Quantum phenomenon

Just immediately after Istvan taught in quantum lessons here at kth, there's a research study posted on sciencedaily.

Quantum correlation

The End of Time

This is probably the most elaborate analysis in explaining 2012 phenomenon, which marks the end of time, not the end of the world. (with assumptions of course)

The End of Time

But after the read of the article, why does time follow earth's relative revolution around the Sun. If so, time is a human-created entity. But arguably since Space is not a human-created entity, it is highly possible space created time, since in many sciences both space and time are highly related. If space was created by something,   why does it not occur to matter, but dark matter, and how dark matter becomes matter? ??? ???

Why so stress?

The freak weather, after El Nino and La Nina, and increasing natural disasters worldwide spell only one thing - an imminent global crisis.

The world’s sea level is likely to rise by at least 3 feet in the next 100 years

If life sprung from probability of collisions and coalescence of a primordial soup, there should be many other earth-like planets out there. According to the Drake's Law learned in PC1322, technologically-developed planets tend to die out faster than young civilizations. In saying so, Earth might be heading into a deep frozen abyss like that of neighbour Mars.

Rising sea levels is linked closely to global warming, the heating of the Earth. It's a vicious cycle where water vapour traps heat from the Sun and warms the Earth. How will the cycle reverse itself? Hmm...

OMG this is so cute

Newly discovered hairy crabs that can live on probably forever without hunting for food, cuz they grow their on food on their claws.

Yeti Crab

Look at the video, the crabs are waving to you, saying "I'm here, I'm here!"

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Related to modules

The most exhilarating and yet most tedious modules tend to stir up interest and relevance to life. Like interesting things about Mars or the significance of the stonehenge. There's more that meets the eye of the arrangement of the stonehenge, just as fictional books like The Six Sacred Stones would mention. Mars has subsurface water ice, but possibility of it containing life is definitely small, at least for now. Eons of years ago, Mars might have been the Earth of that era though. The Sun would have been hotter, and Mars could have been in the ideal habitable zone while Earth was sweltering hot. Asteroid remains also show similar correlation to Mars' composition with remnants of somewhat living-organism-looking fossils that were discovered in the Antarctica.

Also, recently newspaper posted an article that scientist discovered that carbon dioxide emissions is not the primary cause of global warming and UV absorption. I mean during JC we already learned that the primary UV absorber in the air is water vapour since it constitutes more than 70% of our atmosphere. Why the surprise? Ocean current process + Atmospheric current process should unveil more about the current situation Earth is facing but too complex to be studied. I mean, no one knows what's right below the deepest depths of the oceans, or the deepest part of the Marianas Trench. If life did originate from the oceans, like abiogenesis seek to explain, then Carl Sargan's video would point towards our ancestries belonging to the deepest parts of the oceans where no light shines. But what is really down there other than the weird creatures all over the internet with lightbulbs hanging on their head,  prehistoric-looking sharks with exposed gills, translucent-skinned fishes with both eyes squared to the front etc. The other hypothesis, panspermia, too requires life to begin in the ocean, if life started off simple and evolved according to biology.

Quasicrystals

So much for learning crystal structures having bcc, fcc(ccp) or hcp and etc to only realise that these structures have a more limited usage than expected. We know crystal structures are derived from crystals itself, suggesting that a structure type is derived based on a crystal present of that structure, but applying this structure as the guide or basis for many other similar atom combinations proves to be limited.

Quasicrystals

So what causes aging?

Doubt on aging gene
According to the initial study, oxidative stress, a proposed culprit in mitochondria’s mechanism of aging, did not seem to be a factor in aging. The aging process is affected only by caloric restriction, and oxidative stress actually decreased. But it does seems like it's not true after all. Incidentally, animals that breathe slower lives longer as well.

Einstein might be wrong

It's not confirmed yet, but the CERN produced neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light which is 3E8 m/s. And so teleportation might actually come true :D
Was Einstein Wrong?
Sciencemag version

Extinction of Dinosaurs

Extinction of dinosaurs confirmed due to K-T event (Cretaceous-Tertiary Event) or the Chicxulub impact by an asteroid. Crater location is Mexico. Due to frreezing temperatures and 0 sunlight, autotrophs making food from sunlight died, and other organisms higher in the food chain died off due to hunger. If this event that occurred about 65million years ago did wipe out every living organism, there is no way humans evolved from scratch within 65million years based on the accepted theory of abiogenesis. Following the panspermia theory however, this can happen but panspermia is only a postulation, just like abiogenesis. Wiki's description of the event

Ancestors of Humans

Maybe we did "evolve" from apes, or maybe a better word is mutate. The distant ancestor of modern humans

Big News About Small Particles. And Why You Care

So maybe the Big Bang theory might be right after all. But where does this matter and anti-matter originate from anyway? From nothing? Big News About Small Particles. And Why You Care

Scientists Find a Star Wars World: One Planet, Two Suns

Our solar system was formed from a swirling nebula (huge gas cloud). Just like a ice skater on ice, the rotational movement caused the formation of the solar system in a horizontal plane with a single heated core, the sun and rapid cooling in the outer orbits. This planet with two suns pose a threat to the current accepted theory. Scientists Find a Star Wars World: One Planet, Two Suns