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Jun 07, 2013 14:13
Fittingly, we start off Science Friday with an item from the "One Nation Under Surveillance" Department (Hi, NSA guys!!!). Time magazine has some of the key facts you need to know about Big Brother the federal government's massive telephone surveillance program.
Yet another invasive species problem in the Great Lakes region. Wildlife officials
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May 31, 2013 23:29
A new study from Canada underscores a reason for caution as scientists rush forward with creating genetically engineered organisms. The study found that a genetically modified salmon created by the biotech company AquaBounty could conceivably mate with brown trout in the wild and pass on its modified genes to its offspring. AquaBounty responds
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May 24, 2013 21:44
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May 17, 2013 22:17
Well, about those flying cars -- back to the drawing board.
Wired magazine has written an interesting profile of neuroscientist Henry Markam. If you haven't heard of Markam, he's one of those guys whose ideas about the future of technology make TED talks seem almost bland. Four years after he gave his own TED talk where, among other things, he
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May 10, 2013 19:57
Hey guys, I have an idea. Why don't we take a strain of the flu virus known for being highly lethal and combine it with a strain known for being highly contagious. It'll be fun! What could possibly go wrong?
Imagine a material that's paper-thin and can generate electricity by turning any surface that it coats into a type of solar panel. Then
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May 03, 2013 15:58
Most of the time in my Science Friday posts, I stick to actual science (go figure). But occasionally, I come across an utterly ridiculous example of pseudoscience and I feel the need to share. To a long list of historical science scams that include the likes of cold fusion, perpetual motion, and snake oil miracle cures, we can now add, the "
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Apr 26, 2013 18:18
From mussels covering the bottoms of the great lakes to Burmese pythons running rampant in the Florida swamps to the creepy-looking snakehead fish, America's environment is under a widespread attack from invasive species that's only getting worse. In the latest installment, Florida is being overrun by giant African land snails. The snails can
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Apr 12, 2013 17:14
Research has shown that bees are apparently capable of what many humans aren't: deductive reasoning.
European researchers have been investigating the memories of people who've had near death experiences. They've found that such experiences are often more vivid and form stronger memories than real-life experiences. The research does not, however,
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Apr 05, 2013 14:24
Chemists at Oxford University have developed a new synthetic "tissue" by using a 3-D printer. The development could have future medical applications, as an entirely synthetic tissue does not have a genome and eliminates certain problems with replacement tissue made by other means, such as using stem cells.
So far, the Large Hadron Collider hasn't
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Mar 29, 2013 14:03
Medical researchers in the UK are working on a new synthetic vaccine that be made without using live virus. Such a vaccine, if proven successful, would be more stable and it could also be used more easily in developing countries that don't have refrigeration. It could potentially solve the problem of vaccines actually causing the disease they're
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