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New species of sea urchin found in eBay auctions
Shopping – They say you can get anything on eBay. Now it seems you can even discover a new marine species.
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(newscientist.com)
Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:11pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 25 votes / 1 sink
Better electronic capacitors could come from an unlikely source: Seaweed
Science – New materials for advanced electronics are usually expensive, high-tech substances. But a team of researchers in France has shown that energy-storage components called supercapacitors can be made from a remarkably cheap and humble material: baked seaweed.
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(nature.com)
Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:10pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 45 votes / No sinks
What is the Poincare conjecture?
Science РSay you're walking down a street, and you encounter a strange and complicated shape whose surface sports peaks and valleys, mountains and molehills, but no holes. Poincar̩'s conjecture says that no matter what it looks like, it's a sphere.
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(seedmagazine.com)
Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:10pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks
Even Single Cells Stick Together
Science – New research published by Rice University biologists in this week's issue of Nature finds that even the simplest of social creatures - single-celled amoebae - have the ability not only to recognize their own family members but also to selectively discriminate in favor of them.
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(astrobio.net)
Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:10pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 84 votes / 1 sink
Astronomers Say Pluto is Not a Planet
Science – Leading astronomers approved historic new planet guidelines Thursday — downsizing Earth's neighborhood from nine principal heavenly bodies to eight by demoting distant Pluto.
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(news.yahoo.com)
Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:10pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 21 votes / No sinks
Ethical Embryo Stem Cells Fail to Overcome Vatican's Moral Concerns
Science – A U.S. company says it has developed a way to create the stem cells without harming the original embryo, which the Vatican holds is a full-fledged human life. The breakthrough technique was meant to answer critics at the papal palace.
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(news.scotsman.com)
Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:10pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 25 votes / No sinks
New Hope For Malaria Vaccine
Science – A Japanese scientist says that preliminary tests suggest a vaccine he expects to complete in five years might cut the number of malaria infections by 80 percent in Africa.
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(cbsnews.com)
Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:10pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 78 votes / No sinks
The Scariest Shark Photo Ever...Or A Fake?
Science – If you thought the others were disturbing, wait until you see this one! Is it real or fake?
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(divester.com)
Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:10pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / 1 sink
Web 2.0 Application for Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Science – Here is a great Web 2.0 application to learn and share information on biology, biomedical sciences and medicine. The site also provides daily updated RSS feeds.
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(qoolsqool.com)
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Voted for on August 26, 2006 07:05pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks
Quality Graphic Design Tutorials - RSS updated daily
Art & Design – Great resource for Graphic Designers and Web Developpers. Qoolsqool is building a community around graphic design and education. Photoshop, Flash, AJAX, PHP, CSS, HTML with tutorials and courses.
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(qoolsqool.com)
Voted for on July 24, 2006 03:07pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks
Stem Cells: do we even know what they are?
Science – Let's take a minute to learn about stem cells before we make laws that are going to affect human lives for several generations.
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(qoolsqool.com)
Voted for on July 24, 2006 03:06pm
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