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Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life
[ 2010-09-07 01:47 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...one of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals-such as amino acids and nucleotides-have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation?
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Lizard moving from eggs to live birth
[ 2010-09-04 14:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...evolution in action.
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Hurricane Earl
[ 2010-09-04 14:06 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...picture.
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Surface cracks show the Moon is shrinking
[ 2010-08-22 05:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...cracks discovered in the surface of the Moon suggest that our nearest neighbour is shrinking.
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Scientists confirm giant underwater oil plume
[ 2010-08-21 02:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...based on measurements taken in June, scientists have recreated the shape and distribution of oil in a massive plume in the Gulf of Mexico -- evidence the spill may not vanish as quickly as hoped.
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Bathynomus giganteus
[ 2010-08-20 03:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...giant isopod.
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Sun in action
[ 2010-08-20 02:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...if you get any closer it will burn you.
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The inflaton, mother of the universe
[ 2010-08-20 02:46 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the inflaton particle is credited with generating the universe and fuelling its inflation.
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Coplanarity of the Solar system and the Milky way
[ 2010-08-18 06:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...seen altogether the three movements confer to the Solar System an apparent helical motion around the nucleus of the galaxy.
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Voyager makes an interstellar discovery
[ 2010-08-18 06:37 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...december 23, 2009 : the solar system is crossing an interstellar cosmic cloud.
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Maya royal tomb discovered filled with offerings
[ 2010-08-10 00:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a Maya royal tomb, filled with offerings that include the bones of children, has emerged from an archaeological site in Guatemala.
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Something of enormous destructive power happens every 26 or 27 million years
[ 2010-08-10 00:01 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the question is what?
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Research reveals non-organic mechanism for production of important greenhouse gas
[ 2010-08-09 23:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...at Antarctica`s Mars on Earth.
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Quantum time machine solves grandfather paradox
[ 2010-08-09 23:56 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a new kind of time travel based on quantum teleportation gets around the paradoxes that have plagued other time machines.
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Robot to explore mysterious tunnels in Great Pyramid
[ 2010-08-09 23:36 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...for 4,500 years, no one has known what lies beyond two stone doors deep inside the monument.
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Bedbug pandemic
[ 2010-08-09 11:24 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...an international survey of pest control companies suggests the world is on the verge of a bedbug pandemic, says the U.S. National Pest Management Association.
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Peru suffers deadly outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague
[ 2010-08-05 11:12 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague in Peru has killed a 14-year-old boy and infected at least 31 people in a northern coastal province.
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Mind-controlled artificial arm begins the first human testing
[ 2010-08-05 03:13 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the world's first human testing of a mind-controlled artificial limb is ready to begin.
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NASA satellites detect over 600 wildfires across Russia
[ 2010-08-05 03:08 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the Aqua satellite, equipped with an atmospheric infrared sounder, and Terra, equipped with a thermal emission and reflection radiometer, have identified 636 forest fires in Russia.
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Hailstone that fell on South Dakota is largest ever in U.S.
[ 2010-08-05 03:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a hailstone weighing almost 2 pounds that fell on central South Dakota on July 25 is the largest ever recovered in the USA.
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Asteroid could threaten Earth in 2182
[ 2010-08-03 06:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists gauge risk at 1-in-1,000.
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In 2013, our sun will hit its solar maximum, creating disturbances that could take out the power grid
[ 2010-08-03 06:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...In March 1989, six million Quebecers lost power for nine hours after a massive solar flare-an explosion of magnetic energy from the sun-created electric ground currents here on Earth, collapsing the power grid.
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Vast asteroid crater found in timor sea
[ 2010-07-24 16:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the crater`s discovery may answer questions about a period of significant global cooling 35 million years ago.
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Gulf oil disaster : water tested - toxic levels of oil - sample explodes!
[ 2010-07-18 19:16 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a news 5 investigation collected samples from multiple beaches in and around the gulf region.
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New vaccine-scheduling study deals blow to safety fears
[ 2010-07-15 01:19 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Andrew Wakefield`s link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism-has been thoroughly discredited, the fear of vaccines has proven remarkably malleable.
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Birds turn their beaks up at organic food
[ 2010-07-15 01:17 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...wild birds preferred normal bird food to the organic option.
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Immaculate creation
[ 2010-07-15 01:16 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...birth of the first synthetic cell
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Think you`re operating on free will? Think again
[ 2010-07-08 13:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...recently psychologists have compiled an impressive body of research that shows how deeply our decisions and behavior are influenced by unconscious thought, and how greatly those thoughts are swayed by stimuli beyond our immediate comprehension.
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Carbon-rich comet fragments found in Antarctic snow
[ 2010-07-07 05:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...two tiny meteorites recently recovered from Antarctic snow contain material dating back to the birth of our Solar System, and may provide clues about the delivery of organic matter to Earth.
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Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes Mexico
[ 2010-06-30 23:59 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the Oaxaca region of Mexico early this morning at approximately 2:22 AM 2010-06-30, leaving one man dead.
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3.3 quake on San Andreas Fault shakes Bay Area
[ 2010-06-30 00:45 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a small earthquake on the San Andreas Fault rattled California from Santa Rosa to San Luis Obispo on Monday, but appeared to cause no damage.
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Colloidal silver: a panacea or toxin?
[ 2010-06-01 02:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...colloidal silver supplements, tiny silver particles that are suspended in a liquid, have been advertised as an alternative medicine.
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One of Jupiter`s belts disappears
[ 2010-05-28 06:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...south equatorial belt has completely faded away.
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An unusual, methane-free world
[ 2010-04-28 04:16 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a Neptune-sized planet reveals surprisingly low methane levels.
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A cow
[ 2010-04-20 00:05 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...what an amazing creature.
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Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor
[ 2010-04-19 15:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...these tiny creatures can join together to create some of the largest masses of life on the planet.
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Mathematics reveal universal properties of rope
[ 2010-04-09 14:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...most amazing of all is that these properties of rope depend only on its geometry, not its material properties.
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Bionic eye attempts to restore vision
[ 2010-04-08 06:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a bionic eye prototype developed by researchers in Australia aims to implant an array of electrodes in the eye that can deliver electrical impulses directly to neurons in the retina.
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Looking at sick people gives your immune system a boost
[ 2010-04-06 13:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...according to a University of British Columbia study, looking at sick people can boost your immune system. (Hanging around them does not.)
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Strong geomagnetic storm in progress
[ 2010-04-06 01:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...warning from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration.
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Fatty foods may cause cocaine-like addiction
[ 2010-04-01 23:34 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be addictive.
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Hubble builds 3D dark matter map
[ 2010-04-01 23:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...dark matter makes up the majority of mass in our universe.
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One gene lost = one limb regained
[ 2010-04-01 23:23 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists demonstrate mammalian regeneration through a single gene deletion.
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Man sues neighbor claiming wi-fi made him sick
[ 2010-03-30 17:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a Santa Fe man who claims to suffer from electromagnetic sensitivities has sued his neighbor after she refused to stop using wireless devices.
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First collisions at the LHC
[ 2010-03-30 17:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...at 1:06 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST) today, the first protons collided at 7 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider. These first collisions, recorded by the LHC experiments, mark the start of the LHC`s research program.
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NASA radar finds ice deposits at Moon`s north pole
[ 2010-03-24 13:05 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...as if they didn`t know this for like 50-60 years.
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SETI is 50 years old
[ 2010-03-24 13:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...no sign of ETs.
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LHC will be shut down in 2011 because of mistake
[ 2010-03-24 13:01 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...due to an unforeseen construction mistake, the LHC will cease experiments for a year (starting around late-2011) so repairs and upgrades can be carried out.
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Colours of dinosaur feathers
[ 2010-03-13 02:46 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists have found the distinctive signs of melanosomes, small structures that are partly responsible for the colours of modern bird feathers.
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Element 112 joins the periodic table
[ 2010-03-13 02:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the international union of pure and applied chemistry has confirmed the name "Copernicium" for element 112 and given it the symbol Cn.
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Dusty mirrors on the moon
[ 2010-03-13 02:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...obscure tests of relativity, something is getting in the way.
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The evolution of evolution
[ 2010-03-13 02:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...suppose that Darwin`s ideas were only a part of the story of evolution.
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Oil droplet is smarter than lab mouse
[ 2010-03-13 02:37 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...we tend to associate the ability of rats to quickly solve mazes with their navigational skills and intelligence.
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Diamond oceans possible on Uranus, Neptune
[ 2010-03-13 02:35 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...by melting and resolidifying diamond, scientists explain how such liquid diamond oceans may be possible.
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AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow
[ 2010-03-10 12:30 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness.
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Intelligent individuals more nocturnal
[ 2010-02-26 03:54 ] - Posted by sniper
...a study found that more intelligent individuals were more nocturnal, waking up and staying up later than less intelligent individuals. Because our ancestors lacked artificial light, they tended to wake up shortly before dawn and go to sleep shortly after dusk. Being nocturnal is evolutionarily novel.
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Physicist discovers how to teleport energy
[ 2010-02-23 06:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...first, they teleported photons, then atoms and ions. Now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy, a technique that has profound implications for the future of physics.
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Aliens can`t hear us, says astronomer
[ 2010-02-22 06:08 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...fainter broadcasting signals and digital switchover mean Earth will soon be undetectable to extraterrestrials.
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Vegetative state patients can respond to questions
[ 2010-02-22 06:06 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts.
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World's most precise clock
[ 2010-02-22 05:56 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...NIST's second quantum logic clock based on aluminum ion.
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Crystals in meteorite harder than diamonds
[ 2010-02-12 17:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...crystalline carbon had never been found in nature until now.
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First functional molecular transistor comes alive
[ 2010-02-12 17:05 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...nearly 62 years after researchers at Bell Labs demonstrated the first functional transistor.
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New antifreeze molecule isolated in Alaska beetle
[ 2010-02-11 01:37 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a novel antifreeze molecule in a freeze-tolerant Alaska beetle able to survive temperatures below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Signs of liquid water in Saturnian moon
[ 2010-02-09 21:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus.
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Robot arm places atoms and molecules with 100% accuracy
[ 2010-01-18 22:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...science nonfiction.
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Proof of life in three martian rocks may come this year
[ 2010-01-17 17:50 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...NASA says advanced instruments will allow it to definitively prove whether three Martian meteorites contain evidence of life... o rly? what a shock!
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Cell phone radiation may fight Alzheimer`s... in mice
[ 2010-01-14 14:56 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...information or disinformation? who knows!
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Aboriginal folklore leads to meteorite crater
[ 2010-01-14 14:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...an Australian Aboriginal dreaming story has helped experts uncover a meteorite impact crater.
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Physicists assemble world`s smallest snowman
[ 2010-01-07 01:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a diminutive fellow just 10 µm across, or 1/5th the width of a human hair.
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The coming nuclear crisis
[ 2010-01-07 01:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the world is running out of uranium and nobody seems to have noticed.
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Solar storm warning ( from 2006 )
[ 2010-01-07 01:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...old but interesting... old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011.
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The world`s tallest skyscraper
[ 2010-01-05 05:33 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Burj Dubai.
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Neural microelectrode array
[ 2009-12-16 08:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...an array of microelectrodes connects with the brain.
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Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months
[ 2009-12-15 06:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...just months - that`s how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age.
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Two-year-olds at risk from gender-bending chemicals
[ 2009-12-06 00:48 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...children are being exposed to dangerous levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals in domestic products such as rubber clogs and sun creams, according to an EU investigation being studied by the government.
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Most distant object in the universe discovered
[ 2009-10-29 14:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...13 billion years old. the primal cosmic darkness was being pierced by the light of the first stars and the first galaxies were beginning to form.
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Telescope discovers giant ring around Saturn
[ 2009-10-09 14:52 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn.
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Seasonal flu shots double risk of getting swine flu
[ 2009-10-04 17:55 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...report suggests people who get vaccinated are more likely to catch H1N1.
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An artificial heart that doesn`t beat
[ 2009-10-01 04:29 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a new concept for an artificial heart could solve some problems with older models--and test the idea that we don`t need a pulse.
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A wing on each four limbs
[ 2009-09-30 06:51 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a newly described, profusely feathered dinosaur may give lift to scientists` understanding of bird and flight evolution.
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Fungus-treated violin outdoes Stradivarius
[ 2009-09-20 04:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the violin they had created using wood treated with a specially selected fungus was to take part in a blind test against an instrument made in 1711 by the master violin maker of Cremona himself, Antonio Stradivarius.
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First detailed photos of atoms
[ 2009-09-20 04:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...for the first time, physicists have photographed the structure of an atom down to its electrons.
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Ancient plant
[ 2009-09-20 04:51 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists have taken a leap forward in a battle to save a rare and endangered plant.
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Bacteria used to make radioactive metals inert
[ 2009-09-20 04:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the Lost Orphan Mine below the Grand Canyon hasn`t produced uranium since the 1960s, but radioactive residue still contaminates the area.
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Image of a Molecule
[ 2009-09-09 05:46 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...for the first time, researchers have taken a 3D image of an individual molecule.
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Tetris can alter the structure of your brain
[ 2009-09-09 05:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...playing Tetris actually gives you more brain to work with.
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Eyeless crustacean found in tunnel to Atlantis
[ 2009-08-29 15:16 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a species of crustacean with no eyes and venom-injecting fangs has been discovered in an underwater volcanic cave in the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa.
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A broken heart really does hurt
[ 2009-08-27 04:23 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...researchers have found a genetic link between physical pain and social rejection, which means that breaking up with a partner really can be painful.
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We are very small
[ 2009-08-27 04:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
......picture.
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A new approach to fusion
[ 2009-08-27 04:20 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a startup in Vancouver, Canada, says it can build a prototype fusion power plant within the next decade and do it for less than a billion dollars.
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Gene therapy creates a new fovea
[ 2009-08-27 04:17 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...twelve months after receiving an experimental gene therapy for a rare, inherited form of blindness, a patient discovered that she could read an illuminated clock in the family car for the first time in her life.
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Human sperm created in laboratory
[ 2009-07-12 01:18 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...researchers have been able to create human sperm from embryonic stem cells.
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Sperm travels faster toward attractive females
[ 2009-07-12 01:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...females may be outwardly choosy when selecting sexual partners -- accepting or shunning mates in very public ways -- but males may get the last say in this battle of the sexes.
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Frogs species discovered living in elephant dung
[ 2009-06-17 02:01 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the first time anyone has recorded frogs living in elephant droppings has widespread conservation implications both for frogs and Asian elephants, which are in decline.
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New element for periodic table
[ 2009-06-11 18:07 ] - Posted by joyce
...it has taken more than a decade for element 112, the biggest and heaviest atom yet, to be officially recognised.
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First extra-galactic planet may have been detected
[ 2009-06-11 02:54 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...using a technique called Pixel-lensing, a group of astronomers in Italy may have detected a planet orbiting another star. But this planet is unique among the 300-plus exoplanets discovered so far, as it and its parent star are in another galaxy.
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BPA, chemical used to make plastics, found to leach from polycarbonate drinking bottles into humans
[ 2009-05-26 05:16 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...exposure to BPA, used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and other plastics, has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans.
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Gene transfer offers HIV hope
[ 2009-05-21 02:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a new approach protects monkeys from a virus that closely resembles HIV.
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Cure for honey bee colony collapse?
[ 2009-04-26 22:30 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...for the first time, scientists have isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome.
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Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away
[ 2009-04-19 13:56 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
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Jupiter`s stormy great red spot is shrinking
[ 2009-04-18 02:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the spot, which is actually an ancient monster storm that measures about three Earths across, lost 15 percent of its diameter between 1996 and 2006.
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Artificial Protein Mimics Blood A man-made protein that carries oxygen could lead to artificial blood
[ 2009-04-01 22:52 ] - Posted by seveneleven
...researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have constructed from scratch a protein that can do what certain proteins in the human body can carry and deliver oxygen.
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Lower air pollution equals longer life
[ 2009-04-01 22:47 ] - Posted by seveneleven
...a new study by the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has found a strong link between air quality and life expectancy.
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Space tourist flights from Sweden by 2012
[ 2009-03-21 11:47 ] - Posted by seveneleven
...potential space tourists eager to blast off from northern Sweden will soon be able to purchase tickets at the country`s Ice Hotel for launches set to start in 2012.
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Predator X
[ 2009-03-18 21:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a marine monster described as the most fearsome animal ever to swim in the oceans boasted a bite up to 11 times as strong as that of Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Bionic eye gives blind man sight
[ 2009-03-10 23:31 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.
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Cyborg moth
[ 2009-03-03 03:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...electrodes and a control chip are inserted into a moth during its pupal stage. when the moth emerges the electrodes stimulate its muscles to control its flight.
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First evidence of a supernova in an ice core
[ 2009-02-28 11:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...there hasn't been a decent supernova in our part of the universe in living memory but astronomers in the 11th century were a little more fortunate.
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Ten new species of amphibian discovered in Colombia
[ 2009-02-06 13:38 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a spiky orange rain frog and three poison frogs are among 10 new species of amphibian discovered in Colombia.
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Stone tool 1.83 million years old discovered in Malaysia
[ 2009-02-02 13:37 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...archaeologists have announced the discovery of stone tools they believe are more than 1.8 million years old and the earliest evidence of human ancestors in Southeast Asia.
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Teleportation is real
[ 2009-01-30 06:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a team of scientists have managed to teleport information between two atoms up to a meter apart.
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Marijuana could prevent Alzheimer`s
[ 2009-01-27 22:33 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a puff a day might keep Alzheimer`s away.
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Mars, Mercury have formed from Earth and Venus planetary scraps
[ 2009-01-23 22:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a new model of planetary formation, introduced in January 2009, suggests that Mars and Mercury were formed from the leftover scraps of Earth and Venus.
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Carnivorous dung beetle shuns dung and decapitates millipedes
[ 2009-01-22 03:59 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a ferocious scarab species has been filmed in Peru attacking and eating millipedes 10 times its length.
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Venomous mammal caught on camera
[ 2009-01-12 10:23 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...rare footage of one of the world`s most strange and elusive mammals has been captured.
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Spookfish has mirrors for eyes
[ 2009-01-12 10:17 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a Pacific fish uses mirrors as well as lenses to help it see in the murky ocean depths.
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Meteorites laid groundwork for early life
[ 2008-12-19 16:32 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...life on Earth may have been kick-started when meteorites crashed into the oceans, generating a soup of organic molecules from inorganic precursors, a new study has found.
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Oldest human brain discovered
[ 2008-12-18 10:24 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...brains consist of fatty tissue which microbes in the soil would absorb, so neurologists believe the find could be some kind of fossilised brain.
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Nikola Tesla
[ 2008-12-17 11:05 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...wireless power.
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Injectable artificial bone developed
[ 2008-12-16 09:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...artificial injectable bone that flows like toothpaste, and hardens in the body, has been invented by British scientists.
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Researchers identify new region of the magnetosphere
[ 2008-12-15 07:52 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites has revealed the existence of the warm plasma cloak, a new region of the magnetosphere, which is the invisible shield of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surround and protect Earth from the onslaught of the solar wind.
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Evolving rocks
[ 2008-11-27 21:19 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a landmark scientific study co-authored by a Canadian geologist has identified a sudden explosion of mineral diversity after the emergence of life on Earth, and advanced a theory that rocks have been evolving - much like plants and animals - throughout the planet`s history.
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2012
[ 2008-11-24 19:09 ] - Posted by Jack Smadi
...Mayan Calendar , What will happend ?
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Deja Vu
[ 2008-11-24 13:05 ] - Posted by Jack Smadi
...the short desc is w0w
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Machine condenses drinking water out of air
[ 2008-11-24 08:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the company, Element Four, has developed a machine that it hopes will become the first mainstream household appliance to have been invented since the microwave. Their creation, the WaterMill, uses the electricity of about three light bulbs to condense moisture from the air and purify it into clean drinking water.
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Scientists convert stem cells into functioning eyes in frogs
[ 2008-11-22 04:39 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...when transplanted onto frog embryos that had had one eye removed, the cells developed into all seven types of cells found in the retina and also grew connections to the appropriate target in the brain.
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Evolution not random?
[ 2008-11-18 08:51 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a team of scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution, which appears to offer evidence of a hidden mechanism guiding the way biological organisms respond to the forces of natural selection, provides a new perspective on evolution.
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Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory
[ 2008-11-18 07:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear.
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Marrow transplant cured AIDS
[ 2008-11-13 23:56 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...an American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia.
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Rainforest fungus naturally synthesizes diesel
[ 2008-11-05 12:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a fungus that lives inside trees in the Patagonian rain forest naturally makes a mix of hydrocarbons that bears a striking resemblance to diesel.
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New evidence on fluoride and the developing brain
[ 2008-10-30 11:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the question of how fluoride affects the developing brain gained renewed attention from researchers around the world.
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World record for non-stop flying - an epic 11,200 kilometres
[ 2008-10-25 23:50 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a small female bar-tailed godwit somewhere in New Zealand.
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The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle
[ 2008-10-14 10:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the solar minimum - in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year - with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots.
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Leading geneticist Steve Jones says human evolution is over
[ 2008-10-11 01:17 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West.
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Evolution machine lets students see it happen
[ 2008-10-08 05:54 ] - Posted by SONICWANDERER
...Evolution has taken another step away from being dismissed as "a theory" in the classroom, thanks to a new article in PLoS Biology.
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CERN in 3 minutes
[ 2008-10-08 05:51 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a 3 min tour of CERN and its research facilities.
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Team finds Earth`s oldest rocks
[ 2008-10-01 01:16 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Earth`s most ancient rocks, with an age of 4.28 billion years, have been found on the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada.
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Naphthalene found in outer space
[ 2008-09-21 05:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the detection of this molecule suggests that a large number of the key components in prebiotic terrestrial chemistry could have been present in the interstellar matter from which the Solar System was formed.
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Ancient trees recorded in mines
[ 2008-09-11 07:36 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois.
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Research finds carbon dating flawed
[ 2008-09-11 07:33 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientist uncovers miscalculation in geological undersea record
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Biologist almost creates artificial life
[ 2008-09-10 07:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.
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Prions jump species barrier
[ 2008-09-08 07:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a given prion strain is transmissible from one species to another. Prion proteins are responsible for Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and "mad cow" disease. But they also found that when a prion jumps species, it produces a new kind of prion. "This is very worrisome,".
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Junk DNA may have triggered key evolutionary changes in human thumb and foot
[ 2008-09-08 07:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled us to manipulate tools and walk upright.
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New study shows solar system is unique
[ 2008-09-02 22:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientist shows our solar system is special, contrary to the accepted theory that it is an average planetary system.
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Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision
[ 2008-08-28 23:29 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: our ability to see through things.
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Very long-term backup
[ 2008-08-26 01:41 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Paper, it turns out, is a very reliable backup medium for information. While it can burn or dissolve in water, good acid-free versions of paper are otherwise stable over the long term, cheap to warehouse, and oblivious to technological change because its pages are "eye-scanable." No special devices needed. Well-made, well-cared for paper can last 1,000 years easily, and probably reach 2,000 without much extra trouble.
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Girl without a face.
[ 2008-08-24 19:57 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Deformity
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The Tree Man from Indonesia
[ 2008-08-24 19:48 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Rare and painful illness
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Disproof of global warming hype published
[ 2008-08-24 17:33 ] - Posted by SONICWANDERER
...A mathematical proof that there is no "climate crisis" has been published in debate on global warming in Physics and Society, a scientific publication of the 46,000-strong American Physical Society.
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Richard Dawkins on the strangeness of science
[ 2008-08-24 17:06 ] - Posted by SONICWANDERER
...why can`t we see atoms? why can`t we hear color? how can we understand randomness?
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Odd Black Hole Defies Explanation
[ 2008-08-20 01:51 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
......a weight class not previously known to exist.
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Calculations find that many universes could sustain stars
[ 2008-08-19 07:50 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...contrary to some previous claims, stars are not only common in our cosmos but are also ablaze in myriad other universes, where the laws of physics may be drastically different.
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NASA plans to smash spacecraft into the moon
[ 2008-08-16 02:55 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon`s South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.
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We are very veryy small
[ 2008-08-11 21:20 ] - Posted by SONICWANDERER
...planet size solar sizes comparison.
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Do they really think the earth is flat?
[ 2008-08-11 21:13 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...In the 21st Century, the term "flat-earther" is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But there is a group of people who claim they believe the planet really is flat.
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The Incredible Universe
[ 2008-08-09 08:54 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...How big is the Universe? Do you think you know?
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Male and Female Androgyny
[ 2008-08-06 04:33 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Androgynous Boy and Girl
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Can "male" animals become pregnant?
[ 2008-08-06 04:13 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Inpregnation of male species.
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World`s first transplant of two full arms
[ 2008-08-03 01:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...German medical team said Friday it had performed what it called the world`s first transplant of two full arms, on a farmer who had lost both his limbs in an accident.
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Scientific evidence of life on Mars?
[ 2008-07-31 03:30 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...See and judge for yourself.
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The origin of life
[ 2008-07-30 11:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...ideas worth spreading! Abiogenesis.
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Astronomers claim discovery of Earth-like planet
[ 2008-07-22 23:45 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...five times as massive as Earth, it orbits a relatively cool star at a distance that would provide earthly temperatures as well, signaling the possibility of liquid water.
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Rare star-making machine found in distant universe
[ 2008-07-13 16:05 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year. In comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy turns out an average of just 10 stars per year.
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Nano materials could pose major health risks
[ 2008-07-13 16:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Panel issues warning for products with nanomaterials, saying tiny substances in everything from sunscreen to diesel fuel may be toxic.
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Roundest objects in the world created
[ 2008-07-02 15:47 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...an international group of engineers and craftsmen has built a pair of nearly perfect spheres that are thought to be the roundest objects in the world.
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Existing drug reverses a form of mental retardation in mice
[ 2008-06-29 04:35 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a drug already on the market for a completely unrelated condition could be used to treat a form of mental retardation linked to autism.
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Scientists create synthesized DNA
[ 2008-06-29 03:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...researchers has recently successfully created two artificial DNA bases.
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Project readies human trial for artificial retinas
[ 2008-06-27 11:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...sponsored by the Department of Energy, `The blind will see again,` could be the motto of the Artificial Retina Project, which is getting ready to implant a 60-pixel artificial retina chip into 10 blind patients later this year.
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Pistol shrimp
[ 2008-06-19 20:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Pistol shrimp blowing a blast of water a speed of 100km/h with temp 9900C.
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Time before Big Bang
[ 2008-06-12 20:50 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang.
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Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab
[ 2008-06-12 20:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers` eyes. It`s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.
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Giant ring encircling exotic dead star
[ 2008-06-04 00:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...One of the most powerful eruptions in the universe might have spun an infrared ring around a rare and exotic star known as a magnetar, a highly magnetized neutron star and the remnant of a brilliant supernova explosion signaling the death throes of a massive star.
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Jupiter gains new red spot
[ 2008-05-28 14:39 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A new hot-hued storm spot churns away on Jupiter on May 9 and 10.
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30,000 scientists rejecting global warming hypothesis
[ 2008-05-22 02:47 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Dr. Arthur Robinson (OISM) to release names of over 30,000 scientists rejecting global warming hypothesis.
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Black hole information mystery
[ 2008-05-16 23:45 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Physicists have come up with a way to explain how information could escape from a black hole, an idea that`s been debated since the 1970s.
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Ultra-dense galaxies found in early universe
[ 2008-04-30 01:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A team of astronomers looking at the universe`s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. These young galaxies are the equivalent of a human baby that is 20 inches long, yet weighs 180 pounds.
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Scientists link 17 living people to an aboriginal man found in glacier
[ 2008-04-29 16:37 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have found a direct link between the frozen remains of a man found in a glacier in northern B.C. and 17 people living in B.C., Yukon and Alaska.
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They`re Blinding us with Pseudoscience - The Global Warming Scare
[ 2008-04-17 14:23 ] - Posted by Stefan Fobes
...An article I wrote on the scam and what it`s being used for. Comments are welcomed!!
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Free will ?
[ 2008-04-14 18:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Brain scanners can see your decisions before you make them
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Before the Big Bang: a twin universe ?
[ 2008-04-10 10:59 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a new theory called Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) has emerged. The theory suggests the possibility of a
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Youngest planet
[ 2008-04-07 21:33 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...An embryonic planet detected outside our Solar System could be less than 2,000 years old, astronomers say.
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Scientists discover clue to 2 billion year delay of life on Earth
[ 2008-03-30 07:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a deficiency of oxygen and the heavy metal molybdenum in the ancient deep ocean may have delayed the evolution of animal life on Earth for nearly 2 billion years.
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Tune recorded before Edison
[ 2008-03-28 09:58 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison's invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.
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Suspended animation induced in mice with sewer gas
[ 2008-03-26 13:45 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Low doses of the toxic gas responsible for the unpleasant odor of rotten eggs can safely and reversibly depress both metabolism and aspects of cardiovascular function in mice.
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Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV
[ 2008-03-01 21:25 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
..."When we put this gene in cells, it prevents the assembly of the HIV virus," said Barr, a postdoctoral fellow. "This means the virus cannot get out of the cells to infect other cells, thereby blocking the spread of the virus."
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Fish can count to four
[ 2008-02-27 11:08 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Fish can count, according to scientists, who have found that North American mosquito fish have the ability to count up to four.
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Like owner, like dog: one third of US dogs are obese, cats also suffer
[ 2008-02-22 13:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Obesity in pets mirrors that of humans, as do the reasons -- decreased physical activity, age, and an increased caloric intake, even genetic predisposition.
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Identical twins not as identical as believed
[ 2008-02-22 02:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Contrary to previous beliefs, identical twins are not genetically identical.
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Believing can be seeing
[ 2008-02-22 02:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists reveal that the context surrounding what we see is all important -- sometimes overriding the evidence gathered by our eyes and even causing us to imagine things which aren`t really there.
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The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was
[ 2008-02-21 07:39 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought.
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Strongest laser ever
[ 2008-02-17 21:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of this new laser beam.
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Computer simulations strongly support new theory of Earth`s core
[ 2008-02-16 19:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The body-centered cubic crystal structure forms a cube with atoms in each corner and a further atom in the middle of this cube.
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Cell phone use linked to 50% greater cancer risk
[ 2008-02-16 15:58 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A recent study says frequent cell phone users face a 50% greater risk of developing tumors of the parotid gland than those who don`t use cell phones.
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Swiss experts say individuals with undetectable viral load and no STI cannot transmit HIV during sex
[ 2008-02-05 08:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Swiss HIV experts have produced the first-ever consensus statement to say that HIV-positive individuals on effective antiretroviral therapy and without sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are sexually non-infectious.
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Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells
[ 2008-02-04 07:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient`s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his body.
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Bizarre new mammal discovered
[ 2008-02-02 06:51 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania.
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Chloramine causes collateral health damage
[ 2008-01-31 13:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Chloramine is a toxin added to drinking water. It is a secondary disinfectant used by many US States as a primary disinfectant. Chloramine is ammonia added to chlorine to make chloramine.
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Scientists discover by accident a way to reverse memory loss
[ 2008-01-31 12:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...They were experimenting with deep-brain stimulation in an attempt to curb the appetite of a 30st patient who suffered from a lifelong obesity problem.
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The helmet that could turn back the symptoms of Alzheimer`s
[ 2008-01-26 18:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...An experimental helmet which scientists say could reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer`s disease within weeks of being used is to be tried out on patients.
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Robots evolve and learn how to lie
[ 2008-01-19 14:12 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other.
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New findings confirm Darwin`s theory: Evolution not random
[ 2008-01-19 03:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...According to Darwin's theory of evolution, individuals in a species pass successful traits onto their offspring through a process called "deterministic inheritance." Over multiple generations, advantageous developmental trends - such as the lengthening of the giraffe's neck - occur.
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Green light for human/animal hybrid research
[ 2008-01-17 21:38 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...two research facilities have been given the green light to create part human, part animal embryos. According the the report, `Scientists want to create hybrid embryos by merging human cells with animal eggs in a bid to extract stem cells.
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Darkest ever material created
[ 2008-01-17 20:41 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The "darkest ever" substance known to science has been made in a laboratory. The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders.
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US : Helium supplies endangered
[ 2008-01-16 22:51 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...In America, helium is running out.
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Air pollution causes sperm mutations
[ 2008-01-16 22:50 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Male mice breathing city air carry more mutations.
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Scientists could restore walking after spinal cord injury
[ 2008-01-09 12:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...for the first time, a UCLA study shows that the central nervous system can reorganize itself and follow new pathways to restore the cellular communication required for movement.
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A crystal that nature may have missed
[ 2008-01-08 07:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...out of an infinite universe of mathematical crystals, only one other shares these properties with the diamond, a crystal that he calls the "K_4 crystal".
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Hubble finds tenth planet slightly larger than Pluto
[ 2008-01-01 19:57 ] - Posted by Tuna
...For the first time, NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope has seen distinctly the "tenth planet," currently nicknamed "Xena".
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Solar system date of birth determined
[ 2007-12-31 21:30 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...UC Davis researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system -- when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock -- to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years.
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Cosmic explosion detonates in empty space
[ 2007-12-31 21:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Astronomers are puzzling over a powerful cosmic explosion that seems to have detonated in a region of empty space, far away from any nearby galaxy. It may have been the death cry of a star that was born from debris strewn out of a past galactic dustup.
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Toshiba builds 100x smaller micro nuclear reactor
[ 2007-12-31 21:25 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs.
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Snortable drug replaces sleep for monkeys in trials
[ 2007-12-30 16:29 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...In what sounds like a dream for millions of tired coffee drinkers, Darpa-funded scientists might have found a drug that will eliminate sleepiness.
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Drilling up into space for energy
[ 2007-12-24 15:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The island nation of Palau is looking into creating a satellite-to-ground power transmission system. The system would use low-orbit satellites to transmit power to a receiver in bursts, unlike some other plans which rely on geostationary satellites. The initial 1-megawatt project is supposed to go online `as early as` 2012 for a cost of $0.8 billion.
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Lab comes one step closer to building artificial human brain
[ 2007-12-24 15:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...researchers simulate building block of rat`s brain.
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Asteroid Could Strike Mars in Early 2008
[ 2007-12-24 05:19 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A group of astronomers say there is a chance an asteroid could hit the planet Mars by the end of next month.
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Picture-sorting dogs show human-like thought
[ 2007-12-10 16:18 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...starting to see that dogs have some good reasoning abilities.
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Gene study supports single main migration across Bering Strait
[ 2007-11-27 23:34 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Siberians and Native Americans share unique genetic variant
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Earth`s Moon is cosmic rarity
[ 2007-11-24 09:46 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Moons like the Earth`s - which are formed in catastrophic collisions - are extremely rare in the Universe.
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"The smart cow problem": Once one of the cows opens the gate, the others will follow.
[ 2007-11-13 01:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The easily influenced more important than the influential
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Superfast laser kills Viruses
[ 2007-11-03 05:45 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A physicist and his biologist son destroyed a common virus using a superfast pulsing laser, without harming healthy cells. The discovery could lead to new treatments for viruses like HIV that have no cure.
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Monkeys reveal brain is hard-wired for counting
[ 2007-11-03 05:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...new research supports the idea that not only can monkeys understand written numbers, but that individual brain cells may become dedicated to specific numbers.
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Strange things removed from human bodies.
[ 2007-10-18 19:50 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Not for the faint of heart
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Einstein`s theories.
[ 2007-10-17 19:27 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Big Bang...Black Holes...Time Warps
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The Rosetta Stone
[ 2007-10-17 18:28 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Stone made in 196 A.D.
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Older than the sun.
[ 2007-10-17 17:57 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Meteorite scientists call `the real time machine`
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Time travel anyone??
[ 2007-10-10 05:40 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Why time travel is possible.
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Optical Illusions
[ 2007-10-09 22:50 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticulli
...Should we believe "everything" we see?
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Long-lost Asteroid, dangerous to Earth
[ 2007-10-09 05:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...For more than 40 years, an asteroid believed to be potentially dangerous to Earth has been essentially lost to view. But no more.
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Searching for God in the brain
[ 2007-10-08 07:06 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith.
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Plants enjoy hot, smelly sex in the tropics
[ 2007-10-08 06:55 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Primitive plants have complex sex life
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Purpose of appendix believed found
[ 2007-10-07 07:39 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.
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Why climate change can`t be stopped
[ 2007-10-04 03:56 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Environmental advocates have finally managed to put the issue of global warming at the top of the world's agenda. But the scientific, economic, and political realities may mean that their efforts are too little, too late.
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Though colder than Earth, Titan is tropical in nature
[ 2007-10-03 22:25 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...If space travelers ever visit Saturn`s largest moon, they will find a tropical world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar cover the planet`s most arid regions. These conditions reflect a cold mirror image of Earth`s tropical and subtropical climates.
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Rare spiky plant flowers at Eden Project in Cornwall
[ 2007-10-03 19:17 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A rare plant which researchers believe could help combat obesity has flowered.
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Alzheimer`s disease could be a third form of diabetes
[ 2007-10-03 19:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer`s memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes.
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Mysterious peruvian meteor disease solved
[ 2007-09-25 21:19 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...the illness was the result of inhaling arsenic fumes, according to Luisa Macedo, a researcher for Peru`s Mining, Metallurgy, and Geology Institute (INGEMMET), who visited the crash site.
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Lifesaver bottle filters Viruses out of Water
[ 2007-09-13 18:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...British inventor Michael Pritchard has developed a small self-contained filter system that instantly cleans water, removing all particles larger than 15nm.
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Scientists a step nearer to creating artificial life
[ 2007-09-09 01:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The green glow was proof that his fragile creations were capable of making their own proteins, a crucial ability of all living things and vital for carrying out all other aspects of life.
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Water vapor seen raining down on young star system
[ 2007-09-01 10:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...NASA`s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system.
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Fossil find pushes human-ape split back millions of years
[ 2007-08-26 12:05 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Ten million-year-old fossils discovered in Ethiopia show that humans and apes probably split six or seven million years earlier than widely thought.
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Physicists discover inorganic dust with lifelike qualities
[ 2007-08-17 14:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a possible new explanation for the origin of life on earth.
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Plain soap as effective as antibacterial but without the risk
[ 2007-08-17 03:02 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Antibacterial soaps show no health benefits over plain soaps and, in fact, may render some common antibiotics less effective.
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Team finds way to create cancer stem cells
[ 2007-08-16 22:31 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The findings also contradict an assumption about the trajectory of cancer cells. According to current cancer models, any normal cell can evolve toward a malignant state through a series of alterations, including mutations. Given the right alterations, any cell could eventually acquire the ability to invade other tissues.
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Making gasoline from bacteria
[ 2007-08-15 21:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A biotech startup wants to coax fuels from engineered microbes.
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Scientists offer overwhelming evidence life on Earth began in space
[ 2007-08-15 21:38 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists.
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Bacteria do not shorten life
[ 2007-08-12 01:55 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The theory that bacteria hasten our death has been questioned by research suggesting living in a sterile world would not boost life expectancy.
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Space hotel to open in 2012
[ 2007-08-11 12:18 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Fly me to the Moon.
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New warning about chemical in plastic
[ 2007-08-09 15:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A warning about a possible link with breast and prostate cancers from a hormone-like chemical found in everyday plastic products such as food containers and water bottles has been issued by an international expert group.
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Finds test human origins theory
[ 2007-08-09 08:55 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Previously, the hominid Homo habilis was thought to have evolved into the more advanced Homo erectus, which evolved into us. Now, habilis and erectus are thought to be sister species that overlapped in time.
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Humanity`s genetic diversity on the decline
[ 2007-08-09 08:50 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...1700 years ago, three out of every four individuals belonged to a different haplotype. In modern Europe, the number is only one in three.
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Physicists have solved mystery of levitation
[ 2007-08-08 09:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact.
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Brain electrodes help man speak again
[ 2007-08-06 05:01 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...He was beaten and left for dead one night in a robbery while walking home in 1999. His skull was crushed and his brain severely damaged. The doctor said if he pulled through at all, he`d be a vegetable for the rest of his life.
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Satellites unveil new type of active galaxy
[ 2007-07-31 06:25 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...An international team of astronomers using NASA`s Swift satellite and the Japanese/U.S. Suzaku X-ray observatory has discovered a new class of active galactic nuclei (AGN).
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Planets with four parents
[ 2007-07-31 06:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Spitzer finds evidence for strange stellar family
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Energy use drove human walking
[ 2007-07-24 04:06 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Humans evolved to walk upright because it uses less energy than travelling on all fours, according to researchers.
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Dark energy lurking in hidden spatial dimensions ?
[ 2007-07-15 20:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The mysterious cosmic presence called dark energy, which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, might be lurking in hidden dimensions of space. The idea would explain how these dimensions remain stable - a big problem for the unified scheme of physics called string theory.
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Researchers fight resistant bugs
[ 2007-07-11 12:34 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that two drugs used to treat bone loss in old folks can both kill and short-circuit the "sex life" of antibiotic-resistant bacteria blamed for nearly 100,000 hospital deaths across the country each year.
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Oldest DNA shows earth much warmer
[ 2007-07-08 14:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A team of international researchers used oldest DNA to show that Greenland was much warmer at some point during the last Ice Age than most people have believed.
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What happened before the Big Bang ?
[ 2007-07-02 23:09 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...At some point, it got so small and so dense that bizarre quantum laws took effect - things like the Uncertainty Principle, which states that the more you know about one characteristic of an object (say, its position) the less you know about another (its velocity). There are several such laws, and they make it hard - impossible, really - to know everything about the universe at that moment.
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The universe will destroy the evidence of its origin
[ 2007-07-02 00:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The cosmic microwave background, which has provided our most detailed understanding of the Big Bang, will also be gone. Its wavelength will have been shifted to a full meter, and its intensity will D R O P by 12 orders of magnitude. Even before then, however, the frequency will reach that of the interstellar plasma and be buried in the noise-the stuff of the universe itself will mask the evidence of its origin.
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US : Military running a parallel Earth simulator
[ 2007-06-30 23:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an A L T E Rnate reality. Putting supercomputers to an innovative use, the military is simulating our planet in an effort to predict the outcome of different scenarios.
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Autism symptoms reversed in lab
[ 2007-06-29 10:08 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Symptoms of mental retardation and autism have been reversed for the first time in laboratory mice.
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Mission photos
[ 2007-06-12 00:51 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io`s Tvashtar volcano.
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Certain shampoos and soaps make men grow breasts
[ 2007-06-01 18:23 ] - Posted by Bank$ta
...Great party trick!
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Female sharks can reproduce alone
[ 2007-05-24 05:20 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...some female sharks can reproduce without having sex, the first time that scientists have found the unusual capacity in such an ancient vertebrate species.
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Study hints that fruit flies have free will
[ 2007-05-17 16:29 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
..."Free will is essentially an oxymoron - we would not consider it `will` if it were completely random and we would not consider it `free` if it were entirely determined," Brembs said. In other words, nobody would ascribe responsibility to one`s actions if they were entirely the result of random coincidence. On the other hand, if one`s actions were completely determined by outside factors such that no A L T E Rnative existed, no one would hold that person responsible for them.
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Brightest supernova ever seen
[ 2007-05-09 23:19 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...An exploding star first observed last September is the largest and most luminous supernova ever seen.
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Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans
[ 2007-05-09 23:16 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A new study showed that a certain form of neuropsin, a protein that plays a role in learning and memory, is expressed only in the central nervous systems of humans and that it originated less than 5 million years ago.
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Methane rocket engine
[ 2007-05-08 11:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...NASA`s new methane rocket engine can refuel on other planets and moons.
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Designer babies are here...
[ 2007-05-08 05:05 ] - Posted by Chromium
...If you would like more information as to why this is NOT a good thing watch the movie "Gattaca"
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Up to half of Mars may have ice
[ 2007-05-04 03:58 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists say that initial data from a new way of scanning Mars has shown up to half of the Red Planet`s surface may contain ice.
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Mercury may have a molten core
[ 2007-05-04 03:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...NASA scientists working with high-precision planetary radars in California have discovered strong evidence that the planet Mercury might have a molten core.
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Gene clue to longevity uncovered
[ 2007-05-03 15:43 ] - Posted by imBe
...The mystery of how eating less boosts longevity is closer to being solved.
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To treat the dead
[ 2007-05-03 01:18 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks-and death itself.
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The ultimate quantum computers ?
[ 2007-04-28 14:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Black holes are thought to destroy anything that crosses a point of no return around them called an "event horizon". But in the 1970s, Stephen Hawking used quantum mechanics to show black holes do emit radiation, which eventually evaporates them away completely.
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Black holes, portals to other universes ?
[ 2007-04-28 14:24 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to other universes, a new study says. If so, it would help resolve a quantum conundrum known as the black hole information paradox.
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Super-tough material mimics metal and crystal
[ 2007-04-22 11:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
......Scratches diamond.
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Uranus rings were seen in 1700s
[ 2007-04-19 16:02 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The rings around the planet Uranus may have been spotted 180 years before the accepted date for their discovery, according to a theory.
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Near-perfect symmetry revealed in red cosmic square
[ 2007-04-16 07:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...If symmetry is a sign of splendor, then the newly discovered Red Square nebula is one of the most beautiful objects in the universe.
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What would have happened if the Earth did not have the Moon?
[ 2007-03-29 17:34 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Without the Moon, there might not be any seasons, or the seasons might be very different ones. It is believed that the Moon is an interloper from a more distant spot in the solar system which was captured by the Earth billions of years ago.
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Study re-evaluates evolution of mammals
[ 2007-03-29 15:55 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and other life 65 million years ago apparently did not, contrary to conventional wisdom, immediately clear the way for the rise of today's mammals.
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`Semi-identical` twins discovered
[ 2007-03-29 15:54 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Hermaphrodite reveals previously unknown type of twinning. Researchers have discovered a pair of twins who are identical through their mother`s side, but share only half their genes on their father`s side.
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Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
[ 2007-03-29 07:47 ] - Posted by Kim0
...Many people have an intuitive understanding that this is valid. Many know that it is valid through experience. Many believe it is pure nonsense. A few know why it is valid.
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Scientists re-grow dental enamel from cultured cells
[ 2007-03-27 02:39 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Dental enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the body. It cannot regenerate itself, because it is formed by a layer of cells that is lost by the time the tooth appears in the mouth. The enamel spends the remainder of its lifetime vulnerable to wear, damage, and decay.
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Double impact may explain why Venus has no moon
[ 2007-03-24 06:06 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...One of biggest mysteries in the solar system is why Venus has no moon.
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Why does Venus rotate backwards from the other planets ?
[ 2007-03-24 06:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The facts for Venus point towards a collision event to put its axis and rotation in the retrograde sense.
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Scientists say nerves use sound, not electricity
[ 2007-03-10 12:29 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that electrical impulses must produce heat as they travel along the nerve, but experiments find that no such heat is produced.
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CO2 related to temperatures?
[ 2007-03-07 11:29 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Some people: where is the proof that man`s CO2 emmissions are changing the climate?
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Mars melt hints at Solar, Not Human, cause for warming
[ 2007-03-06 04:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...According to one scientist`s controversial take, the simultaneous rise in temperatures on Earth and Mars indicates a natural-and not a human-cause for global warming.
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Cassini returns never-before-seen views of the ringed planet
[ 2007-03-06 04:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Saturn.
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Beautiful new images from Rosetta's approach to Mars
[ 2007-03-03 04:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Clouds are visible at the North polar cap of Mars and at the morning `limb` (border or outermost edge of a celestial body).
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Taken from teeth, stem cells regenerate tissue
[ 2007-02-17 14:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Researchers have isolated stem cells from the ligament that holds human teeth in place and shown that, in laboratory mice, these cells are able to grow new ligament cells. In particular, they were able to grow a particular type of cell, known as Sharpey`s fiber, needed for a tooth to attach to its socket.
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Skin found to harbour almost 200 species of bacteria
[ 2007-02-06 08:12 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...It turns out that skin, the largest organ in the human body, is swarming with scores of different species of bacteria - 182 by the count of researchers and eight per cent have never been identified before.
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Diamond loses its stiffness crown to new material
[ 2007-02-04 11:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A material that is stiffer than diamond has been C R E A T Ed by mixing particles of the mineral barium titanate and molten tin. Diamond was previously the stiffest material known.
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Beautiful sex scene
[ 2007-01-29 11:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...aliens ? :)
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The mystery of Saturn`s atmosphere
[ 2007-01-27 22:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists are being forced to rethink theories on why Saturn`s upper atmospheric temperature is hotter than can be explained by absorbed sunlight. `This unexplained "energy crisis" represents a major gap in our understanding of these planets` atmospheres,` the scientists write. `We need to re-examine our basic assumptions about planetary atmospheres and what causes the observed heating.`
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Microfossil data show Yucatan impact did not wipe out dinosaurs
[ 2007-01-27 08:25 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Global warming may have killed the dinosaurs
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New ice age theory
[ 2007-01-25 09:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Most believe that the ice ages are the result of subtle changes in Earth`s orbit, known as the Milankovitch cycles. According to one scientist, that is not the case. A developed model which hypothesizes a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 or 41,000 years, exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth.
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"Jiroft Inscription", Oldest Evidence of Written Language
[ 2007-01-23 00:21 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Persia...Older than written history?
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NASA scientist: Mars could be biologically alive.
[ 2007-01-21 01:08 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Evidence for intense local enhancements in methane on Mars has been bolstered by ground-based observations.
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An Icelandic cod enzyme might be the cure for bird flu
[ 2007-01-18 22:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...a recent experiment, which the Icelandic company Ensímtaekni hf. took part in, indicates. In five minutes, the isolated fish enzyme killed 99 percent of H5N1 viruses.
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The underwater pyramids of Japan
[ 2007-01-16 00:30 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Discovered by a sport diver strayed beyond the standard safety parimeter near the south shore of Okinawa
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Canned nuclear waste cooks its container
[ 2007-01-11 19:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...many radioactive substances continue emitting radiation for a very long time, the containment must persist for an awesome duration. Plutonium-239, one of the most deadly by-products of nuclear power, has a half-life of 24,000 years, meaning that only half of any initial batch has decayed over this time. Ideally it should stay put for about ten times as long: a quarter of a million years.
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Pillars of creation destroyed
[ 2007-01-10 03:48 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...an iconic structure in the Eagle Nebula some 7,000 light-years distant.
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Ask a scientist.
[ 2007-01-08 23:13 ] - Posted by Zeta
...A scientists point of view
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Brightest supernova discovery hints at stellar collision
[ 2007-01-05 01:52 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A supernova intrinsically two to three times brighter than any previously recorded has been observed, and its characteristics suggest it did not form like others of its class.
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The DNA so dangerous it does not exist
[ 2007-01-04 11:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Could there be forbidden sequences in the genome - ones so harmful that they are not compatible with life ?
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Liquid lakes on Titan
[ 2007-01-04 05:38 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...For decades, scientists have wondered if the thick orange haze that shrouds Saturn`s giant moon Titan hid lakes of liquid methane on the surface, but there was no way to confirm it, until now. The Cassini flyby of July 22, 2006 took these striking images and were released today.
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Birth of an island
[ 2007-01-02 00:09 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...At first it looked like an ugly oil slick.
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Parasite makes men dumb, women sexy
[ 2006-12-30 18:23 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A common parasite can increase a women`s attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.
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Giant ice shelf snaps
[ 2006-12-30 03:48 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Satellite images have revealed that an ancient 66 square-kilometer ice shelf, the size of 11,000 football fields, has snapped off from an island in Canada`s arctic. The Ayles Ice Shelf was one of 6 major shelves remaining in Canada`s arctic and is estimated to be over 3000 years old. The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 km away picked up tremors. Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor.
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Hassium-270 is long-lived
[ 2006-12-29 04:35 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Radioactive nuclei that hang around for a mere half-minute before falling apart hardly seem stable. Yet compared with the fleeting lifetimes of their superheavy atomic neighbors, the roughly 30-second period that transpired from creation to disintegration of four atoms of a newly discovered isotope of element 108 qualifies those atoms as rock solid.
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Scientist are growing "human" ears, on the back of rats.
[ 2006-12-28 21:07 ] - Posted by Zeta
...BOSTON (AP) - It sounds like something from a carnival side.
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"I`m having my wings done".
[ 2006-12-27 01:17 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Real lives ...as weird as it may seem...
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Apparitions, Ghosts and Hallucinations.
[ 2006-12-26 21:26 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Will you know the "difference" if it should ever happen to you...?
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Mutation - Scientifically explained.
[ 2006-12-22 23:46 ] - Posted by Zeta
...RE: WTF...? Please look into your mirror, and repeat after me: "I`m smarter than every scientist that has ever existed...and I should win the Nobel Prize in Biology...because I`m the ONLY person that has proven a theory so fast...and so accurately, without even "blinking"!!!!!
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A cosmic hall of mirrors
[ 2006-12-21 16:46 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Most astronomers think that the universe is infinite, but recent measurements suggest that it could be finite and relatively small.
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Two-headed reptile fossil found in China
[ 2006-12-21 11:32 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...French and Chinese paleontologists have identified the fossil of a two-headed reptile from a species that lived in what is now China nearly 150 million years ago.
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Why is element 43 made by man and none of the elements around it are?
[ 2006-12-19 02:08 ] - Posted by Zeta
... Reading...the best way to learn.The cause of element 43's disappearing act
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Metal`s thermal conductivity makes your tongue stick in winter...
[ 2006-12-15 05:28 ] - Posted by Zeta
... Learn through reading... "Why does your tongue get stuck to metal in the winter?
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Zecharia Sitchin: Is Nibiru Approaching?
[ 2006-12-14 07:24 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Also known as The Twelfth Planet or Planet X, some are warning that this wandering body is quickly nearing the Earth - and could cause global devastation. Should you worry?
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China`s white dolphin called extinct after 20 million years
[ 2006-12-14 06:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...For the first time in nearly fifty years another mammal, specifically an aquatic mammal, has gone extinct. In this case, it was the white dolphin, also known as the Baiji, which used to live in the Yangtze River in China. The dolphin had been known to exist for the last 20 million years.
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Mars : An entire hidden landscape exists just beneath the surface of the Red Planet
[ 2006-12-14 06:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists find a different Mars underneath.
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Mountain range spotted on Titan
[ 2006-12-14 06:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...These mountains mean that Titan may have tectonic plate movement similar in some ways to earth`s. From the article, `"You can think of Titan as the Earth in deep freeze," said Dr Rosaly Lopes, Cassini radar team member at the US space agency`s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It has a lot of the geological processes that Earth has. In fact, it is more Earth-like than anywhere else in the Solar System. But the surface is very cold; it`s about minus 178C."`"
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Sea creatures
[ 2006-12-12 06:12 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...pictures.
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Even the blind get Deja Vu
[ 2006-12-08 09:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A blind man who feels like he has `already seen` some unfamiliar situations is challenging the long-held belief that déjà vu involves sight, according to a new study.
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Tiny particle with no charge discovered
[ 2006-12-07 03:24 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...After decades of intensive effort by both experimental and theoretical physicists worldwide, a tiny particle with no charge, a very low mass and a lifetime much shorter than a nanosecond, dubbed the "axion," has now been detected.
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NASA : Water flowing on Mars.
[ 2006-12-06 22:54 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
..."Water seems to have flowed on the surface of today`s Mars." Philip Christensen, a professor from Arizona State University in Tempe, added that the discovery would change NASA`s plans for Mars exploration, not to mention our understanding of the desert world itself.
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Organic matter found In canadian meteorite
[ 2006-12-03 19:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Organic globules found in a meteorite that slammed into Canada`s Tagish Lake may be older than our sun!
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Pyramids were built with concrete rather than rocks, scientists claim
[ 2006-12-03 18:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The Ancient Egyptians built their great Pyramids by pouring concrete into blocks high on the site rather than hauling up giant stones, according to a new study.
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Will the sun go supernova in six years and destroy Earth...?
[ 2006-12-01 18:40 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Article that appeared in Yahoo Entertainment News...
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Study finds that a single impact killed the dinosaurs
[ 2006-11-30 11:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The dinosaurs, along with the majority of all other animal species on Earth, went extinct approximately 65 million years ago. Some scientists have said that the impact of a large meteorite in the Yucatan Peninsula, in what is today Mexico, caused the mass extinction, while others argue that there must have been additional meteorite impacts or other stresses around the same time.
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Scientists levitate small animals
[ 2006-11-29 23:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have now levitated small live animals using sounds.
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Can two different people have the same DNA...?...or fingerprints?
[ 2006-11-28 08:31 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Yes to the first, and no to the second...!
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Plans are Underway to Microchip every Newborn in U.S. and Europe...
[ 2006-11-25 19:31 ] - Posted by Zeta
...This will be "The Law"...microchip implants for newborns...as it is done to dogs!...
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Giant Mexican telescope launched
[ 2006-11-25 07:52 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Mexican President Vicente Fox has inaugurated a giant telescope that could help scientists uncover clues about the origins of the Universe.
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Gonur Tepe - A Visit to Bronze Age Turkmenistan
[ 2006-11-23 23:04 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Archeology at it`s best....
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New human gene map shows unexpected differences
[ 2006-11-23 13:32 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...One person`s DNA code can be as much as 10 percent different from another`s, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that questions the idea that everyone on Earth is 99.9 percent identical genetically.
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The Ica Stones
[ 2006-11-20 06:31 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Heart and even brain transplants...performed millions of years ago...?
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Scientist regrow wing
[ 2006-11-18 21:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Chop off a salamander`s leg and a brand new one will sprout in no time. But most animals have lost the ability to replace missing limbs. Now, a research team has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo -- a species not known to be able to regrow limbs -- suggesting that the potential for such regeneration exists innately in all vertebrates, including humans.
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9 Billion years old Dark Energy
[ 2006-11-18 21:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A strange thing happened to the universe five billion years ago. As if God had turned on an antigravity machine, the expansion of the cosmos speeded up, and galaxies began moving away from one another at an ever faster pace.
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The Piri Reis Map
[ 2006-11-10 01:23 ] - Posted by Zeta
...A map of Antarctica long before it was even "discovered"??
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Did humans get their big brains from neanderthals?
[ 2006-11-09 14:34 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...human beings may have acquired a gene for developing bigger brains from Neanderthal man. Apparently, 70% of the world`s population has a variant of a gene regulating brain size, with this variant being most common in people of European descent (where Neanderthal man lived alongside ancient humans), and least common in people of African descent (where Neanderthal man was non-existent). It is fascinating that somewhere in our lineage ancient humans and Neanderthals decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia.
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Blind mice see again after cell transplants
[ 2006-11-09 14:32 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have managed to restore vision in blind mice by transplanting light-sensitive cells in their eyes, cells on their way to become photoreceptors.
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Tarantula venom and chili peppers share receptor
[ 2006-11-09 14:30 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have discovered that venom from a West Indian tarantula has been shown to cause pain by exciting the same nerve cells in mice that sense high temperatures and the hot, spicy ingredient in chili peppers. The findings demonstrate that some plants and animals have evolved the same molecular strategy to deter predators - triggering pain by activating a specific receptor on sensory nerves.
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Wave-powered `ducks` could purify seawater
[ 2006-11-08 21:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists think they`ve found a way to harness the energy of waves to desalinate salt water. Currently desalination is an energy-intensive process, but this new design harnesses the renewable energy of waves to produce fresh water. Production versions of the "desalination ducks" would be about 10 meters in diameter and 20 meters long. Each would supply water for more than 20,000 people.
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A new study finds evidence for snowball Earth
[ 2006-11-06 16:05 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The hypothesis that the entire Earth was ice-covered for long periods on several occasions, most recently 600-700 million years ago. The icy conditions (Earth`s oceans frozen completely with ice more than a kilometer thick) ended violently under extreme greenhouse conditions - the meltdown could have occurred in as little as 2,000 years. Snowball Earth challenges long-held assumptions regarding the limits of global change.
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Space sunshade might be feasible in global warming emergency
[ 2006-11-06 16:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...he sunshade would be launched in small pieces by electromagnetic launchers, conventional chemical rockets being far too expensive. The sunshade could be developed and deployed in 25 years, would last about 50 years, and would reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth by 2% - enough to balance heating due to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Melting arctic ice has consequences
[ 2006-11-06 01:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Global warming could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century by eroding the sea ice that sustains them, according to the most comprehensive international assessment ever done of Arctic climate change.
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Japanese researchers find dolphin with remains of legs
[ 2006-11-05 19:20 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Evidence, it would seem, of a land-dwelling past and observable evolution.
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Earth : The lone pale blue dot ?
[ 2006-11-05 14:41 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. That tiny dot is Earth bustling with life as we know it.
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The apocalypse has a new date
[ 2006-11-04 13:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Salt-water fish extinction seen by 2048.
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Cool down - you may live longer
[ 2006-11-04 02:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Researchers have found that lowering the body temperature of mice by just 0.5°C extends their lifespan by around 15%. In the future, people might be able to take a drug to achieve a similar effect on body temperature and enjoy a longer life, they say.
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Venus`s surface may be 1 billion years old
[ 2006-11-03 01:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...For a while scientists have believed that Venus`s surface is fairly young, having recently been covered by lava 1 to 3 kilometers deep. However, more study into photos sent back by Magellan seems to show that the cataclysmic volcano theory is wrong. Now scientists are postulating that Venus`s surface may be a billion years old and could be probed to determine the history of the planet.
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Will Apophis (asteroid) destroy the Earth...?
[ 2006-11-02 02:51 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Scientist state that on the 13th. of April 2020, this asteriod could destroy the Earth!
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Fastest waves ever photographed
[ 2006-11-01 09:48 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The matter waves, which are oscillations moving through a plasma, are known as wakefields because they are made in the wake of an ultra-intense laser pulse. The waves travel at 99.997% of the speed of light and generate electric fields exceeding 100 billion electron volts/meter.
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Antarctic microbes could live on Mars
[ 2006-10-31 21:58 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Recent research has shown that microbes found in an Antarctic lake could survive the coldest temperatures on Mars.
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The most deformed person in human history.
[ 2006-10-30 07:48 ] - Posted by Zeta
...The curse of the elephant man...
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Collision created rings around andromeda
[ 2006-10-29 06:32 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Astronomers believe that Andromeda-currently 2 million light years away from the Milky Way-will collide with our galaxy in 5 billion to 10 billion years. The two will eventually join to form one large elliptical galaxy.
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Soil minerals point to planet-wide ocean on Mars
[ 2006-10-28 21:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...An ocean of water once wrapped around Mars, suggests the discovery of soil chemicals by NASA's rovers. But the same chemicals also indicate that life was not widespread on the planet at the time the ocean was present ?
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Ice ages linked to plate tectonics
[ 2006-10-26 11:05 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A study indicates the possibility that ice ages may be triggered by plate tectonics. Scientists speculate that the current ice age may have been triggered 40 million years ago by the uplift of the Himalayas, and this study provides further support by linking a much earlier ice age 450 million years ago with the uplift of the Appalachian mountain range. Additionally, this study reinforces the notion that CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is a major driver of climate.
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Spontaneous Human Combustion
[ 2006-10-25 05:47 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Real cases of humans bursting into flames...without apparent causes!
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The sun had sisters!
[ 2006-10-25 01:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Our own medium-sized yellow star was far from alone when it was formed, with hundreds of fellow solar bodies and a supernova to keep it company.
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I shouldn`t be Alive!
[ 2006-10-23 07:17 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Why do some people survive...when normally they should be dead?!?!
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A new study provides experimental evidence that cosmic rays may be a major factor in causing the Earth's climate to change
[ 2006-10-23 01:56 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...during the 20th century, the influx of cosmic rays was reduced by a doubling of the sun's magnetic field which shields the Earth from cosmic rays. According to the hypothesis, then, less cosmic radiation would mean less cloud formation and, ultimately, warmer temperatures - precisely what was observed during the 20th century.
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Giant camel unearthed in Syria
[ 2006-10-21 06:26 ] - Posted by Zeta
...Archaeologists baffled....!
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Galactic collision captured in stunning detail
[ 2006-10-19 06:18 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have snapped the most detailed image ever of a pair of colliding galaxies, known as the Antenna galaxy.
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Human species may split in two
[ 2006-10-19 06:16 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years` time as predicted by HG Wells.
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Dark matter exists
[ 2006-10-19 06:12 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The great accomplishment of late-twentieth-century cosmology was putting together a complete inventory of the universe. We can tell a story that fits all the known data, in which ordinary matter (every particle ever detected in any experiment) constitutes only about 5% of the energy of the universe, with 25% being dark matter and 70% being dark energy.
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Ferocious ants bite like a bullet
[ 2006-10-19 06:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Their jaws spring shut at more than 100 km/h (62mph) - the fastest recorded speed at which an animal can move its predatory body parts.
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Ice on the Moon is just a myth ?
[ 2006-10-19 06:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A new study says hopes that the Moon`s South Pole has a vast hoard of ice that could be used to establish a lunar colony are sadly unfounded.
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Honey
[ 2006-10-13 16:08 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...All honey is antibacterial, because the bees add an enzyme that makes hydrogen peroxide.
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Jupiter`s Little Red Spot Growing Stronger
[ 2006-10-12 21:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The Little Red Spot`s winds, now raging up to approximately 400 miles per hour, signal that the storm is growing stronger, seen from Hubble observations. The increased intensity of the storm probably caused it to change color from its original white in late 2005, according to the team.
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Changes in Earth`s orbit linked to extinctions
[ 2006-10-12 21:19 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
..."Extinctions in rodent species occur in pulses which are spaced by intervals controlled by astronomical variations and their effects on climate change..." The cycles are associated with lower temperatures, changes in precipitation, habitats, vegetation and food availability which are the main factors influencing the extinction peaks.
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Wooden robot that plays drums
[ 2006-10-11 01:14 ] - Posted by Bank$ta
...Made out of wood? Now that`s ghetto
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Monster fossil find in Arctic
[ 2006-10-05 21:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The 150 million-year-old fossils were uncovered on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard - about halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole.
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Making computer memory from a Virus
[ 2006-10-05 12:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A camera fitted with a virus chip would take a few microseconds to...
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Doomsday for Earth!
[ 2006-10-03 00:45 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticuli 2
...Real scientist explain our "LAST DAYS" and "WHEN"!
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Soft tissue discovered in T-Rex bone
[ 2006-10-01 22:19 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...When scientists found a massive Tyrannosaurus rex thigh bone in a remote region of Montana a few months ago, they were forced to break the bone in two in order to fit it into the transport helicopter. This act of necessity revealed a startling surprise: soft tissue that had seemingly resisted fossilization still existed inside the bone. This tissue, including blood vessels, bone cells, and perhaps even blood cells, was so well preserved that it was still stretchy and flexible.
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Smaller than the ATOM?
[ 2006-10-01 08:06 ] - Posted by Zeta Reticuli 2
...Absolutely!
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Parasitic weed sniffs out its prey
[ 2006-09-29 13:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The parasitic dodder plant doesn`t have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey.
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The Ozone Hole
[ 2006-09-28 23:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...sometimes, a picture speaks a thousand words!
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Cervical cancer vaccine approved
[ 2006-09-24 00:48 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Around 80 per cent of sexually active women can expect to have an HPV infection at some point in their lives.
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Avocado cholesterol lowering cholesterol with avocado fat
[ 2006-09-24 00:32 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Avocado cholesterol diet can lower cholesterol by 8 percent because of the avocado fat, compared with 5 percent for the low-fat diet.
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Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges
[ 2006-09-21 17:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...European scientists voiced shock as they showed pictures which showed Arctic ice cover had disappeared so much last month that a ship could sail unhindered from Europe`s most northerly outpost to the North Pole itself.
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Before the big bang
[ 2006-09-15 11:33 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Galaxies were forming in the Universe about 700 million years after the Big Bang, scientists say, but very large groupings of stars were rare.
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Drastic shrinkage in Arctic ice
[ 2006-09-15 11:29 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A Nasa satellite has documented startling changes in Arctic sea ice cover between 2004 and 2005.
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Genetically modified rice hits Switzerland
[ 2006-09-13 16:37 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The country`s largest retailer Migros has confirmed finding traces of genetically modified rice, supplied from the United States, that is banned in Switzerland.
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Concern over creating black holes
[ 2006-09-12 01:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...worry surrounding the impending startup of CERN`s Large Hadron Collider. Some fear that the device, in creating mini black holes, could jeopardize Life As We Know It. While the tiny black holes should evaporate quickly - throwing off so-called Hawking radiation that can be detected - CERN software developer Ran Livneh reminds us that "Any physicist will tell you that there is no way to prove that generated black holes will decay."
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The End of Eden
[ 2006-09-09 08:04 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...This time we`ve pushed the Earth too far. ...What if a lander set down in the wrong spot? What if Martian life wasn`t bacterial ?
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Experts warn of total amphibian extinction
[ 2006-09-09 07:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Predicting a mass extinction of the world`s frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 50 international amphibian experts are sending out an unprecedented call for an urgent global mission to avert a cataclysm.
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A disaster to take everyone`s breath away
[ 2006-09-09 07:41 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Amazon is dying.
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Top 20 foods by average acrylamide intake
[ 2006-09-09 07:41 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...In July of 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration released the results of its latest research on the acrylamide content of common foods.
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What is Transfat ?
[ 2006-09-08 01:13 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Trans fat is C R E A T Ed through a process called hydrogenation. Ordinary vegetable oils are placed in tanks with a reactive metal such as cobalt. Hydrogen gas is bubbled through the oil until the entire contents partially solidify. The resulting product is called partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil, since the hydrogenating process is stopped before the oil becomes completely saturated with hydrogen. There are some commercial examples of fully-hydrogenated vegetable oils, such as a form of Crisco shortening intended to replace the less healthy partially-hydrogenated variety.
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Scientists identify genetic secrets of human egg
[ 2006-09-07 07:52 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists claim to have unravelled the mystery behind the human egg`s ability to transform into a new life.
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Study confirms Antarctica warming
[ 2006-09-07 07:50 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Antarctica has been getting gradually warmer for the past 150 years, despite indications that the continent cooled considerably during the 1990s.
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Methane a new climate threat ?
[ 2006-09-07 07:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb.
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Nanocosmetics used since ancient Egypt
[ 2006-09-07 02:39 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...French researchers have found that Egyptians, Greek and Romans were using nanotechnology to dye their hair several thousands years ago. Nanowerk Spotlight reports they were using lead compounds which generated lead sulfide (PbS) nanocrystals with a diameter of only 5 nanometers. At a moment where many people wonder if the use of nanoparticles is bad or good, does it mean that nanotechnology has been widely used for a very long time and is safe to use ?
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Humanity gene ?
[ 2006-09-02 00:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human.
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Scientists flock to test free energy discovery
[ 2006-08-27 14:46 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Sean McCarthy says that no one was more sceptical than he when Steorn, his small hi-tech firm in Dublin, hit upon a way of generating clean, free and constant energy from the interaction of magnetic fields.
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Climate changes shift springtime
[ 2006-08-27 14:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A Europe-wide study has provided "conclusive proof" that the seasons are changing, with spring arriving earlier each year, researchers say.
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Ice geysers discovered on Mars
[ 2006-08-21 09:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Geysers spewing sand and dust hundreds of feet into the air have been discovered on Mars, scientists say.
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First phase of AIDS Vaccine trials successful
[ 2006-08-21 09:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Forty-nine healthy people who received the injection showed no severe adverse reactions after 180 days, proving the vaccine was safe," said Zhang Wei, head of the pharmaceutical registration department of the SFDA. "The recipients appeared immune to the HIV-1 virus 15 days after the injection, indicating the vaccine worked well in stimulating the body`s immunity.
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Molecules spontaneously form honeycomb network featuring pores of unprecedented size
[ 2006-08-21 01:17 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Researchers have discovered a new way in which nature C R E A T Es complex patterns: the assembly of molecules with no guidance from an outside source. ...evolution in action ?
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US : FDA approves viruses as food additive
[ 2006-08-20 06:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said Friday in granting the first-ever approval of viruses as a food additive.
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Research finds `unique human DNA`
[ 2006-08-17 19:46 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists say they have discovered a gene sequence which appears to play a central role in giving humans their unique brain capacity.
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TV `can numb pain for children`
[ 2006-08-17 19:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Watching television may act as a natural painkiller for children, Italian research indicates.
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Universe might be Bigger and Older than expected
[ 2006-08-14 00:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A research team led by Alceste Bonanos at the Carnegie Institution of Washington has found that the Triangulum Galaxy, also known as M33, is about 15 percent farther away from our own Milky Way than previously calculated.
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De-Evolution of the Ocean
[ 2006-08-14 00:25 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...In many places -- the atolls of the Pacific, the shrimp beds of the Eastern Seaboard, the fjords of Norway -- some of the most advanced forms of ocean life are struggling to survive while the most primitive are thriving and spreading. Fish, corals and marine mammals are dying while algae, bacteria and jellyfish are growing unchecked. Where this pattern is most pronounced, scientists evoke a scenario of evolution running in reverse, returning to the primeval seas of hundreds of millions of years ago. Jeremy B.C. Jackson, a marine ecologist and paleontologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, says we are witnessing `the rise of slime.
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Cleaning uranium waste with bacteria
[ 2006-08-14 00:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Nuclear bombs can kill people even if they`re not used. In the U.S. alone, the Department of Energy estimates that more than 2,500 billion liters of groundwater are contaminated with uranium as a consequence of nuclear weapons production. Some common bacteria could "convert deadly heavy metal into less threatening nano-spheres." In fact, these bacteria can convert soluble radioactive uranium into a non-toxic solid form called uraninite.
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Contagious cancer found in dogs
[ 2006-08-14 00:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have gathered definitive evidence that a kind of cancer in dogs, known as Sticker`s sarcoma, is contagious. It is spread by tumor cells getting passed from dog to dog through sex or from animals biting or licking each other. Robin Weiss and his colleagues did genetic studies on the tumor cells from 40 dogs with Sticker`s sarcoma, collected from five continents, which showed that all the tumor cells are clones of each other. The parent cell probably arose in a domesticated dog of Asian origin - perhaps a husky - hundreds of years ago, and perhaps more than 1,000 years ago. A similarly transmissible cancer has recently been discovered spreading through populations of Tasmanian devils.
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Satellite data reveals gravity change from sumatran earthquake
[ 2006-08-13 01:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...For the first time, scientists have been able to use satellite data to detect the changes in the earth`s surface caused by a massive earthquake.
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High altitude telescope to set sights on celestial secrets
[ 2006-08-13 01:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...It will be able to observe some of the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang, and catch planets in the act of forming around young stars.
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Norway fears giant alien crab invasion
[ 2006-08-12 23:48 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Environmentalists and fishermen in northern Norway are warning of a Russian invasion of alien crustaceans which are threatening to ruin the local sea fauna.
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Strange `twin` new worlds found
[ 2006-08-04 11:48 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System.
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Dwarf survives in stellar furnace
[ 2006-08-03 22:02 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A distant world that escaped the likely fate of the Earth - being fried when the Sun grows old and dies - has been discovered by astronomers.
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Bird brains shrink from exposure to contaminants
[ 2006-07-31 03:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The regions in robins` brains responsible for singing and mating are shrinking when exposed to high levels of DDT, the first proof that natural exposure to a contaminant damages the brain of a wild animal.
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World may becomming Uninhabitable Due to Global Warming
[ 2006-07-31 03:12 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The vast Amazon rainforest is on the brink of being turned into desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world`s climate.
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Global warming : More than 60 percent of U.S.A. in drought
[ 2006-07-31 03:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from...
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Newfound blob is biggest thing in the universe
[ 2006-07-30 19:40 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe.
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Mysterious quasar casts doubt on black holes
[ 2006-07-28 15:29 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A controversial alternative to black hole theory has been bolstered by observations of an object in the distant universe, researchers say. If their interpretation is correct, it might mean black holes do not exist and are in fact bizarre and compact balls of plasma called MECOs. (Magnetic, Eternally Collapsing Object)
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Close encounter for Jupiter spots
[ 2006-07-27 07:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Jupiter`s two giant red spots have brushed past each other, after approaching on a "collision course".
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Using Electricity to Heal
[ 2006-07-27 03:49 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The researchers grew layers of mouse cells and larger tissues, such as corneas, in the lab. After `wounding` these tissues, they applied varying electric fields to them, and found they could accelerate or completely halt the healing process depending on the orientation and strength of the field.
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Scientists question nature`s fundamental laws
[ 2006-07-26 06:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Laws such as the speed of light may have been different in the past.
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Tutankhamun`s gem hints at space impact
[ 2006-07-26 06:01 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of Tutankhamun`s necklaces.
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Indian Council of Agricultural Research develops bird flu vaccine
[ 2006-07-26 05:58 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...They have succeeded in developing an indigenous vaccine against the dreaded bird flu disease which had surfaced in February last in Navapur and Jalgaon districts, creating a scare among the chicken and egg consumers, and causing huge economic losses to the poultry industry.
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Researchers build sharpest tip
[ 2006-07-26 05:58 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Wolkow also expects their sharp tips will allow electrical characterization of extremely small objects, in turn allowing new device concepts to be discovered and tested.
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Circumcision `could cut HIV risk`
[ 2006-07-26 05:58 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Male circumcision could significantly reduce the burden of HIV in Africa, a study suggests.
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Scientists say they've found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA
[ 2006-07-26 00:18 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Researchers believe they have found a second code in DNA in addition to the genetic code.
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340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 new web addresses created by internet chiefs . . . so we won't run out of space soon.
[ 2006-07-16 03:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Of the internet addresses available, more than three quarters are already in use, and the remainder are expected to be assigned by 2009.
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Stuck Pig
[ 2006-07-14 10:34 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Suspended animation tests successful. The pig that was the subject of the article was kept in suspended animation for two hours, and Duggan and his team have successfully suspended hundreds of pigs for an hour at a time.
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Mini solar system could reveal hidden dimensions
[ 2006-07-08 12:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A tiny, artificial solar system could reveal hidden spatial dimensions and test A L T E Rnative theories of gravity, a new study suggests. If the system`s "planets" moved slightly differently than expected from standard gravity, it would signal the presence of new physical phenomena - which have proven very difficult to test.
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Air pollution and cramped housing conditions in Athens, Greece, are creating a new breed of mosquitoes.
[ 2006-07-05 23:31 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...They are bigger, faster, and can smell humans from farther away. The super insects have color vision and detect humans from 25-30 meters, which is about 50% farther than the ordinary mosquitoe. Beating their wing 500 times a second provides them with extra speed, and the larger bodies (by 0.3ug) presumably allow larger bloodsucking capacity.
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Scientists say `Dark Energy` might not exist.
[ 2006-07-04 05:30 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A growing number of researchers claim a mysterious "dark energy," which most cosmologists believe fills space, might not exist. Instead, they say, the laws of gravity might need some correction.
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Giant asteroid sets up July 3 date
[ 2006-07-03 10:03 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...An Asteroid up to half a mile wide is due to brush past Earth early today, approaching almost as close as the moon. In astronomical terms, that counts as a near miss.
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Roots of human family tree are shallow
[ 2006-07-03 03:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Despite the age of our species, every human on earth can trace their ancestry back to someone who may have lived as recently as the Golden Age of Greece (around 500 BC).
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An introduction to time travel
[ 2006-06-30 23:54 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Now since time and space are aspects of space-time and we wish to travel through time and not build atom bombs we will leave E=mc^2 for the moment. | Mathematics of Time Travel | A theoretical method for generating the vast amounts of energy needed for time travel.
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Time Travel in simple terms
[ 2006-06-30 23:51 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The commonest objections to time travel are the so-called paradoxes. For example, if we could travel through time, imagine what would happen to a time traveller if...
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Stem Cells Help Repair Rats` Paralysis
[ 2006-06-22 17:48 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have used stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually regrow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralyzed rats walk.
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Top scientists validating the supernatural universe - May the force be with you ?
[ 2006-06-10 03:56 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The Field offers a radically new view of the way our world and our bodies work. The human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment, but a packet of pulsating energy constantly interacting with this vast energy sea. The Field creates a picture of an interconnected universe and a new scientific theory which makes sense of 'supernatural 'phenomena.
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Ancient rock art depicts Super Nova
[ 2006-06-10 03:46 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A rock carving discovered in Arizona might depict an ancient star explosion seen by Native Americans a thousand years ago, scientists announced today.
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Is it raining Aliens?
[ 2006-06-09 15:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Nearly 50 tons of mysterious red particles showered India in 2001. Now the race is on to figure out what the heck they are
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Ancient rocks `built by microbes`
[ 2006-06-09 14:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Odd-shaped rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia offer compelling evidence they were built by microbes 3.43 billion years ago, scientists say.
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Physicists create great balls of fire
[ 2006-06-09 14:54 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Ball lightning - the mysterious slow-moving spheres of light occasionally seen during thunderstorms - has been C R E A T Ed in the lab.
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Scientists to try to clone human embryos
[ 2006-06-07 13:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Harvard University scientists said Tuesday they are trying to clone human embryos to C R E A T E stem cells they hope can be used one day to help conquer a host of diseases.
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Antarctica - Killer crater found under Ice
[ 2006-06-03 01:12 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. And the gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years -- the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out.
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Russian scientists harness Star power in new battery
[ 2006-06-02 09:19 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...this battery can work on earth, independently of meteorological conditions, using solar and stellar energy.
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Scientists back Autism link to MMR Vaccine
[ 2006-06-02 09:09 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Research to be presented this week in Montreal, Canada, provides fresh evidence that the measles virus is present in the guts of autistic children. Dr Stephen Walker, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, studied children with regressive autism and bowel disease. "Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain," he said.
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Humble ferns that saved the planet
[ 2006-06-01 22:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The Arctic was once a balmy subtropical paradise with palm trees, alligators and an average temperature of 74F, scientists revealed.
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Heart may be home to its own stem cells
[ 2006-05-31 23:38 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A team of researchers has discovered the "home" of stem cells in the heart, lending credence to the idea that the heart has the capacity to repair itself.
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Earth`s ozone layer appears to be on the road to recovery.
[ 2006-05-28 05:35 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...While the ozone hole over Antarctica continues to open wide, the ozone layer around the rest of the planet seems to be on the mend. For the last 9 years, worldwide ozone has remained roughly constant, halting the decline first noticed in the 1980s.
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Chicken and egg debate unscrambled
[ 2006-05-27 04:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Egg came first, `eggsperts` agree.
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Super Antibiotic For Hospital Superbug MRSA
[ 2006-05-19 06:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...scientists have discovered an antibiotic that is effective in destroying MRSA, otherwise known as the hospital superbug. This antibiotic, unlike others, blocks the enzymes that produce fatty acids - essential for the construction of the membranes of bacteria... they came across 'platensimycin` found in a soil sample from South Africa...
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Last chromosome in human genome sequenced
[ 2006-05-18 17:23 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have reached a landmark point in one of the world`s most important scientific projects by sequencing the last chromosome in the Human Genome, the so-called "book of life".
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Saharan Sand Dunes Found on Saturn`s Moon Titan
[ 2006-05-17 03:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Recent images of Titan, Saturn`s largest moon, bear a striking resemblance to some of the deserts on Earth.
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Use Chemistry To Tap Solar Power, Professor Says
[ 2006-05-17 03:20 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Only the sun, which pours more energy onto the Earth`s surface in an hour than the entire planet uses in a year, has the capacity to meet future global energy needs.
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Ship Logs Suggest Upcoming Polar Reversal
[ 2006-05-14 00:17 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...they give clues to Earth`s magnetic decline...
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Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story
[ 2006-05-13 01:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Providing the strongest evidence yet that humans are still evolving, researchers have detected some 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped by natural S E L E C Tion, a principal force of evolution, within the last 5,000 to 15,000 years.
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Doubt cast on Venus catastrophe
[ 2006-05-13 01:25 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Accepted views of how the planet Venus evolved are challenged by new age dates for its surface.
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`Mental typewriter` controlled by thought alone
[ 2006-05-13 01:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...A computer controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated at a major trade fair in Germany.
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Light`s Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?
[ 2006-05-13 01:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...So, wouldn`t Einstein shake a finger at all these strange goings-on? After all, this seems to violate Einstein`s sacred tenet that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
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Pollution `could kill off human race`
[ 2006-05-11 13:02 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...it is far more damaging to humans than originally thought and is causing genetic mutations which could eventually wipe us from the face of the planet, according to a leading scientist.
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Climate, not humans, said to have killed off mammoths
[ 2006-05-11 01:41 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´ 
...Climate shifts were probably responsible for the extinction of the mammoth and other species more than 10,000 years ago, not over-hunting by humans.
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Evolutionary forces explain why women live longer than men
[ 2006-05-11 01:36 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Despite research efforts to find modern factors that would explain the different life expectancies of men and women, the gap is actually ancient and universal...
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Everyone Wants to `Own` Your PC
[ 2006-05-07 18:09 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Just because computers were a liberating force in the past doesn`t mean they will be in the future. There is enormous political and economic power behind the idea that you shouldn`t truly own your computer or your software, despite having paid for it.
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Trade winds weaken with global warming
[ 2006-05-04 16:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists fear that as the winds lose their puff, weather patterns will become less predictable and marine organisms will suffer, as fewer vital nutrients are forced up to the surface from the ocean depths.
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Robots break Asimov's first law
[ 2006-05-02 04:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...And so it begins.
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Pesticides may affect penis size, A renowned scientist supports a ban on the chemicals for cosmetic purposes.
[ 2006-05-01 18:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
..."This is important because it is not just an alligator story. It is not just a lake story. We know there has been a dramatic increase in penile and genital abnormalities in baby boys," Guillette said...
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Scientists find brain cells linked to choice
[ 2006-04-24 02:55 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Researchers have identified neurons, or brain cells, that seem to play a role in how a person S E L E C Ts different items or goods.
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Another fundamental constant accused of changing
[ 2006-04-21 19:39 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Cosmologists claim to have found evidence that yet another fundamental constant of nature, called mu, may have changed over the last 12 billion years. If confirmed, the result could force some physicists to radically rethink their theories. It would also provide support for string theory, which predicts extra spatial dimensions.
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Secret rivers found in Antarctic
[ 2006-04-20 16:42 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The sub-glacial lakes of Antarctica are regarded as "time capsules" of the period when the continent began to freeze over.
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Environment in crisis: `We are past the point of no return`
[ 2006-04-18 01:43 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind`s abuse of the environment is making that mechanism work against us. His astonishing conclusion - that climate change is already insoluble, and life on Earth will never be the same again.
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Venus probe returns first images
[ 2006-04-16 14:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Europe`s Venus Express probe has returned its first images since slipping into orbit around our nearest planetary neighbour on Tuesday.
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World`s Strongest Glue
[ 2006-04-16 14:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The adhesive can withstand an enormous amount of stress, equal to the force felt by a quarter with more than three cars piled on top of it. That's two to three times more force than the best retail glues can handle.
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Cell division rewind button found
[ 2006-04-16 14:21 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have found a way to reverse the process of cell division, previously thought to be unstoppable.
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The fish that hunts on land
[ 2006-04-16 14:17 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Zoologists have found a remarkable fish that can wriggle from Africa`s tropical swamps to snaffle a snack on land.
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LBL Scientists Awarded Patent on Superhard Material
[ 2006-04-09 20:57 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Old but interesting.
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Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution
[ 2006-04-06 06:34 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.
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Cockroaches Make Group Decisions?
[ 2006-04-05 04:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The research determined that cockroach decision-making follows a predictable pattern that could explain group dynamics of other insects and animals, such as ants, spiders, fish and even cows. Cockroaches, Blattella Germanica, are silent creatures, save perhaps for the sound of them scurrying over a counter top. They therefore must communicate without vocalizing.
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On a Scaffold in the Lab, Doctors Build a Bladder
[ 2006-04-04 02:28 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Bladders C R E A T Ed in the laboratory from a patient`s own cells and then implanted in seven young people have achieved good long-term results in all of them, a team of researchers reported yesterday in a medical journal.
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Air over Antarctica heating up;
[ 2006-04-01 11:38 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...2005 hottest year yet.
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Prime numbers
[ 2006-03-27 17:54 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. Will the subatomic world help reveal the illusive nature of the primes?
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One of the worlds most largest glaciers in Argentina is melting.
[ 2006-03-16 20:44 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Global warming, right now!
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How Islamic inventors changed the world
[ 2006-03-14 07:54 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them.
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Water plumes spewing from `ice volcano` seen on a moon of Saturn
[ 2006-03-09 23:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn`s moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.
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Jupiter`s New Red Spot
[ 2006-03-04 13:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The planet Jupiter is growing a new red spot, It`s about half the size of the famous Great Red Spot and almost exactly the same color.
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Scientists find Antarctic ice shrank significantly
[ 2006-03-04 05:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...The Antarctic ice sheet shrank significantly during the past three years, according to the findings of a NASA study released on Thursday.
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Early humans on the menu.
[ 2006-02-28 11:02 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...It is a widely accepted view in both research and popular literature: our ancient ancestors were hunters; aggressive, competitive and natural killers.
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Big Brain Thinking.
[ 2006-02-18 04:38 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Stanford neuroscientist Bill Newsome wants to implant an electrode in his brain to better understand human consciousness.
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Forecast is: it`s the warmest for 1200 years.
[ 2006-02-11 03:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´ 
...The study, published in the journal Science, found that the late 20th century has been the warmest period for the Northern Hemisphere since the records began in AD800.
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SLAC Physicists Develop Test For String Theory.
[ 2006-02-10 13:08 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Ben Lillie published an article in Physical Review Letters which shows theoretically how to measure the number of dimensions that comprise the universe. By determining how many dimensions exist, Hewett and Rizzo hope to either confirm or repudiate string theory under specific conditions.
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Paranoia
[ 2006-02-06 12:54 ] - Posted by anonymous
...Useful Information On . . . PARANOIA.
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Believe it or Not
[ 2006-01-28 01:45 ] - Posted by Astrid
...Only for tough stomachs
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Project Rainbow
[ 2006-01-27 03:33 ] - Posted by Astrid
...The Philadelphia Experiment
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Mind over Matter or Simple Science?
[ 2006-01-16 20:14 ] - Posted by In peace I come
...Can "Faith" really Move a Mountain??
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Oneness
[ 2006-01-10 06:04 ] - Posted by In peace I come.
...Man and women
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18 Tricks to Teach Your Body
[ 2006-01-03 20:22 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose...
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Rows `can slow body`s ability to heal wounds`
[ 2005-12-06 04:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...stress felt by a married couple during a half-hour argument is enough to slow their bodies` ability to heal wounds by at least one day.
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Synthetic Black-Holes.
[ 2005-10-24 15:07 ] - Posted by ElementX (Ali Asjad)
...Budding black-holes and creating them for understanding of `other` dimensions.
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The Avian Flu Fright is Politically Timed
[ 2005-10-19 20:54 ] - Posted by anonymous
...A Public Health Warning and Political Essay
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History of Computers
[ 2005-10-14 23:57 ] - Posted by Adrianna Van Skyhawk
...a great example of intelligent minds, from different countries, getting together..to make something wonderful
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Scientists recreate virus that killed millions.
[ 2005-10-13 16:00 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Scientists say they have made a virus identical, in most key respects, to the Spanish flu virus that killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million people in 1918.
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Momo Syndrome
[ 2005-10-07 03:54 ] - Posted by Adrianna Van Skyhawk
......6 stone baby...
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Adolescents...
[ 2005-10-06 03:14 ] - Posted by Lucy Vazquez
...Socio-pathic behaviour
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The Deepest Trenches...
[ 2005-09-26 20:33 ] - Posted by Lucy Vazquez
...Rock bottom floors of our oceans...
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Ancient Baghdad...
[ 2005-09-25 01:21 ] - Posted by Lucy
...A battery...???
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Black Hole...
[ 2005-09-17 07:05 ] - Posted by Lucy Vazquez
...Without a galaxy...?
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Our unknown brain activities...
[ 2005-09-11 07:50 ] - Posted by Lucy Vazquez
...A new universe to explore...
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Zero Point Energy
[ 2005-09-10 15:11 ] - Posted by Nathan Colella
...the other requirement for space travel is energy. A thought experiment published by physicist Robert Forward in 1984 demonstrated how the Casimir force could in principle be used to extract energy from the quantum vacuum...
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The Farthest Galaxy ...
[ 2005-09-03 01:34 ] - Posted by Lucy
...New ones....
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The Human Brain...
[ 2005-09-02 00:58 ] - Posted by Lucy
...Brain versus Universe
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DNA
[ 2005-09-01 04:09 ] - Posted by Lucy
...Facinating Facts...
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Evolution ...
[ 2005-08-31 06:31 ] - Posted by Lucy Vazquez
...Evolution with positive `prove`!
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Time and Space Cience...
[ 2005-08-30 07:21 ] - Posted by Lucy Vazquez #9878
...Facts.........
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Did life begin in ice ?
[ 2005-08-25 08:45 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...New findings are backing up a theory that life originated in ice...
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Bending Time And Space
[ 2005-08-12 00:06 ] - Posted by Nathan Colella
......Einstein said that ripping the fabric of space was impossible and you could only stretch and warp it, String theory is showing that Einstein wasn`t always right...
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String Theory
[ 2005-07-26 04:10 ] - Posted by Nathan Colella
...inside the particles are little balls of matter and inside those are small vibrating string of energy and is the key for uniting these two conflicting forces together...
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Quantum Mechanics
[ 2005-07-18 22:05 ] - Posted by Nathan Colella
...If we were to experience quantum laws we would think we were going insane because everything around us would be constantly changing and unpredictable.
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Unification
[ 2005-06-27 00:03 ] - Posted by Nathan Colella
...Einstein discovered that light was a speed limit which is faster than any force in the universe...
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Life`s top 10 greatest inventions
[ 2005-04-09 02:20 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...now that people routinely survive well past reproductive age, we suffer the invention evolution never meant us to find: death by old age.
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Indonesia earthquake shortens day
[ 2005-01-14 05:21 ] - Posted by Tuna
...The length of day has been shortened by 2.68 microseconds
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Vaccinating Animals news article
[ 2004-12-26 07:41 ] - Posted by alice2
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Minerals: The Key to Health and Longevity.
[ 2004-12-12 23:39 ] - Posted by Alice2
...According to Wallach, the human potential lifespan is 120 to 140 years, yet
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SpaceShipOne
[ 2004-10-04 20:27 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...Nothing important
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Dietary Insurance: A Daily Multivitamin.
[ 2004-09-30 12:53 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...If you eat a healthy diet, do you need to take vitamins? Not long ago, the answer from most experts would have been a resounding "no". Today, though, there`s good evidence that taking a daily multivitamin makes sense for most adults.
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What is an eclipse?
[ 2002-11-30 20:26 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...is is not the case for any other planet in the Solar System, so only Earth witnesses such close-fitting solar eclipses. The Sun is, of course, much larger than the Moon. It is 400 times bigger in fact, but it is also 400 times
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An eternity of bubbles ?
[ 2002-09-09 12:15 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...ng that it arrives at Earth with the same intensity from all directions, to the extraordinary accuracy of about 1/1000 of a percent. Tracing the history of this radiation backwards in time, cosmologists conclu
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Black holes, wormholes and the 10th dimension.
[ 2002-09-09 12:14 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...discovery of the Holy Grail of astrophysics may also rekindle a long simmering debate within the physics community. What lies on the other side of a black hole? If someone foolishly fell into a black hole, will
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HYPERSPACE: A scientific odyssey thtough the tenth dimension.
[ 2002-09-09 12:13 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...that higher dimensions not only exist, but may also explain some of the deepest secrets of nature. Although we stress that there is at present no experimental evidence for higher dimensions, in principle they
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Is there a theory of everything ?
[ 2002-09-09 12:12 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...spend hours fascinated by the carp, who lived in a very shallow pond just inches beneath the lily pads, just beneath my fingers, totally oblivious to the universe above them. I would ask myself a question only
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Is time travel possible ?
[ 2002-09-09 12:11 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...king lights, spun a few dials, and found himself catapulted several hundred thousand years into the future, where England has long disappeared and is now inhabited by two groups of strange creatures, the Morloc
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What happened before the big bang ?
[ 2002-09-09 12:10 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...as subjected to the most stringent test yet and passed with flying colors. In the latest (Oct.) issue of Physics Today, astronomers from Harvard, MIT, and the Haystack Observatory proudly announced that they ha
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What is the future of cosmology ?
[ 2002-09-09 12:09 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...w for sure: This is science, where the ultimate worth of one`s ideas is that they lead to a genuine understanding of nature. To be part of science, an idea or theory must make predictions that survive compariso
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Where does matter come from ?
[ 2002-09-09 12:08 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...st of us learned in high school that matter is made of atoms and that atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. What we don`t usually learn in high school is that to each particle of matter there is ano
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Where is the missing matter ?
[ 2002-09-09 12:07 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...ospect of being able to understand the formation of galaxies and the movements of cosmic structures-essentially the behavior of the cosmos as a whole-in terms of the properties of subatomic particles. We`ll be a
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A theory of everything ? (longer version)
[ 2002-09-08 11:50 ] - Posted by ``-_-´´
...shed papers still sitting on his desk. I was fascinated by the story. To a child, this was a great mystery. What was his unfinished work? What problem could possibly be that difficult and that important that su
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