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Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load

As the scientists explain, RSE motion is nearly a geometrical superposition of two components: its geosynchronous rotation around Earth (which has a one-day period), and the internal rotation of the string system that goes on around the axis perpendic [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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"Dream Team" of scientists agree- giant asteroid killed dinosaurs

In Friday's issue of the prestigious journal Science, a "dream team" of 41 researchers from 12 nations declares that the evidence points overwhelmingly to a mountain-sized asteroid that walloped the planet 65 million years ago. The monstrous boulder l [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Popular Science Archives Now Available Online

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f you are a gadget freak, chances are you’re reading Popular Science. In fact, it might be your most favorite technology magazine. Did you know that Popular Science has been around for 137 years already? [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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They just dug up your 47 million year old ancestor

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In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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You will not believe this optical illusion

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The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Sun-powered water splitter makes hydrogen tirelessly

To generate the gas Thomas Nann and colleagues at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, dip a gold electrode with a special coating into water and expose it to light. clusters of indium phosphide 5 nanometres wide on its surface absorb incomin [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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A Study Finds Anti-Psychotic Benefit of Fish Oil

After a year of monitoring, 2 of the 41 patients in the fish oil group, or about 5%, had become psychotic, or completely out of touch with reality. In the placebo group, 11 of 40 became psychotic, about 28%.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids (click for video)

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De Wit and her colleagues wondered what would happen to fluid flows if the reacting liquids were left alone and not stirred. The researchers watched a very simple reaction — the neutralization that occurs between hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxi [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Young Blood Reverses Signs of Aging in Old Mice

"At least some age-related defects are reversible, and the factors to reverse them are carried in blood," said Amy Wagers, a researcher at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Joslin Diabetes Center, in Boston, at a press conference on Tuesday. Identif [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Using slime mold could be used to plan transportation networks

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When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are strikingly similar to the layout of the Japanese rail system, researc [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Humans were once an endangered species - there were only 26,000

Scientists from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in the U.S. have calculated that 1.2 million years ago, at a time when our ancestors were spreading through Africa, Europe and Asia, there were probably only around 18,500 individuals capable of [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Get ready for China's domination of science

China has become the world's second-largest producer of scientific knowledge, surpassed only by the US, a status it has achieved at an awe-inspiring rate. If it continues on its current trajectory China will overtake the US before 2020 and the world w [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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