In scientists’ endless quest for the secret of invisibility, we now have a cloak that makes SOUND invisible. Now they are studying a group of sharks that can sneak up on their prey by seeming to becoming one with the ocean around them. (on your next ocean voyage, be sure to stay inside!)
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This isn’t the first case of a mysterious goo that we’ve heard of. This time, the results are as big a mystery as the slime itself. In the Inuit village of Kivalina in Alaska, a strange orange goo was floating on the water.
The next day it rained, and residents found the orange goo floating on top of the rain buckets they use to collect drinking water. It was also found on one of the roofs, meaning it was airborne.
When it finally began washing ashore, samples were collected and sent to a lab in Anchorage for analysis. The analysis revealed the slime was made out of EGGS! But nobody know where they came from.
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It’s been discovered that DNA can travel on a meteorite, meaning that life on Earth could have been seeded from another planet–maybe even Mars. If that’s the case, we don’t need to look for life on Mars–we’re looking at it every time we see another human being!
On the MSNBC website, Charles Q. Choi quotes chemist Jim Cleaves as saying, "People have been finding nucleobases in meteorites for about 50 years now, and have been trying to figure out if they are of biological origin or not."
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Even if we delegate future space travel to private companies, they will still need fuel in order to fly around, once they used conventional means to get off the earth. An unmanned space probe called the Pamela, launched 5 years ago, has detected a field of antimatter particles called antiprotons in a thin band around the earth that could provide fuel for these craft ("Pamela" does not refer to an astronomer’s girlfriend, it stands for Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics).
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