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Free Will Exists...in Fruit Flies!
That's right, the philosophical debate of Free Will is no longer a question for old men in white robes, but rather one for white-coat adorned scientists (now, whether it is divine in nature is still up for...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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1250 views | 22 recommendations | 4 comments
Blowing Smoke at Vapourized Cannabis
I recently came across an article outlining a study on the beneficial effects of smoking vapourized cannabis over the traditional “puff puff pass” method. By measuring carbon monoxide (a tracer of...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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521 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Plants Feeding off Quantum Physics
Ever wonder how plants make a living in this world? Sure, they use sunlight (not including, of course, Dionaea muscipula), but how?I distinctly remember sitting in a botany lecture a few years ago. The... Vivaldi? Blue grass? The Face Makes the Music
A Rensselaer polytech (NY) student, Zane van Dusen, has developed a way to produce music with facial expressions."The team designed and implemented a computer interface that tracks the movement of a user’s...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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816 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
Sex education creates storm in AIDS-stricken India
"By Krittivas Mukherjee MUMBAI (Reuters) - Moves to bring sex out of the closet in largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates, and...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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Plastic blood developed - a military advantage?
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a synthetic, or plastic, blood capable of binding iron and oxygen like haemoglobin does."Because the artificial blood is made from a plastic, it is light... Burping oceans influence global climate
Over 30 years ago, paleoceanographers first discovered variations in the oceanic carbon cycle during ice ages. Now, what makes this paramount in understanding today's climate is that these scientists were forced...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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1375 views | 11 recommendations | 7 comments
Sexually transmitted throat cancer?
A novel connection between throat cancer and the human pappillomavirus (HPV) has been investigated recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. Although throat cancer has been linked to this virus previously, the present study provides the first behavioural link between...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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371 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
World Migratory Bird Day
This weekend is the official World Migratory Bird Day(s), or as I would like to call it, "Go bird watching with your Mom" day(s)."World
Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is a global initiative devoted to celebrating
the...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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773 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Why diet when you can move to Manitoba?
This week's installment of Science provides a peculiar way of dropping a few pounds (ok, well...maybe a few thousandths of a pound): move to Manitoba. A joint research team from Harvard and the University of...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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395 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Journey to the centre of the ocean: my account of Ocean Station Papa
As an oceanography graduate student at UBC, I have the immense opportunity to actually do “real” oceanography (i.e. riding boats) through our joint partnership with the Institute of Ocean Sciences hailing from...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago
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769 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments
