Official "Science News" Thread

[Batalov]

Originally Posted by LaurV

Whose the blonde and the brunette on the left? (her left )

Magdalena (probably) and Ewan.
Cannot quite see on "her" left, the frame is cut off. :P
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I did think initially that this was Suzanna Lewis (Paul knows her! yes, yes, this Paul!), but indeed this is not a fly consortium where she would have ruled, together with Michael Ashburner. Because this is a mammalian gathering (sadly, not about Sus scrofa), there's Tim, Ewan and someone in between, I'll have to squint harder to see. John S, almost certain. (I always think of stomatology when I hear his name. ;-) All great scientists, seriously.

P.S. I've once seen John S deliver two talks in a row with a machine gun speed (his postdoc was denied visa or something - he was supposed to do one of them); he did start with "call me John S!" I will declair that I can spell out "Jason P....." in full and not make a mistake. But John S's name is rivalled probably only by Eyjafjallajokull.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Batalov

I did think initially that this was Suzanna Lewis (Paul knows her! yes, yes, this Paul!), but indeed this is not a fly consortium where she would have ruled, together with Michael Ashburner..

Yup, I've met Suzanna but can't honestly say that I know her (and especially not in the Biblical sense!). I'm just a humble geek, not a geneticist.

Coincidentally, I'm having lunch with Michael today. He retired from FlyBase a few years ago but is still moderately active in the DMel field (health permitting --- he was in hospital a few weeks before I left FB and was still far from 100% when he and Francesca came to my leaving-do at a local hostelry). The Genetics dept at Cambridge is celebrating its centenary with a symposium tomorrow and Michael has invited all the Ashburner lab members, past and present, for a celebratory lunch today. I have to leave for it in about an hour or so.

Paul

[Jeff Gilchrist]

"Up among the clouds in the Canary Islands, researchers have pulled off a teleportation experiment that opens the door to a satellite network for powerful quantum computers that could change our world as we know it."

http://metronews.ca/news/kitchener/3...-breakthrough/

Every time I saw a quote from Makarov, for some reason my brain re-scrambled that as "Markov". I guess I have spent too much time with Markov chains, etc... ;-)

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by Jeff Gilchrist

"Up among the clouds in the Canary Islands, researchers have pulled off a teleportation experiment that opens the door to a satellite network for powerful quantum computers that could change our world as we know it."

http://metronews.ca/news/kitchener/3...-breakthrough/

Every time I saw a quote from Makarov, for some reason my brain re-scrambled that as "Markov". I guess I have spent too much time with Markov chains, etc... ;-)

Holy cow! I have a copy of the Nature article if anyone wants it.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Holy cow! I have a copy of the Nature article if anyone wants it.

Yes please.

Mail me at paul at-sign leyland dot vispa point com

Thanks.

Paul

[science_man_88]

Meteoroids Change Atmospheres of Earth, Mars, Venus

Meteoroids streaking through the atmospheres of planets such as Earth, Mars and Venus can change these worlds' air, in ways that researchers are just now beginning to understand.

Withers also hopes that, in time, a detailed understanding of the ionosphere could even help scientists engage in a kind of "atmospheric archeology" for Venus and Mars.

[Dubslow]

What an exciting month this has been!

http://www.kurzweilai.net/physicists...inty-principle

http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0034

[ixfd64]

Not to mention the (purported) proof of the abc conjecture!

[only_human]

Higgs boson gets peer-review seal of approval

Two landmark papers – one from each of the twin experiments responsible for the particle's discovery at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland – are published in Physics Letters B

[kladner]

Originally Posted by only_human

Higgs boson gets peer-review seal of approval

Still more excitement!

[science_man_88]

Scientists say warp drive may be more feasible than thought

"Everything within space is restricted by the speed of light," explained Richard Obousy, president of Icarus Interstellar, a non-profit group of scientists and engineers devoted to pursuing interstellar spaceflight. "But the really cool thing is space-time, the fabric of space, is not limited by the speed of light."