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Science & Tech News tagged with Scientists

Puffer Fish Russian Roulette Ends as Scientists Breed Non-Lethal Version
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, science, NewTechnology, pufferfish, humans )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - telegraph.co.uk
The fugu is one of the world's most dangerous foods, thanks to a concentration of anhydrotetrodotoxin 4-epitetrodotoxin in the liver or ovaries that is 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide.
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Hammerhead Sharks See 360 Degrees in Stereo
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, scientists, study, hammar head sharks )

CA
- 11 hours ago - news.yahoo.com
Scientists have long wondered why the hammerhead shark has such a strangely shaped head, one that looks like two heads of a hammer protruding from the sides of the shark's snout, with an eye at the outer edge of each protrusion.
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Cassini's Big Sky: View From the Center of Our Solar System
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computers, design, discovery, interesting, internet, nasa, news, NewTechnology, research, scientists, science, space, study, tech, technology, world, concept, humans )

PinkMindy
- 3 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Cassini recently revealed new data that appeared to overturn the decades-old belief that our solar system resembled a comet in shape as it moves through the interstellar medium (the matter between stars in our corner of the Milky Way galaxy).
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Write the Department of Agriculture Urging Them to Act Now to Save Bees
Science & Tech  (tags: protection, honey bees, USDA, study, scientists, science, research )

Tierney
- 6 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Although honey bees are crucial to producing about one-third of all the food we eat, the Department of Agriculture has failed to meet crucial research needs to determine the cause of colony collapse disorder, which is devastating hives across the country
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Did We Wipe Out the Prehistoric Hobbit Man?
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery, humans, interesting, investigation, scientists, research )

Daphna
- 7 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
A race of intelligent, diminutive hominids co-existing alongside humanity in South-East Asia? In the year 2003, a creature from mythology stepped out of the shadows and into the cold, hard light of science when an archaeological dig revealed what ap
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Scientists Zero in on Reason for Mammoths' Demise
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, discovery, mammoths, demise, interesting, investigation, research )

Simone
- 8 days ago - latimes.com
About 15,000 years ago, North America was home to an astonishing number of large plant-eating mammals -- giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths. A thousand years later, they were all gone, wiped from the face of the Earth with sudden finality. Scientists
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'Big Bang' Experiment to re-Start
Science & Tech  (tags: world, scientists, tech, science, technology, research, Big Bang )

Katie
- 8 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said. Engineers are preparing to send a beam of sub-atomic particles all the way round the 27km-long circular tunnel which houses the LHC.
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Breakthrough Technology Converts CO2 to Ethanol Without Biomass
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, discovery, energy, environment, humans, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, world )

Daphna
- 9 days ago - greenlivingideas.com
Producing fuel out of thin air sounds like a pipe dream, but a new process from a biofuel company promises to be able to turn CO2 and sunlight into fuel, bypassing the current need for large amounts of agricultural land and water to produce biomass feedst
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Investigates the Sun's Cycle of Highs and Lows
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computer, concept, discovery, energy, interesting, nasa, NewTechnology, news, research, scientists, science, space, study, technology, world )

PinkMindy
- 9 days ago - astronomy.com
How intense will the next solar cycle be? Can we predict when a violent solar storm will blast Earth with energetic particles? Could a prolonged period of inactivity on the sun plunge Earth into a prolonged winter?
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One Night Only: Leonid Meteor Shower
Science & Tech  (tags: meteor shower, space, interesting, discovery, astronomy, scientists )

Lone
- 12 days ago - latimes.com
The annual Leonid meteor shower will make its one-night appearance over North America tonight. Viewing conditions should be excellent because the peak will occur after midnight, when the lights of metropolitan areas will be at
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3 Levels of CERN Time Anomalies
Science & Tech  (tags: CERN, LHC, LargeHadronCollider, hadron, particle-physics, physics, energy, science, tech, technology, space, big-bang, mbh, micro-black-holes, black-holes, quantum-physics, engineering, design, concept, mathematics, scientists, time, time-travel )

SirRobert
- 14 days ago - volconvo.com
Here is a chance to discover the three known and speculated levels of time-distortion (dilation) anomalies, and will soon be occuring at CERN LHC in one form or another.
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Splash! NASA Moon Strikes Found Significant Water
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, discovery, water.moon, research, nasa, scientists )

Lone
- 15 days ago - chron.com
LOS ANGELES -- It turns out there's lots of water on the moon -- at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data
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Scientists Create Robot Surrogate For Blind Persons In Testing Visual Prostheses
Science & Tech  (tags: Scientists, Technology, robot )

Nancy
- 18 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina.
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Giant Crack in Africa May Create a New Ocean
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, research, volcano, eruption, interesting, discovery )

Lone
- 20 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm
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Eco Sleuths Use DNA Bar-Coding to Nail Poachers, Map Species
Science & Tech  (tags: ecology, biologists, DNA, environment, scientists, poachers, wildlife )

Simone
- 20 days ago - beta.thehindu.com
DNA analysis will now be used to solve the most widely perpetrated crimes today - those against the ecology. Biologists are now taking the DNA route to track the effects of global warming on the world's species or for identifying a piece of dried meat
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