Physicist may have finally cracked the black hole information loss paradox that has befuddled physicists for the past 40 years, according to an article accepted for publication by Physical Review D, which concludes that that an outside observer can never lose objects down a black hole.Case Western Reserve University physicists Tanmay Vachaspati, Dejan Stojkovic and Lawrence M. Krauss came to this conclusion after spending a year working on complex formulas to calculate the formation of new black holes.

“It’s complicated and very complex,” noted the researchers, regarding both the general problem and their particular approach to try to solve it.

The question that the physicists set out to solve is: “what happens once something collapses into a black hole?”

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“BBC News has an article detailing NASA’s replacement for the much-loved Hubble telescope. The $4.5 billion telescope will be placed in orbit 1.5 million km from Earth and will be almost three times the size of the Hubble. It is set to launch in 2013. They also plan to service the Hubble in 2008.”

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“With the financial help of NASA, American and European researchers have developed a new sensor to check for life on Mars. It should also be able to determine if traces of life’s molecular building blocks have been produced by anything that was once alive. The device has been tested in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It should be part of the science payload for the ExoMars rover planned for launch in 2013.”

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Pretty amazing stuff! This is starting to remind me more and more of the future!!

Betterhumans.com writes “Professor Ellen Heber-Katz and a team of scientists at the Wistar Institute (within the University of Pennsylvania) have engineered a mouse that appears to be able to fully regenerate damage to any organ in its body except the brain.“

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TimesOnline.co.uk: ‘Miracle mouse’ can grow back lost limbs

TheAustralian.news.com.au: It’s a miracle: mice regrow hearts

Dreamwalkerofyore writes “The New York Times has an article on a recent affirmation that the earth’s core rotates faster than the earth proper. From the article: ‘Confirming assertions first made in 1996, a team of geophysicists are presenting data in the journal Science today showing that the earth’s inner core… spins faster than the rest of the planet. Over a period of 700 to 1,200 years, the inner core appears to make one full extra spin. That extra spin could give scientists information about how the earth generates its magnetic field.’”

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