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At this month’s 215th meeting of the American AstronomicalSociety inour nation’s Capital, two researchers at the LosAlamos National Laboratory presented an idea that might throw thephysicscommunity for a loop. There may be something in theuniverse faster than light itself. (If you got our FREE weekly email newsletter, you would have already read this story! To sign up, click here).

John Singleton and Andrea Schmidt pushed the limits of thespeed of light theory, suggesting that while no ‘mass orinformation’ may travel any faster, waves of light couldpossibly pass through certain pulsars, or fast-spinningstars,faster than the speed of light.
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Don’t live in the South – Medical researchers call the South the “stroke belt,” because people born there have a higher risk of dying from stroke as adults, even if they later move away. Remember, it’s not LIVING there that’s the problem, it’s being BORN there. However, those who were both born in the stroke belt AND lived there as adults have the highest risk.

Researcher Maria Glymour says, “Our results cannot pinpoint a specific explanation, but they are consistent with other research suggesting that the roots of stroke risk begin in childhood or even infancy.”
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A gigantic experiment in the English countryside may indicate that reality is actually a hologram, which is basically a 3-D image that has been created on a flat surface.

It’s called the GEO600 experiment and consists of a group of temporary buildings that stretch for miles, alongside trenches covered with corrugated metal. Underneath all this metal are special detectors that measure gravitational waves that are the result of things like black holes. It’s a kind of low-cost CERN.
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No one in Haiti saw it coming because quakes in the Caribbean are hard to predict since most of the tectonic plate is below sea level.

Geoscientist Michele Cooke says, “This earthquake [was] not unexpected, which increases the tragedy of our current situation. We can only access the active faults where they are exposed on the islands.” This is in sharp contrast with the San Andreas Fault in California, where monitoring equipment is in place on both sides of the plate boundary along its entire length.
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