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Patients' Skin Cells Turned Into Heart Muscle Cells to Repair Their Damaged Hearts
Science & Tech  (tags: Skin Cells, Health, Science, Research )

Maria
- 3 days ago - sciencedaily.com
For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue.
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Underground Lab May Solve Cosmic Mystery
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, interesting, discovery, dark matter, nasa, study, technology, scientists, universe, Big Bang, neutrinos, SNOLAB )

Michael
- 6 days ago - cbc.ca
A new astronomical observatory opened this week - one more than 2 kilometres below the ground in Sudbury, ON, Canada - that may finally answer the mystery of Dark Matter in the universe.
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Bats, Whales, and Bio-Sonar: New Findings About Whales' Foraging Behavior Reveal Surprising Evolutionary Convergence
Science & Tech  (tags: Bats, Whales, Animals, Biology, Research )

Maria
- 16 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Though they evolved separately over millions of years in different worlds of darkness, bats and toothed whales use surprisingly similar acoustic behavior to locate, track, and capture prey using echolocation, the biological equivalent of sonar.
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Secret Air Force X-37B Space Plane Mission a 'Spectacular Success'
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, design, humans, interesting, NewTechnology, performance, research, science, space )

Rosemary
- 16 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
The U.S. Air Force's secretive robotic X-37B space plane mission continues to chalk up time in Earth orbit, nearing 430 days of a spaceflight that -- while classified -- appears to be an unqualified success. The space plane now circuiting Earth cont...
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Mars Rocks May Have Sheltered Ancient Life
Science & Tech  (tags: Mars Rocks, Science, Research )

Maria
- 18 days ago - news.discovery.com
Beneath their rugged exterior, some Martian rocks could have hid life in the ancient past, scientists suspect.
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'Iceman' Mummy Holds World's Oldest Blood Cells
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery, Egyptian, humans, interesting, mummy, news, research, science )

Dan
- 21 days ago - cbsnews.com
The oldest red blood cells ever identified have been found in the body of Otzi "The Iceman", a 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps in 1991. "The Iceman" is shockingly well preserved. Logged by Sunstroke author David Kagan in Doomwatch Legacy.
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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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Oldest Human Ancestor Found in Lake Sludge
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, humans, world, water, research, science, nature, environment, animals, humans, science, scientists, study, research, world, interesting, humans, discovery, ancient )

Britt
- 26 days ago - news.discovery.com
A microscopic algae-eater that lives in a lake in Norway may be one of the world's oldest organisms.
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Arctic Marine Mammals and Fish Populations on the Rise
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, oceans, wildlife, world, water, science, animals, animalwelfare, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, scientists, science, study, research, world, discovery )

Britt
- 31 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Arctic marine mammals and fish populations are on the rise, according to a report released on Monday by the the Arctic Council's biodiversity working group at a Montreal conference.
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Self-Assembling Highly Conductive Plastic Nanofibers
Science & Tech  (tags: Science, Research )

Maria
- 32 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Researchers from CNRS and the Université de Strasbourg, headed by Nicolas Giuseppone (1) and Bernard Doudin (2), have succeeded in making highly conductive plastic fibers that are only several nanometers thick.
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First Evidence That Birds Cultivate Plants
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, wildlife, interesting, research, science )

Bryan
- 32 days ago - examiner.com
This discovery is the first known intentional use of plants by a non human species for a purpose other than food.
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Sun May Soon Have Four Poles, Say Researchers
Science & Tech  (tags: science, study, research, astronomy, sun, four poles, temperature, Japan, Sun, Earth, reduced activity )

Naoko
- 34 days ago - ajw.asahi.com
The sun may be entering a period of reduced activity that could result lower temperature on Earth, according to Japanese researchers.
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Help Clean Up The Dirtiest Thing On The Internet! TAKE ACTION!
Science & Tech  (tags: internet, coal, technology, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, environment, healthconditions, humans, Sustainabililty, discovery, interesting, study, research )

Lindsey
- 38 days ago - greenpeace.org
Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all use asthma-inducing, climate destroying coal to power the "cloud" that stores your emails, photos, music and videos. Take action now & tell these companies to clean the cloud. GREENPEACE petition!
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