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NASA Uses Dust Rings to Identify Earth like Planets
Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets.
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Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real
Now, neuroscientists have shown that they can make this experience physical, creating a “body swapping” illusion that could have a profound effect on a range of therapeutic techniques. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience last month, Swedish researchers presented evidence that ...
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The Energy Roadmap - Brookhaven Lab researchers develop material with 2D superconductivity
Science breakthrough on 2D superconductive materials
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Evidence from dirty teeth: Ancient Peruvians ate well
Starch grains preserved on human teeth reveal that ancient Peruvians ate a variety of cultivated crops including squash, beans, peanuts and the fruit of cultivated pacay trees. This finding by Dolores Piperno, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National ...
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Foretelling a major meltdown: Rare mineral might portend return to hothouse climate of old
By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, Binghamton University geologist Tim Lowenstein is helping climatologists and others better understand what we're probably in for over the next century or two as global warming begins to crank up the heat — ...
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Giant wind farms could steer storms - Discovery.com- msnbc.com
Comment added by Murray Peat on 11/28/2008And the downside? Clouds and storms are there for a reason. Blow them away and you end up with more problems elsewhere. Water shortages, new deserts, food shortage, economic collapse... In fact, I wonder what small local (and not so local) ecosystems are already being skewered by wind farms. -
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Has universal ageing mechanism been found? - health - 26 November 2008 - New Scientist
Comment added by Murray Peat on 11/28/2008Imagine a world with fewer age-related diseases. Maybe something like the time before the supposed Flood. Imagine a pre-flood protein that lengthened lifespan for hundreds of years. Maybe Methuselah did live to 969 years of age. Maybe he had access to something we are just discovering is ... -
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Plate Tectonics Started Over 4 Billion Years Ago, Geochemists Report
Comment added by Murray Peat on 11/28/2008My my. What will they discover next. Myths becoming obsolete overnight. "There could have been life at the beginning... Now we're seeing a new picture more like today with blue sky, blue ocean, much earlier than we thought." (I read in a certain ancient book that there was life in the first week...) -
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Worm glue for bone repair
Comment added by JDP on 11/26/2008Biomimicry potentially scores another advance.
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