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Largest Crocodile Ever Lived In Africa, Crocodylus Thorbjarnarsoni Fossils Suggest
Science & Tech  (tags: Steve Irwin's crocs, largest, croc species, africa, scientists, investigation, discovery, video )

BarbCat
- 16 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Scientists have announced the discovery of a newfound crocodile species that may have been the largest to ever roam the Earth. The colossal reptiles trolled East African waters between 4 million and 2 million years ago, and may have snacked on human....
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The Limits to Environmentalism
Science & Tech  (tags: climate, computers, environment, health, history, humans, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, society, technology )

Kit
- 22 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
If you were cryogenically frozen in the early 1970s, like Woody Allen was in Sleeper, and brought back to life today, you would obviously find much changed about the world.
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Human Races May Have Biological Meaning, But Races Mean Nothing About Humanity
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, concept, discovery, environment, history, humans, investigation, research, science, scientists, society, study, world )

Kit
- 23 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
Like Charles Darwin, today's scholars have concluded that humans are fundamentally an African species. But unlike Darwin they conclude from this that there is a biological, essential unity of humankind, such that talk of "civilized" and "savage" is->
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10 Pieces of Evidence That Plants Are Smarter Than You Think
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, plants, habitat, interesting, investigation, study, world )

Kathy
- 36 days ago - io9.com
Though plants possess nothing even remotely like brains, they can nevertheless communicate, measure time, and even use camouflage. They may not be thinking in a way that we'd recognize, but our chlorophyll-saturated pals are certainly doing a lot more tha
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Distant Galaxies Confirm Accelerating Growth of Universe, Dark Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computers, concept, discovery, investigation, NewTechnology, research, scientists, space, study )

Kit
- 42 days ago - livescience.com
The pesky reality that the universe's expansion is accelerating -- an observation that prompted astronomers to invoke an unknown entity called dark energy to explain it -- has been further confirmed by new measurements.
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Butterfly Wings and Renewable Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, investigation, energy, discovery, design, NewTechnology, scientists )

Organic
- 57 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
Scientists have found that one of the solutions to increased efficiency of renewable solar energy has been fluttering right before our very eyes for millions of years--in the wings of butterflies.
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Ready for the One Year Blackout?
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, business, climate, computers, discovery, environment, habitat, humans, investigation, nasa, research, safety, science, scientists, space, study, technology, world )

Kit
- 61 days ago - survive-emp.com
Space weather experts have changed their prediction of the effects of the 100 year solar storm from a week-long black out across the East Coast through Chicago to one that could easily be yearlong with restoration taking 4-10 years.
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James Cameron Reaches Deepest Spot on Earth
Science & Tech  (tags: world, scientists, investigation, interesting, humans, discovery, history, news )

John
- 61 days ago - windstream.net
The director of "Titanic," "Avatar" and other films used a specially designed submarine to dive nearly seven miles, completing his journey a little before 8 a.m. Monday local time, according to Stephanie Montgomery of the National Geographic Society.
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Scientists Will Fight NASA's Planetary Science Cuts | Mars Exploration | Space.Com
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, space, study, research, science, news, scientists, investigation, nasa, performance, world, astronomy )

Scott and
- 63 days ago - space.com
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Angry space scientists have launched a call to action to restore NASA's planetary science budget -- a rallying cry to push back on President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2013 budget for NASA.
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How I Dismantled the World's Deadliest Weapon
Science & Tech  (tags: Atomic weapons, computers, concept, design, discovery, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, society, study, technology )

Kit
- 92 days ago - discovermagazine.com
In October Sandia National Laboratories engineer Phil Hoover dismantled the U.S. arsenal's last B53, a 9-megaton bomb 600 times as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima. Hoover talked to DISCOVER about taking apart America's most powerful weapon.
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Faster Than the Speed of Light
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computers, concept, discovery, energy, investigation, New Technology, performance, research, science, scientists, space, technology )

Kit
- 92 days ago - discovermagazine.com
Runaway subatomic particles seem to be 
breaking the cosmic speed limit. If the results hold 
up, physicists have some explaining to do.
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The 10 Most Seductive Drugs -- And Their Fascinating History
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery, drugs, history, humans, investigation, medicine, science )

Kit
- 106 days ago - alternet.org
A brief journey through time, from ancient Sumeria to modern New Jersey, uncovers the mysterious origins of the world's most beloved substances.
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The Prophet of Space Trash
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, business, computers, discovery, environment, investigation, nasa, NewTechnology, research, scientists, space, study, technology )

Kit
- 108 days ago - discovermagazine.com
In 2009, after two telecom satellites smashed into each other, the U.S. National Research Council commissioned a team of experts to examine whether NASA was doing enough to address the growing problem of space junk. When it came time to pick the chair-->
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The Engineer Who Has "Saved More Lives Than Any Single Person in the History of Aviation"
Science & Tech  (tags: business, computer, concept, discovery, design, engineering, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, society, technology )

Kit
- 108 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
The number one cause of plane crashes used to be controlled flight into terrain (pdf), accidents where pilots unintentionally collide with an obstacle. A pilot unable to see through fog, for example, could fly straight into a mountain, crashing an-->
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Domestic Cats, and Wild Bobcats and Pumas, Living in Same Area Have Same Diseases
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, environment, healthconditions, habitat, nature, humans, research, science, wildlife, world, AnimalWelfare, animals, animalwelfare, environment, habitat, humans, suffering, wildlife, wildanimals, society, investigation, society, study, scientists )

Britt
- 108 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Feb. 6, 2012) -- Domestic cats, wild bobcats and pumas that live in the same area share the same diseases. And domestic cats may bring them into human homes, according to results of a study of what happens when big and small cats cross paths.
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