[PatrickHenry]

SciencePing

An elite subset of the Evolution list. See the list's explanation at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped.

[spunkets]

"Putterman notes that the team did not continuously monitor background neutron levels. Although the neutron count doubles at some points in the experiments, Putterman says that neutrons produced in random showers of cosmic rays, rather than fusion events, could be responsible. But Taleyarkhan points out that the neutron count was smaller in detectors further from the reaction chamber."

This means there results produce fusion at a rate somewhere less than double, but on average closer to what happens when the beaker just sits on the desk.

[Drango]

If I can thread poach a little...There is a major project by FReepers and others regarding protein folding and distributed computing. The effort is dedicated to Ronald Reagan.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120

FReepers are ranked nationally (top 566 and growing) in our efforts to help this massive science project. Please join us if you would like to contribute. Here is one of several threads that can help point you to start donating your unused CPUs if you are interested.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1554097/posts

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[AdmSmith]

In order to be more popular they nowadays print many strange things both in Nature and in New Scientist. The latter wrote "Take a leap into hyperspace" http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200 with high crackpot index scores. It is sad that just a few days after the Physics year these things are published.

[Gumlegs]

Desktop fusion is back on the table

Shouldn't it be back on the desktop?