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Most Complex Crop Circle Ever Discovered [PIC]

telegraph.co.uk — The most complex, "mind-boggling" crop circle ever to be seen in Britain has been discovered in a barley field in Wiltshire. More… (General Sciences)

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Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

timesonline.co.uk — Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide renewable petroleum. ..the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. Using genetically modified bugs for More… (General Sciences)

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Jurassic Park Comes True

dailymail.co.uk — How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to life with the help of the humble chicken.More… (General Sciences)

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Marijuana Could Treat Cancer, Glaucoma, and More

news.nationalgeographic.com — "Targeting the CB2 receptor could be a therapeutic strategy to prevent or treat diseases like Crohn's disease [inflammation of the intestinal tract], liver cirrhosis, osteoarthritis, and atherosclerosis," said lead study author Jürg Gertsch.More… (General Sciences)

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10 Things You Didn't Know About You

livescience.com — Think you know everything about you?Think again.More… (General Sciences)

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How To: Create a Lucid Dream

blog.makezine.com — FTA: "The Lucid Dream Machine is a pair of glasses that you wear while you are sleeping. About 4 hours into your sleep the AVR microcontroller pulse LEDs that shine through your eyelids. This half wakes you up. The flashing lights helps you become aware (in your sleep) that your are sleeping and dreaming, in doing so you become more likely to..."More… (General Sciences)

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The Best Cure for Anxiety Disorder...... Marijuana!

elle.com — After years of using prescription antidepressants that offered no relief for her anxiety disorder, Patsy K. Eagan experiments with her drug of choice- marijuanaMore… (General Sciences)

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5 Superpowers Science Will Give Us in Our Lifetime

cracked.com — If you're young enough to care about comic books, odds are you'll live to see real life superheroes swinging through the streets, courtesy of science. So why's that a bad thing? We tell you.More… (General Sciences)

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The Sun is Dead: Could lack of sunspots start mini ice age?

dailygalaxy.com — Strange and powerful phenomena known as sunspots are now all gone. The sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots - a period that coincided with a little ice age on Earth. Could it be happening again?More… (General Sciences)

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Stephen Hawking's Explosive New Theory on the Universe

telegraph.co.uk — Prof Stephen Hawking has come up with a new idea to explain why the Big Bang of creation led to the vast cosmos that we can see today. Astronomers can deduce that the early universe expanded at a mind-boggling rate because regions separated by vast distances have similar background temperatures.More… (General Sciences)

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