.com/chem... Not self replicating yet, but hard to imagine that isn't coming soon. It's very likely that given the time scales, life probably didn't look much like what we define as life for quite a while.

Genetic manipulations while possibly a wonderful innovation that might lead to better drugs, far fewer medical problems, etc in the future are still just manipulations of life that already exists.

And? That seems sort of like a non-sequitar to me. Even the synthetic life I cited above was made from already existent parts. And certainly if we ever do form life from mud - even then, it doesn't prove that is how it happened, it just shows one very likely possibility.

We'll probably never have that time machine. But Biology so far has been pretty helpful, so I support the efforts to create artificial life. My money is on succeeding.

New highly aggressive HIV strain found in cuba.

We are not ready to accept apologies from anybody," says Luis Jaime Castillo, the vice minister for cultural heritage. "Let them apologize after they repair the damage.

First, the damage cannot be repaired. But second, Greenpeace has NOT issued a real apology. Their disgraceful excuse for an apology is here:
http://www.greenpeace.org/inte...

The obvious missing element is an apology for defacing a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Instead, they offer mere apologies for how things LOOK, and the typical "I'm sorry if anyone was offended" not-pology. Peru should throw all of the activists in Prison, and when the Executive Director shows up in Lima, lock him up too.

Meanwhile, as others have pointed out, the image of the message doesn't even look real in the first place, and they could have gotten the exact same image from Photoshop. Here's the worthless Greenpeace image:
http://www.iflscience.com/site...

And here's the damage the fuckers caused:
http://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-c...

Prison sentences for all.

That the trees aren't rotting, even after 30 years, is as visual as it gets, but even that needs narration or you won't realize that this tree hasn't fallen yesterday, but in 1986 or whenever.

There you go: an engineered solution for carbon sequestration. Grow the plant biomass, irradiate it to prevent decomp, and *bam*: sequestered carbon.

For bonus points, bury it in massive swamps for coal payoff in the geologic long-term. The future land-based octopodes that inherit the earth will thank you while being curious about the isotopic imbalances. Neutron activation ftw.

"The show is full of fascinating contrasts between what the cameras show to the audience and what the narrator tells the audience that they should believe.

Because you can't see radiation? Or even most of its effects?

That the trees aren't rotting, even after 30 years, is as visual as it gets, but even that needs narration or you won't realize that this tree hasn't fallen yesterday, but in 1986 or whenever.

The greatest danger from GMO technology is that it enables malice. If ISIS taps the House of Saud bank account deeply enough, it could come up with an Ebola-rabies-common cold doomsday virus much faster and more certainly than by hybridization.

Fortunately, the same technology allows us to develop treatments to diseases, malicious or natural, correspondingly faster than before:
http://www.iflscience.com/heal...
We can't put the toothpaste back into the tube. Our 'recusing' from GMO technology would do nothing to prevent misuse of the tech by anyone still using it. It would only prevent us from developing a response.

Aspartame is one of the few substances that has been analysed to death, and we know it is quickly metabolised into 3 parts that are also found in many other sources of food that we wouldn't think twice of consuming. We don't know nearly as much about herbal teas, for instance.

It also results in glucose intolerance.
Regardless of how we think the body processes it, it's pretty hard to argue with the evidence on what effects it actually has.

Because ice is not expanding in Antarctica. It's flowing off the continent into the sea at faster and faster rates.

For example, see: http://www.iflscience.com/envi...

Arctic sea is different, is is a sea. The ice level there is completely proportional to the amount of water that freezes.

Here is an article specifically written to address the type of confusion you are experiencing.

http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

but having a pathogen stored in a BSL4 lab is *much* different than trying to treat an infected patient that is bleeding out in a hospital isolation unit.

Right, I'm sure the CDC never thought of that. I'm sure their isolation unit it just a regular hospital but with some plastic sheeting draped across the door. NOT. What makes you think they don't have the same safeguards in place there as any other BSL4 lab? It's not like they're transporting them (yes, there's two, what a horrible summary) on some random airplane to some random hospital. It's a plane specifically outfitted for this purpose, being transported to a hospital with a unit specifically built for this purpose.

But I'm sure you have more expertise than the folks at the CDC because you read Outbreak and The Hot Zone.

There's some good info here that's worth a read:
http://www.iflscience.com/heal...

addendum: http://www.iflscience.com/envi...

Carbon-Carbon batteries have gone from laboratory to small-scale commercial production in Japan, with the intent to ramp them up to car sized units as soon as the production processes are sorted out. From my back of the envelope calcs, it looks like a Tesla-sized car could recharge to 80% capacity in about two minutes, 100% in four, if using a Tesla Supercharger station.

Don't assume Lithium is the only battery type. We're still learning.

Ref: http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

...and Slashdot covered it at the time: http://hardware.slashdot.org/s... I think the submitter meant to post this story, which is about the new record of 24.2GW: http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

Yep, I can see Slashdot's new tag line:

News for geeks, aged for at least 2 years cause our editors suck.

"Now" is misleading when the article is 2 years old?

lol :D

Oh well, more recently they hit 74% with all renewable energy combined:
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Maybe the 50% is correct for this year or other pages have just picked up the hype and not checked the sources or noticed the dates either.
http://www.thelocal.de/2014061...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/qu...

Did I Fucking Love Science got it wrong?
http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

More 2012:
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...
I can't see a year here:
http://theweek.com/speedreads/...

Anyway, even if it has happened recently too it's less impressive when it has already been done more than 2 years ago..

...and Slashdot covered it at the time: http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
I think the submitter meant to post this story, which is about the new record of 24.2GW: http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

From http://www.iflscience.com/chem...

It has now come to light that Palcohol received approval for their label, not the product. A representative for the federal bureau said that the approval was made in error, though details were not provided about how the error occurred. Palcohol creator Mark Phillips was not available for comment, but agreed to surrender the approvals this afternoon. Phillips will likely re-evaluate the situation and try for approval on his labels again.