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Adding one single gene to yeast dramatically improves bioethanol production from agricultural wasteAdding One Single Gene to Yeast Dramatically Improves Bioethanol Production from Agricultural Waste ScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2009) — With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in ...
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CERN restarts Big Bang collider for biggest test yet - Yahoo! NewsScientists are restarting a giant sub-atomic particle collider built to reproduce "Big Bang" conditions, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday. After a year's delay, they hope to have beams circulating by early Saturday in the huge tunnels under the French-Swiss ...
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Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essenceOn the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are vastly different; many of their rules of grammar diverge too. Consider ...
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Harnessing waste heat to produce electricityThat heat emanating from your computer as you sit reading this article amounts to nothing more than wasted energy. And your computer is not alone. More than half of the energy consumed worldwide is wasted, most of it in the form of excess heat. But new research at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Spray-on Skin Offers Fast Healing for Burns : Discovery NewsReCell technology uses a postage stamp-sized piece of skin to create spray-on that can cover a page's-worth of burned skin. Spray-on skin that heals burns in days, not weeks, is set to begin clinical trials as soon as next month. Avita Medical's ReCell technology uses a postage stamp-sized ...
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1Stronger winds coming from largest lake - Discovery.com- msnbc.comThe effects of that "liberal scientists [almost all reputable scientists it appears] global warming hoax" just keep piling up. Apparently, all of those are just more mass hallucinations. Eventually though, one might wonder about just who is hallucinating (or just bald-faced lying about) what!JDP added 27 hours ago
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1BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Plant experts unveil DNA barcodeOh no, 650 letters. That close to "666" and barcoding probably means the "mark of the beasters" will explode out of the woodwork on this.JDP added 10 days ago
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1Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systemsDUH. Nice that what we already pretty much intuitively knew is not proven though ...JDP added 2 weeks ago
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1Hyenas Surprisingly Good at Cooperative Tasks | LiveScienceIntelligence, including cooperation, continues to "spread" - actually be shown to be more WIDE spread than previously supposed.JDP added 7 weeks ago
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Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine"The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret!" cries Dr. Strangelove. "Why didn't you tell the world?" After all, such a device works as a deterrent only if the enemy is aware of its existence. In the movie, the Soviet ambassador can only lamely respond, "It was to be ...alettriste added 8 weeks ago
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