Lazarus Microbe's Immortality Secret Revealed

Scientists have discovered a novel genetic repair process that allows a hardy desert microbe to die and resurrect over and over again.

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New Photos Reveal 1935 Airship at Bottom of Pacific Ocean

On Feb. 12, 1935, during severe weather off Point Sur, Calif., a U.S. Navy flying machine called the USS Macon fell from the sky, plunged into the Pacific Ocean, and sank. It was the nation's largest rigid, lighter-than-air craft, and the last of its kind. This month researchers documented the wreckage of the 785-foot dirigible.

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Google Top Results of each Element creates Periodic Table of Elements

Uhhh...Xenon didn't look like this in Science Class.....A friend of Davebug came up with an interesting idea: what if you made a periodic table of the elements by take the top Google image search result for each element?

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Scanner recognises hidden knives and guns (cool pisc included)

Security screening at airports and railway stations could be streamlined using a new high-frequency radio scanner that automatically spots concealed weapons.

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Nearly 7 of 10 Americans Favor Nuclear Energy

Nearly seven of 10 Americans favor nuclear energy and 68 percent support building a new reactor at the existing nuclear power plant closest to where they live, according to a recent public opinion poll conducted for the Nuclear Energy Institute.

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World's First Hypoallergenic Cats : On Sale Now

The cats will not cause the red eyes, sneezing and even asthma that some cat allergy sufferers experience, except in the most acute cases.

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Triple Sunrise

Produced by sunlight shining through common atmospheric ice crystals with hexagonal cross-sections, such halos can actually be seen more often than rainbows. The remarkable sunrise picture captures a beautiful assortment of the types most frequently seen, including a sun pillar (center) just above the rising Sun surrounded by a 22 degree halo arc.

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Crickets on Hawaiian Island Develop Silent Wings in Response to Parasites

In only a few generations, the male cricket on Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands, underwent a mutation ? a sudden heritable change in its genetic material ? that rendered it incapable of using song, its sexual signal, to attract female crickets, according to a new study by UC Riverside evolutionary biologists.

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Have we made our last major scientific discovery?

Ten years after the publication of The End of Science, John Horgan says the limits of scientific inquiry are more visible than ever. Lately science has been in incremental steps and no giant leaps. Cloning dolly was just such a step, after 40 years of cloning frogs.

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How Jellyfish Work

Jellyfish are probably some of the most unusual and mysterious creatures that you'll ever encounter. If you can get past the weirdness you'll discover that jellyfish are pretty fascinating. They've been around for more than 650 million years, and there are thousands of different species, with more species discovered all of the time.

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When nerve cells cant make contact

Using an animal model, brain researchers in Göttingen have examined the effects of mutations that cause autism in humans. These are mutations in the genes which carry the building instructions for proteins in the neuroligin family.The study shows that neuroligins ensure that signal transmission between nerve cells functions.

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Cutting in Line: The Science Behind Line Jumping

Stanley Milgram did a study on line (queue, if you're British) jumping, looking at how people respond to those that cut in line. These are some interesting results, and if you're thinking about line jumping -- 54% of the time, you will get ousted. Also, a graph shows who is must likely to bust you for this.

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The Mysterious Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

In the 1930s, workers clearing land for banana plantations began unearthing large numbers of almost perfectly round polished stone spheres. The largest of these apparently man-made balls was over two meters in diameter and weighed over 16 tons. No one is sure exactly when or how they were made, or by whom, or for what reason.

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Ancient fortress construction found

A section of a fortress constructed during the 1670s has been found in Norway, giving experts a rare look at something previously only seen in sketches.

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Almost certain escape from a black hole

Recent theoretical results have overturned the long-held notion that information cannot escape from a black hole, explains Seth Lloyd. This should come in handy if those guys who are trying to create a black hole get it wrong.

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