“…The mountains were discovered by a Soviet team during the International Geophysical Year in 1957-8. Their detection was a complete surprise because the rock bed in the middle of the Antarctic continent was assumed to be relatively flat….” Full Slice

“…These findings foreshadow a new catalytic system available for applications both in academic laboratories and in industry, allowing stoichiometric reductions mediated by Fe or Na2S to be performed in a catalytic fashion and greatly reducing subsequent waste production. Moreover, the catalyst developed here could replace expensive precious metal catalysts, therefore offering the potential benefit of lowering cost and diminishing the environmental impact from heavy-metal pollutants….” Full Slice

“…The researchers’ spectroscopic study suggests that graphene grows in the form of tiny islands built of concentric rings of carbon atoms. The islands are strongly bonded to the iridium surface at their perimeters, but are not bonded to the iridium at their centers, which causes them to bulge upward in the middle to form minuscule geodesic domes. By adjusting the conditions as the carbon is deposited on the iridium, the researchers could vary the size of the carbon domes from a few nanometers to hundreds of nanometers across….” Full Slice

“The first demonstration of a renewable method for hydrogen production from wastewater using a microbial electrolysis system is underway…The refrigerator-sized hydrogen generator will take winery wastewater, and using bacteria and a small amount of electrical energy, convert the organic material into hydrogen…”This is a demonstration to prove we can continuously generate renewable hydrogen and to study the engineering factors affecting the system performance,”…”The hydrogen produced will be vented except for a small amount that will be used in a hydrogen fuel cell.”…” Full Slice

“New…research has literally and figuratively poked holes in single-band Hubbard physics–a model that has been used to predict and calculate the behavior of high-temperature superconductors for 20 years.

The findings are the first compelling evidence challenging the model under certain conditions, and could necessitate entirely new theoretical approaches to explaining superconductivity in cuprate materials, one of the outstanding mysteries in condensed-matter physics….” Full Slice

Yup, can’t deny it now.  Any organization can send a satellite to take pictures of the moon which will prove we were there.

Congratulations NASA!  Regardless of why you did it, you did it and everyone survived the trips.

this week 3 men from our planet traveled to our neighbor body which we have labeled Luna. They did this in peace for all mankind. Follow along as the time line is recreated. Full Slice

“…There is something cynical, and certainly calculating in a bottom-line way, about city governments that ask all of us to be more involved with one another, our garbage, our plot of dirt, our newly demolished, formerly blighted communities, and then turn a cold eye to us.

My city has just joined others in unleashing software-and-camera laden vehicles that will prowl the streets, taking pictures of license plates and tire position to catch those who dare try to get another 15 minutes out of a parking meter. This is City Hall without a face. Lovely Rita, Meter Maid – I miss you….” Full Slice

From what I can get out of this, if you take a 10-layer thick piece of graphene layers, it spontaneously rearranges itself into a ramified thing with a fractal feel to it.

“Physicists…have demonstrated entanglement—a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale quantum world—in a mechanical system similar to those in the macroscopic everyday world. The work extends the boundaries of the arena where quantum behavior can be observed and shows how laboratory technology might be scaled up to build a functional quantum computer….” Full Slice

“…researchers have developed a strategy for using genetically engineered multifunctional viruses as scaffolds for the synthesis and assembly of cathode materials for high-power lithium-ion batteries. By manipulating two genes of the M13 virus (a bacteriophage), the viruses were equipped with peptide groups with affinity for single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on one end and peptides capable of nucleating amorphous iron phosphate (a-FePO4) fused to the viral major coat protein to create a iron phosphate cathode material…The synthesis takes place at and below room temperature, requires no harmful organic solvents, and the materials that go into the battery are non-toxic….” Full Slice

“Researchers…have found that methane can be directly produced using a biocathode containing methanogens in electrochemical systems (abiotic anode) or microbial electrolysis cells (MECs; biotic anode) by a process called electromethanogenesis.

The results show that electromethanogenesis can be used to convert electrical current produced from renewable energy sources (such as wind, solar, or biomass) into a biofuel (methane) as well as serving as a method for the capture of carbon dioxide…“We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we kept getting all this methane…Perhaps where we assumed hydrogen is being made, it is not..” Full Slice

“…researchers claimed to have experimentally confirmed cold fusion in a presentation at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting.

“We have compelling evidence that fusion reactions are occurring” at room temperature…The results are “the first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from low-energy nuclear reactions,”…scientists were unable to duplicate the 1989 results, thereby discrediting the work…researchers claim that the problem was instrumentation, which was not up to the task…Other presenters at the conference also presented evidence supporting cold fusion…reported both excess heat and helium gas.

“We now have very convincing experimental evidence,”…also reported excess heat generation and gamma-ray emissions.

All three research groups are currently exploring both experimental and theoretical studies in hopes of better understanding the cold fusion process well enough to commercialize it.” Slice One

hmmm…

“Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called “cold fusion”…One group of scientists…describes what it terms the first clear visual evidence that LENR devices can produce neutrons…”To our knowledge, this is the first scientific report of the production of highly energetic neutrons from an LENR device.”…The first report on “cold fusion,” presented in 1989…could not reproduce their results, and the whole field of research declined…used a special plastic, CR-39, to capture and track any high-energy particles that may have been emitted during reactions…discovered patterns of “triple tracks,” tiny-clusters of three adjacent pits that appear to split apart from a single point…other evidence for nuclear reactions including X-rays, tritium (another form of hydrogen), and excess heat…reported the production of excess heat generation and gamma ray emissions from an unconventional LENR device that uses phenanthrene, a type of hydrocarbon, as a reactant…evidence supporting the existence of low energy nuclear reactions…lab experiments demonstrating the simultaneous production of both excess heat and helium gas…” Slice Two

“…”We have combined the two approaches,” he says. “We start from a silicon waveguide designed to guide the light between two silicon ridges. Then we use molecular beam deposition to fill the space between the ridges with the organic material [DDMEBT], creating a dense plastic with high optical quality and high nonlinearity where the light propagates.

“We combine the best of both technologies.”…” Full Slice

“Researchers…have been able to prove the existence of a “spin battery,” a battery that is “charged” by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in a device called a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)…The device…can store energy in magnets rather than through chemical reactions. Like a winding up toy car, the spin battery is “wound up” by applying a large magnetic field –no chemistry involved…”We had anticipated the effect, but the device produced a voltage over a hundred times too big and for tens of minutes, rather than for milliseconds as we had expected,”…” Full Slice