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Vegetarian Spider Found Posted: 1 month ago by suebe
Scientists have discovered another vegetarian spider and have named it Bagheera kiplingi (named after the panther in Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book). I think Bagheera badbudi would be a better choice :D
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Plants Perform Quantum Computation Posted: 1 month ago by 2manyusernames
Plants soak up an incredible amount of sunlight, absorbing 95% of its energy. Amazingly they do this with very little loss of sunlight as heat because they manage to convert the light into carbohydrates in one million billionths of a second. How plants manage this feat has been a mystery. A possible answer has now been found and it opens up new mysteries.
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Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life Posted: 1 month ago by bernardblack
Jupiter's moon, Europa has ocean water twice as much as all of the Earth. New evidence indicates that not only is there enough oxygen to support microorganisms but perhaps even enough to support greater lifeforms. The time it will take to unlock this oxygen is a good sign for eventual life as it gives time for organisms to evolve protection against oxygen's harmful effects.
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The Claim: Always Wash Your Hands With Hot Water, Not Cold Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
I wash my hands in scalding hot water, just so everyone knows that they're clean. Nothing says "this dude's hands are CLEAN" like Lobster-hands!
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Lizard Disguised as Autumn Leaf Posted: 1 month ago by ITC518
A Satanic leaf-tailed gecko, a type of lizard that can camouflage itself to resemble a shrivelled autumn leaf, has been captured on camera in a stunning image.
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The Millennial Muddle Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
For as long as human hair has turned gray, elders have looked at their successors and frowned. "Children nowadays are tyrants," goes an old quotation widely attributed to Socrates. "They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
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Facial Profiling Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
Can you tell if a man is dangerous by the shape of his mug?
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Vandenberg turns into a reef. Posted: 1 month ago by maven
Not the base, the 527-foot former missile tracking ship. It was sunk off the Florida Keys to create a reef...And critters are moving in.
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Black Hole Created Posted: 1 month ago by 2manyusernames
An electromagnetic black hole has been created for the first time. It works at microwave frequencies but it is expected to be able to eventually catch visible light as well. This would open up new possibilities for solar power cells.
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The Arctic Circle Will Have Ice Free Summers in 10 Years Posted: 1 month ago by suebe
The Catlin Arctic Survey was working with the World Wildlife Fund, and the WWF warns, "This could lead to flooding affecting one-quarter of the world's population, substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions from massive carbon pools and extreme global weather changes."
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The halo effect Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
If we see a person first in a good light, it is difficult subsequently to darken that light.
*does this halo make my butt look big?*
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Animals feel the pain of religious slaughter Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
Brain signals have shown that calves do appear to feel pain when slaughtered according to Jewish and Muslim religious law, strengthening the case for adapting the practices to make them more humane.
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Digging through baby poo in the name of science Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
A search through decades-old frozen infant stool samples has yielded rich dividends for scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Flying Reptile May Have Snatched Dinosaurs in Midair Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
A crow-sized reptile sporting a lengthy tail likely soared through the skies some 160 million years ago, snatching feathered dinosaurs and tiny flying mammals from the air, suggest fossils of a newly identified pterosaur.
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Even the Maya are getting sick of the hype Posted: 1 month ago by jhordie
The frenzy is building over mostly Western generated misinformation regarding the Mayan calendar.
The Maya have more important things to worry about, like rain.
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Hunting Arctic Asteroid Impact With Hovercraft Posted: 1 month ago by Pazez
There's only one place left in this world that hasn't been explored, and it is guaranteed to teach us more than the rest of the planet has ever told us. It's the bottom.
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The story of the Gömböc Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
A Gömböc is a strange thing. It looks like an egg with sharp edges, and when you put it down it starts wriggling and rolling around with an apparent will of its own.
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Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009 Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
The first video of the series, which demonstrates how a high-magnitude earthquake along the San Andreas Fault would impact Southern California. (Hint: It’s not good.)
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History In Snippets Posted: 2 months ago by 2manyusernames
A large number of short discussions on history. Read them or listen to them, but learn something how our culture is formed by human creativity. Click above link or this link to search by keywords all previous episodes.
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Most Deadly Substances On Earth Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Be careful about your 'shrooms!
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Pacific ocean "Dead Zone" may be forever Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
An oxygen-depleted "dead zone" the size of New Jersey (well, figures!) is starving sea life near the coast of Oregon and Washington.
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NASA tweaks killer asteroid's trajectory of death Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
NASA has recalculated the trajectory of asteroid Apophis and concluded that Bruce Willis can stand down from a state of doom-body-busting readiness.
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An Influenza Primer Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recently submitted its report to the president in which they stated that this influenza season might kill 30-90,000 people in the US.
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Scientist re-creates Turin Shroud to show it's fake Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
An Italian scientist says he has reproduced one of the world's most famous Catholic relics, the Shroud of Turin, to support his belief it is a medieval fake, not the cloth Jesus was buried in.
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Science Confirms the Obvious Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Who Would Have Thought? Ducks Like Water!
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