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Latest Articles

1. Can Algae Change The World - Again? (Nature)
Posted on February 10, 2009 at 1:24 pm in Nature
Can algae save the world again? The microscopic green plants cleaned up the earth's atmosphere millions of years ago and scientists hope they can do it now by helping remove greenhouse gases and create new oil reserves.
2. Large Hadron Collider Startup Postponed (Technology)
Posted on February 10, 2009 at 10:54 am in Technology
The giant particle collider built to reproduce "Big Bang" conditions will now be restarted in September to allow time for repairs, not the summer as planned, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said.
3. Financial Crisis Must Not Eclipse AIDS Fight (Medicine)
Posted on February 10, 2009 at 10:52 am in Medicine
World leaders must not let the global financial crisis distract them from a "moral responsibility" to fight HIV/AIDS, the United Nations' top AIDS official said Tuesday.
4. Census of Modern Organisms Reveals Echo of Mass Extinction (Nature)
Posted on February 9, 2009 at 6:32 am in Nature
Paleontologists can still hear the echo of the death knell that drove the dinosaurs and many other organisms to extinction following an asteroid collision at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago.
5. Mosquito Genes Could Be Target In Malaria Fight (Medicine)
Posted on February 5, 2009 at 10:42 am in Medicine
Researchers say they have identified genes that make some African malaria-carrying mosquitoes resistant to insecticide, and hope the breakthrough could boost efforts to prevent the deadly disease.
6. Giant, Ancient Snake Found (Nature)
Posted on February 5, 2009 at 10:40 am in Nature
It was the all-time titan of snakes -- a monster as long as a Tyrannosaurus rex that stalked a steamy South American rain forest after the demise of the dinosaurs and ate crocodiles for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
7. Arctic Storms Seen Worsening (Nature)
Posted on February 5, 2009 at 10:39 am in Nature
Arctic storms could worsen because of global warming in a threat to possible new businesses such as oil and gas exploration, fisheries or shipping, a study showed on Wednesday.
8. China Declares Emergency As Drought Bites (Nature)
Posted on February 5, 2009 at 10:33 am in Nature
China has declared an emergency over a drought which could damage the important wheat crop, threatening further hardship for farmers amid slumping economic growth.
9. Global Seedbank Under Threat (Humanity)
Posted on January 30, 2009 at 9:42 am in Humanity
A seed bank that is trying to collect every type of plant in the world is now under threat from the global financial crisis, its director says.
10. Push For Climate Breakthrough As Obama Lifts Hopes (Nature)
Posted on January 30, 2009 at 9:39 am in Nature
Denmark's prime minister called on rich and poor countries alike to commit to big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of key year-end talks on a new climate treaty in Copenhagen.
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Latest Videos

February 24, 2009 8:06 am
Posted By grim in Life
Observed at depths of 600 to 800 meters, a previously unobserved feature of Macropinna Microstoma is shown in this breaking ROV footage, it's transparent head.
February 22, 2009 8:05 am
Posted By nova in Nature
The summer melt of Arctic ice opens up nearly three million square miles of ocean and land.
February 22, 2009 7:54 am
Posted By nova in Experiments
In this video Theo Gray fills soap bubbles with a hydrogen-oxygen mixture and lights them on fire.
February 22, 2009 7:49 am
Posted By nova in Space
The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company.
February 20, 2009 9:55 am
Posted By nova in Space
A guided video tour of the (now destroyed) space station MIR
February 19, 2009 9:26 am
Posted By whatisgod in Space
Cassiopeia A's appearance is the result of an explosion approximately 330 years ago. This video uses X-ray data from Chandra, infrared data from Spitzer and pre-existing optical data from NOAO's 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak and the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT
February 19, 2009 9:20 am
Posted By nova in Humanity
Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy.
February 19, 2009 8:55 am
Posted By nova in Life
A mother polar bear and her cub make their first journey together onto the sea ice.
February 18, 2009 11:50 am
Posted By nova in Making A Difference
On 28 March 2009 millions of people around the globe will unite for one hour and switch off their lights to show that they care about our living planet.
February 18, 2009 11:41 am
Posted By whatisgod in Technology
A low cost solid state wind power generator that turns the flexing of an omnidirectional shaft directly into electricity.

Latest Images

1. Saturn V
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(The Saturn V rocket making it's way to the launch pad at John F. Kennedy Space Center on the Crawler Platform.)
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2. Giant Grasshopper
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(The Giant Grasshopper (Tropidacris Cristata) resting on a leaf in Panama. This specimen is approximately 7 inches long.)
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3. Wasp Spider
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4. Empis Livida
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(A species of the order Empididae, a predominantly predatory family of flies. )
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5. Brick Icicles
Brick Icicles (Image)

(This brick space was used by the Russian military to test their version of napalm. Due to the very high temperature of Napalm, the bricks started melting just like ice melts in the spring, however those icicles are made of red brick.)
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Article: 'Immortal' Jellyfish Swarming Across The World
'Immortal' Jellyfish Swarming Across The World (Article)
(The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature. )
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Video: Macropinna Microstoma
Macropinna Microstoma (Video)

(Observed at depths of 600 to 800 meters, a previously unobserved feature of Macropinna Microstoma is shown in this breaking ROV footage, it's transparent head.)
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(Author Michael Brooks has investigated some of the most puzzling anomalies of modern science, those intractable problems that refuse to conform to the theories. Here he counts down the 13 strangest.)
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 11:40 am in Science.
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(The argument over whether an outcrop of rock in South West Greenland contains the earliest known traces of life on Earth has been reignited, in a study published in the Journal of the Geological Society.)
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 8:44 am in Nature.
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(Breaking discovery of a new method to generate stem cells without the use of embryonic tissue.)
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 8:44 am in Medicine.
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(Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men's shoe.)
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:46 am in Humanity.
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(The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars.)
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:28 am in Astronomy.
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(Scientists claim they can fight global warming by firing trillions of mirrors into space to deflect the sun's rays forming a 100,000 square mile "sun shade". )
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:27 am in Make A Difference.
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(Tactile devices, which translate sound waves into vibrations that can be felt by the skin, can help overcome the obstacles of lip reading by conveying nuances of speech that can't be gleaned from lip reading.)
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:27 am in Medicine.
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(Believing that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists is one thing. Believing that they have visited Earth in our short time on the planet is another. Astronomer, author and blogger Phil Plait explains.)
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 6:53 am in Astronomy.
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(David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, wrote that beauty "exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." Scientists have found some truth in that quote and can add that the sex of the mind also matters a great deal.)
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 6:48 am in Humanity.
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(Space flight is a tough business. In the 52 years since the beginning of American efforts to reach space, more than 160 launches, including that of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory on February 24, have failed.)
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 6:47 am in Astronomy.
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(A statue, almost life-size at 149cm (five feet) tall, was found by maintenance workers north of the smallest of Giza's three main pyramids, the tomb of the fourth dynasty Pharaoh Mycerinus, who ruled in the 26th century BC.)
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 10:43 am in Humanity.
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(Times magazine's top 10 scientific discoveries/achievements of last year.)
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 10:34 am in Science.
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(Newly published study, investigating laypeople's interpretation of their dreams from a variety of cultures.)
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 10:31 am in Humanity.
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(Join NASA scientists for a rare opportunity to go behind-the-scenes at JPL to see engineers and technicians as they work on the Mars Science Laboratory which is scheduled to launch in 2011.)
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 8:25 am in Astronomy.
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(A groundbreaking £190million Nasa satellite designed to measure carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere ditched into the sea after suffering severe technical difficulties following its launch this morning.)
Posted on February 24, 2009 at 6:39 am in Astronomy.
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