March 11th, 2010
Yup…this is what I am going to talk about. Hermaphrodite chickens. Well…not so much that weird, but scientists have puzzled for hundreds of years why some chickens seem to appear male one one side, and female on the other. This important mystery has been solved according to Science Daily.
Let’s be frank here. Neither you, nor [...]
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February 20th, 2010
According to the researchers at Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, a nearly complete sequence of nuclear DNA was extracted from a man over 4,000 years old.
Morten Rasmussen of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen and his colleagues, have discovered that the Greenlander, they call him Inuk, seems to have origins [...]
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February 19th, 2010
Unless you are living under a rock you know that one o the biggest discussion points over the last decade revolve around finding alternative fuel and energy sources. Recently, scientists in France have been able to generate a chemical energy by use of Photosynthesis. Their discovery created a biofuel cell that might lead to conversion [...]
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February 13th, 2010
A University of Utah study that was designed mostly to study back pain, turned out some interesting results involving the human foot as it relates to walking, running, and even fighting.
The study conducted by: Christopher Cunningham, a doctoral student in biology at the University of Utah; Nadja Schilling, a zoologist at Friedrich Schiller University [...]
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February 10th, 2010
Isn’t it incredible that something such as being afraid of losing money could possibly be pinpointed in the brain? The first thing I thought when I saw this article was: “You gotta be joking…”.
While the test wasn’t specifically designed to discover why people fear losing money, it makes a nice headline. The tests were designed [...]
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October 29th, 2009
Every time I see stem cells in a headline you can expect to see me post about it. Why? Simply because the benefits of stem cell research are off the charts, and for some reason we have many people that don’t want us doing it for various reasons (mostly because they don’t understand it, combined [...]
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October 24th, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded just over $100 million to 32 plant genome research projects. These projects are designed to to help in the understanding of the plant genome in hopes that they will be able to understand more fully how they react to the environment. The projects are there to find [...]
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