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Neutron Structure Discovered: Study
I love reading about these discoveries - simple things we take for granted, like the chemical reactions responsible for the sun emitting light. Now the structure of one of the classical sub-atomic particles,...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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2870 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Energy From Seawater - Myth or Legend?
According to Nature correspdoning editor Philip Ball, the recent 'energy from seawater' myth is more of a legend - similar so-called miracle 'cheap energy for nearly nothing' waters have been kicking around for some time. The problem is, this myth just won't die,...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1838 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Mysterious Martian 'Ridges'
Strange topographical ridges have been discovered on the distant red planet. Using its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), the Mars Express, named so because it was built the fastest of an Planet-bound...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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749 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Lake Boils Over With Methane
As permafrost melt in the high Arctic, unknown consequences are bound to 'seap out'.Methane is the simplest single carbon containing molecule - one atom of carbon, surrounded by four hydrogen atoms. Its...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1096 views | 19 recommendations | 4 comments
Human Origins: All In The Spit
Anthropologists have for years been trying to explain why humans rapidly evolved larger brains, body sizes, and home range. A study pubished in Nature Genetics has an interesting take on this.A protein...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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813 views | 29 recommendations | 11 comments
Chinese River Dolphin Back From The Brink
I recently reported (here's the article) that the " "The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct," reads a press release". However, a businessman in China filmed what appeared to be a "big...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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937 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
Scott's Antarctic Shadow: One Man's Dream
Dreams are a funny thing. I have asked many people - mostly scientists - who love their jobs, why they followed their respective paths. More often than not, it all traces back to a childhood...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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942 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments
BBC Editors on Climate Change
The BBC has recently been charged by the producers of the Great Global Warming Swindle as taking "a line" on climate change - i.e. siding with yayers instead of nayers. This comes as the Producers themselves...Study: Seniors Still Engaging in Sex
A survey recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Lindau et al., 2007. A Study of Sexuality and Health among Older Adults in the United States , 357(8): 762-774) shows the elderly aren't afraid...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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821 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Diplomats Wreak Havoc in World Heritage Site
UPDATE: Apparently Belgian diplomats are to blame, but they have no accepted any responsibility for the damage."The Belgian Foreign Ministry in Brussels and embassy in Cairo denied
that the vehicles...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1156 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Amateur Rocketeers Launch 21st International Rocket Week - Scotland
The 21st annual International rocket week 'launched' last Monday in Scotland. Amateur rocket enthusiasts from around the UK attended the event at Kelburn Castle & Country Centre, Largs, Ayrshire -...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1206 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
Schrodinger's Light Switch - Where's My Computer?
You have living cat, a single radioactive atom, poison gas, a geiger counter, and an opaque metal box. What does this leave you? An 80-year old thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrodinger, quantum...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1134 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Empty Hole in Universe Discovered
And its almost a billion light years across. A hint at the hole's existence first came in 2004, when astronomers measured an uncharacteristically cold spot in the area - a few millionths of a degree colder...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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2305 views | 42 recommendations | 13 comments
Study: Medieval Gay Marriages
Civil Unions, aka 'Gay Marriages', could be centuries old according to a recent publication in the Journal of Modern History. Historical reviews by Allan Tulchin of Shippensburg University have revelead that...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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3965 views | 15 recommendations | 4 comments
Walt: Disney Babies Not Dunces!
As many of you may know, a research article was published this month claiming the highly popular and highly lucrative Baby Einstein DVD's can do more harm than good for your growing theoretical physicist...
created by ScienceDave | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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654 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
