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I knew I remembered reading a story about this a couple years back. Searching through my archives I found a post about making gold disappear by bending waves of light, and I expect this is a very similar solution, although it appears to be a different group. It appears as if this group is working [...]

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When a guy watches TV and has to ask the person sitting next to them “what the hell is the difference between 3G and 4g? Better yet, what the hell is the “G”?” you know you are getting old. Well maybe you ren’t, but it does show that even people who spend a lto of [...]

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Sure we have seen animals tested to see how they can learn many times, but I can’t remember ever seeing lizards tested this way. Just look at this image below makes me chuckle a little. I am not sure why. A Duke University experiment tested Puerto Rican anoles on several cognitive tasks and found they [...]

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As you can imagine, heart cells are some of the more sought after cells to be able to create, and/or program from other cells considering that as we get older it is one of the organs that tends to be our demise. Now, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania [...]

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Electromagnetic energy floating all around us that has been transmitting from all kinds of electrical devices is the type of energy that researchers at Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are trying to tap into. Professor Manos Tentzeris and his team are conducting studies in which they will harness energy transmitted by such [...]

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Evolution has always presumed that self-fertilization is much more efficient than the way we do it as humans. From a July 8 report in Science, “Running with the Red Queen: Host-Parasite Coevolution Selects for Biparental Sex“, a study looking to prove benefits other than this says that sexual reproduction via cross-fertilization keeps host populations one [...]

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The gray whales are considered a conservation success in that back in the 1930s populations were said to be under 1,000. Today their numbers are closer to 22,000. It is believed that pre-whaling populations were likely to be four times this number. Just looking at what I said above there are probably a few questions [...]

Filed under: Animals, Environment, Global Warming, Oceans and Marine Life by JMH
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