Ephemera.

Mar 03, 2009 16:38

  • A pink dolphin was discovered in an inland Louisiana lake.
  • After three years of research, including examining 503 pieces of fluff from his own belly button, Georg Steinhauser has discovered a type of body hair that traps stray pieces of lint and draws them into the navel.
  • An innovative and easily implemented technique, which involves the self-assembly of nanoscale elements in precise patterns over large surfaces, could enable the contents of 250 DVDs to fit onto a surface the size of a quarter.
  • The first touch-screen flexible e-paper has been developed by a team from Arizona State University and E-Ink (the company that makes the technology for Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader).

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