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Worlds Spookiest Weapons
popsci.com — Cyborg Animals, psychotropics and Flying LasersMore… (General Sciences)
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Lasers May Treat Cancers of the Larynx
nytimes.com — A new outpatient laser procedure could eliminate the need for radiation treatment for cancer of the larynx if the tumors are detected early.More… (General Sciences)
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Sexy orchids do more than embarrass wasps
news.yahoo.com — Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday.More… (General Sciences)
bamafunEarly plans for LHC visible in 1993 screen shot of CERN site
science-community.sciam.com — Check out this screen shot from the world's first Web site, http://info.cern.ch/, which went live 15 years ago. Note the multicolored diagram in the background. That's an early schematic of ATLAS, one of two enormous particle detectors recently installed at the Large Hadron Collider, set to fire up later this year at CERN.More… (General Sciences)
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Giant bacterium carries thousands of copies of its genome
nature.com — It seems like a peculiar case of genomic overkill: a single-celled bacterium has been found that keeps tens of thousands of copies of its genome.More… (General Sciences)
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Ancient Antarctic lake may hide life unseen for ages
dailygalaxy.com — Could ancient life be living today? Locked miles beneath the Antarctic surface, these lakes have not touched our atmosphere for millions of years. What will we find there?More… (General Sciences)
WriterSDOne Word: Bioplastics
greentomarrow.com — It’s been 40 years since Mr. McGuire pulled Benjamin Braddock withdrawal apart from his degree and said: “I just want to say one word to you. … Just one word are you listening? Plastics …. There is a great future in plastics. ” The future is still in plastics, but today Mr. McGuire probably whisper, “bioplastics”. More… (General Sciences)
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Computer Game's High Score Could Earn The Nobel Prize
sciencedaily.com — Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries, perhaps even finding a cure for HIV.More… (General Sciences)
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Scientists Build Nano Hot Rods
sciam.com — Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic "nanomachines" that may someday be used to deliver lifesaving medications or test the quality of drinking water in remote regions of the world.More… (General Sciences)
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Massive Marijuana Research Compilation
scientificfactsofpot.com — Quite possibly the most comprehensive website covering research on marijuana that's ever existed.More… (General Sciences)
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Sad Explanations for Supernatural Phenomena
wired.com — People keep devising theories. Some, not content to come up with explanations for unexplained phenomena, instead go to great lengths to come up with bizarre takes on explained phenomena.More… (General Sciences)
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Brittlestars can survive acid oceans
nature.com — As carbon dioxide levels rise, most researchers have assumed that increasingly acidic oceans will compromise the calcification processes of ocean organisms.But new results show that one delicate species, a brittlestar, actually bumps up the speed of shell production, or calcification, under such conditions.More… (General Sciences)
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Beautiful people are healthier and live longer
telegraph.co.uk — The discovery has come from research conducted across cultures and species that focused on one trait that earlier work found was attractive: symmetry.More… (General Sciences)
Dino-Era Bird Fossil Found; One of Oldest Known
news.nationalgeographic.com — A fossil of a new species of dinosaur-era bird found in China is one of the oldest ever discovered, experts say in a new study. The new bird, called Eoconfuciusornis zhengi, or "the dawn of the Confucius bird," is predated only by the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, which lived during the Jurassic period. More… (General Sciences)
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