Scientists should investigate whether saturating the skin with “good” bacteria would offer better protection against deadly germs, says the paper. Mark Spigelman, of the UCL Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, is calling for a study to be set up in hospital units in which antibiotics would be banned, to explore alternative health protection [...]

Date: 2002-09-08T09:01:12

We stumble forward willy-nilly through space and time in the Great Process we call the universe. Awed and humbled by our apparent aloneness and the enormity of our surroundings, we cower behind these shells of memory and personality we call our egos, oft taking solace in the warm, fuzzy glow offered by surrender to [...]

This article now suggests that these baby black holes may warp the surrounding space-time “membrane” (or “brane”) to the extent that it actually wraps around the hole and reconnects, leaving the black hole off in a new, separate, “brane”, effectively creating a tiny new universe in that region.

The effect is dependent on how “flexible” the [...]

          Sir Isaac Newton recognized that an attracting force exists between all objects. He concluded that the strength of the force between two objects is directly proportional to their masses. (To Newton, mass referred to the amount of material of which an object was made.) He further concluded that the force [...]