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If you watch enough Forensic Files, CSI, or any other A&E murder investigation show, you most definitely have noticed that arsenic is the favorite poison of housewives and husbands. Does arsenic serve a possible use for humans though? Most definitely.
A form of arsenic called arsenic trioxide has been used as a therapy for a particular [...]

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If escaping a predator in the wild wasn’t hard enough…they are evolving into hunters like humans. Like humans who use all sorts of trickery to fool animals like duck calls, wild cats have been observed making monkey calls to lure and trap their intended prey.
Until now the legend of cats pretending to be monkeys [...]

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Unless you have lived in a concrete jungle your entire life where you have never even seen the countryside, you have been amazed by the phenomenon known as the Firefly at some point in your life. Blinking green lights in the night have entertained kids for ages. It was always a curious sight and [...]

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Besides being the first to take flight at night with a solar powered plane Solar Impulse, whose wingspan is the same as an Airbus A340, was also the longest and highest flight in the history of solar aviation, organizers said.
The flight flew 26 hours and 9 minutes, powered only by solar energy stored during the [...]

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Scientists have developed a real, working and breathing human lung on a microchip. Researches from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, have created a device, about the size of a rubber eraser, acts much like a lung in a human body and is made using [...]

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Sign us up, sir. We are interested in hearing your new information. An MIT-led team has designed a green airplane that is estimated to use 70 percent less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx). Not just because fuel is on sale either.
The design was one of [...]

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Everyone knows that cats and mice don’t lplay well together. Well…cats don’t play well with mice, and mice run in fear. It’s not just because cats are a natural predator, and mice know that cats will tear them a part at any chance they get, but there are other reasons. Mice are naturally afraid of [...]

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Hair cells deep inside the ear that become damaged during hearing may have found a coaxing by stem cells to regrow. While only done so far in mice, Dr. Kazuo Oshima of Stanford University in California and colleagues, experiments with two types of stem cells, raises the possibility of treating many types of deafness and [...]

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I’m sure you remember all the talk that stemmed from President Reagan’s administration about “Star Wars”. The name has changed, but space weapon research is still quite heavily funded. Space.com has a good article about some of the more recent weapon/vehicle testing that has been done in space here.
Interestingly enough, I see this article [...]

Filed under: Environment, Science, Space, Space Tech by JMH
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So…someone actually used some far reaching data to try and figure out some of the climate change issues. In this case 1.2 million years of Earth orbital cycles.
UC Santa Barbara geologist, Lorraine Lisiecki, discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of Earth’s orbital cycle to changes in Earth’s climate.
Published in the scientific journal [...]

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