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Islam's Darwin problem
richarddawkins.net — Weeks ago, a team of scientists in Ethiopia unveiled the fossil skeleton of Ardi, a 4-foot-tall female primate who predated Lucy, the fossilized Australopithecus afarensis by 1.2 million years. If you learned about Ardi on the Arabic of Al Jazeera’s website, however, you discovered something else: The find disproved the theory of evolution. (Submitted by novenator) More…
Carbon Nanotube Sponge Absorbs 180x Its Own Weight in Toxins
treehugger.com — Scientists from the Peking University and Tsinghua University have created a sponge like no other. It is made of carbon nanotubes - regular carbon atoms arranged in a specific cylindrical shape - and can absorb organic pollutants from the surface of water (such as oil and solvents) up to 180x its weight (!) without absorbing water. (Submitted by jerryjamesstone) More…
UK Calls For a Transforming, Laser-Toting Stealth UAV
popsci.com — Ministry of Defense (MOD) in Great Britain unveiled its plans for modernizing its military. Curiously similar to the US Army's recently killed Future Combat System, the British program looks to bring a new generation of unmanned vehicles, advanced sensors and energy weapons to the battlefield. (Submitted by executex) More…
Real-life Star Trek Replicator: EBF3
sciencedaily.com — A group of engineers working on a novel manufacturing technique at NASA's Langley Research Center have come up with a new twist on the old saying about dreaming and doing: "If you can slice it, we can build it." You start with a drawing of the part you want to build, you push a button, and out comes the part. (Submitted by ironeus) More…
Crossing the line: how aggressive cells invade the brain
rdmag.com — In diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cells of the immune system infiltrate the brain tissue, where they cause immense damage. For many years, it was an enigma as to how these cells can escape from the bloodstream. Until now, tissue sections provided the sole evidence, but a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology (Submitted by wjappe) More…
FBI Seizes Property of Physicist Critical of Government
articles.sun-sentinel.com — Federal agents have seized six computers, two cameras, two cell phones and hundreds of files from a Los Alamos, N.M., physicist who for two decades has criticized the government's nuclear agenda as misguided. (Submitted by oboy) More…
World's Freakiest Worm Gets Expanded Family Tree
wired.com — Five years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world — mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales — scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, the glimpse shows these creatures to be far more complicated than was known. (Submitted by mtnboy) More…
'Emotions increase or decrease pain': researchers
physorg.com — Getting a flu shot this fall? Canadians scientists have found that focusing on a pretty image could alleviate the sting of that vaccine. According to a new Université de Montréal study, published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), negative and positive emotions have a direct impact on pain. (Submitted by daxxer) More…
Longevity Genes: Why Some of Us Live Longer
dailygalaxy.com — Scientists have long been baffled as to why some people live so much longer than others. Diet and exercise account for some of it, but researchers have found that genetics also factor heavily into the equation, and that long life is somewhat hereditary as it is with living bristlecone pine that were alive when Caesar ruled Rome. (Submitted by RunDiggMC) More…
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