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Heatwave transformed Australian marine life

Extreme weather events will become more common as the climate warms, so conservationists must devise ways to protect ecosystems



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TED: Vinay Venkatraman: Technology crafts for the
digitally underserved - Vinay Venkatraman (2012)

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the latest smartphone, but local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech using low-cost parts. Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology crafts," through which a mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a digital projector for a village school, or an alarm clock and a mouse can be melded into a medical device for local triage.

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Carl Zimmer has fun with creationists

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Human beings have 23 pairs of chromosomes but our closest cousins the chimpanzees have 24 pairs.



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X-ray imaging observes running batteries in
action

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Many electric cars run on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, an expensive, inefficient technology that accounts for more than half of the vehicle's total cost and a whole lot of weight.



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Dark energy and fate of the Universe

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Dark energy makes up about 70 percent of the current content of the Universe and thus holds the ultimate fate of our Universe. Several possible scenarios are possible depending on the properties of dark energy; one is that the Universe will end in a so-called big rip.



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Raging clouds, near and very, very far

I follow quite a few photographers on Google+, Twitter, and other social media. Why? Because this:I know, right? This ridiculously amazing picture [click to embiggen, or see an even bigger version] was taken by Randy Halverson of DakotaLapse.com, whose[...]

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and so, after much internal deliberation

As said in an older post, the current formatting of this blog has locked me into a certain posting style that can be very difficult to maintain at times, and doesn’t give me the flexibility to do some of the posts I’d like because frankly,[...]

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Learn Science While Playing Video Games Video
Game Maker Valve Makes Dreams Comes True

For decades, video games and education have gone together like oil and water. No matter what attempts were made to [...]

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Ethanol levels in the air over US cities on the
rise

More ethanol released from cars is making its way into the air, though tighter vehicle-emissions standards seem to be compensating for now



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What Is It for 7/22/12

This week's image:Check back on Wednesday for the answer!

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