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Just happened to be down in Florida this week, and was about 20 miles down the beach from Cape Canaveral. Upon realizing a launch would happen while I was there I got to walk down a few miles to take a gander at the final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. I must say I [...]

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There has been more and more talk over recent years about transferring consciousness into a machine that may allow humans to live on long past their bodies. I was actually thinking about this for a short story (it is more comedic than anything, but it had this idea in it) as recent as yesterday. More [...]

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We just talked about these huge solar flares the other day. Now we actually have real world instances of it disrupting communications. Apparently, the flare has already disrupted some ground communications on Earth, said University of Colorado Boulder Professor Daniel Baker, an internationally known space weather expert. Classified as a Class X flare, the Feb. [...]

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The laser was produced over 50 years ago. Anti-lasers work to cancel lasers out. Incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly cancel each other out. A little more scientific than the african mango diet pill, but quite an interesting report, which has been theorized for decades, and [...]

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It sounds scary doesn’t it? Well there isn’t really any danger to us so there is little to worry about outside of inconvenience to a few. No burning people in the streets. No lava pools in your backyards. No boiling swimming pools. It sounds much worse than what really happens. Radiation from the largest solar [...]

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I don’t care what project you were working on, or study, but when you stumble upon a side effect that may help regrow hair you probably just hit the jackpot. A new set of custom presentation folders are probably your next step. A team led by researchers from UCLA and the Veterans Administration that were [...]

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Recent numbers suggest that non-melanoma skin cancer doubled from 1994-2006. More than 3.5 million cases were estimated in 2006. Speaking February 4 at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (Academy), dermatologist Brett M. Coldiron, MD, FAAD, clinical associate professor of dermatology at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, presented new [...]

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While the obvious is that the extra work time may result in lower grades. The not so obvious is that a study also found many that work more than 20 hours a week during the school year can lead to behavior problems. With the economy as it is right now, many work to help support [...]

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An ice lake in the Antarctic crust has been unreachable for over 15 million years. It is sealed almost 12,000 feet (3,750 meters) below the surface. Alexei Turkeyev, chief of the Russian polar Vostok Station says: “There’s only a bit left to go,” but it appears that they may break through soon. The interest lies [...]

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