Top 10 Scientific Discoveries

[Atomic_Piggy]

Pretty interesting.

Just an example of the first:

#1. Stem Cell Breakthroughs

Correction Appended: Dec. 11, 2007

In November, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and molecular biologist James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin reported that they had reprogrammed regular skin cells to behave just like embryonic stem cells. The breakthrough may someday allow scientists to create stem cells without destroying embryos ? sidestepping the sticky ethical issues and opposition from the U.S. government that surround embryonic stem-cell research ? but that day is still a ways off. Regarding his achievement, Thomson wrote in the Washington Post: "[It] changes both everything and nothing at all." His and Yamanaka's work is still in its early stages, and it's unclear whether reprogrammed skin cells will turn out to be as useful as embryonic stem cells; for now, stem-cell experts agree that embryonic research must continue. Indeed, just a week before the researchers' papers were published in Cell and Science, scientists in Portland reported that they had for the first time cloned embryonic stem cells from monkeys ? another step closer to human stem-cell cloning. None of the research has yet translated to usable therapies, but for the millions of patients for whom this work holds promise, science just took a big turn for the better.

 

[Eejit]

#2
God, Craig Ventner sure loves his publicity.

 

[Raziaar]

Just For Men scientific anti aging anti gray.


Rejected!

He's back ladies, and he's better than ever!

 

[<RJMC>]

times lost my respect whit the "halo:the thinking man fps" coment

 

[Viperidae]

Internet.

 

[Polaris]

#2
God, Craig Ventner sure loves his publicity.

#2
Craig Ventner is great scientist and his research on human genome was critical o the future of medicine. Too bad he is darwinist, biology and genetics is almost heresy in One Nation Under God.

 

[Eejit]

#2
Craig Ventner is great scientist and his research on human genome was critical o the future of medicine. Too bad he is darwinist, biology and genetics is almost heresy in One Nation Under God.

He doesn't do anything for the science, he does it for the money. He didn't do research on the human genome, he ran one of the two teams which were working on sequencing it.
His was the team wanting to do it in order to patent genes which would be used for e.g. diagnostics tests for inherited disease, rather than the other team of academics from all over the world who wanted the information to be free for use by anyone.

Still, competition helped it be completed faster.

But basically he's a famous, influential scientist who loves making headlines and is more about the money to be made from science rather than progress for the sake of improving society.

 

[Glirk Dient]

times lost my respect whit the "halo:the thinking man fps" coment

What is wrong with that? You do need to think a lot when playing halo or your gonna suck. Most games do require you to think a lot. Maybe halo a little more on the higher end competetive level because there is so much going on at once. I don't see why it's such a terrible comment. It's not like they said "Halo...you will never need anything else in life".

 

[delusional]

They killed the oldest animal alive!!

 

[Beerdude26]

#10. Real-Life Kryptonite

In April, geologists in Serbia dug up a white, powdery mineral that they weren't sure what to make of. They turned it over to Chris Stanley, a mineralologist at London's Natural History Museum, who discovered that it had the same chemistry — sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide — as the fictional kryptonite, the green glowing rock that, aside from Lois Lane, is Superman's only weakness. Its chemical make-up was revealed in the 2006 film Superman Returns in which villain Lex Luthor writes the formula on a box of rocks he steals from a museum. The real-life substance will be called jadarite, after the area of Serbia in which it was discovered. It can't be called kryptonite, alas, because krypton, the gas, is already a real element.

Holy ****. What are the chaneces.

 

[Pesmerga]

What is wrong with that? You do need to think a lot when playing halo or your gonna suck. Most games do require you to think a lot. Maybe halo a little more on the higher end competetive level because there is so much going on at once. I don't see why it's such a terrible comment. It's not like they said "Halo...you will never need anything else in life".

They basically said "No other game makes you think like Halo does. All other games are mindless shooters."

 

[Seppo]

#6. "Hot Jupiters" Discovered

This October, British scientists identified three new planets outside our own Solar System, as part of an ongoing search for Earth-like exoplanets called the Wide Area Search for Planets, or WASP. The new planets, named WASP-3, WASP-4 and WASP-5, are about the size of Jupiter, and orbit so close to their suns that their surface temperature reaches some 2,000?C. That rules out the possibility of life on these "hot Jupiters," but scientists surmise that other Earth-sized planets may be making cooler, longer orbits around those same suns.

pretty interesting stuff.

Heh, I laughed at the big dinosaur bird. I mean really? Is THAT one of the most important scientific discoveries in history?

 

[Eejit]

It's this year's discoveries Seppo

Otherwise they probably would have included things like, well, electricity.

 

[iamaelephant]

Happy to see astronomical discoveries on the list Our science is often neglected because of it's lack of real-world use. Pfft!

 

[Ennui]

they put Halo 3 as #1 video game of the year... "Every combat is even-sided and complex and can be waged in multiple ways, using an arsenal of long- and short-range weapons, plus grenades and hand-to-hand moves. Every level is perfectly paced and balanced and graced with soaring architectural compositions. Plus it's graphically gorgeous. The epic storyline and the stirring score don't hurt either. In one of the greatest years video gaming has ever seen, Halo 3 is the very best of the bunch."

Worthless Time.

 

[Seppo]

Hey, at least they didn't put Halo 3 as the number 1 scientific discovery. So it could be worse

 

[<RJMC>]

It's this year's discoveries Seppo

Otherwise they probably would have included things like, well, electricity.

them the discovery that should be instead of the bird dinosaur is that fossilised skin that is like a mold of the skin,and that may give acurate views on how the dinosaurs may have looked for example how much muscle they have and even a posilibity of coloration,like if they have stripes or not

I cant find the link but it should be around somewhere

 

[Polaris]

He doesn't do anything for the science, he does it for the money. He didn't do research on the human genome, he ran one of the two teams which were working on sequencing it.
His was the team wanting to do it in order to patent genes which would be used for e.g. diagnostics tests for inherited disease, rather than the other team of academics from all over the world who wanted the information to be free for use by anyone.

Still, competition helped it be completed faster.

But basically he's a famous, influential scientist who loves making headlines and is more about the money to be made from science rather than progress for the sake of improving society.

You can't make science for free and for good of all of us without funds.
He finances biotech science project because they can't make hi-tech science without extra money and also because federal government failed in funding biotechnology, guess why. His publicity is well deserved.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

SN 2006gy collapsed into a black hole and exploded in a galaxy 240 million light years away, and was first spotted by a Texas grad student in 2006.

Isn't it usually the other way round?

 

[Cheomesh]

This is cool stuff.

I totally am in favor of stem-cell research that doesn't involve harvesting dead babies.

 

[Avoidist]

Isn't it usually the other way round?

Yes. Black holes don't explode, there are laws against this sort of thing.

I'm guessing they observed a supernova explosion where evidence suggested that a black hole formed shortly afterward (as they do).

 

[iamaelephant]

You guys are confused about stellar evolution. When a star runs out of fuel it rapidly shrinks in size as the gravity of it's mass overcomes the nuclear reaction of the star's core. The rapid shrink in physical size causes the star to violently explode, shedding the outer layers of the star. This is a supernova. What's left after the supernova depends on the initial mass of the star - usually either a white dwarf, neutron star or, if the star was massive enough to being with, a black hole.

So the black hole formation and supernova are part of the same event and occur virtually simultaneously. The explosion is caused by the collapse.

 

[Eejit]

You can't make science for free and for good of all of us without funds.
He finances biotech science project because they can't make hi-tech science without extra money and also because federal government failed in funding biotechnology, guess why. His publicity is well deserved.

No it isn't. The human genome project was already being run in centres around the world funded by governments around the world (including the US DoE) and charities, with the results going to be given out for free.
Ventner decided he wanted to beat them to it so that he could patent genes and gene therapies. Luckily Clinton decided that genes couldn't be patented...

If you want a role model of genetic research try Ingo Potrykus.

 

[Cheomesh]

I'm iffy on bio-engineering. If abuse of that ever got out of hand...well...*shudder*

Glad I'm fearless or I'd be afraid of the future.

 

[Eejit]

Meh, it's about as dangerous as creating vaccines -.-

A terrorist could do bad things in a vaccination lab too, doesn't mean we should ban them...