Written by European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Credits: ESRF/Pascal Goetgheluck
The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for decades.
Valuable new information obtained with state-of-the-art synchrotron microtomography at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron (Grenoble, France), allowed an international team of scientists to answer this question in Nature Communications. The wing bones of Archaeopteryx were shaped for incidental active flight, but not for the advanced style of flying mastered by today’s birds.
The past decade of work by Stephen Crothers (pictured), following some earlier work by Antoci and Abrams, has focused on mathematically demonstrating the impossibility of the black hole, consistent with the original analysis by Karl Scwarzschild.
This paper briefly reviews Crothers’ work, then presents a physical argument against the credulity of the black hole. This argument examines the extreme difficulty, if not altogether impossibility, of the ‘irresistible force’ of increasing gravity allegedly collapsing a neutron star into an even greater ‘immovable object’ of increasing density – a black hole.
WATER WORLDS The TRAPPIST-1 system, with seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a dwarf star, has captured the attention of scientists hunting for life outside the solar system. New estimates of the planets’ composition indicates that several are enveloped in water and ice.
The vast majority of hydropower dams in the Mekong Delta in Southeast Asia have a similar climate footprint as wind power, solar power, and other renewable power sources, scientists conclude in a newly published study in the peer-reviewed Environmental Research Letters.
The findings are particularly powerful because the Mekong Delta dams are likely to emit more methane than dams built and maintained in the United States and much of the rest of the world.
A US Federal Court finally recognizes that climate scientists do not measure properly. Honest mistakes are forgivable, some are plainly intended to commit science fraud.
An open California courtroom this week saw dodgy alarmist scientists properly exposed and taken to task by a US Federal judge – who just so happens to also be a trained engineer! (see: ‘California Court Shines Bright Light On Junk Climate Science‘
There are a number of different techniques and methods that the fake news media uses to attack and demonize those who are concerned with the harmful side effects of some vaccines. Some of these methods were outlined in a recent article published by The World Mercury Project titled “Journalists ‘Shots’ Sometimes Miss Their Mark.”
IMAGE: THE 2X2 MM SENSOR MONITORS INGESTED FLUIDS AND TRANSMITS INFORMATION WIRELESSLY. CREDIT: FIO OMENETTO, PH.D., TUFTS UNIVERSITY
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 22, 2018) – Monitoring in real time what happens in and around our bodies can be invaluable in the context of health care or clinical studies, but not so easy to do.
That could soon change thanks to new, miniaturized sensors developed by researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering that, when mounted directly on a tooth and communicating wirelessly with a mobile device, can transmit information on glucose, salt and alcohol intake.
Written by Robert A. Beatty BE (Minerals) FAusIMM(CP)
ABSTRACT: The cause of gravity and its relationship to the formation of the Universe is explored together with a possible relationship between our nearest Black Hole, and Earth.
Attempt to sue oil companies backfires as judge calls out their exaggerations and deceptions. ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners suing oil companies were left wounded yesterday when the first ever “climate change trial” left their exaggerations badly exposed under questioning from a curious judge who demanded evidence not allegations.
Only forty-some years ago, “climate science” suddenly turned from advancing a theory of global cooling to one of global warming.
A 123-page paper by Christopher Booker explains this sudden change in terms of a “groupthink” belief system formulated and perpetuated by a few strong personalities.
For the past decade, Greenpeace has publicly insisted that free speech* is not absolute. Rather than regarding it as a fundamental, non-negotiable pillar of democracy, Greenpeace treats free speech like a bit of wire to be twisted this way and that.
Intent on squelching climate dissent, a Greenpeace website says“there’s also a responsibility that goes with freedom of speech – which is based on honesty and transparency.”
German scientists Dr. Sebastian Lüning (geology) and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (chemistry) say a recent sea-level rise paper is “alarmist” and based on sloppy, “faulty” science.
In looking for causes, I have applied the ‘Sherlock Holmes procedure’ of eliminating one suspect after another. The procedure has left us without any good suspect. Thermal expansion was the candidate of choice at the time of the first IPCC review. The computed steric rise is too little, too late, and too linear.– Walter Munk
Physicist Stephen Hawking’s final paper attempted to unify gravity and quantum mechanics. But, sorry, that last paper doesn’t favour the so-called “multiverse”, though there’s some cool stuff in it if you ignore the headlines.
The late professor Hawking and colleague Belgian theoretical physicist Thomas Hertog first published this paper at arXiv in July last year, and posted an updated version on 4 March, 10 days before Hawking’s death.
