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Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law 1574

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 10 2008, @08:12AM
from the teaching-magic-in-science-class dept.

H0D_G writes "The US state of Louisiana has passed the 'Science Education Act,' a piece of legislation that could allow Intelligent design to be taught in schools. From the article: 'The act is designed to slip ID in "through the back door"'"

Moon May Have Once Had Water 89

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 10 2008, @07:34AM
from the also-i-may-once-have-had-whisky dept.

Smivs writes "US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior, challenging some elements of the theory of how Earth's satellite formed.The Moon is thought to have been created in a violent collision between Earth and another planet-sized object. Scientists thought the heat from this impact had vaporised all the water. But a new study in Nature magazine shows water was delivered to the lunar surface from the interior in volcanic eruptions three billion years ago. This suggests that water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence."

Hubble finds Rings of Dark Matter

Submitted by vparkash on Tuesday May 15 2007, @04:45PM

vparkash writes "Space.com reports that the Hubble space telescope has discovered a ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a collision between two massive galaxy clusters designated ZwCl0024+1652. Interestingly scientists had discovered the rings over a year earlier and thought that they were an artifact and not real!"

Depletion Levels in Ghawar w/ Linux clusters

Submitted by microsoft_hater on Tuesday May 15 2007, @04:24PM

microsoft_hater writes "The Oil Drum forum published an article by geologist Stuart Stanford analyzing Saudi oil reserves and production with the assistance of imaging using Linux super clusters. Particular attention is paid to the super-giant Ghawar, the world's largest oil field. Stanford makes a strong case for worse soon-to-come Saudi declines, and insinuates (who would have guessed?) the Saudi's are lying about where their production future is trending..."