Archive for the ‘science news’ Category
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
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In the December 2006 edition of Journal of Environmental Health a paper entitled "Microbial Inactivation by Microwave Radiation in the Home Environment", by Gabriel Bitton, talks about a novel way to kill bacteria. Microwave them! Apparently, the optimum method is to microwave for 2 minutes allowing for maximum bacteria frying ...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
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Here are some recent photos from NASA's Cassini-Huygens satellite.
Above: Saturn
Above: Enceladus
Above: Hyperion
Above: Water geysers from Enceladus
Above: Telesto
Above: Dione
Above: Enceladus in front of Titan
Above: Titan
I was under the impression that Cassini doesn't take color pictures, so take NASA's color photos with a grain of salt.
Note 1: NASA's Cassini-Huygens Photo Contest website: ...
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
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Reuters is reporting a study indicating that winning the Nobel Prize can increase your life expectancy by almost 2 years.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Winning the Nobel Prize quite literally gives scientists a new lease of life. New research at the University of Warwick in central England shows that scientists who ...
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
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Steve Morris has an interesting paper out in the Journal of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology arguing that elephants can not get drunk in the wild from eating rotting fruit from the Marula tree.
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The suggestion that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) becomes intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula ...
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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This was featured over at Improbable Research. The general gist is that the male Red-capped manakin will do a very impressive moonwalk to attract the females. Unfortunately, for the biologist, she didn't make it to David Bradley's top 10. Here is a screen cap of the bird. And here is ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
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I was a bit surprised at the number myself. The figure is reported in the latest issue of the Journal of Chemical Education, by Charles H. Atwood in the article Radon in Homes: Recent Developments. What was also interesting is that there is no safe amount of radon exposure. Meaning, ...
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Heat Kills Bacteria! Again…
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