HuffPost Science: Solar Heartbeat; Microbes' Rocket Fuel; Nazi 'Sun Gun'

April 5, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Sun's Magnetic 'Heartbeat' Revealed A magnetic "solar heartbeat" beats deep in the sun's interior, generating energy that leads to solar flares and sunspots, according to new research. Continue reading... Ancient Life Form Lives Off 'Rocket Fuel,' Study Shows Music Study Suggests Asians Have Key Advantage Bizarre Nazi Concept Weapon Spotlighted In Vintage PHOTOS Record-Setting Star Explosion Spied By Space Telescope Were Geologists All Wrong About How Continent Formed? WATCH: Galaxy Debate Settled With Help Of Stupendous Simulation Moon Mission Plan Takes Top Prize In Space Exploration Contest HD PHOTO: Mars In UNBELIEVABLE Clarity Were Geologists All Wrong About How Continent Formed? Record-Setting Star Explosion Spied By Space Telescope BEN GOLDACRE WATCH: What Doctors Don't Know About the Drugs They Prescribe Doctors need the results of clinical trials to make informed choices, with their patients, about which treatment to use. But the best currently available evidence estimates that half of all clinical trials, for the treatments we use today, have never been published. Continue reading... MARK MCCLELLAND Brain Mapping: Will We Be Ready For Humanity 2.0? If you could transfer your mind into a body that needs no sleep, suffers no pain, is made entirely of replaceable parts, and might allow you to live forever, would you? Add to the bargain a vastly improved IQ and the ability to retain everything you learn. It's the promise of mind uploading -- the transfer of a human mind into a computer -- and it may be feasible during the lifetime of today's teens. The implications are profound, and reach into every aspect of who we are and what we are capable of. Continue reading... CATHERINE WONG Just Beyond the Textbook: Why the Best Classroom Labs Are Real Labs Within the classroom, it can be easy to get trapped in the details. Indeed, it is just these pieces -- the facts and equations -- that lie at the heart of science, form the baseline on which everything new can be built. But there is something else at the heart of science, too. Continue reading... PAUL M. SMITH The Well-Charted Waters of Same-Sex Parenting During the Supreme Court arguments in the Proposition 8 case last week, there seemed to be some confusion about the social science evidence concerning same-sex parents and their ability to raise children, but there is no "disagreement" among the experts about what the research says. Continue reading... JOHN C.K. DALY More Scientific Evidence Linking Fracking and Earthquakes As the practice of hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas continues to spread not only in the U.S. but worldwide, the scientific community has increasingly focused on the environmental consequences of the technique. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.