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Scientists link increase in Antarctic ice flow rate to water movements deep below
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This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a micro nuclear reactor, and with the looming energy crisis it probably won’t be the last. Designed by scientists at Los Alamos, the Hyperion Power Module will retail for million, has no moving parts, is about the size of a hot tub (less [...]

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Tequila may be just another drink to those out in the town, but to a team of scientists in Mexico their country’s native alcohol turned out to be a gem; a diamond, to be precise. Javier Morales, Luis Apátiga and Victor Castaño at the National Autonomous University of Mexico made the alchemist-worthy discovery while experimenting [...]

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Your phone rings. But when you pick up, you don’t recognize your mother’s voice on the other end. It’s not amnesia, but phonagnosia — the inability to recognize voices. If you’ve never heard of it, that’s because it’s a very rare condition that usually occurs after a stroke, as a result of lesions in the [...]

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Three scientists-Osamu Shimomura from Japan and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien-made tracking individual proteins and genes possible using jellyfish as their starting point. They won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their efforts.

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Three scientists-Osamu Shimomura from Japan and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien-made tracking individual proteins and genes possible using jellyfish as their starting point. They won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their efforts.

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Three scientists-Osamu Shimomura from Japan and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien-made tracking individual proteins and genes possible using jellyfish as their starting point. They won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their efforts.

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Last May, scientists met in Geneva, Switzerland, to update the World Health Organization’s plans for pandemic preparedness. It looks like a crisis could arrive sooner rather than later. Thanks to climate change and drug resistance, a handful of deadly organisms are spreading across the globe; some are poised to make a comeback in the U.S. [...]

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Scientists detect a mysterious flow of galactic clusters
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At the so-called Restaurant of the Future in Wageningen, Netherlands, lunch time diners have all sorts of food options. “Animal friendly” meats, fruit juices, cheese slices, bananas, waffles, pretty much anything to suit your appetite. And, you can eat a full meal for only .30; it’s a great deal. A deal, that is, as long [...]

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