LGP Science Thread

[eddysnake]

don't want to get a colonoscopy? get a dog

Researchers from Kyushu University and colleagues report that a specially trained 8-year-old female Labrador retriever named Marine is able to detect colorectal cancer among patients with up to 98 percent accuracy.

For the study, Sonoda's group collected samples of stool and exhaled breath from 40 patients with colorectal cancer and also from 320 healthy people. "The tests were conducted from November to June, because the dog's concentration tends to decrease during the hot summer season," Sonoda noted.

The dog was able to distinguish cancerous samples from noncancerous samples in 33 of 36 breath tests and in 37 of 38 stool tests, the researchers found. "Moreover, canine scent judgment even appeared to be highly accurate for early-stage colorectal cancer," Sonoda said

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/c ... 49419.html

[doublem]

http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/oxy ... cion-1297/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Oxytocin: The Chemical of Love... Or Suspicion

[doublem]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... -cell-mode" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Flaw in Induced Stem-Cell Model

[columbia]

Cancer resembles life 1 billion years ago, say astrobiologists:
http://www.lifescientist.com.au/article ... iologists/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PensFanInDC]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... -cell-mode

Flaw in Induced Stem-Cell Model

The impact of such discrepancies remain unclear, says William Lowry, a stem-cell biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "The problem is that we don't know if any of these differences are going to be consequential."

[Corvidae]

Cancer resembles life 1 billion years ago, say astrobiologists:
http://www.lifescientist.com.au/article ... iologists/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

lol @ "astrobiologist"

[PensFanInDC]

Cancer resembles life 1 billion years ago, say astrobiologists:
http://www.lifescientist.com.au/article ... iologists/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

lol @ "astrobiologist"

Astrobiologist makes me think of...

[viva la ben]

Evidence mounting of massive object just outside our solar system
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/15/sc ... ce/?hpt=C2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some of you might remember the speculated Nemesis Star, well looks like NASA could find it soon.

[SolidSnake]

Cue 2012

[roland]

I saw this awhile ago but just came across it again. Scale of the Universe from subatomic particle to beyond observable Universe.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Physical_Graffiti]

I saw this awhile ago but just came across it again. Scale of the Universe from subatomic particle to beyond observable Universe.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's amazing

[columbia]

My father's birthday is coming up and a good science book is always appreciated.
Anything in the last year that has come out in chemistry/physics/astronomy that is worth a look?

[count2infinity]

it wasn't in the past year, but the disappearing spoon. it's a really good book.

[columbia]

it wasn't in the past year, but the disappearing spoon. it's a really good book.

He got that for Christmas last year and loved it, but thanks for the suggestion.

[Physical_Graffiti]

My father's birthday is coming up and a good science book is always appreciated.
Anything in the last year that has come out in chemistry/physics/astronomy that is worth a look?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Design_(book)

[count2infinity]

Part one and two. Full of interesting facts about calcium.

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[bhaw]

Pretty cool video on black holes:
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[Azkar]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_cosmic_census" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So far Kepler has found 1,235 candidate planets, with 54 in the Goldilocks zone, where life could possibly exist.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Antimatter atoms caught by scientists at CERN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11 ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Physical_Graffiti]

Crazy:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story ... ml?ref=rss

For the first time, scientists believe they've detected the birth of a new world around a distant sun-like star.

If confirmed, the discovery, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, would provide scientists with the earliest view yet of how short-lived discs of material around young stars clump together in the early stages of planetary formation

[Kraftster]

Antimatter atoms caught by scientists at CERN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11 ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

CERN's next ambition is to create a beam of antimatter which they hope will allow them to unpeel more of the mysteries surrounding it will cause the earth to be consumed by a blackhole.

[eddysnake]

A NASA scientist reports detecting tiny fossilized bacteria on three meteorites, and maintains these microscopic life forms are not native to Earth.

If confirmed, this research would suggest life in the universe is widespread and life on Earth may have come from elsewhere in the solar system, riding to our planet on space rocks like comets, moons and other astral bodies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/ ... KQ20110307

cool stuff

[columbia]

My father's birthday is coming up and a good science book is always appreciated.
Anything in the last year that has come out in chemistry/physics/astronomy that is worth a look?

I went with:
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
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He seemed very pleased.

[columbia]

How Humans Got Spineless Penises and Big Brains:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... tml?ref=hp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PensFanInDC]

How Humans Got Spineless Penises and Big Brains:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... tml?ref=hp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Speak for yourself