Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 27 August 2009
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Researchers have shown that the juice of reject watermelons can be efficiently fermented into ethanol.
Wayne Fish worked with a team of researchers at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service’s South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory in Lane, Oklahoma, US, to evaluate the biofuel potential of juice from ‘cull’ watermelons – those not sold due [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2009) — Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle “inks” that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.
Brian Korgel, a University of Texas at Austin chemical engineer, is hoping to cut costs [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 20 August 2009
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A new study from researchers at Beth Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School suggests that tone-deafness may be the result of a missing neural connection. By using a brain imaging technique that allows them to examine the links between the right temporal and frontal lobes, the scientists compared the neural [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 28 July 2009
I can’t help but think of Hank McCoy (Beast) from the X-Men.
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July 27, 2009–Fifteen minutes after researchers intentionally paralyzed this rat by dropping a weight on its back, they injected the rodent with Brilliant Blue G dye, a derivative of common food coloring Blue Number One. The dye reduced inflammation [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 24 July 2009
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups.
They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells — cells that have been reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells, taken [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 17 July 2009
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Discovered 13 years ago, and officially added to the periodic table just weeks ago, element 112 finally has a name.It will be called “copernicium”, with the symbol Cp, in honour of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus deduced that the planets revolved around the Sun, and finally refuted the belief that the [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 15 July 2009
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Hannah Clark’s own heart is now in perfect working order three-and-a-half years after her “piggy-back” donor heart was removed.
The original operation in 1995 saved Hannah’s life because she had cardiomyopathy – a condition which made her heart double in size and risk giving out within a year.
The donor heart was [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 14 July 2009
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Hundreds of wallets were planted on the streets of Edinburgh by psychologists
last year.
nearly half of the 240 wallets were posted
back
Richard Wiseman, a psychologist, and his team inserted one of four photographs
behind a clear plastic window inside, showing either a smiling baby, a cute
puppy, a happy family or a contented elderly couple. [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 9 July 2009
Nature can be cruel in a high school kind of way.
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New research found that males can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their sperm by allocating more or less seminal fluid to copulations. The determining factor is whether the male finds the female attractive.
growing body of evidence that males throughout many [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 4 June 2009
The article’s a year old, but it’s still cool.
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Carved out in a barley field, this 150ft wide pattern is said to be a pictorial representation of the first ten digits of Pi, one of the most fundamental symbols in mathematics.
But whatever its origins, the experts say it is the [...]
