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Mapping commercial sea routes in the Arctic Sea

Map of potential Arctic Sea shipping routes…..Credit: UCLA Last year (2012) 46 ships made the journey over what used to be considered the mythical “Northwest Passage” – they sailed through the Arctic...

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ePSC: A new type of pluripotent stem cell

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have discovered a new type of stem cell. This does not happen every day, guaranteed. In fact, this discovery is potentially very important....

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CRE: A killer coming to a critical care facility near you

It is not pandemic, not yet, but the spread of a particular form of drug resistant bacteria is serious enough to warrant this March 6 statement from Dr. Thomas Frieden the head of the United States...

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Glia brain cells: Not just infrastructure

So many stories about this recent neuroscience research begin with – “human brain cells make mice smarter” – and miss the point of the research almost entirely. It’s not about mice. It’s about a type...

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Epigenetics ‘leaks’ into trans-generational inheritance

One of the bigger and most important ‘debates’ in biology – both now and in the past – is whether adaptations made for the environment of a single individual can be inherited by its offspring. This is...

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“Gray Mars” and the stuff of life

Rover Curiosity’s bore hole in Mars rock, note color change from reddish to gray Scientific knowledge requires a process of confirmation, for example, scientists have believed for decades that Mars...

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Big Telescopes: ALMA already on the job

Some of the ALMA antenna array at Atacama….Credit: ESO Today, March 13, 2013 marks the official ‘opening’ of the world’s largest telescope, ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array). As the...

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Micro-endoscope: A visual probe as thin as hair

A schematic of the micro-endoscope….Credit: Joseph Kahn, Stanford University The endoscope, a thinish, flexible tube with a light and image sensor or lenses at the probe end, is an indispensable tool...

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Planck’s Universe

Cosmic Microwave Background radiation map of the Universe…Credit: ESA, Planck Collaboration The big news for this week and I do mean big as in as big as the whole Universe, is a new collation and...

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Getting your head around huge brain projects

As the ‘thinking’ goes – a billion here, a few billions there and eventually we’ll know how the brain works. The billions are Euros and dollars. The “there” are two projects aimed at learning how the...

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Frederick Sanger: Gone and should not be forgotten

If you don’t know about Fred Sanger, it’s not surprising. He was a quiet man, far more interested in his work than in recognition. In today’s world of media hypertrophy, that work generally gets a...

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Confirmation: Element 115

The thing about new elements these days is they don’t exist in nature. They’re a product of human research. A ‘new’ element, dubbed ununpentium with the symbol Uup, was first “discovered” (read:...

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Synaptic transmission: Another step illuminated

Illustration of neural exo and endo cytosis. Credit: U of UtahMany people, including neuroscientists, refer to the patterns of neurons in the brain and elsewhere in the body as “wiring.” It’s a...

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Life on Mars: Curiosity finds a promising lake bed

After about two decades of poking around Mars, it’s clear that scientists don’t expect to find life, certainly not on the surface [SciTechStory: Life on Mars: If it exists, is below the surface]. There...

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Sci-Fi Movie Review: Pacific Rim

[Pacific Rim. Released July 1, 2013. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, Writers Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham. DVD/Blu-Ray released. As usual, this “post-viewing review” contains many...

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Sci-Fi Movie Review: Elysium

[Elysium. Released August 9, 2013. Directed by Neill Blomkamp, Writers: Neill Blomkamp. DVD/Blu-Ray released. As usual, this “post-viewing review” contains spoilers.]What to make of a shoot-em-up...

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What do we lose as large carnivores disappear?

A world without top predators? Wolves, for example….Credit: Doug McLaughlin, Oregon State UniversityGlobally, we are losing our large carnivores. That is the central conclusion of a large...

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Peer reviewed climate change deniers

Sometimes overwhelming numbers are a stand-in for credibility (or the lack of it). Consider these figures of published peer reviewed papers compiled by James Lawrence Powell*:November 2012 through...

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Flow batteries: For when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine

The Harvard prototype organic flow battery….Credit: SEASA team of scientists and engineers at Harvard tackled the problem of storing electricity from short term or irregular energy sources, such as...

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Black Holes, Steven Hawking, Oh My

According to much of the media, Steven Hawking says there’s no such thing as a black hole. This sounds really rad but is the media reflecting celebrity and titillating terminology rather than substance...

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