Boosting Bacteria in Drinking Water May Improve
Health

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From New Scientist - Online news: Drinking water is teeming with microbial life - but some of it could benefit human health Read the whole article

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Semiconductor Devices Could Lead to Smart
Surgical Gloves

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From The Engineer - News: Researchers have taken steps towards creating smart surgical gloves capable of procedures including local ablation and ultrasound imaging. Read the whole article

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Searching Salt for Answers About Life on Earth,
Mars

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From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories: Wichita State University associate professor Mark Schneegurt recently had a paper published in the journal Astrobiology. Read the whole article

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Intel Preps Wireless Charging

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From EE Times: Intel may offer internally developed resonant wireless charging to improve the attractiveness of mobile equipment based on its chips such as Intel-based ultrabooks and smartphones, according to a Digitimes report that referenced unnamed sources.View the full article HERE.

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NVIDIA Offers Heavy-Duty Parallel Processing in
Upgraded Maximus Platform

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From Manufacturing: Visualization and analysis platform for workstation users has been redesigned with new GPU architecture. Read the whole article

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TED: Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix - Kirby
Ferguson (2012)

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Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrated creators borrow, steal and transform.

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Image of the Week: New Fossil Skull Fragments
Suggest Greater Complexity in Humanity's Family Tree

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The cranium known as 1470, which was discovered in 1972, is shown
pieced together with a lower jaw discovered in Kenya in 2009 and
believed to belong to the same early Homo species.
© Photo by Fred Spoor
In 1972, archaeologists working in Kenya unearthed a mystery: a partial skull with a long, flat face and a large cranium. For the first half of the 20th Century, scientists thought the evolutionary tree for modern humans (Homo sapiens) was pretty simple. We had evolved from Homo erectus on a fairly straight and branchless path, with evidence of only one other Homo species (dubbed Homo habilis) that predated and overlapped with Homo erectus. But the skull, known as 1470, suggested that there might have been another Homo species--a distant cousin of modern humans--living in Africa alongside our direct ancestor Homo erectus about 2 million years ago. With only one specimen to go on, scientists disagreed about whether 1470 truly represented a separate species or simply showed the range of variation in the previously known Homo species.

This week, scientists announced that they had found portions of three additional skulls, which appear to confirm that 1470 was not a complete anomaly and suggest that there were two additional Homo species living alongside Homo erectus. Our image of the week shows one of the new fossils, a lower jaw bone, fit together with 1470 (with the help of computer imaging).

Even with the new evidence, the debate continues about how many distinct Homo species were living in Africa between one and two million years ago. What is certain is that scientists have a new reason to closely examine the shape and complexity of our family tree.

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Read more about the discovery in the New York Times, Science News, or the press release from the Turkana Basin Institute and National Geographic.

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Michael Phelps' Secret Catch

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In swimming, does the deep catch or sculling technique propel swimmers faster?

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A 500-pound Model Plane Tests the Next Generation
of Aircraft Design

From Gizmodo: While the design has yet to catch on with civilian air travelers (focus groups hate amphitheater-style seating), Blended Wing Body aircraft hold great promise for military operations. To better study this innovative design without sinking untold extra millions into R&D,

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Populations survive despite many deleterious
mutations

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From protozoans to mammals, evolution has created more and more complex structures and better-adapted organisms. This is all the more astonishing as most genetic mutations are deleterious.

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