Sounds made by baby crocodiles while still inside the egg are not wasted. Both crocodile mothers and other unborn youngsters have a keen ear for the hatching calls, new research shows..
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Unborn Crocs Chatter to Synchronise Hatching…
The Roundest Objects in the World…
The kilogram is the only remaining standard of measurement tied to a single physical object: a 120-year-old lump of platinum and iridium that sits in a vault outside of Paris, France. But the mass of this chunk of metal is slowly changing relative to the 40-odd copies kept by other countries, and no one knows why or by how much. So researchers charged with policing units and measures, called metrologists, have come up with several suggestions to redefine the kilogram. In 2011, the International Committee for Weights and Measures will try to decide the issue. One proposal, pushed by an international team called the Avogadro Project, aims to define the kilogram in terms of a specific number of silicon atoms. Just how many? That’s where the newly created silicon spheres come in..
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Stunning Jellyfish…
Being 95% water with no brains, no heart, and no blood, it’s amazing jellyfish have existed for 650 million years..
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Phoenix Lander: Sol 31…
In the video below NASA explains how the Phoenix has been cooking samples in its ovens and has been successfully returning its results to earth, also they have been able to confirm the traces of water on mars. The video contains some great images from Phoenix and its landscape around it, as well as some of how its ovens work..
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How Flesh-Eating Pitcher Plants Trap Insects…
Flying or crawling insects such as flies are attracted to pitcher plants often by visual lures and nectar bribes, but once they fall into the pitcher they don’t come back out. The small bodies of liquid contained within the pitcher traps are called phytotelmata, they drown the insect, and the body of it is gradually dissolved. But what trick do they use to get the insects into the pitcher? watch the video below to find out..
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U-Bot 5 The Health Care Robot…
U-bot 5 is a robot designed to help with medical care of people. His functions include picking up small objects, dialing 911, using a stethoscope to check vitals and more. It costs about $65,000 to build a single robot in the lab, but LiveScience was told that manufacturers have said it might cost only a “couple of thousand” to mass-produce the automatons. A part-time, human in-home caregiver can cost more than $1,500 per week, so U-Bot could change the in-home caregiver market..
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Mighty Mouse…
An Ohio laboratory has produced genetically modified mice which can run five to six kilometres at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill, for up to six hours before stopping..
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Shark vs Octopus…
The National Geographic shows us what happens when you put a shark in the same tank as a giant octopus, its an interesting outcome..
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Heavy-Duty Electric Truck…
The heavy-duty electric short-haul prototype truck, the first of its kind at any port worldwide, can pull a 60,000-pound cargo container, has a top speed of 40 mph, and has a range between 30 to 60 miles per battery charge. In April 2008, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved the production of 20 electric yard trucks..
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Ice on Mars…
NASA believes they have evidence that the white stuff in their photos is ice! Once sum small dice sized pieces came loose after a dig, and when they took a photo of the trench 4 days later the small piece had disappeared. Leading them to believe it had evaporated, which proves the white is not salt but ice..
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Printing Nanosolar…
Nanosolar has the world’s first 1GW solar production tool. It uses their breakthrough in the production of solar electricity cells, printing of solar cells using nanoparticle ink. Printing is a non-vacuum coating process that eliminates the need for a high-vacuum chamber as it is conventionally used in making solar. Printing is 200 times more cost efficient, A twenty times slower high-vacuum tool costs ten times as much. Watch the video to see the printer in action..
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350.org…
350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth.
But solutions exist. All around the world, a movement is building to take on the climate crisis, to get humanity out of the danger zone and below 350. This movement is massive, it is diverse, and it is visionary. We are activists, scholars, and scientists. We are leaders in our businesses, our churches, our governments, and our schools. We are clean energy advocates, forward-thinking politicians, and fearless revolutionaries. And we are united around the world, driven to make our planet livable for all who come after us..
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First Freerice Delivered!…
Freerice.com, a simple website which donates 20 grains of rice for every correct word meaning you get in their learning game, has now just had its first shipment of freerice delivered to Bangladesh..
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Power Generating Dubai Tower…
With its wind turbines built in between each floor, and the claims that the building will generate 10 times more energy than required to power it. The new tower is the first building of its size to be produced in a factory. Each floor, made up of 12 individual units, complete with plumbing, electric connections, air conditioning, etc., will be fabricated in a factory. These modular units will be fitted on the concrete core or spine of the building at the central tower..
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Robot Fish…
Robotic fish with flapping fins and tails have been programmed to swim in a school by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle. They say that artificial fish with group behaviour could track marine pollutants or wildlife such as whales..
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Q&A with Stephen Hawking…
Filmed April 2007, Stephen Hawking opens up to a Discovery News reporter and says how he feels about exploring space for humans..
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BMW GINA…
BMW is taking a whole new look at car design with a metrial they have named GINA, which is like a skin that covers the car. The car still has the safety design as other cars do, but now they can change the way the car looks on the spot..
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3-D Microscope…
Biologists can now observe the workings inside our cells in full color, 3-D and soon to be real-time. As this ScienCentral News video explains, scientists have invented a way to trick a light microscope into revealing more details than ever before seen..
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Amazon River Dolphins…
South American river dolphins are doing pretty well compared to some river dolphins in Asia. But boat traffic, fishing, and logging are still a threat. Already china’s river dolphins are extinct. But there is hope for other river dolphins..
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Phoenix Lander: Sol 9…
A Sol is one day on Mars, so after 9 Martian days, what is Phoenix up to? Well they have been testing the robotic arm, and have done some test digs to make sure everything is ok. They have also discovered some white material just under the surface in the first dig, lets hope its ice..
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Boeing 777 Wing Load Test…
In this video Boeing uses/destroys a whole plane to see if the wing can handle 150% maximum turbulence, everyone who’s been working on the plane for the past 4 years is watching to see if they have done their job..
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Floating Wind Turbines from Magenn…
Wind turbines at ground level produce at a rate of 20-25%, but when placed at altitudes from 600-1000 feet, energy output can double. Ottawa-based Magenn Power is in the prototype stages of the world’s first floating wind turbine. The Magenn Air Rotor System or MARS is a stationary blimp kept afloat with helium and tethered into place on an electrical grid. Centrifugal blades on the MARS can generate up to several megawatts of clean, renewable energy at a price well below our current grounded wind turbines..
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com
Nanopaper Soaks Up Oil…
It looks like paper. It feels like paper. It’s even made like paper. But this paper, made from metal nanowires, can sit in water for months and never get wet, while soaking up to 20 times its weight in oil..
Article Link: www.discovery.com
Toshiba Aquilion ONE…
Toshiba Medical Systems exhibited the next generation of CT diagnostic imaging equipment, the Aquilion ONE, at the 2008 International Technical Exhibition of Medical Imaging. The Aquilion ONE is the world’s first diagnostic imaging system that can scan an entire organ, such as the brain and heart, in one rotation, because it has a scan width of up to 160mm using 320 rows of area detector elements. Entire organs can be dynamically diagnosed using the Aquilion ONE system because it displays visual representations of volume data in a time series. In addition, because the new CT system is also easier on patients due to its lower radiation exposure and its drastic reduction in scanning time, it can be potentially used in emergency examinations and on young children..
Article Link: www.medgadget.com
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The Universe: Secrets of The Sun…
This is a summary version of ‘The Universe: Secrets of The Sun’, the full version is about 45min long and is well worth the watch, as well as the rest of the series. Watch the video to learn about how our sun was created, works, and is going to die and destroy the earth..
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