Explorer Jacques Piccard dies at 86

Jacques Piccard mede his last dive at the age of 52.He came from a daring family that inherits a sense of curiosity and perseverance with respect for others as a guiding principle to its dessendants.  "Swiss...

Oil-eating bugs may unlock clean energy from crude

If this works, these bugs are going to be unlocking oil like Barry Bonds unlocks home run records."A tiny oil-eating bug that lives deep underground may allow the world's oil industry to unlock energy trapped in trillions of barrels of heavy crude, which is costly and dirty...

Seas to absorb greenhouse gas, but food chain hit

""This is a massive and surprising change in the carbon content of these organisms," said Ulf Riebesell, a marine biologist at the Leibnitz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany, who led the German and Norwegian experiments. Other studies have shown that the oceans...

North American Report: Hundreds of Sleeper Cells Among us!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorBefore you head to your "Dale Gribble" (King of the Hill)  style underground bunker and don a flak jacket while you peer suspiciously at your next door...

Reports: Drug-resistant staph may emerge as deadly 'superbug'

Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that lives on the skin and in the nose of humans, and is unknowingly carried by millions of people. It can cause infections of the skin, in the blood, in the bones, and in the lungs. It has become resistant to a wide range of...

China finds worm-infested US packaging

I deem this to be more of a political issue than anything else.  "BEIJING -- China found microscopic worms and other harmful organisms in several batches of wooden packaging imported from the United States, state media said on Friday. The pine wood nematodes were found...

Sony Develops A Bio Battery Powered By Sugar

"Sony has developed a biologically-friendly battery that generates electricity from sugar in a similar way found in living organisms. Battery test cells have generated up to 50 milli-watts, or enough electricity...

Light Wavelength Analysis Nets Purple Earth

"Researchers here on the Oblate Spheroid, struggle to explain why microbial evidence throughout the Earth is varied yet so stratified. The answer may come from the fact that the evolution of microbe life on the...

Earth's Protective Magnetic Field Older Than Thought

Earth's magnetic field was at least half as strong 3.2 billion years ago as it is today, researchers report. That means the planet was pretty well protected way back then from solar output that could otherwise have stripped away the atmosphere and doused early living...

Discovery backs Theory Life began in Ocean Deeps

A heat-loving archaeon capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth's earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even...

Dover: 'Intelligent design' ruling relied too much on plaintiffs

Harrisburg, Pennysylvania. - A federal judge who barred a Pennsylvania school district from teaching 'intelligent design' virtually copied findings suggested by the winning side in a key section of the landmark ruling, according to a Seattle think tank that promotes the...

NASA Scientists Find Primordial Organic Matter in Tagish Lake Meteorite

NASA researchers at Johnson Space Center, Houston have found organic materials that formed in the most distant reaches of the early Solar System preserved in a unique meteorite. The study was performed on the...

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