That's air pressure. Gravity pulling down air above you from below, so that the air pushes on you from above. :P

A tough read. Would love to know the reference for "around 80 percent of people who have some kind of REM disorder end up developing some kind of neurodegenerative disease". I'm a teeth grinder. >_<

"For a some time" #corrections

As a neutral observer, I'd say Anon did get pwned by Murdoch's tweet. What they SHOULD have done was to show that those 35 papers probably had a coverage of the whole conservative populations of the US, UK, and the other most Iraq war hungry countries, that were involved.

Depends if there are homeless guys nearby, I suppose.

Outside? what's that?

Indeed. Hadn't heard of Lavoisier before. Two examples that come to the top of my mind: Einstein marrying Mileva Marić and Pierre Curie marrying Marie Skłodowska. Actually, the trend for physicists of marrying young interns still continues...only the search has moved further east... all the way to asia. :-)

There was a day when nuclear/particle physicists... or indeed all physicists, were valued by society. More importantly, they got ladies. Before detectors went electronic, there were tons of photographs from cloud chambers that needed to be analysed one-by-one with a magnifying glass. A researcher would hire young…

Woah, big guy! Be careful! I hope he's drinking less than 1L a day and that it's not Gatorade Endurance. It hasn't been shown that the extra sodium/calcium doesn't cause kidney stones for those cases yet. It would be a huge shame if you got a few of those Zuckerberg.…

Ok, had a quick look at the papers. I was more-or-less correct. They only detect contrasts between different materials rather than identifying the molecular composition of the materials. Detecting "adrenaline" in the blood stream seems like completely over blown claim.

I am skeptical about identification of molecules (sizes in the nanometer) with THz radiation with wavelengths in the millimeter range. I will look into the papers when I find some spare time. Even if, as the company claims, that there are known responses (usually for explosives), detecting the emitted light from 50m…

Calling them "impostors" is a bit misleading. What the guys are trying to say is that there's evidence that what they discovered was a more complex version of the Higgs. All the "impostors" were predicted already. That's why the guys could do calculations on it. And they are likely to be way "cooler" than the standard…

Amazing pic! haha.

You mean like Inception's dream within a dream? Yusuf: That many dreams within dreams is too unstable!

Laphroaig? Fine fine choice, sir. I have yet to try Nikka but will make it my next.

My favorite "hard drink" from New Zealand is Viking beer. It costs around USD$30c per can, and the makers/brewers admit it's so crap that they print "Conquer the taste" on the cans. http://canmuseum.com/Detail.aspx?CanID=10289

That's how I would have interpreted it. But from the abstract of one of the new studies: "Furthermore, mass spectrometry showed that this DNA contains only trace amounts of free arsenate and no detectable covalently bound arsenate.". It sounds like there's a way to detect whether the arsenic is free or "bound". How do…

From the original NASA press-release: "A variety of sophisticated laboratory techniques was used to determine where the arsenic was incorporated.". Both the papers from science used mass spectroscopy. Anyone have any insight on which techniques the first used and how this might differ from that used in the latter two…

I don't think you should be scared about "using up your brain". What worries me more is the time and effort required, and the rewards of that labor. 4 hours a day for 3 months is a lot of work. You need to decide if the rewards are worth it; and if your time is better spent on something else. This is why I think…