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Month: July 2014

Four years an expectant mother. Eight arms to hug them.

31 July 2014 grant 0

Science Daily reveals the record-breaking brooding period of the deep-sea octopus:

In May 2007, during one of these surveys, the researchers discovered a female octopus clinging to a

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The West is drying up.

29 July 2014 grant 0

Nature shares satellite data that shows not only lakes, rivers and reservoirs shrinking across the whole U.S. Southwest, but even water underground is going away:

To track groundwater

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1,000,000-year-old tools.

28 July 2014 grant 0

That’s what Sci-News.com and Science Daily are reporting that University of Toronto researchers have found. A trove of thousands of really really old tools:

Science Daily
Steven

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Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.

27 July 2014 grant 0

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Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. Finally, however, he was successful.

From Public Domain… Read the rest “Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.”

Fusion attracts cash.

25 July 2014 grant 0

Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion:

…[T]he fragments of information that have filtered

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SONG: “Step Into The Sky”

23 July 2014 grant 0

SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally… Read the rest “SONG: “Step Into The Sky””

Climate change means… more kidney stones?

21 July 2014 grant 0

Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly:

In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental Health

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Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.

20 July 2014 grant 0

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Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here comes from the… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.”

An injection reverses type-2 diabetes (temporarily). No insulin required.

18 July 2014 grant 0

Salk Institute scientists have discovered an injectable protein that reverses diabetes for two days:

In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans

… Read the rest “An injection reverses type-2 diabetes (temporarily). No insulin required.”

Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future

18 July 2014 grant 0

Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets:

The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic site on the White

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A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!)

16 July 2014 grant 0

Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings?

Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from the Early Cretaceous

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CDC: Stop shipping that flu around!

16 July 2014 grant 0

Nature reports that the Centers for Disease Control have ceased all shipments of infectious disease pathogens until they can get them shipped right:

Workers at the US Centers for Disease

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Scientists find where consciousness happens.

14 July 2014 grant 0

New Scientist locates the specific place where knowledge and self-awareness sits – in a brain region called the claustrum:

In a study published last week, Mohamad Koubeissi at the

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Science Art: Two hundred bones form the framework of your body, 1958.

13 July 2014 grant 0

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Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design.

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This is the world’s oldest smutty graffiti.

11 July 2014 grant 0

The Guardian opens the classicists’ bathroom door to reveal a Greek discovery – world’s oldest erotic graffiti:

Certainly, Dr Andreas Vlachopoulos, a specialist

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