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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)
d4rken3rgyThe Only Known Public Photograph Of A P-G Cloud On A Rocket view!
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150th Anniversary of Theory of Evolution
wired.com — 1858: The Linnaean Society of London listens to the reading of a composite paper on how natural selection accounts for the evolution and variety of species. The authors are Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Modern biology is born. More… (General Sciences)
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Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount
arstechnica.com — The folks behind Conservapedia have taken issue with the work behind a publication by a prominent evolutionary biologist and demanded he produce the data it's based on. Accidentally, they've created an enlightening demonstration of the challenges of providing the public with access to the scientific work their tax dollars have paid for.More… (General Sciences)
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Quantum Physicists Snap First "Ghost Photos"
blog.wired.com — Scientists funded by the Air Force have used quantum entanglement - in which pairs of particles continue to interact even after they are spatially separated - to snap a picture of a tin solider without aiming a camera directly at the object.More… (General Sciences)
guyroSarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill
richarddawkins.net — So what? I mean really, who cares? Oh for God's sake. Don't you have anything better to do than read this column?More… (General Sciences)
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Quantum computing breakthrough arises from unknown molecule
news.uns.purdue.edu — "This development may not bring us a quantum computer 10 years faster, but our dreams about these machines are now more realistic."More… (General Sciences)
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How Scientists Brought Magic Mushrooms Into the Mainstream
newsweek.com — For a time, it seemed that convincing America's premier research institutions to fund or sponsor research on hallucinogenic drugs was nearly impossible. In fact, the recent Journal of Pharmacology study on magic mushroom effects represents a 30-year effort to rebuild legitimate psychedelic research programs from the ashes of 1960.More… (General Sciences)
MakiMakiTruck transporting 12 million bees overturns in Canada watch!
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How a Giant Solar Tower Could Power the Future
livescience.com — A new energy concept called a solar tower could generate enough electricity for 200,000 homes. Looking like a giant smokestack, it would release no noxious fumes — just sun-heated air. Demonstrated more than 20 years ago, the basic design calls for solar collectors to warm the air near Earth's surface and then channel it up the tall central tower.More… (General Sciences)
It's True Your Brain Lies To You
iht.com — False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel misinformation. More… (General Sciences)
MediaSightPoll: US Taxpayers Want More Funding for Scientific Research
arstechnica.com — Substantial majorities of US voters not only favor solving major issues through scientific research, but they appear to be willing to spend money on doing so.More… (General Sciences)
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Scientists: Atom Smasher Won't Spawn Scary Black Holes
news.wired.com — The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth?More… (General Sciences)
kianatTumor Cells Can Be Reversed and Converted to Normal Cells
thebiologyblogger.com — By lowering the levels of a certain molecule, scientists have found a way to convert tumor cells into normal cells that reproduce and die like normal cells. More… (General Sciences)
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Quantum Mechanics: New insights into “blinking” phenomenon
newsinfo.nd.edu — More than a century ago, at the dawn of modern quantum mechanics, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Neils Bohr predicted so-called “quantum jumps.” He predicted that these jumps would be due to electrons making transitions between discrete energy levels of individual atoms and molecules. Although controversial in Bohr’s time, [...]More… (General Sciences)
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