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Hundreds of local grade school students joined scores of scientists today in the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve to look for as many species of plants and animals as they can find in 24 hours. It is the seventh annual BioBlitz organized by the National Park Service and the National Geographic Society, forming…
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Marine species threatened with extinction aren't just whales, seals and turtles--they include fish, corals, mollusks, birds, and a lone seagrass
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Writing in Forbes, David Kroll has a very thoughtful take on Angelina Jolie’s announcement that she had a preventative double mastectomy after learning that she was at exceptionally high risk for developing breast cancer. While taking nothing away from Jolie’s bravery in … Continue reading →
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The Infinite Zoetrope - Smarter Every Day 90
By the way, this video kind of just happened. It wasn’t planned at all. Next up, Dragonflies!
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FIlm buffs thinking back on the history of digital effects will probably bring up 80s classics like Tron or Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which featured cinema's first entirely computer-generated sequence, courtesy of ILM. But if you want to get picky, the use of digital effects in film goes back further than that. All the way to 1973, in fact. Today's CG space battles and green screens galore owe it all to Westworld, written and directed by Jurassic Park writer Michael Crichton.The New
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An artist magnifies an overlooked environmental problem in sculptures that are larger than life.
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MIT's Cheetah The robot can course at 22 kilometers per hour. Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot may be the fastest, but MIT's version of the DARPA-backed quadruped robot is proving to be the most efficient. In a newly released video, MIT's Biomimetic Robotics Lab shows off it's new and improved Cheetah, which can move along at a respectable 13.7 miles per hour and carry its own power source. Outside of the lab on the open savannah, that's a critical capability. But while MIT's Cheetah isn't
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It’s not everyday you get to see large-scale illegal fishing in progress. But on April 14, that’s exactly what passengers aboard the National Geographic Explorer seem to have witnessed. This passenger ship was two-thirds of the way through a voyage up the coast of West Africa, and guests were enjoying a day at sea. As…
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Evidence from brain and genetic studies suggests we should regard suicidal behaviour as a disease in its own right, a move that may help prevent suicides
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Theory tackles how glass remembers earlier forces.
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The Google Maps update announced at this week's Google I/O Conference integrates the satellite view of Google Earth. It's 3D! It looks great! Of course, if you look closely, Google Maps' images will still have plenty of imperfections. At the street view level, photos are often blurry or awkwardly stitched together. That's the price we pay for total coverage, and the good news is that quality is constantly improving.Making smarter maps, with more usable data, is Google's primary goal. The
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Mark Bittman, the popular food writer for the New York Times, has written a column that is almost beyond parody for its unintentional irony. The only way to fully appreciate his lack of self-awareness is to stop and marvel at numerous passages. Let’s start at the top: Things are bad enough in the food world [...]
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Some of the greatest adventures have required the greatest risk. Post your questions for Conrad Anker who's been to the top of the world, and Buzz Aldrin, who walked on the moon.
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Illustration of OSIRIS-REx University of Arizona OSIRIS-REx will scoop up a couple of ounces of dirt from the asteroid Bennu and bring it back to Earth. Earth-bound scientists are on track to get their hands on asteroid soil, straight from the source, in 2023. An asteroid-sampling mission, planned for launch in 2016, is moving into development, NASA and the University of Arizona announced yesterday. The mission, called the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security
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Frontier deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico is becoming more difficult as we enter deeper water, much deeper reservoirs and potential under salt. As a result, we are faced with prospects that are supported by little to no amplitude, tiny seismic bandwidth as well as flat amplitude variation with offset (AVO) that sit in [...]
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Fungus alerts plants to aphid attack
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Classy experiment detects non-classy light. May help with quantum computing.
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Look, we humans are awesome. We own this planet. If we really wanted to, we could spill every barrel of oil we have into the ocean, light it all into one gigantic fiery blaze, get on fire-proof boats in robot … Continue reading →
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Fossilized leaves can tell us a lot about out climate history Frank Kovalchek via Wikimedia By studying the way leaves shrink when they fossilize, a team of more than 100 high school students could build more accurate models of climate change. A team of high school students have co-authored a scientific journal paper with their University of Arizona grad student instructor that could have a serious impact on the reliability of climate models. Their work details the impact of shrinkage on dried,
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The Most Venomous Animals in the World
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There are a lot of ways to kill and be killed in the animal kingdom, but only a lucky few use the powers of venom. Not all are closely related, so how did they acquire the same defenses, where did venom come from, and how does it work? And what animals can kill you the most quickly? Find the answers to these questions, and more, in today’s episode of SciShow.Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls,
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Found footage movies are in the zeitgeist again, even though many thought it was a one trick idea with The Blair Witch Project. But the enormous cost to profit margins of the Paranormal Activity movies launched the trend again, and it crossed over to other genres as well, like the comedy Project X, and the superhero movie Chronicle.Whether it’s a horror story or a comedy, the idea is simple. An event happens, it’s been documented on video, and once the footage is found and watched, it tells
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All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: survival of the sociable, zap your brain, 3D ghost images without a camera, egg moon, and more
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A tag that transmits a radio pulse over 20 kilometres whenever jolted can be fitted to life jackets or animals, or even used to monitor damage to bridges
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The points where our system could lose women needing care. by Emily [...]The post The mammogram labyrinth appeared first on DoubleXScience.
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It’s easy to forget sometimes that evolution is always a work in progress. We contemplate the eye or …
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The Simpsons' Popularity Over Time Andrew Clark Plus: how other shows fare over time Who can predict how a TV show will fare two or three seasons out? Some shows only gain momentum after a dull first season, while others break out of the pack early on only to flounder or manage to remain consistently awesome. Andrew Clark of PremierSoccerStats created these handy scatterplots of that process using data originally culled from the Global Episode Opinion Survey (GEOS), a web-based survey
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Moral y mercados o...¿cuánto vale la vida de un ratón? por Juan Ignacio Pérez en La naturaleza humana
¿Será posible que en cuanto vemos que otros ponen un precio a las cosas, nosotros entremos en el juego y rebajemos con ello nuestros estándares éticos?
Vera, la espía de las estrellas (II): "Lo que ves en una
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Protecting against the new Middle Eastern coronavirus may be hard as vaccines for related bugs have caused an unwanted reaction, but work on SARS will help
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Crash Course US History #15 - 19th Century Reforms
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In which John Green teaches you about various reform movements in the 19th century United States. From Utopian societies to the Second Great Awakening to the Abolition movement, American society was undergoing great changes in the first half of the 19th century. Attempts at idealized societies popped up (and universally failed) at Utopia, OH, New Harmony, IN, Modern Times, NY, and many other places around the country. These
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