Science Etcetera, Moonday 20080623

June 23rd, 2008

An incredibly fascinating molecular engine propels the flagellum in swimming bacteria (creationists use it as an example of irreducible complexity), now scientists have found the protein “clutch” bacteria use to make it stop spinning.

Protein “clutch” for Bacteria Flagellum
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation

If cars improved their efficiency at the same pace as computers, a liter of fuel would power the UK for a year.

Floods, droughts, tornadoes, monsoons… Seem like there’s a lot of extreme weather going on? It’s just what Global Warming Theorists predicted.

The white patches exposed by the Mars Lander have shrunk, confirming the Lander has found water on Mars.

Trevor Paglen has photographed 189 Satellites the government says do not exist.

For $500,00 a civil engineer has built a photovoltaic-hydrogen method of powering his house and car that will take him off-grid forever.

Scientists have caught a photo of a pulse of light.

Pulse of Light
Credit: Science

Not only is Al Gore not using 10-percent more power this year as the dittoheads are mind-numbingly asserting, the power he is using is 100 percent green. A fact you won’t see on Faux Noise.

Also contrary to Fox News assertions, a new study finds Arab Journalists are not Anti-America.

Bad Boys get the girls, which is bad news for our species.

Doctors who extracted a man’s immune cells, cloned them to 5 X 10⁹, and put them back into him cured his skin cancer.

Iowa’s floodwaters are going to widen the Gulf of Mexico’s “Dead Zone.”

American have cut their driving by 30 Billion miles for November through April.

MPG is very misleading in understanding fuel efficiency, this video from the Duke School of Business explains why GPM is much more informative: