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New minor planet helps explain comets »
Posted by: STONERS 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A newly discovered "minor planet" with an elongated orbit around the Sun may help explain the origin of comets, researchers said on Monday.
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No Needle and Thread for Doctors of the Future »
Posted by: israeligirl1 13 hours, 12 minutes ago in Science & Technology
In the near future Doctors may be able to trade their needle and thread for laser "skin welding."
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Scientists Make a Fat-Burning Fat »
Posted by: bizexpert 3 months, 1 week ago in Humor
What if fat could make you lose weight?
So suggests research into a little-known type of adipose tissue called brown fat.
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Birds can't keep up with climate change: study »
Posted by: capn_caveman 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The habitats of wild bird species are shifting in response to global warming, but not fast enough to keep pace with rising temperatures, according to ...
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Children's Use of Cell Phones Increases Risk of Cancer Fivefold: Study »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
A recent study showed a possible link between cell phone radiation and infertility in men. And in July, a cancer center director warned his staff ...
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Potential Cure for Malaria Discovered in Rainforests of Costa Rica »
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A team of researchers in Costa Rica’s Alberto Manuel Brenes Reserve have been searching for plants that might help cure the mosquito-transmitted disease known ...
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Octopuses have six 'arms' and two 'legs' »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Octopuses' eight tentacles divide up into six "arms" and two "legs," a study published by a chain of commercial aquariums said on Thursday.
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Saturns polar light show mystifies scientists »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Science & Technology
The aurora, which like the northern lights on Earth is over one of the poles, was detected by an infra-red camera carried by Nasa' s ...
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Victory in Vomit: The Sickening Secret of Mirror's Edge »
Posted by: Shannonyork 1 week, 6 days ago in Science & Technology
The hot new videogame is a sort of "first-person runner": You're a courier who travels across the rooftops of a locked-down, police-state city, delivering ...
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Biggest-ever experiment to unlock secrets of Big Bang could cause end of the world »
Posted by: TheVisionary 3 months ago in Science & Technology
It has cost £4.4billion and is designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang.
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Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks of First Life »
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
New research suggests that lightening and volcanoes may have sparked early life on Earth. Researchers reanalyzed Stanley Miller’s classic origin of life experiment, offering ...
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Organic Breakthrough: Pesticides out, Electrons in »
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
We are consuming more now than ever, and thus the demand is enormous. Suppliers have a little secret that the average consumer does not know ...
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Was ancient Greek 'computer' an astronomical tool? »
Posted by: capn_caveman 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Inscriptions on a mysterious 2000-year-old clockwork device suggest that the artifact was inspired by earlier devices made by the great Greek mathematician Archimedes.
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Research »
Posted by: Beau7890 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Boredom is more than a mere flagging of interest or a precursor to mischief. Some experts say that people tune things out for good reasons ...
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Hubble telescope completes 100,000 orbits »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The Hubble space telescope's 100,000th orbit Monday was marked by U.S. astronomers who took a picture of a "dazzling" region of the ...
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