Scientists confirms of water ice near the surface beside NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead. Phoenix has spotted the sublimation of probable water ice in a trench excavated by its robotic arm by comparing two photos taken on the 21st and 25th days of the mission, aka Sols 20 and 24 (15 and 19 June).

Scientists applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully achieved, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe. A $9 billion particle accelerator –COLLIDER- designed to simulate conditions of the Big Bang that created the physical Universe was switched on at 0732 GMT to cheers and applause from experts gathered to witness the event.

A total of 1,513 from the original 2,506 examiners passed the Physician Licensure Examination given by the Board of Medicine this August 2008, the according to the Professional Regulation Commission. Exam results were announced late Thursday evening.

Exam passers will take their oath before the Board of Medicine on September 14, 1:30 p.m. at the Plenary Hall of the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila.

Marlon Diaz Garcia from Far Eastern University-Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation (FEU) is first placer with a rating of 88.75 percent.

Graeme Milton and colleagues have come up with a theory for how small objects could become invisible. Such technology remains far off, but it may not be entirely impossible. Teams of scientists around the globe say they’re making progress on theories and experiments involving cloaking. In theory, all that’s needed to make a small object invisible is something called a superlens, Graeme Milton said, a mathematician at the University of Utah. He and Australia-based collaborators Nicolae Nicorovici, Lindsay Botten and Ross McPhedran have made mathematical models showing that at a critical distance from a superlens, an object would seem to disappear. A superlens has a negative refractive index, meaning light that hits it reverses and goes in the opposite direction. Physicist John Pendry at Imperial College London was among the first to propose superlenses in 2000. At a certain distance from a superlens, an object becomes invisible because light that bounces off it cancels out with light reflecting off the superlens. It’s a little like noise cancellation devices such as earphones. This is WOW discovery, hearing this giving us an expectant heart that nothing is impossible with arising technology.

Google Welcomes you to a new kind of space race, where the earthly guest will be a machine and the goal is as much exploration. This quest is part of the Google Lunar X Prize, which will put $20 million into the hands of the first privately funded team that can land a rover on the moon; have it travel on the surface for 500 meters or more; send back data, photos and video; and do it all by December 31, 2012. The prize drops to $15 million after that date and goes away altogether after 2014. One of the main requirements is to have as little government involvement in the project as. So if you think your one of the geeks inventor qualified in this race, Go and form you’re team in reaching the goal of First Filipinos to land a rover on the moon.

An orange worm with squid-like tentacles and a black jellyfish were among the new species of marine life found by a team of U.S. and Philippine scientists have found new marine life in the Celebes sea and Tawi-tawi. Their search, funded by National Geographic Magazine, included the use of a remotely operated camera, which enabled them to observe depths in the area of 9,100 feet. The team consisted of 12 people, including a photographer who was present during the discovery of the Titanic wreckage in the 80’s. The area in which the expedition was conducted is cornered off by reefs and islands, which gives it an isolated environment in which new species

Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts. Potential applications include safety gear for U.S. soldiers and filtration systems for buildings and vehicles. The first project, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, is aimed at understanding how very small electrical charges present in fibers and nanofibers can help in capturing nanoparticles, bacteria and viruses. The position and distribution of the electrical charges on the nanofibers will be fed into computerized fluid dynamics algorithms developed by Andrey Kutznetsov of NC State to predict the trajectory of the nanoparticles challenging the filter. Hinestroza and NC State’s Warren Jasper pioneered work in this area a couple of years ago. The second project, in collaboration with the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), will study the incorporation of a new type of molecules - called metal organic polyhedra and metal organic frameworks - onto polymeric nanofibers to trap dangerous gases as toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents, then decompose them into substances that are less harmful to humans and capture them for further decontamination. The synthesis of these molecules was pioneered by Omar Yaghi of UCLA. This project will also look into the potential toxicity of these nanofiber-nanoparticle systems to humans in collaboration with Andre Nel from UCLA Medical School.

Scientist are planning to have the most intimate visit to the sun. Make possible using the NASA Solar Probe, an unmanned spacecraft scheduled for launch in 2015. the project will probably cost around $750 million and probe is being developed at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. Scientist hope that it would make a big help in solving many puzzles. But in the end of the day, God solves every unsolved puzzle.