Weight-busting Worms.

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No, they don’t literally suck the fat from your waistline, but Scienceblog.com does show how roundworms are beating the battle of the bulge: A previously […]

Science Art: Explorer VII

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Click to embiggen The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed […]

Einstein’s Fridge

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Albert Einstein: atomic physicist, scientific genius, refrigerator maker? Back in the 1920s, he and his pupil Leo Szilard saw a need for a refrigerator (which […]

Island of 10,000 Creatures.

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National Geographic has some great images of tiny crabs, shrimp and other colorful creatures among the 10,000 species just catalogued on Espiritu Santo, Republic of […]

Paper Memory

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Physorg.com writes it down to remember, using new techniques to create paper flash drives: Martins, a scientist at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, […]

Solar Sea Slug

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New Scientist loves nudibranchs… especially when they can generate their own power from sunlight: Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous […]

Ancient High.

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Dude. Cannabis researchers in China have found world’s oldest stash: CBC reports: Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a […]