Scientists Close to Reconstructing First Living Cell: Scientific American

Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab – life – 09 June 2008 – New Scientist

Hints of structure beyond the visible universe – space – 10 June 2008 – New Scientist Space

Written in the skies: why quantum mechanics might be wrong : Nature News

As I said before, twice, Germany needs to revert its stance on nuclear power. A lot of progress has been made and nuclear fission is getting more and more viable as an energy source.
We cannot presently rely on wind turbines or solar plants since the sun doesn’t shine at night and there’s often not enough or too much wind to use wind turbines.
The only solution we have right now is nuclear power. It is the only cheap, reliable and efficient source of electricity that does not fuel the green house effect almost everybody is concerned about. It is probably the only power source that can sustain the world’s energy needs until we finally figure out how to make an economic fusion power plant. German funds are needed to allow researchers to study new power plant designs that would iron out some of the issues nuclear power presents. Germany should also allow reprocessing plants to be built.

Technology Review article

Interesting read.

Article

A very interesting article on which I just have one comment. It concludes by stating that God cannot be proved or disproved by this research and he is right. However, if we are able to create such emotions on our own, it would show that it isn’t God who provokes these feelings.

Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy

This article provides a good overview about why scientists do not consider homeopathy a science and why it is completely legitimate not to do so.  It cites articles from the pseudo-science journal “Homeopathy” and explains how many of the claims made in favor of homeopathy have no basis in reality and how studies that supposedly proof its effectiveness are flawed from a scientific point of view.
I hope it convinces some of the readers that homeopathic practices are questionable at best.

Physorg.com article
This is an Interesting discovery, I hope they can make use of it in the near future.

Finally a study that  demystifies the out of body experiences that are often claimed to have religious backgrounds.

I think it is quite interesting, actually. I’d love to experience the sensation that is created in this study.