Acidification and Shellfish Decline
• arcleinRelatively minor increases in ocean acidity brought about by high levels of carbon dioxide have significant detrimental effects on the growth, development, and survival of hard clams, bay scallops, and
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Ancient 'Unicorn' Fly Had Five Eyes
• LiveScienceAn ancient fly sporting a horn on its head topped with three eyes would have easily seen predators coming where it lived in the jungles of what is now Myanmar some 100 million years ago. The fly was also equipped with a pair of large compound eyes
Hydrogen Boron Fusion
• arcleinPositive Mainstream Reviews of Dense Plasma Focus Fusion and IEC Fusion The Economist has positive coverage of dense plasma focus fusion.
Artificial Retina, Video Camera Give Partial Vision to Blind
• Bloomberg.comOct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A miniature video camera in the center of his eyeglass frames and tiny electrodes implanted at the back of his right eye allow Dean Lloyd to see lights and shapes, more than 30 years after he lost his vision.
Gene Therapy Helps Blind Boy See
• CBS(CBS) Just over a year ago, 9-year-old Corey Haas and his family feared he would go blind. But, thanks to an experimental procedure, Corey has new outlook on life -- and everything in it.
Ocean Engineering
• arcleinThe engineering problem reduces to building stackable rings, each individually able to have neutral to positive buoyancy. This can be achieved by the expedient of oil filled bladders held in U shaped
Cell Phone Brain Tumors
• arcleinAn Israeli study published two years ago found a 58 percent increase in risk for parotid tumors among people who relied heavily on their cell phones. And a Swedish study found that he risk for glioma and acoustic neuroma doubled after 10 years of hea
Scientists first to trap light and sound vibrations together in nanocrystal
• Physorg"People have known how to manipulate light, and they've known how to manipulate sound. But they hadn't realized that we can manipulate both at the same time, and that the waves will interact very strongly within this single structure."
Sea Creature's Amazing Eyes Could Inspire New DVD Players
• LivScienceHumans see 3 [primary] colors that, combined, allow us to enjoy the visible light spectrum. The mantis shrimp sees 12 colors, ranging into the near-ultraviolet to infrared parts of the spectrum. The creature can also distinguish different forms of po
Butterfly's Wing Ears May Detect Birds
• LiveScienceScientists thought butterflies were deaf until 1912 when the first butterfly ears were identified. Researchers have recently examined butterfly ears, which they are finding to be quite diverse and present in several butterfly species.
Controversial study suggests vast magma pool under Washington state
• McClatchy NewsA vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains -- Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams -- according to a new study that
Photovoltaic organic polymer advance made
• arcleinThe higher molecular weight of the polymers increases current density in plastic solar cells by as much as a factor of more than four, a major benefit, the researchers said. The methodology "will greatly accelerate research in this area," Bazan said
REAL ZOMBIE DOGS!!!! 1940's russian experiment. part 1
• You TubeYou Tube description - severed head of a dog brought back to life in the early 1940's by the Soviet Union. by the way the dogs in these vids are heavily sedated so they do not feel pain. including the severed dog head.
Gene therapy experiment restores sight in a few
• Reuters9-year-old Corey Haas can ride his bike alone now, thanks to an experimental gene therapy that has boosted his fading vision with a single treatment. The gene therapy helped improve worsening eyesight caused by a rare inherited disease called Leber c
Killer Algae
• arcleinSupervolcanoes and cosmic impacts get all the terrible glory for causing mass extinctions, but a new theory suggests lowly algae may be the killer behind the world's great species annihilations. Today, just about anywhere there is water, there ca
New Mexico Superstation
• arcleinA new idea for a large substation based in Clovis, New Mexico has the potential to solve one of the biggest hurdles to clean energy growth: transmission. The SuperStation, as its being called, would link the three largest grids - the east, west and T
Trillion Dollar Power Transmission Buildout
• arcleinJust as important, a massive jump in demand is also about to develop. Thus the whole industry is in the midst of engineering a colossal expansion of capacity and obviously securing finance and the often necessary government guarantees. (these are oft
Plants Recognize Rivals and Fight, Play Nice with Siblings
• LiveSciencePlants can't see or hear, but they can recognize their siblings, and now researchers have found out how: They use chemical signals secreted from their roots. As soon as one of the plants is thrown in with strangers, it begins competing with them by r
Large Hadron Collider Sabotaging Itself from the Future?
• CryptogenExplosions, scientists arrested for alleged terrorism, mysterious breakdowns — recently Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun to look like the world’s most ill-fated experiment.
Nanoparticle Breakthrough
• arcleinChemists at Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University have invented a way to manufacture highly precise, uniform nanoparticles to order. The technology, Precision Nanoparticles, has the potential to vastly improve the solar cell and furthe
Scientists Create 'Sexual Tsunami'
• Telegraph.co.ukThe secret to sex appeal lies with the tampering of pheromones, creating a "sexual tsunami", according to new research.
Solar Magnetic Decline
• arcleinA new analysis from a team at the National Solar Observatory suggests that we may be in more than just an unusually long dry spell between sunspot cycles. The team measured the strength of the magnetic fields in the center of sunspots using infrared
Bakken in Canada
• arcleinMulti-frac horizontals are a "game changer" for oil and gas drilling because of their potential to increase recoveries from established plays. The technology is unlocking tens of thousands of barrels of oil per day in Canada and hundreds of thousands
10 Profound Innovations Ahead
• LiveScienceTrue mind-reading devices remain in the realm of science fiction, and lie detectors rely on indirect cues to catch fibbers. Still, brain scans have allowed neuroscientists to predict what people will do during specific task experiments, and even to o
The Dissection: A Home Electric Meter
• Popular ScienceA peek inside the simple gears and complicated math that make up one of the coolest devices in your house A peek inside the simple gears and complicated math that make up one of the coolest devices in your house
LHC Test Could Lead to Hyperdrive Space Propulsion (Well, In Theory)
• Popular ScienceThis extraordinary force was more or less forgotten over the decades, but Franklin Felber, a U.S.-based physicist, has resurrected it and flipped the idea around, theorizing that the relativistic particle should also repel the stationary mass.
Clever New Fan Has No Blades
• LiveScienceFew inventions have lent themselves to as little improvement over the years as the simple fan, with its whirring blades that blow air across a desk or through a room. But now even the conventional fan has been transformed. James Dyson, the British i
Video: Wi-Fi Imaging Lets You See Through Walls
• Popular ScienceSWAT teams and rescue workers may soon take advantage of wireless networks to locate people moving around inside buildings. We previously examined this nifty wireless concept that uses off-the-shelf technology to locate humans to within 3 feet on th
Predictive programming (Brain Washing) in advertising
• Godlikeproductions.compredictive programming in advertising - deception - control - attention - mindset
Earthsong
• arcleinMapping the mantle The geophysicists measured the speed of sound in the mantle to depths of 340 km beneath Asia, North and South America and Australia. By combining a large set of data in a form of tomography, they were able to build up velocity m
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