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spontaneous parametric down-conversion ( Read more... )

Working for "the man" is hardly the career of choice I'd have given myself had I taken one of those 'where will you be in ten years time?' questionnaires so popular these days. Working for "the man".. especially as "the man" in this case is a most bossy little girl ( Read more... )

The bees have been dying. Scientists call it Colony Collapse Disorder, which sounds like something curable with a serotonin uptake inhibitor, no ( Read more... )

A small purple microbe that spent more than 120,000 years in hibernation deep beneath a Greenland ice sheet is alive again. Scientists at Pennsylvania State University revived the bug in a lab by warming it in an incubator over the course of 11 months, Scientific American reported ( Read more... )

The last year cycle of the Mayan calendar does indeed end on December 21, 2012, but the reason for this is less mysterious than one might think. First we have to understand how the Mayans kept time, which is largely more complex than our own. They two systems, but the one of importance is known as the "Long Count", which dates using five values ( Read more... )

People are silly creatures. One day they're looking for a guardian angel, the other day they want all angels to die.. why? Well, because ANGELS DESERVE TO DIE, the disgusting self-righteous bastards they are. Autumn, blow me away to the sky, wash me away to the sea, pound me with hail into the ground, or burn me on a cross on the dio de los muertes ( Read more... )

You know that you've been thinking too much about paleontology when you realize that most cladistic terminology could make decent band names. For example: Basal Tetanurae, Tiktaalik, crown clade... yeah.

Anyway. We're going to need more vaccine. That is all.

Obviously the primary purpose for all biotics is their own sustenance, but, as is incident to their living, they are chemically signaling their way through all of existence. The common genetic markers shared by all lifeforms are known to enable the formation of symbiotic relations {communications/cooperation}. Biologists have discovered several ( Read more... )