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Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor
Started by Adriana May 11. 0 Replies 0 Likes
The deep sea floor (5,000 meters below the surface) is the world's repository of most ancient DNA so far. DNA has just been found of 32,000 year old unicellular organisms, belong to radiolarians and foraminifera to fish out DNA from those groups.…Continue
Science Bits, News, Videos
Started by Adriana. Last reply by Michel May 7. 1236 Replies 6 Likes
This discussion is to have a recurrent thread for science news, tidbits, quick…Continue
Florida schoolgirl charged with felonies for science experiment
Started by Neal May 3. 0 Replies 0 Likes
No science for you woman! Photo: FreeLearningLife - FlickrWednesday, May 1, 2013 -…Continue
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L-carnitine and heart disease
Started by Adriana. Last reply by Davy Apr 14. 7 Replies 0 Likes
Bad news for meat eaters: even if the meat is lean, eating red meat will still increase your risk for heart disease. The culprits are the bacteria in your gut. They will transform l-carnitine, a compound found in red meat and to a lesser extent in…Continue
Tags: microbiome, health, bacteria, disease, heart
Mouse Brains
Started by doone. Last reply by doone Apr 12. 5 Replies 0 Likes
FLIP OF A SINGLE MOLECULAR SWITCH MAKES AN OLD BRAIN YOUNGFrom Yale News:The flip of a single molecular switch helps create the mature neuronal…Continue
Conservative Economist Condescends To A 19-Year-Old College Kid And Gets Schooled In Economics
Started by Neal Apr 8. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Young guy plus Maher plus Sanders equals the destructions of fools. Science need to be funded:Facts have a really inconvenient knack for debunking inane talking points. Stephen Moore, conservative economist and Wall Street Journal columnist learned…Continue
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Cthulhu fhtagn! Indescribably terrifying microbes named for H.P. Lovecraft’s monsters
Started by Dallas the Phallus. Last reply by Adriana Apr 8. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Suckling unnamable ichor as they slither through the viscous, shrieking madness of the intestinal tracts of lunatic termites, a pair of incomprehensibly monstrous single-celled organisms have been named after the creations of the early 20th century…Continue
Tags: science, microbiology, Lovecraft, Chthulhu, microbes
From Starts with a Bang - Advice: Should you get your PhD?
Started by doone Mar 31. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Advice: Should you get your PhD?Posted by …Continue
Did A Comet Kill The Dinosaurs?
Started by Hope Mar 25. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Did A Comet Kill The Dinosaurs?New data seems to suggest that one did.By Martha…Continue
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Scientists uncover the nuclear life of actin.
Started by Davy Mar 24. 0 Replies 0 Likes
A key building block of life, actin is one of the most abundant and highly conserved proteins in eukaryotic cells. First discovered in muscle cells more than 70 years ago, actin has a well-established identity as a cytoplasmic protein that works by…Continue
Tags: eukaryotic, cell, life, nuclear, protein
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The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature. -- Peter Medawar
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Per the Telegraph:The German naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian is today being honoured by a Google doodle, on the 366th anniversary of her birth.
Merian is known in the world of science and nature for studying plants and insects and producing detailed paintings of them.
She was born in Frankfurt in 1647 and began painting insect specimens she had captured at the age of 13. She later worked as a botanic artist, publishing three collections of engravings of plants in 1675, 1677 and 1680.
Following this, she began to focus more on the study of insects. Her work on the life-cycle and metamorphosis of butterflies is regarded as groundbreaking, making her a significant contributor to entomology…
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Comment by Neal on March 22, 2013 at 12:38pm
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A week in science:
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Comment by Neal on March 17, 2013 at 9:11am
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E=m*c^2
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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 11, 2013 at 8:08pm
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"...then we beat it out of them."
Exactly: Don't ask questions. Why? Because I said so. Curiosity killed the cat. Because that's the way god made it.
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Comment by Neal on March 11, 2013 at 8:01pm
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Nice pic, sharing. =)
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Comment by doone on March 11, 2013 at 7:53pm
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