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Study finds humans still evolving, and quickly Posted: 2 months ago by karenben
Until recently, anthropologists believed that evolutionary pressure on humans eased after the transition to a more stable agrarian lifestyle. But in the last few years, they realized the opposite was true.
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Getting Drunk on Liquid Hand Sanitizer Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
Those of you with children, or taking care of children know they like to taste everything, especially if it smells good. I got an email at the office that illustrates the dangers of alcohol based hand sanitizers and curious children. Another source
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Scary Music Is Scarier with Your Eyes Shut Posted: 2 months ago by stinkobinko
Listening to sounds with our eyes closed seems to wire together a direct connection to the regions of our brains that process emotions
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Study: Male bass in many U.S. rivers feminized Posted: 2 months ago by proverb
One out of five male black bass in American river basins have egg cells growing inside their sexual organs, a sign of how widespread fish feminizing has become.
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Norman Borlaug, Nobel laureate for fighting famine, dies Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and father of the "green revolution" who was credited with saving 1 billion lives from famine, died in Dallas at age 95.
Dr. Borlaug died late Saturday night at his home from complications of cancer, said Kathleen Phillips, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman.
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Fake video dramatically alters eyewitness accounts Posted: 2 months ago by stinkobinko
fake video evidence can dramatically alter people's perceptions of events, even convincing them to testify as an eyewitness to an event that never happened.
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'Death Stench' Is A Universal Ancient Warning Signal Posted: 2 months ago by stinkobinko
The smell of recent death or injury that repels living relatives of insects has been identified as a truly ancient signal that functions to avoid disease or predators, biologists have discovered.
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Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Nonhuman Animals Posted: 2 months ago by stinkobinko
there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition -- that is, they may share humans' ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind.
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Ice cream may target the brain before your hips Posted: 2 months ago by stinkobinko
Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night’s football game.
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Naturally Social: Cool Ways Animals Communicate Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
From the impressive language and dialect of prairie dogs to the “beyond-human-hearing” rumbles of elephants to the numerous distinctive cries of chickens, animal communication truly is a testament to the intelligence of these creatures.
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Troublesome green algae serve as coating substrate in record-setting battery Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
we have succeeded in producing a battery that weighs almost nothing and that has set new charge-time and capacity records for polymer-cellulose-based batteries.
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NASA selects lunar crater for October collision Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
The winner: Cabeus A, a relatively flat, 60-mile wide crater on the moon's south pole that may hold water ice in its permanently shadowed top soil.
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Extinct Eagle May Have Eaten Humans Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
The researchers say they have determined that the eagle — which lived in the mountains of New Zealand and weighed about 40 pounds — was a predator and not a mere scavenger as many thought.
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Frozen vegetables 'more nutritious than fresh produce' Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
The study found that fresh food goes through around a two-week distribution chain as it is bagged and packaged and delivered to sellers.
Whereas frozen food, the study said, is frozen shortly after being harvested.
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Archaeologists discover oldest-known fiber materials used by early humans Posted: 3 months ago by stinkobinko
"This was a critical invention for early humans. They might have used this fiber to create parts of clothing, ropes, or baskets—for items that were mainly used for domestic activities," says Bar-Yosef. "We know that this is wild flax that grew in the vicinity of the cave and was exploited intensively or extensively by modern humans."
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Fossils Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil Generation Posted: 3 months ago by stinkobinko
Researchers in Stockholm have managed to prove that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated. This means, on the one hand, that it will be much easier to find these sources of energy and, on the other hand, that they can be found all over the globe
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Sex talk and the Lonely Y Chromosome Posted: 3 months ago by stinkobinko
The Y chromosome can talk to itself and can actually maintain a genetic conversation with the X chromosome. Now Scientists are predicting the decline of the Y Chromosome. It's not going away quietly and may be bent on revenge.
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Climate policy’s most inconvenient truth Posted: 3 months ago by 2manyusernames
There is no doubt that coal is bad for the environment. The problem is coal is indispensable. No other fuel matches its promise of cheap and abundant energy for development. How to solve this problem is the $64,000 question.
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Where Did All the Flowers Come From? Posted: 3 months ago by 2manyusernames
Look around. You'll see that flowering plants are a evolutionary success story. They make up most of the plant species, dominate many ecosystems, and are the source of much of our food. Yet their evolution is still a mystery
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Great tits acquire taste for bats Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
Caught on camera - the first time the great tit has been seen eating a bat
A Hungarian cave has turned out to be a larder of highly unusual food for great tits.
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Hubble Returns! - It's full of Stars.. Posted: 3 months ago by equinox
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope we know the universe is 13.7 billion years old. The HST has helped scientists determine the process of how planets are born and detected the first organic molecule on a planet outside our solar system. These first snapshots from the newly repaired Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's improved vision.
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Could Salmonella Bacteria Kill Tumors? Posted: 3 months ago by 2manyusernames
Salmonella is bad. However scientists may be able to utilize the bacteria to help kill cancerous tumors
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NY man's next blood donation will be gallon No. 40 Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
A New York man is donating his 320th pint of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons.
Seventy-five-year-old Al Fischer plans to reach the milestone Tuesday, 58 years after he started giving blood.
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Midnight Snacks Will Make You Fat Posted: 3 months ago by Bingo
How much weight you gain may depend on when you eat, according to a new study that looked at the timing of meals in mice. Scientists at Northwestern University fed two groups of mice the same amount of high fat food, but one group ate during regular waking time, while the other ate during what would normally be their sleeping period. The second group gained twice as much weight as the first group!
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BBC team discovers 40 new species in 'lost world' Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
Rats as big as cats, fanged frogs and grunting fish - they sound like something from a horror movie.
But, incredibly, there is a 'lost world' on a distant island where these nightmarish creatures really exist.
A team of scientists discovered the bizarre animals - and dozens of others - at a remote volcano in Papua New Guinea.
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