[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/timelapse-video-captures-icicle-death-reaching-antarctica-sea-183828693.html[/url]

[QUOTE=science_man_88;280404][url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/timelapse-video-captures-icicle-death-reaching-antarctica-sea-183828693.html[/url][/QUOTE]

apparently the video is now available at: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017[/url]

[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/past-decade-ties-worlds-hottest-un-agency-112708368.html[/url]

[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/bugging-over-monstrous-insect-discovery-165139603.html[/url]

[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/massive-sea-floor-shove-triggered-japans-tsunami-165204487.html[/url]

[QUOTE]A new look at the sea floor before and after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake reveals massive shifts in the ocean crust. Energy from the uplifted sea floor — which was thrust 164 feet (50 meters) horizontally and 33 feet (10 meters) vertically — triggered the immense tsunami waves that struck the coast of Japan.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/kepler-22b/"]Another planet capable of life?[/URL]

[QUOTE=rogue;281125][URL="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/kepler-22b/"]Another planet capable of life?[/URL][/QUOTE]Note the first tag listed at the bottom of the story.

Science, ethics, and "main stream" media
 

[URL="http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/armageddon-super-virus-recipe-keep-secret-or-publish-20111206-1og76.html"]Armageddon super virus recipe: keep secret or publish?[/URL]

[SIZE="1"](You may need to adjust the sensitivity of your hyperbole detector.)[/SIZE]

[URL="http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/05/9233790-alien-planets-get-pigeonholed"]Periodic Table of Exoplanets[/URL]

[QUOTE=rogue;281231][URL="http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/05/9233790-alien-planets-get-pigeonholed"]Periodic Table of Exoplanets[/URL][/QUOTE]

There is nothing periodic about this table. It's cute, but useless.

Largest ever black holes discovered
 

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/05/supermassive-black-holes-discovered-space?newsfeed=true]Supermassive black holes are largest ever discovered[/url]: [i]Newly discovered black holes, billions of times bigger than our sun, will give scientists clues on how galaxies form and evolve[/i]

> 20 Bln solar masses ... my, that's a big one.