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sciencedaily.com — Researchers have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on the quantities of rain in the desert. This is the first example of a self-irrigating plant worldwide.... More…
otequeFaults And Earthquakes In China Monitored From Space
sciencedaily.com — China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults in China to understand better the seismic cycle and how faults behave. More…
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weirdralphStephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered New Stage of Evolution
dailygalaxy.com — Although It has taken ***** sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points... More…
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kploRobot rescue "rat" feels its way through rubble
newscientist.com — A new robot with artificial whiskers could one day be used to locate survivors of natural disasters, or people trapped in burning buildings. Developed by a team led by Tony Prescott from the University of Sheffield and Anthony Pipe from the University of Bristol, both in the UK, SCRATCHbot mimics the way a rat senses its environment. More…
webalertMIT Solves the Mystery of the 1918 "Spanish Flu" Pandemic
dailygalaxy.com — MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans during the 1918 pandemic outbreak that killed at least 50 million people -believed more than that taken by the Black Death, and higher than the number killed in World War I. More…
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