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Month: September 2015

Polar bears might make it after all.

9 September 2015 grant 0

Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive:

As climate change accelerates ice melt in the Arctic, polar bears

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New Stonehenge discovery = “Archaeology on steroids.”

8 September 2015 grant 0

The Guardian bulks up over scientific enthusiasm for a long-buried stone structure:

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive stone monument buried under a thick, grassy

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Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.

6 September 2015 grant 0

BohrAtomofGlueballs
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From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort of.

Ralston does say it’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.”

Wormhole blueprints

4 September 2015 grant 0

Not a hole that worms live in, but the kind that spaceships use to bounce around the galaxy. Science Daily explains how Spanish scientists have created a wormhole in the lab:

Scientists in

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The good news: There are lots more trees than we thought. The bad news: Well….

3 September 2015 grant 0

Washington Post spells out the bad news. There are more trees than we thought, but that means there are a *whole lot* less than there used to be:

In a blockbuster study released Wednesday in

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Gene therapy rescues brain cells from Alzheimer’s

2 September 2015 grant 0

The Guardian reports on a new therapy – nerve growth factor – that effectively saves dying brain cells:

The new results are preliminary findings from the very first human trials

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